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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jonathan Alan Orth, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430327 ; 430311 ; 134 33 ; 427240 ; 427273 ;
Abstract
A method and system of flattening resist mounds formed during a wet edgebead operation. The wet edgebead operation is used to remove edgebeads formed when a resist material is deposited on a semiconductor wafer. Solvent is introduced to the semiconductor wafer at the area containing the resist mounds to soften them, and the semiconductor wafer is spun at a high speed to flatten the mounds.