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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshimi Shiramizu, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
134 991 ; 1341001 ; 1341023 ; 134902 ;
Abstract
A cleaning method for a semiconductor substrate is provided. After pure water is supplied to a cleaning tank, a chlorine gas is supplied to the pure water to thereby generate chloride ions, hypochlorite ions, chlorite ions, and chlorate ions in the pure water. Then, a semiconductor substrate is immersed into the pure water containing the chloride ions, hypochlorite ions, chlorite ions, and chlorate ions. The fabrication cost of a semiconductor device and adverse effects on the earth environment can be reduced. The concentration of the dissolved chlorine gas in the pure water is preferably in the range from 0.003 to 0.3% by weight.