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This paper improvements backfilling pollution of dry photoresist- removal machine (Gasonics PEP 3510) in semiconductor's etching process. And that pollution is caused by the sudden failure of dry pump that belongs to the dry photoresist-removal machine. The dry photoresist-removal tool above dry pump, both connect to the vacuum line. When the machine during strips photoresist, beneath it, the dry pump suddenly fails, inside the vacuum line's particles that follow backfilling airflow of dry pump side to wash up to cause the pollution of machine's chamber . Pneumatic gate valve of machine is located between the chamber and dry pump that use power of compressed dry air to open after the solenoid valve excited to turn on. In order to improve the pollution, so use twinax copper wire, one side of the wire is connected in series with the solenoid valve of machine, and the other side is connected with pin11 and pin14 of the dry pump’s control connector. So between the dry photoresist- removal machine and dry pump to form a interlocking loop of series connection. It is primarily to use the characteristic that between the pin11 and pin14 is open circuit when the dry pump fails, in the same loop, the solenoid valve can not be excited to turn on, because the open circuit. Because the solenoid valve is not turned on, therefore, no compressed dry air to drive the pneumatic gate valve, so pneumatic gate valve is closed. As the pneumatic gate valve is closed immediately, isolates backfilling airflow to washed up, so the chamber is uncontaminated.
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