Patent ID: 7855156

Claim:
A method of semiconductor processing onto at least one substrate, the method comprising: providing at least one semiconductor substrate, the at least one substrate having a total surface area, the total surface area comprising either: a. a plurality of interlinked surface characteristics; or b. an omnifacial surface characteristic; providing a semiconductor process chamber, the semiconductor process chamber defining a first volume; providing a preliminary chamber, having a first opening to an external environment and a second opening to the semiconductor process chamber, the first opening and the second opening each operable to provide an environmental seal, the first opening and the second opening operable to allow passage of the least one substrate, the preliminary chamber defining a second volume, the second volume being no more than 25% of the first volume; environmentally isolating the first volume from the second volume; placing the at least one substrate within second volume from the external environment; environmentally isolating the second volume from the external environment; changing the environment in the second volume to substantially match the environment within the first volume; moving the at least one substrate into the semiconductor process chamber; environmentally isolating the first volume from the second volume; performing a semiconductor processing step on the substrate within the semiconductor processing chamber, the step of performing the semiconductor processing step including: providing a semiconductor source material, the step of providing including: introducing a semiconductor source material into the semiconductor processing chamber; removing the semiconductor source material from the semiconductor processing chamber; the steps of introducing and removing the semiconductor source material occurring at least in part concurrently with one another; moving the at least substrate in the semiconductor process chamber, the step of moving including: rotating the at least one substrate such that more than half of the total surface area of the at least one substrate is coated by the semiconductor process; the steps of moving the at least one substrate and providing the semiconductor source material occurring at least in part concurrently with one another.