Apparatus and method for developing resist coated on a substrate

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5625433
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08535895

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A developing apparatus comprising a spin chuck for rotating a wafer while keeping the wafer substantially horizontal with a resist-coated surface up, a nozzle for supplying developer, from above and obliquely, to the resist-coated surface of the wafer on the sign chuck, a source for supplying the developer to the nozzle, a cup arranged enclosing a peripheral portion of the wafer on the spin chuck and having a drain passage through which the developer supplied to the wafer is drained, and a belt drive mechanism for moving the nozzle in a horizontal plane to discharge the developer to the wafer in such a direction that follows the wafer rotating.

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TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED3-1 AKASAKA 5-CHOME MINATO-KU TOKYO 1076325 ?1076325

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Inada, Hiroichi Kumamoto, JP 33 586
Tsunematsu, Kunie Kumamoto, JP 2 63

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