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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2017
Applicant:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hirotaka Maruyama, Kumamoto, JP;
Assignee:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/02 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/687 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/02052 (2013.01); H01L 21/02057 (2013.01); H01L 21/67028 (2013.01); H01L 21/67051 (2013.01); H01L 21/67253 (2013.01); H01L 21/68764 (2013.01);
Abstract
In drying a substrate disposed inside a processing container after performing a liquid processing on the substrate, a low humidity gas for lowering a humidity inside the processing container is supplied during a time period when a processing liquid is supplied to the center portion of the substrate, and the processing liquid supplied to the center portion of the substrate is stopped after a humidity measurement value obtained by measuring the humidity inside the processing container becomes equal to or less than a preset humidity target value.