Detailed Description
The following disclosure provides many different embodiments, or examples, for implementing different components of the disclosure. Specific examples of components and arrangements are described below to simplify the present disclosure. Of course, these are merely examples and are not intended to be limiting. For example, formation of a first member over or on a second member in the following description may include embodiments in which the first and second members are formed in direct contact, and may also include embodiments in which additional members may be formed between the first and second members, such that the first and second members may not be in direct contact. In addition, the present disclosure may repeat reference numerals and/or letters in the various examples. This repetition is for the purpose of simplicity and clarity and does not in itself dictate a relationship between the various embodiments and/or configurations discussed.
Moreover, for convenience in description, spatially relative terms, such as "below," "under," "over," "up," and the like, may be used herein to describe one element or component's relationship to another element(s) or component(s), as illustrated in the figures. Spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.
Notwithstanding that the numerical ranges and parameters setting forth the broad scope of the disclosure are approximations, the numerical values set forth in the specific examples are reported as precisely as possible. Any numerical value, however, inherently contains certain errors necessarily resulting from the standard deviation found in their respective testing measurements. Further, as used herein, the term "about" generally means within 10%, 5%, 1%, or 0.5% of a given value or range. Alternatively, the term "about" means within an acceptable standard error of the mean as considered by a person of ordinary skill in the art. Except in the operating/working examples, or unless otherwise expressly specified, all numerical ranges, amounts, values, and percentages such as for amounts of materials, durations of time, temperatures, operating conditions, ratios of amounts, and the like, disclosed herein are to be understood as modified in all instances by the term "about". Accordingly, unless indicated to the contrary, the numerical parameters set forth in the present disclosure and attached claims are approximations that may vary depending upon the desired properties. At the very least, each numerical parameter should at least be construed in light of the number of reported significant digits and by applying ordinary rounding techniques. Ranges may be expressed herein as from one end point to the other end point or between the two end points. All ranges disclosed herein are inclusive of the endpoints, unless otherwise specified.
Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a photoresist processing system 100 according to a first embodiment of the disclosure, and as shown in fig. 1, the photoresist processing system 100 includes a holding device 110 and a magnetic device 120, in this embodiment, the holding device 110 may be a tank or a chamber having a carrier disposed therein. The holding device 110 has a bonding area (not shown), which may be located at the bottom of the trough body, on the carrier plate of the chamber, or other suitable positions, but not limited thereto. The bonding region is used to place a chamber (or a groove) of a substrate SUB with magnetic photoresist, that is, the substrate SUB can be placed at the bottom or other position of the holding device 110 through the bonding region, and the holding device 110 can be injected with photoresist-removing agent ST to assist in lifting the patterned photoresist PR carried on the substrate SUB away from the substrate SUB, wherein the photoresist PR is doped with magnetic material such as iron-nickel alloy nanoparticles, ferroferric oxide nanoparticles or other materials capable of magnetic action. The magnetic device 120 is disposed at a position away from the holding device 110, or more specifically, from the substrate SUB, and may include a permanent magnet or an electromagnet to generate a magnetic field having a magnetic attraction effect on the photoresist doped with the magnetic substance. As shown in fig. 1, the magnetic field generated by the magnetic device 120 generates an upward attraction force on the photoresist PR, so that the photoresist stripper ST first degrades a portion of the photoresist PR, and then the magnetic attraction effect of the magnetic device 120 on the photoresist PR is matched to effectively lift off (lift-off) the photoresist PR on the substrate SUB and in the photoresist stripper ST from the substrate SUB, thereby effectively solving the problems in the prior art. It should be noted that the present disclosure does not limit the distance between the magnetic device and the holding device 110. The disclosure does not limit the holding device 110 to be a chamber (or a tank) and the way the holding device 110 holds the substrate SUB, for example, the holding device 110 may be a plate or a pedestal, and may hold the substrate SUB by adsorption, snap ring, magnetic force, etc. In addition, in some embodiments, the photoresist processing system 100 of the present disclosure is not limited to using the photoresist ST, i.e., the photoresist processing system 100 can prevent the photoresist PR from being pulled away from the substrate SUB by the magnetic attraction of the magnetic device 120 to the photoresist PR.
Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic view of a second embodiment of the photoresist processing system 100 according to the present disclosure, as described above, the holding device 110 is a plate or a pedestal for holding the substrate SUB, and the magnetic device 120 carries the photoresist PR away from the substrate SUB through a magnetic attraction effect on the photoresist PR. In other words, the variations in the design of the magnetic device 120 to remove the magnetic material-doped photoresist PR from the substrate SUB are all within the scope of the present disclosure. In addition to the above-mentioned use of the photoresist ST and the magnetic attraction effect generated by the magnetic device 120 to effectively remove the photoresist PR from the substrate SUB, the holding device 110 may further have a carrying unit (not shown) for carrying and moving the substrate SUB relative to the magnetic device 120 through the bonding region. The transport unit may include mechanical structures (e.g., pulleys, conveyor belts, rollers, clamps, vacuum suction, electrostatic suction, etc.) to properly move the substrate SUB to smoothly carry the photoresist PR away from the substrate SUB to prevent the photoresist PR from being re-stained when the photoresist PR is degraded by the photoresist stripper ST and the magnetic force is applied to the photoresist PR by the magnetic device 120. Similarly, the holding device 110 may further include a vibration device (not shown) to vibrate the photoresist PR to peel off the substrate SUB when the photoresist PR is degraded by the photoresist stripper ST and the magnetic force is generated on the photoresist PR by the magnetic device 120. The vibration device can assist the magnetic photoresist to strip from the substrate by ultrasonic vibration, vibration of the holding device or shaking of the substrate.
It should be noted that, according to different mechanical structures, the direction and angle of the holding device 110 for holding the substrate SUB may also be changed. Fig. 3A is a schematic diagram of a third embodiment of a photoresist processing system 100 according to the present disclosure, in which a surface of a substrate SUB held by a holding device 110, on which a photoresist PR is carried, faces downward and is opposite to a magnetic device 120, so that the photoresist PR can be efficiently lifted off the substrate SUB through gravity in addition to the removal of the downward magnetic force generated by the photoresist ST and the magnetic device 120 on the photoresist PR. Fig. 3B is a schematic diagram of a fourth embodiment of the photoresist processing system 100 according to the present disclosure, in this embodiment, the holding device 110 includes two combining areas (not shown) for holding the substrates SUB1 and SUB2 simultaneously, wherein the substrates SUB1 and SUB2 both carry the magnetic photoresist PR, and as described in the embodiments of fig. 1 and 3A, the magnetic attraction direction of the magnetic device 120 to the photoresist PR on the substrate SUB1 is upward, the magnetic attraction direction of the magnetic device 120 to the photoresist PR on the substrate SUB2 is downward, and the photoresist PR on the substrate SUB2 is attracted by gravity to lift the photoresist PR off more efficiently. It should be apparent that while the photoresist processing system 100 may also include multiple magnetic devices 120 for processing photoresist PR on multiple substrates to improve processing efficiency, one of ordinary skill in the art can readily appreciate embodiments in which multiple magnetic devices perform photoresist stripping on multiple substrates, and the detailed description is omitted herein for brevity.
FIGS. 4A-4D are schematic diagrams of a magnetic device 120 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In fig. 4A, the magnetic device 120 is a plate structure, wherein the plate structure includes a permanent magnet or an electromagnet, or the plate structure is implemented by a ferromagnetic material to generate a magnetic field for the photoresist PR to bring the photoresist PR away from the substrate SUB to avoid the photoresist PR from being back-stained; fig. 4B is similar to the embodiment shown in fig. 4A, in that the magnetic device 120 is also a flat plate structure and includes a permanent magnet or an electromagnet to generate a magnetic field for the photo resistor PR, but the magnetic device 120 shown in fig. 4B includes a plurality of holes (e.g., the holes HL shown in the figure) arranged in an array; in FIG. 4C, the magnetic device 120 includes a plurality of magnetic units 120_1-120_ n disposed in parallel and spaced apart from each other, where n is a positive integer greater than 1, and each of the magnetic units 120_1-120_ n includes a permanent magnet or an electromagnet, or each of the magnetic units is implemented by a ferromagnetic material; the magnetic device 120 shown in FIG. 4D is based on the structure of FIG. 4C, and a plurality of magnetic units 200_1-200_ m are additionally disposed on the magnetic units 120_1-120_ n, wherein m is also a positive integer greater than 1, and the magnetic units 120_1-120_ n and the magnetic units 200_1-200_ m are criss-cross with each other, i.e., the magnetic device 120 comprises two layers of structures stacked on each other. It is to be appreciated that the magnetic device 120 may also include multiple layers stacked on top of each other to more efficiently lift off the photoresist PR. In addition, the present invention is not limited to the stacking angle and the interleaving manner between each layer of the magnetic device 120 when the layer of the magnetic device includes a plurality of layers. These design variations are intended to fall within the scope of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the magnetic device 120 and the displacement direction of the substrate SUB according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, as described above, the holding device 110 may further move the substrate SUB to lift the photoresist PR from the substrate SUB more efficiently, and in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the length of the magnetic device 120 in a direction (x direction shown in fig. 5) perpendicular to the movement direction (y direction shown in fig. 5) of the substrate SUB is longer than the length of the substrate SUB in x direction to ensure that the photoresist PR on the substrate SUB can be lifted effectively in a wider range. However, this is not a limitation of the present disclosure.
Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a photoresist processing system 600 according to a fifth embodiment of the present disclosure, the photoresist processing system 600 shown in fig. 6 is similar to the photoresist processing system 100 shown in fig. 1, and the holding device 110 in the photoresist processing system 600 further comprises an injection port 620 and an outflow port 630 for injecting or discharging the photoresist-removed ST into or out of the holding device 110. In addition, the photoresist processing system 600 further comprises a circulation device 610, wherein the circulation device 610 is connected between the inlet 620 and the outlet 630, so that the photoresist stripper ST discharged through the outlet 630 is injected into the holding device 110 through the inlet 620 again through the circulation device 610. In this embodiment, the circulation device 610 may further include a filtering device 640 for filtering the photoresist PR in the photoresist stripper ST to effectively prevent the photoresist PR injected into the holding device 110 again from including the photoresist PR and re-wetting the substrate SUB. In this embodiment, the filtering device 640 may include a magnetic element such as a permanent magnet or an electromagnet, or the filtering device 640 may be implemented by a ferromagnetic substance. It should be noted that the disclosure does not limit the position of the filtering device 640 in the circulating device 610, and does not limit the shape and size of the circulating device 610 and the filtering device 640.
Fig. 7 is a schematic view of a circulation device 610 according to an embodiment of the disclosure, as shown in fig. 7, the photoresist stripper ST discharged from the holding device 110 from the outlet 630 is injected into the holding device 110 through the inlet 620 again according to the arrow direction, and the filter 640 magnetically attracts the photoresist PR in the photoresist stripper ST, so that the photoresist PR in the photoresist ST can be effectively attracted by the filter 640, thereby preventing the photoresist ST re-injected into the holding device 110 from generating defects on the substrate SUB. In this embodiment, the circulation device 610 may further include a discharge port 650 for discharging the photoresist PR adsorbed by the filter device 640 through the magnetic attraction effect out of the circulation device 610 through the discharge port 650.
Fig. 8 is a schematic view of a circulation device 610 according to another embodiment of the present disclosure, similar to the embodiment illustrated in fig. 7, except that the position of the filtering device 640 in fig. 8 is different in the circulation device 610, and a person skilled in the art can easily understand the embodiment of fig. 8 after reading the above paragraphs, so that the detailed description is omitted for brevity.
Fig. 9 is a flow chart of a method 900 of photoresist processing according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, which need not be performed in exactly the same step as the method 900 of fig. 9, provided that substantially the same results are achieved. The photoresist processing method 900 can be summarized as follows:
step 902: the substrate SUB is placed in the holding device 110.
Step 904: a photoresist stripper ST is implanted in the holding device 110.
Step 906: the magnetic device 120 is utilized to generate a magnetic field to generate a magnetic attraction effect on the photoresist PR doped with magnetic material carried by the substrate SUB.
After reading the above paragraphs, those skilled in the art should readily understand the method flowchart shown in FIG. 9, and the detailed description is omitted here for brevity.
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a photoresist processing system for processing a magnetic photoresist carried by a substrate, the photoresist processing system comprising a holding device and a magnetic device. The holding device is used for holding the substrate; the magnetic device is placed at a specific position away from the holding device, wherein the magnetic field generated by the magnetic device has a magnetic attraction effect on the photoresist.
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a photoresist processing method for processing a magnetic photoresist carried on a substrate, the method comprising generating a magnetic field by a magnetic device to generate a magnetic attraction effect on the photoresist.
The foregoing outlines features of several embodiments so that those skilled in the art may better understand the aspects of the present disclosure. Those skilled in the art should appreciate that they may readily use the present disclosure as a basis for designing or modifying other processes and structures for carrying out the same purposes and/or achieving the same advantages of the embodiments introduced herein. Those skilled in the art should also realize that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure, and that they may make various changes, substitutions, and alterations herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
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100 photoresist processing system
110 holding device
120 magnetic device
120_1-120_ n, 200_1-200_ m magnetic cells
610 circulation device
620 injection port
630 flow outlet
640 Filter device
650 discharge port
900 photo-resistance processing method
902 step 906
HL hole
PR magnetic photoresist
ST Photoresist remover
SUB, SUB1, SUB2 substrate