Methods and systems for supporting a workpiece and for heat-treating the workpiece

Apparatuses and methods for supporting a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer. A support system is configured to support the workpiece while allowing thermally-induced motion of the workpiece, which may include thermal bowing or thermal bending. The system may include a support member having a mo...

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Hauptverfasser:	RUDOLPH MARC, CIBERE JOSEPH, SEMPERE GUILLAUME, DETS SERGIY, KOMASA TONY, CAMM DAVID MALCOLM, STUART GREGORY, KALUDJERCIC LJUBOMIR, TRAN TIM, BUMBULOVIC MLADEN
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOTDIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g.ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ELECTRICITY MACHINE TOOLS MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OFPARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR PERFORMING OPERATIONS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	Apparatuses and methods for supporting a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer. A support system is configured to support the workpiece while allowing thermally-induced motion of the workpiece, which may include thermal bowing or thermal bending. The system may include a support member having a moveable engagement portion engageable with the workpiece, the engagement portion being moveable to allow the thermally-induced motion of the workpiece while supporting the workpiece. The moveable engagement portion may include a plurality of moveable engagement portions of a plurality of respective support members, which may be resiliently engageable with the workpiece. The support members may include flexible support members each having an unconstrained portion and a constrained portion, and the moveable engagement portions may include the unconstrained portions. Alternatively, the support members may be rigid and the system may include a plurality of force applicators such as springs in communication with the support members.