Patent ID: 6526997
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: B08B,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
An ultra clean method for manufacturing an integrated circuit device, the method comprising:retrieving an in process substrate comprising one or more particles from an input chamber, the input chamber being coupled to a robot arm; moving the substrate from the input chamber into a cleaning chamber, the cleaning chamber being coupled to the robot arm; placing the substrate onto a susceptor in the cleaning chamber; and applying a high energy photon from a high energy photon source onto a surface of a substrate to release the one or more particles from the surface of the substrate while the substrate is maintained in the predetermined environment and applying an electrostatic force from an electrode directed to the substrate to attract the released one or more particles from the substrate to remove the one or more particles from the surface of the substrate, whereupon the electrostatic force prevents a possibility of the one or more particles from redistributing back onto the surface of the substrate; transferring the substrate from the cleaning chamber to another chamber, the other chamber being selected from an etching chamber, a deposition chamber, a furnace, a sputtering chamber, an implantation chamber, and a bonding chamber.