Sumco Corporation

Katsuro Wakasugi

Fumitoshi Iwasaki

A wafer container cleaner includes a cleaning bath capable of accommodating a housing jig that houses a wafer container including a container body and a cover, liquid-supply nozzles for supplying cleaning liquid or the like into the cleaning bath, and a liquid-discharge nozzle for discharging to-be-discharged fluid out of the cleaning bath. The container body has a depth wall at a side opposite a container opening. In an accommodating state where the container body mounted on the storage fixture with the container opening facing downward is accommodated in the cleaning bath, the liquid-supply nozzles are provided so that respective liquid-supply openings through which the cleaning liquid or the like is discharged face an inner side of the depth wall and the liquid-discharge nozzle is provided so that a discharge opening through which the to-be-discharged fluid is sucked in faces a center of the inner side of the depth wall.

Wafer storage container cleaning apparatus, and wafer storage container cleaning method

Provided is a method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer which can effectively reduce deposits on a main surface of a wafer. A method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer of the present disclosure includes supplying ozone water into a cleaning tank from a lower part of the cleaning tank with the ozone water overflowing from the upper part of the cleaning tank to outside the cleaning tank (first step), subsequently, stopping a supply of the ozone water (second step), subsequently, immersing a semiconductor wafer into the ozone water in the cleaning tank (third step), and subsequently, resupplying the ozone water into the cleaning tank from the lower part of the cleaning tank with the ozone water overflowing again from the upper part of the cleaning tank to outside the cleaning tank (fourth step).

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Tokyo, Japan

Katsuro Wakasugi