Patent ID: 11862483
Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A substrate processing method, comprising:
performing a liquid processing on a substrate by using a processing unit including a substrate holding mechanism configured to hold the substrate horizontally and a processing liquid supply configured to discharge a processing liquid toward the substrate held by a gripper of the substrate holding mechanism;
detecting a temperature of a central portion of the substrate and a temperature of an edge portion of the substrate in the liquid processing by using multiple sensors provided in the processing unit;
generating temperature distribution information indicating an in-surface temperature distribution of the substrate in the liquid processing based on one or more parameter values defining a processing condition for the liquid processing and the temperature of the central portion of the substrate and the temperature of the edge portion of the substrate detected in the detecting of the temperature; and
determining, based on the temperature distribution information, whether a result of the liquid processing is good or bad,
wherein, in the detecting of the temperature, a temperature detected by at least one of the multiple sensors provided at the griper of the substrate holding mechanism is detected as the temperature of the edge portion of the substrate.