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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2019
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Banqiu Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Eli Dagan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/20 (2006.01); B08B 3/10 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01); G03F 1/82 (2012.01); G03F 1/66 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/70925 (2013.01); B08B 3/10 (2013.01); G03F 7/70983 (2013.01); H01L 21/02082 (2013.01); H01L 21/67028 (2013.01); G03F 1/66 (2013.01); G03F 1/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure generally include apparatus and methods for removing adhesive residues from a surface of a lithography mask. In particular, the processing systems described herein provide for the delivery of a solvent to a discrete plurality of locations on the surface of the lithography mask to facilitate the removal of adhesive residue therefrom. In one embodiment, a method of processing a substrate includes positioning the substrate on a substrate support of a processing system, sealing individual ones of a plurality of cleaning units to a surface of the substrate at a corresponding plurality of locations, heating a cleaning fluid to a temperature between about 50° C. and about 150° C., flowing the cleaning fluid to, and thereafter, from, the plurality of cleaning units, and exposing the surface of the substrate to the cleaning fluid at the plurality of locations.


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