Patent ID: 6802935
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: C23C,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
A semiconductor processing apparatus, comprising:a plurality of process chambers, wherein at least one semiconductor processing operation occurs within each process chamber among said plurality of process chambers; a robot mechanism for rotating a process chamber among said plurality of process chambers upon completion of a semiconductor processing operation associated with said process chamber, wherein said robot mechanism rotates each process chamber among said plurality of process chambers in a manner and a sequence for permitting the efficient cleaning of each process chamber and prevention of partlcle accumulation thereof; a plurality of robots, wherein each robot of said plurality robots can perform a processing task at a process chamber among said plurality of process chambers; a carousel which rotates at least one robot among said plurality of robots to at least one process chamber among said plurality of process chambers upon completion of an associated semiconductor processing operation.