US 12,237,186 B2
On-board cleaning of tooling parts in hybrid bonding tool
Ruiping Wang, San Jose, CA (US); Ying Wang, Singapore (SG); Guan Huei See, Singapore (SG); Ananthkrishna Jupudi, Singapore (SG); and Praveen Kumar Choragudi, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,910.
Prior Publication US 2024/0096664 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. H01L 21/67 (2006.01); B08B 1/10 (2024.01); B08B 3/04 (2006.01); B08B 7/00 (2006.01); B08B 13/00 (2006.01); F26B 25/14 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/683 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 21/67207 (2013.01) [B08B 1/10 (2024.01); B08B 3/04 (2013.01); B08B 7/0035 (2013.01); B08B 13/00 (2013.01); F26B 25/14 (2013.01); G06T 1/0014 (2013.01); H01L 21/67144 (2013.01); H01L 21/6838 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of cleaning one or more dirty tools in a multi-chamber processing tool, comprising:
providing one or more dirty tools comprising a nozzle head with a shaft coupled to the nozzle head, the nozzle head having one or more vacuum openings to retain a die against the nozzle head;
providing a holder in a bonding chamber of the multi-chamber processing tool, the holder comprising one or more pins to retain the one or more dirty tools;
placing the one or more dirty tools on the holder in the bonding chamber, wherein the bonding chamber further comprises a first substrate having a plurality of dies and a second substrate, and wherein the bonding chamber is used to bond one or more dies of the plurality of dies to the second substrate;
transferring the holder from the bonding chamber to a cleaning chamber of the multi-chamber processing tool via a transfer robot disposed in the multi-chamber processing tool;
cleaning the one or more dirty tools in the cleaning chamber to produce one or more cleaned tools;
inspecting the one or more cleaned tools in an inspection chamber of the multi-chamber processing tool; and
transferring the one or more cleaned tools from the inspection chamber to the bonding chamber via the transfer robot.