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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:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
SEH America, Inc., Vancouver, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/100 ;
Abstract
A system for conditioning an alkaline etching solution for reducing contamination in a silicon wafer etching process. The system includes a conditioning tank for mixing a conditioned alkaline etching solution, the conditioned alkaline etching solution including a conditioning chemical; a conditioning chemical introduction system configured to add the conditioning chemical to the conditioning tank; and a buffer tank for storing the conditioned basic etching solution before using the conditioned alkaline etching solution in an etching process.