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Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method

  • US 5,766,360 A
  • Filed: 03/25/1993
  • Issued: 06/16/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A substrate processing apparatus, comprising:

  • a process chamber for performing a prescribed process with respect to a substrate;

    an inspection chamber, connected to said process chamber, for performing a prescribed analysis with respect to said substrate;

    a transfer assembly to load and unload said substrate between said process chamber and said inspection chamber;

    an analytic information storage memory to store analytic information of said substrate received from said inspection chamber; and

    an analytic information analyzer which retrieves said analytic information from said analytic information storage memory and analyzes said analytic information while said substrate is transferred to the outside of said inspection chamber by said transfer assembly or after said substrate is transferred to the outside of said inspection chamber by said transfer assembly,wherein at least one of said process chamber and said inspection chamber includes a load lock chamber having a volume less than volumes of the other chambers for changing the atmosphere in said process chamber or inspection chamber into the atmospheric air atmosphere or a vacuum atmosphere.

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