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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. 01, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jianshe Tang, San Jose, CA (US);

Wei Lu, Fremont, CA (US);

Haosheng Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Taketo Sekine, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Shou-Sung Chang, Mountain View, CA (US);

Hari N. Soundararajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Chad Pollard, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67 (2006.01); B08B 3/02 (2006.01); B08B 3/08 (2006.01); B08B 3/12 (2006.01); B08B 5/02 (2006.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01); H01L 21/306 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67051 (2013.01); B08B 3/024 (2013.01); B08B 3/08 (2013.01); B08B 3/12 (2013.01); B08B 5/02 (2013.01); H01L 21/02057 (2013.01); H01L 21/30625 (2013.01); B08B 2203/007 (2013.01); B08B 2230/01 (2013.01); H01L 21/02074 (2013.01); H01L 21/67109 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for cleaning a substrate. The method includes rotating a substrate disposed on a substrate support and spraying a front side of the substrate using steam through a front side nozzle assembly. A back side of the substrate is sprayed using steam through a back side dispenser assembly. A heated chemical is dispensed over the front side of the substrate.


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