Motorola Corporation

Jason S Zeakes

Karl Emerson Mautz

William Mark Hiatt

Clinton M Haris

A semiconductor wafer ( ), a method of providing information on a semiconductor wafer ( ), a system of semiconductor wafer ( ) and reading means, and a method of reading information from a semiconductor wafer ( ) are provided. The invention is characterized by magnetic means ( ) as information carrier and the respective magnetic sensors ( ) to read such information.

Semiconductor wafer identification

A processing tool bay within a semiconductor fabrication site, including a plurality of semiconductor processing tools for processing wafers being arranged in two opposite rows. An intrabay transport system for transporting wafer carriers around the process tool bay at least in a vertical plane in front of one of said two rows of semiconductor process tools comprises at least one vehicle for receiving and delivering a wafer carrier to and from any one semiconductor process tool of said plurality of semiconductor process tools, and a vehicle guiding mechanism. The vehicle comprises a circular compartment structure including a plurality of compartments for buffering said wafer carrier between receiving it at a first location and delivering it at a second location. Each compartment is arranged for accommodating one wafer carrier. The compartment structure is rotatable around a symmetry axis of itself for an alignment. The distance between the two opposite rows of processing tools is determined so as to enable a displacement of at least one vehicle.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Jason S Zeakes