Substrate processing method and substrate processing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10668497-B2
Application number	US-201615559076-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2016
Priority date	Mar 24, 2015
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

In order to solve the problem of satisfactorily removing a resist from the surface of a substrate, the present invention is a substrate processing device (1) having a spin chuck (5) and an SPM feed unit (6) for feeding SPM to the substrate (W) held by the spin chuck (5), wherein the SPM feed unit (6) includes a mixing unit (30) for mixing an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution and hydrofluoric acid and producing a liquid mixture of hydrogen peroxide water and hydrofluoric acid, and an HF-mixed SPM production unit (14) for mixing the liquid mixture and sulfuric acid and producing HF-mixed SPM.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A substrate processing method that removes a resist from a front surface of a substrate, the substrate processing method comprising:
a first mixing step of mixing a hydrogen peroxide water and a hydrofluoric acid at a mixing unit to produce a first mixed solution containing the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid;
a second mixing step of mixing the first mixed solution containing the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid with a sulfuric acid having a temperature of not less than 70° C. and not higher than 100° C. at a mixing chamber included in a nozzle that is connected to the mixing unit and disposed inside a chamber to produce a second mixed solution containing the sulfuric acid, the hydrogen peroxide water, and the hydrofluoric acid and having a temperature of not less than 100° C.; and
a supplying step of causing the nozzle in the chamber to supply the second mixed solution, produced in the mixing chamber of the nozzle and having the temperature of not less than 100° C., to the front surface of the substrate in the chamber.

2. The substrate processing method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid that are mixed in the first mixing step is of room temperature.

3. The substrate processing method according to claim 1 , wherein the second mixing step is a step of mixing the first mixed solution of the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid with the sulfuric acid at the mixing chamber included in the nozzle when the nozzle is disposed above the substrate.

4. The substrate processing method according to claim 2 , wherein the second mixing step is a step of mixing the first mixed solution of the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid with the sulfuric acid at the mixing chamber included in the nozzle when the nozzle is disposed above the substrate.

5. The substrate processing method according to claim 1 , wherein
the first mixing step includes a step of mixing the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid at the mixing unit to produce the first mixed solution of the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid while controlling the concentration of the hydrofluoric acid in the first mixed solution.

6. The substrate processing method according to claim 1 , wherein
the supplying step includes a step of supplying the second mixed solution having a temperature of 160° C. to the front surface of the substrate.

7. The substrate processing method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid that are mixed in the first mixing step is at a temperature of approximately 23° C.

8. The substrate processing method according to claim 7 , wherein the second mixing step is a step of mixing the first mixed solution of the hydrogen peroxide water and the hydrofluoric acid with the sulfuric acid at the mixing chamber included in the nozzle when the nozzle is disposed above the substrate.

9. The substrate processing method according to claim 1 , wherein the second mixing step is a step of producing the second mixed solution in which the concentration of the hydrofluoric acid is a value in a range from 100 ppm to 1000 ppm.

10. The substrate processing method according to claim 1 , further comprising a nozzle moving step of moving the nozzle within the chamber from a home position, at which the nozzle is positioned around the substrate in a plan view, to a processing position, at which the second mixed solution discharged from the nozzle lands on the front surface of the substrate, before the nozzle supplies the second mixed solution to the front surface of the substrate in the chamber.

Assignees

• Screen Holdings Co Ltd

Inventors

• Akizuki Yusuke

Classifications

• B05C11/08

  Spreading liquid or other fluent material by manipulating the work, e.g. tilting · CPC title

• B05C11/1039 Primary

  Recovery of excess liquid or other fluent material; Controlling means therefor · CPC title

• B05D7/24

  for applying particular liquids or other fluent materials · CPC title

• H01L21/67

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G03F7/423 Primary

  containing mineral acids or salts thereof, containing mineral oxidizing substances, e.g. peroxy compounds · CPC title