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<br>In order to achieve thicker coatings of AZ 5214E while minimizing edge bead problems, a method of waiting before spin-off is used on Spin Coater: Gamma UV. The spin coating process consists of three steps: dispense, waiting, and spin-off. The first step is dynamic dispense of resist at 800 rpm, using a volume of 3 ml for 100 mm substrates. In the waiting step the resist is "dried" at low spin speed without exhaust (in practice the exhaust is opened briefly every 15s in order to avoid triggering the exhaust alarm). The final spin-off step is short, but at relatively high spin speed,  with backside rinse the first half of the time. Soft baking is done at 90°C for ???s. Contact baking is used since the backside has been cleaned. The coating may be affected by the backside rinse at the very edge of the wafer, something which should be considered if the resist is used as an etch mask.
<br>In order to achieve thicker coatings of AZ 5214E while minimizing edge bead problems, a method of waiting before spin-off is used on Spin Coater: Gamma UV. The spin coating process consists of three steps: dispense, waiting, and spin-off. The first step is dynamic dispense of resist at 800 rpm, using a volume of 3 ml for 100 mm substrates, and 5 ml for 150 mm substrates, respectively. In the waiting step the resist is "dried" at low spin speed without exhaust (in practice the exhaust is opened briefly every 15s in order to avoid triggering the exhaust alarm). The final spin-off step is short, but at relatively high spin speed,  with backside rinse the first half of the time. Soft baking is done at 90°C for ???s. Contact baking is used since the backside has been cleaned. The coating may be affected by the backside rinse at the very edge of the wafer, something which should be considered if the resist is used as an etch mask.


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