Patent ID: 8069813
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: C23C,H01L

Abstract:
1. A semiconductor wafer electroless plating system, comprising: a chamber equipped to, wherein the chamber is defined to perform the electroless plating process and the drying process within a common internal volume of the chamber, wherein the chamber includes a platen defined to support the wafer during the electroless plating process, and wherein the chamber further includes a platen lift assembly for moving the platen from an upper region of the common internal volume of the chamber where the wafer is to be received from and provided to the interfacing module and subjected to the drying process, to the lower region of the common internal volume of the chamber where the wafer is to be subjected to the electroless plating process, and wherein the chamber includes a drive roller assembly and a stabilizer assembly defined to work together to support the wafer in a substantially horizontal orientation in an upper region of the common internal volume of the chamber upon receipt of the wafer from the interfacing module, during the drying process, and for provision of the wafer to the interfacing module, wherein both the drive roller assembly and the stabilizer assembly are defined separate from both the platen and the platen lift assembly.