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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Brian J. Brown, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67 (2006.01); B08B 1/12 (2024.01); B08B 1/32 (2024.01); B08B 1/50 (2024.01); B08B 3/02 (2006.01); B08B 3/08 (2006.01); B24B 53/017 (2012.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67046 (2013.01); B08B 1/12 (2024.01); B08B 1/32 (2024.01); B08B 1/50 (2024.01); B08B 3/02 (2013.01); B08B 3/08 (2013.01); B24B 53/017 (2013.01); H01L 21/02096 (2013.01);
Abstract

A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) system include apparatus and methods to clean brushes used to scrub substrates, including brush cleaning using periodic chemical treatment. One or more embodiments include a method of operating the CMP system to rotate a first one or more scrubber brushes while the first one or more scrubber brushes are in contact with a first substrate, performing, concurrent with the rotating during the first time duration, a cleaning operation for a second one or more scrubber brushes, performing, during a second time duration of the cleaning cycle, the cleaning operation for the first one or more scrubber brushes, and rotating, concurrent with the performing the cleaning operation during the second time duration, the second one or more scrubber brushes while the second one or more scrubber brushes are in contact with a second substrate.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Brown, Brian. (2025). Apparatus and method of brush cleaning using periodic chemical treatments (U.S. Patent No. 12224186). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12224186

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