Patent ID: 6991420

Claim:
Tool for handling a wafer in an epitaxial growth station, the tool being adapted to be applied to an arm of a robot for the automatic insertion/extraction of wafers into/from the reaction chamber of the station, the arm being provided with a suction duct connected to a suction system, the tool comprising: a disk having an upper side and a lower side, the lower side being so shaped as to get in contact with the wafer only along the edge of the wafer, the disk being provided internally with a suction chamber that is in communication with the outside of the disk through suction holes and that is adapted to be put is in communication with the suction duct through a suction port, the disk entirely covering the wafer, wherein when the wafer is in contact with the lower side of the disk and the suction system is active, the wafer is held by the tool through suction and wherein the disk, on its lower side in its central part, is provided with a suction cavity, and wherein the suction holes are open to the lower side of the disk into the suction cavity.