Methods and apparatus for wetting pretreatment for through resist metal plating

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9828688
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15181150

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Disclosed are pre-wetting apparatus designs and methods. In some embodiments, a pre-wetting apparatus includes a degasser, a process chamber, and a controller. The process chamber includes a wafer holder configured to hold a wafer substrate, a vacuum port configured to allow formation of a subatmospheric pressure in the process chamber, and a fluid inlet coupled to the degasser and configured to deliver a degassed pre-wetting fluid onto the wafer substrate at a velocity of at least about 7 meters per second whereby particles on the wafer substrate are dislodged and at a flow rate whereby dislodged particles are removed from the wafer substrate. The controller includes program instructions for forming a wetting layer on the wafer substrate in the process chamber by contacting the wafer substrate with the degassed pre-wetting fluid admitted through the fluid inlet at a flow rate of at least about 0.4 liters per minute.

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NOVELLUS SYSTEMS INCFREMONT CA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Blackman, Brian Paul Newberg, US 4 112
Buckalew, Bryan L Tualatin, US 80 1463
Higley, Doug Portland, US 3 44
Mayer, Steven T Aurora, US 217 7299
Ponnuswamy, Thomas A Sherwood, US 26 425
Rash, Robert West Linn, US 59 975

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