Patent ID: 7980255

Claim:
A module adapted to clean and dry a wafer comprising: a processing portion having: a load port through which a wafer may be lowered into the processing portion of a tank in a substantially vertical orientation; an unload port, horizontally displaced from the load port, such that the wafer may be raised out of the processing portion at the unload port of the tank; and a rotatable wafer support for rotating an input wafer from a first substantially vertical orientation in line with the load port to a second orientation in line with the unload port, wherein the second orientation is inclined from the first orientation; and an output portion having: a first wafer receiver adapted to receive a wafer as the wafer is raised through the unload port of the tank; and an enclosure surrounding the first wafer receiver having: a first opening adapted such that a wafer may be raised from the processing portion, through the unload port, to the first wafer receiver; a second opening adapted to allow a wafer handler to extract a wafer from the first wafer receiver; and a plurality of additional openings adapted to allow a laminar flow of air to be established within the enclosure, wherein the output portion, including the first wafer receiver, is outside the processing portion.