Patent ID: 9646817
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B08B,H01L,Y10S

Claim:
1. A system for cleaning a workpiece, the system comprising: a first chamber, wherein the first chamber comprises a non-vacuum ambient atmosphere and is configured with a cleaning interface that interfaces with and cleans a predetermined workpiece surface of a workpiece in the non-vacuum ambient atmosphere from an uncleaned condition of the predetermined workpiece surface in which the workpiece is received in the first chamber to a cleaned condition of the predetermined workpiece surface; a second chamber, wherein the second chamber is different than the first chamber so that the second chamber comprises a vacuum ambient that is different from the non-vacuum ambient atmosphere of the first chamber, and the second chamber is configured so that the second chamber effects post cleaning outgassing of the workpiece after being cleaned in the first chamber; and a robotic mechanism for transferring the workpiece between the first chamber and the second chamber.