Method and Apparatus for Cleaning a Semiconductor Substrate

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APP PUB NO 20110088719A1
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12908658

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Disclosed are systems and methods for cleaning semiconductor substrates, wherein a nucleation structure having nucleation sites is mounted facing a surface of the substrate to be cleaned. The substrate and structure are brought into contact with a cleaning liquid, which is subsequently subjected to acoustic waves of a given frequency. The nucleation template features easier nucleation formation than the surface that needs to be cleaned by, for example, causing the template to have a higher contact angle when in contact with the liquid than the substrate surface to be clean. Therefore, bubbles nucleate on the structure and not on the surface to be cleaned.

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Brems, Steven Leuven, BE 8 6
Mertens, Paul Bonheiden, BE 39 912

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