Patent ID: 11923217
Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC B  H

Claim 15:
16. A processing system for processing a substrate, the processing system comprising:
a Front Opening Unified Pod (FOUP) load lock being configured to receive a FOUP in an interior space of the FOUP load lock, wherein the FOUP load lock receives the FOUP from outside the processing system with substrates oriented in a horizontal position and maintains the substrates horizontally oriented in the FOUP load lock;
a vacuum system fluidly connected to the interior space of the FOUP load lock, the vacuum system being operable to pump down a pressure of the interior space of the FOUP load lock;
a transfer chamber attached to the FOUP load lock, the transfer chamber comprising a transfer robot, the transfer robot being operable to transfer a substrate from the FOUP in the interior space to the transfer chamber; and
a processing chamber attached to the transfer chamber, the transfer robot being operable to transfer a substrate from the transfer chamber to the processing chamber.