# US 2026/0101718 A1 · Substrate holding device, substrate processing apparatus, and method of processing substrate

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- Number: US 2026/0101718 A1
- Document ID: US20260101718A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/349,883
- Filed: 2025-10-03
- Published: 2026-04-09
- Earliest claimed: 2024-10-04
- Assignees: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Yosuke YASUTAKE; Michiaki ISHIKAWA; Hiroaki ISHII
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20260101718A1

## CPC

- H10P 72/7606: {characterised by edge clamping, e.g. clamping ring}
- H10P 72/78: using vacuum or suction, e.g. Bernoulli chucks
- H10P 72/0404: {for general liquid treatment, e.g. etching followed by cleaning}
- H10P 72/0442: {Apparatus for placing on an insulating substrate, e.g. tape}
- H10P 72/7608: {characterised by a plurality of separate clamping members, e.g. clamping fingers}
- H10P 72/7624: {characterised by the mechanical construction of the susceptor, stage or support}
- H10P: GENERIC PROCESSES OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10

## Abstract

A substrate holding device includes a porous component, a supporting component, a rotation driver, and a holding driver. The porous component includes an adsorbing surface that adsorbs a film of a framed substrate. The supporting component surrounds the porous component and supports a frame of the framed substrate. The rotation driver rotates the supporting component and the porous component in unison. The holding driver includes at least one magnet disposed opposite to the frame with respect to the supporting component and separated from the supporting component, the holding driver compressively holding the frame against the supporting component by a magnetic force of the magnet.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A substrate holding device, comprising:
a porous component including an adsorbing surface that adsorbs a film of a framed substrate, the framed substrate including an annular frame, the film attached to an interior of the frame, and a substrate provided on the film;
a supporting component surrounding the porous component and supporting the frame;
a rotation driver rotating the supporting component and the porous component in unison; and
a holding driver including at least one magnet disposed opposite to the frame with respect to the supporting component and separated from the supporting component, the holding driver compressively holding the frame against the supporting component by a magnetic force of the magnet.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The substrate holding device according to claim 1,
wherein the magnet is a permanent magnet,
the holding driver includes a magnet movement driver, and
the magnet movement driver moves the magnet between a holding position at which the frame is compressively held against the supporting component by the magnetic force and a hold releasing position which is farther from the supporting component than the holding position and at which a compressive hold of the frame is released.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The substrate holding device according to claim 2,
wherein the holding position and the hold releasing position are aligned in a vertical direction, and
the magnet movement driver moves the magnet up and down between the holding position and the hold releasing position.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The substrate holding device according to claim 1,
wherein the holding driver includes the at least one magnet comprising a plurality of magnets, and
the plurality of magnets are annularly arranged in a circumferential direction of the frame.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The substrate holding device according to claim 4,
wherein pole faces of adjacent two of the plurality of magnets are different from each other.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The substrate holding device according to claim 4,
wherein the holding driver includes:
a first magnet movement driver that moves one or more first magnets of the plurality of magnets; and
a second magnet movement driver that moves one or more second magnets of the plurality of magnets, the second magnets being different from the first magnets.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The substrate holding device according to claim 1,
wherein the holding driver presses the frame against the supporting component by the magnetic force larger as the framed substrate is heavier.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The substrate holding device according to claim 1,
wherein the rotation driver includes a hollow shaft, and
a negative pressure is applied to the porous component through an interior of the hollow shaft.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

A substrate processing apparatus, comprising:
the substrate holding device according to claim 1; and
a dispenser that dispenses a processing fluid toward the framed substrate held by the substrate holding device.

### Claim 10

A method of processing a substrate, the method comprising:
compressively holding an annular frame of a framed substrate by pressing the frame against a supporting component by a magnetic force of a magnet, the framed substrate including the frame, a film attached to the frame, and the substrate provided on the film, the magnet being separated from the supporting component;
adsorptively holding the film by applying a negative pressure to a porous component supporting the film; and
rotating the porous component, the supporting component, and the substrate in unison, and supplying a processing fluid to the framed substrate.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method according to claim 10,
wherein the adsorptively holding is performed after the compressively holding.
