Wafer processing apparatus and method

Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Delaminating processes adapted for specified product – Delaminating in preparation for post processing recycling step

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ABSTRACT:
A plasma reactor with in situ ultraviolet generation processing aparatus and method. Ultraviolet light to illuminate the face of a wafer being processed is generated by a plasma which is within the vacuum processing chamber but is remote from the face of the wafer. It is useful to design the gas flow system so that the ultraviolet-generating plasma has its own gas feed, and the reaction products from the ultraviolet-generating plasma do not substantially flow or diffuse to the wafer face. A transparent isolator between the ultraviolet plasma space and the processing space near the wafer face is useful so that the ultraviolet plasma can be operated at a vacuum level slightly different from that used near the wafer face, but this transparent window is not made thick enough to act as a full vacuum seal. Optionally, this window may be omitted entirely.

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