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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
Applicant:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shigemi Oono, Kumamoto, JP;
Assignee:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/6708 (2013.01); H01L 21/67253 (2013.01); H01L 21/67259 (2013.01);
Abstract
A substrate holding unit of a liquid processing apparatus holds a circular substrate horizontally and rotates the substrate about a vertical axis, and a chemical liquid nozzle supplies a chemical liquid to the peripheral edge of the substrate while the substrate is being rotated in order to remove a film of the peripheral edge. An image capture unit captures an image of the peripheral edge, and a determination unit calculates an actually removed value for a removed width of the film based on a result of the image capturing and determines whether the removed width is suitable or not.