Plating apparatus and plating method
First Claim
1. A plating apparatus comprising:
- an ashing unit configured to perform an ashing process on a resist applied on a surface of a seed layer formed on a substrate;
a pre-wetting section configured to provide hydrophilicity to a surface of the substrate after the ashing process;
a pre-soaking section configured to bring the surface of the substrate into contact with a treatment solution to clean or activate a surface of the seed layer formed on the substrate; and
a plating unit configured to bring the surface of the substrate into a plating solution in a plating tank while the resist is used as a mask so as to form a plated film on the surface of the seed layer formed on the substrate.
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Abstract
A plating apparatus has an ashing unit (300) configured to perform an ashing process on a resist (502) applied on a surface of a seed layer (500) formed on a substrate (W), and a pre-wetting section (26) configured to provide hydrophilicity to a surface of the substrate after the ashing process. The plating apparatus includes a pre-soaking section (28) configured to bring the surface of the substrate into contact with a treatment solution to clean or activate a surface of the seed layer formed on the substrate. The plating apparatus also includes a plating unit (34) configured to bring the surface of the substrate into a plating solution in a plating tank while the resist is used as a mask so as to form a plated film (504) on the surface of the seed layer formed on the substrate.
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60 Claims
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1. A plating apparatus comprising:
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an ashing unit configured to perform an ashing process on a resist applied on a surface of a seed layer formed on a substrate;
a pre-wetting section configured to provide hydrophilicity to a surface of the substrate after the ashing process;
a pre-soaking section configured to bring the surface of the substrate into contact with a treatment solution to clean or activate a surface of the seed layer formed on the substrate; and
a plating unit configured to bring the surface of the substrate into a plating solution in a plating tank while the resist is used as a mask so as to form a plated film on the surface of the seed layer formed on the substrate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A plating apparatus comprising:
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a loading/unloading section configured to load and unload a cassette housing substrates;
a sensor provided in said loading/unloading section for detecting sizes of the substrates received in the cassette;
a plurality of tools corresponding to sizes of substrates to be plated;
a tool stocker to store said plurality of tools;
a plating section configured to perform at least a plating process;
a controller configured to select a tool corresponding to a size detected by said sensor from said plurality of tools; and
a transfer device configured to hold and transfer said tool selected by said controller to said plating section.
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43. A plating apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of plating tanks each having a plating solution and an anode therein; and
a single power supply configured to selectively apply a voltage between a substrate and anodes in said plurality of plating tanks so as to perform sequential plating processes. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45)
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46. A plating method comprising:
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applying a resist on a surface of a seed layer formed on a substrate;
ashing the resist;
providing hydrophilicity to a surface of the substrate after said ashing process so as to perform a hydrophilic process on the surface of the substrate;
cleaning or activating the surface of the substrate after said hydrophilic process; and
bringing the surface of the substrate into a plating solution while the resist is used as a mask so as to perform a plating process to form a plated film on the surface of the substrate. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A plating apparatus comprising:
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a plating unit configured to form a plated film on a surface of a substrate while a resist is applied as a mask on a surface of a seed layer formed on a substrate;
a resist stripping unit configured to strip and remove the resist from the surface of the seed layer; and
an etching unit configured to remove an unnecessary portion of the seed layer formed on the surface of the substrate, wherein said plating unit, said resist stripping unit, and said etching unit are incorporated integrally with each other. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60)
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Specification