Patent ID: 8603294

Claim:
Method for stripping a wafer from a carrier, wherein the carrier is fixed to the wafer by an interconnect layer that provides a connection between the carrier and the wafer, the method comprising the following steps: receiving a carrier-wafer combination on a receiving means, said carrier-wafer combination comprised of the carrier and the wafer, wherein the interconnect layer provides the connection between the carrier and the wafer at a peripheral edge of the carrier-wafer combination; supplying a solvent for dissolving the interconnect layer, said solvent supplied through a fluid line to a working chamber; rotating the carrier-wafer combination such that at least a portion of the peripheral edge of said carrier-wafer combination rotates through the working chamber to contact the peripheral edge of the carrier-wafer with the solvent, thereby unfixing the connection between the carrier and the wafer; and stripping the wafer from the carrier or stripping the carrier from the wafer.