Patent ID: 8449716

Claim:
Method for separating a substrate from a carrier substrate, wherein the carrier substrate is connected to the substrate by an interconnect layer, said method including the following steps: holding a substrate-carrier substrate combination, which consists of the carrier substrate, the interconnect layer and the substrate, between a substrate holding surface of a substrate holder and a holding surface of a carrier substrate holder, wherein the holding surface of the carrier substrate holder is capable of being located parallel to the substrate holding surface of the substrate holder, and separating the substrate from the carrier substrate by parallel displacement of the substrate relative to the carrier substrate in an interconnected state of the substrate and the carrier substrate, wherein the step of separating the substrate from the carrier substrate includes providing a dynamometric means for measuring a stripping force between the substrate and the carrier substrate, wherein a speed of parallel displacement of the substrate relative to the carrier substrate is adjusted based on the stripping force measured by the dynamometric means.