Patent ID: 11905597
Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC C  B  G  H | IPC B  C  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A substrate processing apparatus, comprising:
a film forming unit configured to form a film on a surface of a substrate and remove at least a part of the film;
a surface inspection unit configured to acquire surface information indicating a state of the surface of the substrate; and
a controller configured to control the film forming unit and the surface inspection unit,
wherein the controller is configured to perform:
an adjustment processing including: forming the film on the surface of the substrate by the film forming unit; removing a peripheral portion of the film by the film forming unit; acquiring the surface information indicating the state of the surface of the substrate including the film, from which the peripheral portion has been removed, by the surface inspection unit and adjusting a cut width of the peripheral portion based on the surface information; and peeling the film, from which the peripheral portion has been removed, by the film forming unit; and
a process processing including: forming the film on the surface of the substrate by the film forming unit; and removing the peripheral portion by the cut width adjusted in the adjustment processing in the film forming unit,
wherein the process processing is programmed to be performed on the substrate on which the adjustment processing has been completed, and wherein the controller is configured to repeatedly perform the adjustment processing until a deviation between the cut width and a target value reaches a predetermined level.