US 11,938,521 B2
Method and apparatus for semiconductor wafer cleaning
Kuang-Wei Cheng, Hsinchu (TW); Cheng-Lung Wu, Zhunan Township (TW); and Chyi-Tsong Ni, Hsinchu (TW)
Assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/591,080.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/280,217, filed on Nov. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0149980 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. B08B 3/02 (2006.01); B08B 3/04 (2006.01)
CPC B08B 3/02 (2013.01) [B08B 3/04 (2013.01); B08B 2240/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of cleaning a semiconductor wafer, said method comprising: loading a semiconductor wafer into a cell; moving two or more nozzles into respective operational orientations for spraying onto a top surface of the loaded semiconductor wafer; spraying a cleaning solution from each nozzle among the two or more nozzles onto the top surface of the loaded semiconductor wafer to apply the cleaning solution to the top surface of the loaded semiconductor wafer including to the center of the top surface of the loaded semiconductor wafer; and collecting the cleaning solution in an annular trough of the cell as the cleaning solution flows off the top surface of the loaded semiconductor wafer; and maintaining said loaded semiconductor wafer stationary during said spraying.