Patent ID: 9059227
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: H01L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of producing substrates; said method comprising: fixing a first processing tool in a fabricator comprising a primary cleanspace wherein the first processing tool is fixed at a periphery of the primary cleanspace and wherein at least a portion of a tool port of the first processing tool is in the primary cleanspace and at least a portion of a tool body of the first processing tool is not in the primary cleanspace; fixing a second processing tool in the fabricator at the periphery of the primary cleanspace, wherein the second processing tool is above the first processing tool, and wherein at least a portion of a tool port of the second processing tool is in the primary cleanspace and at least a portion of a tool body of the second processing tool is not in the primary cleanspace; storing a substrate in a first substrate carrier while the substrate is transported in the cleanspace; receiving the substrate carrier into the tool port of the first processing tool; removing the substrate from the first substrate carrier into the tool body of the first processing tool; performing a first process on the substrate in the first processing tool; containing the substrate in a second substrate carrier subsequent to the performing of the first process; transporting the second substrate carrier to the tool port of the second processing tool; removing the substrate from the second substrate carrier into the tool body of the second processing tool; and performing a second process on the substrate in the second processing tool.