Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seulgee Jeon

Sangjine Park

Yongsun Ko

Jihoon Jeong

Byung-Kwon Cho

Youngtak Kim

Byungkwon Cho

Seongsik Hong

Provided are a wafer cleaning apparatus based on light irradiation capable of effectively cleaning residue on a wafer without damaging the wafer, and a wafer cleaning system including the cleaning apparatus. The wafer cleaning apparatus is configured to clean residue on the wafer by light irradiation and includes: a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate light onto the wafer during the light irradiation; a wafer processing unit configured accommodate the wafer and to control a position of the wafer such that the light is irradiated onto the wafer during the light irradiation; and a cooling unit configured to cool the wafer after the light irradiation has been completed. The light irradiation unit, the wafer processing unit, and the cooling unit are sequentially arranged in a vertical structure with the light irradiation unit above the wafer processing unit and the wafer processing unit above the cooling unit.

Wafer cleaning apparatus based on light irradiation and wafer cleaning system including the same

A supercritical drying apparatus and a method of drying a substrate, the apparatus including a drying chamber configured to receive a supercritical fluid and to dry a substrate; a chuck in the drying chamber, the chuck being configured to receive the substrate; and a particle remover in the drying chamber, the particle remover being configured to remove dry particles from the substrate by heating the substrate with radiant heat.

Supercritical drying apparatus and method of drying substrate using the same

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Seulgee Jeon