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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:
Sep. 12, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ying Wang, Singapore, SG;

Ruiping Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/00 (2006.01); H01L 23/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); C23C 16/513 (2006.01); H01L 21/683 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 24/95 (2013.01); C23C 16/513 (2013.01); H01L 21/67132 (2013.01); H01L 21/67253 (2013.01); H01L 21/6836 (2013.01); H01L 22/10 (2013.01); H01L 24/94 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, a method for hybrid bonding a wafer comprises performing a first vacuum processing procedure on the wafer disposed within a first processing chamber, obtaining at least one of moisture measurements or organic species measurements within the first processing chamber, comparing the obtained at least one of moisture measurements or organic species measurements with a predetermined threshold, and one of when a comparison of the obtained at least one of moisture measurements or organic species measurements is equal to or less than the predetermined threshold automatically performing a second vacuum processing procedure in a second processing chamber different from the first processing chamber on the wafer, or when the comparison of the obtained at least one of moisture measurements or organic species measurements is greater than the predetermined threshold automatically continuing performing the first vacuum processing procedure on the wafer.


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