Supercritical drying method for semiconductor substrate

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PATENT NO 8950082
APP PUB NO 20130055584A1
SERIAL NO

13600860

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According to one embodiment, a supercritical drying method for a semiconductor substrate comprises introducing a semiconductor substrate, a surface of the semiconductor substrate being wet with a water-soluble organic solvent, to the inside of a chamber, hermetically sealing the chamber and increasing a temperature inside the chamber to not lower than a critical temperature of the water-soluble organic solvent, thereby bringing the water-soluble organic solvent into a supercritical state, decreasing a pressure inside the chamber and changing the water-soluble organic solvent in the supercritical state to a gas, thereby discharging the water-soluble organic solvent from the chamber, starting a supply of an inert gas into the chamber as the pressure inside the chamber decreases to atmospheric pressure, and cooling the semiconductor substrate in a state where the inert gas exists inside the chamber.

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  • TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hayashi, Hidekazu Yokohama, JP 98 611
Ji, Linan Shanghai, CN 12 208
Okuchi, Hisashi Yokohama, JP 62 526
Sato, Yohei Yokohama, JP 94 1208
Tomita, Hiroshi Yokohama, JP 314 3958

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