Substrate cleaning method

摘要

A substrate cleaning method is used for performing scrub cleaning of a surface of a substrate. The substrate cleaning method includes rotating a roll cleaning member and a substrate respectively in one direction while keeping the roll cleaning member in contact with the substrate in a cleaning area, and supplying a cleaning liquid to a surface of the substrate to scrub-clean the surface of the substrate in the presence of the cleaning liquid in the cleaning area. The cleaning liquid is supplied initially to an inverse-direction cleaning area of the cleaning area where the relative rotational velocity between the roll cleaning member and the substrate is relatively high, and thereafter to a forward-direction cleaning area of the cleaning area where the relative rotational velocity between the roll cleaning member and the substrate is relatively low while the substrate makes one revolution on a central axis thereof.

主权项

1. A substrate cleaning method for cleaning a substrate, comprising:
supporting the substrate by a substrate supporting device; rotating the substrate in one direction by the substrate supporting device; rotating a roll cleaning member in one direction, the roll cleaning member extending linearly over substantially an entire length of a diameter of the substrate, and keeping the roll cleaning member in contact with a front surface of the substrate in a cleaning area to scrub-clean the front surface of the substrate; and supplying a cleaning liquid from a cleaning liquid supply nozzle to a first cleaning area of the front surface of the substrate at a predetermined angle θ of a cleaning liquid supply angle, while the roll cleaning member is scrub-cleaning the front surface of the substrate; wherein the first cleaning area is part of the cleaning area in which the front surface of the substrate and the roll cleaning member are held in contact with each other; the direction of a rotational speed of the substrate is opposite to the direction of a rotational speed of the roll cleaning member in the first cleaning area; and the predetermined angle θ is an angle between a rotational axis of the roll cleaning member and a supply direction of the cleaning liquid, the rotational axis of the roll cleaning member and the supply direction of the cleaning liquid being projected onto the front surface of the substrate, the angle θ being defined as an angle as viewed in a clockwise direction from the rotational axis of the roll cleaning member.