Patent ID: 7618203
Filing Date: 2009-11-17
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A substrate processing method of performing substrate processing in a predetermined processing recipe in a substrate processing apparatus including a substrate housing unit housing a plurality of substrates and a plurality of processing units performing various kinds of processing on the substrates, by sequentially transferring the plurality of substrates in the substrate housing unit to a predetermined plurality of processing units following a transfer recipe, said method comprising the steps of: storing, when trouble occurs and an operation of the substrate processing apparatus is stopped, substrate information containing positions and processing states of the substrates located in the substrate processing apparatus at that time; collecting, when a power supply of the substrate processing apparatus is then turned off and thereafter the substrate processing apparatus is restarted, the substrates located in the substrate processing apparatus into the substrate housing unit; and thereafter sequentially transferring each of the substrates in the substrate housing unit to the predetermined plurality of processing units following a same transfer recipe as that before occurrence of trouble, and not performing processing on the substrate in a processing unit in which processing for the substrate has already been completed but performing processing on the substrate in a processing unit in which processing for the substrate has not been performed yet based on the substrate information to thereby perform remaining substrate processing of the predetermined processing recipe.