Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Substrate processing apparatus and processing condition adjustment method
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Application No.: US17625370Application Date: 2020-07-10
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Publication No.: US11809091B2Publication Date: 2023-11-07
- Inventor: Masahide Tadokoro , Masashi Enomoto , Kentaro Yamamura
- Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
- Current Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: POSZ LAW GROUP, PLC
- Priority: JP 19133652 2019.07.19
- International Application: PCT/JP2020/027054 2020.07.10
- International Announcement: WO2021/015010A 2021.01.28
- Date entered country: 2022-01-07
- Main IPC: G03F7/00
- IPC: G03F7/00 ; G03F7/20

Abstract:
A substrate processing apparatus which processes includes a thermal processor that performs thermal processing on the substrate; an imager that images the substrate; and a controller that executes adjustment processing of adjusting conditions of processing on the substrate. The adjustment processing includes: controlling the imager to image an unexposed adjustment substrate on which a resist film is formed; controlling the thermal processor to perform the thermal processing on the adjustment substrate subjected to uniform exposure processing of exposing each region of a substrate surface with a fixed exposure amount after the pre-exposure imaging; controlling the imager to image the adjustment substrate after the thermal processing; estimating an in-plane temperature distribution of the adjustment substrate in the thermal processing based on the pre-exposure imaging result and the post-heating imaging result; and deciding processing conditions of the thermal processing based on an estimation result of the in-plane temperature distribution.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220252992A1 SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING CONDITION ADJUSTMENT METHOD Public/Granted day:2022-08-11
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