Patent ID: 11878532
Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 13:
14. A method of processing a substrate, comprising:
removing a substrate from a load port of an inkjet printing platform;
positioning the substrate in a pre-aligner disposed in a transfer chamber of the inkjet printing platform, the substrate aligned by the pre-aligner;
positioning the substrate in at least one inkjet chamber coupled to the transfer chamber, the substrate positioned on a stage of an inkjet printer disposed in the inkjet chamber, the inkjet printer configured to deposit one or more inkjet materials on the substrate from a plurality of printheads;
positioning the substrate in at least one auxiliary module coupled to the transfer chamber, the auxiliary module configured to perform one or more of a plasma cleaning, lithography, baking, cooling, curing, deposition, surface modification, and imprinting process; and
returning the substrate to the load port of the inkjet printing platform.