Patent ID: 8122851
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A substrate processing apparatus performing given processing on a substrate, the substrate processing apparatus comprising: a plurality of processing blocks provided in series in one direction and each including a processing unit performing processing on a substrate and a transport robot transporting a substrate to the processing unit; a substrate rest which is provided in a connecting portion of the plurality of processing blocks and on which the substrate is placed for transfer of the substrate between the transport robots of each adjacent pair of the plurality of processing blocks; a sensor coil provided in the substrate rest and for use in radio transmission and reception to and from a temperature-measuring element that is formed by connecting a coil or antenna to a quartz resonator; a transmitter-receiver that, once a temperature-measurement substrate with the temperature-measuring element is placed on the substrate rest, transmits a transmission wave to the temperature-measuring element through the sensor coil, and after stopping the transmission of the transmission wave, receives an electromagnetic wave from the temperature-measuring element through the sensor coil; and a temperature computer for computing a temperature of the temperature-measurement substrate based on the frequency of the electromagnetic wave that the transmitter-receiver receives from the temperature-measuring element.