Patents by Inventor Dae Chung

Dae Chung has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12381084
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a mask treating apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Semes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Yoon, Ki Hoon Choi, Tae Hee Kim, Hyo Won Yang, Young Dae Chung, Ji Hoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 12381097
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a support unit that supports a substrate, and a laser unit that irradiates a laser beam to the substrate supported by the support unit, the laser unit includes an irradiation member that irradiates the laser beam, a lens disposed on a travel path of the laser beam irradiated by the irradiation member to be rotatable, and a reflection member having an inclined surface for changing the travel path of the laser beam that passed through the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Jeong, Won-Geun Kim, Young Dae Chung, Tae Shin Kim, Jee Young Lee
  • Publication number: 20250218749
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus of processing a substrate. The apparatus of processing a substrate includes: a chamber providing a treatment space; a substrate supporting unit provided in the treatment space; a gas supply unit introducing gas into the treatment space; a plasma source providing energy that excites the gas introduced in the treatment space using plasma; an exhaust unit exhausting an atmosphere in the treatment space out of the treatment space; and a laser emission unit disposed above the supporting unit and emitting a laser beam to a substrate placed on the supporting unit, wherein the laser emission unit includes: a laser source generating the laser beam; and a Digital Micro-mirror Device (DMD) unit that is a light modulation unit modulating the laser beam generated from the laser source, wherein the DMD unit includes: micromirrors provided to be rotatable; and a board substrate on which the micromirrors are installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hoon CHOI, Hyeong Soo PARK, Seung Un OH, Jin Yeong SUNG, Seryeyohan CHO, Sang Hyeon RYU, Dong Geun LEE, Tae Shin KIM, Young Dae CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20250218781
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate treatment method. The substrate processing method includes: a processing liquid supply step of supplying processing liquid to a substrate; and a heating step of heating a specific area of the substrate by emitting a laser beam, which is generated from a laser source, to the substrate, wherein the heating step may include: a laser modulation step of modulating the laser beam using a light modulation unit; and a laser emission step of emitting the laser beam modulated by the light modulation unit to the specific area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Shin KIM, Seryeyohan CHO, Young Dae CHUNG, Seung Un OH, Hyun YOON, Yu Jin CHO, Ki Hoon CHOI
  • Publication number: 20250214172
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a supporting unit supporting a substrate; a laser emission assembly emitting a laser to the substrate, wherein the laser emission assembly includes: a laser source generating a laser; and a plurality of laser emission modules, the laser emission modules each include: a light modulation unit modulating distribution of a laser generated by the laser source; and an imaging unit adjusting and emitting the laser modulated by the light modulation unit to the substrate to correspond to an area to which the laser is emitted, an entire region that needs to be heated on the substrate is composed of a plurality of unit emission regions, and the plurality of laser emission modules are arranged to be able to emit the laser respectively to the different unit emission regions of the substrate supported on the supporting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Dae CHUNG, Tae Shin KIM, Seryeyohan CHO, Hyeong Soo PARK, Ki Hoon CHOI
  • Patent number: 12224200
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a support unit that supports a substrate, and a heating unit that irradiates a beam to the substrate and heat the substrate, and the heating unit further includes an irradiation part that irradiates the beam, and a rotation part that rotates the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Jeong, Won-Geun Kim, Young Dae Chung, Jee Young Lee, Tae Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 12148674
    Abstract: A substrate processing method and a substrate processing apparatus for removing material on a substrate are disclosed. In order to remove the material, a processing liquid including a chemical liquid and water is supplied on the substrate so that a liquid layer maintained by surface tension is formed. The material is removed from the substrate by a reaction between the material and the processing liquid. A size distribution of by-product particles formed by the reaction between the material and the processing liquid is measured by a dynamic light scattering method. A supply of the processing liquid is controlled based on the size distribution of the by-product particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Suk Goh, Young Dae Chung, Ji Hoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 12094733
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treatment apparatus including a rotation unit that supports and rotates a substrate, a chemical discharge unit that discharges a chemical solution to the rotation unit, a chemical recovery unit disposed close to the rotation unit and configured to recover the chemical solution scattering from the rotation unit, and a laser irradiation unit that applies a laser beam to the substrate and heats the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Dae Chung, Won Geun Kim, Jee Young Lee, Ji Hoon Jeong, Tae Shin Kim, Se Hoon Oh, Pil Kyun Heo, Hyun Goo Park
  • Patent number: 12055857
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a mask treatment apparatus. The mask treatment may include a support unit that supports the mask, and a light irradiation unit that irradiate the mask with a light to adjust a critical dimension of a pattern formed in the mask, wherein the light irradiation unit includes a light source that generates the light, and a light modulation element that modulates the light generated by the light source and forms an irradiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Inventors: Tae Hee Kim, Ji Hoon Jeong, Tae Shin Kim, Young Dae Chung, Young Eun Jeon
  • Patent number: 11923213
    Abstract: Proposed is a substrate heating unit including: a laser generator providing a laser beam for heating a substrate; and a beam shaper processing the laser beam from the laser generator and selectively providing one of a first beam having a uniform energy distribution and a second beam having an edge-enhanced energy distribution to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Shin Kim, Young Dae Chung, Ji Hoon Jeong, Jee Young Lee, Won Geun Kim
  • Publication number: 20240035166
    Abstract: A method of processing a substrate includes an etchant supplying operation of supplying an etchant to a substrate; a puddle operation of, by rotating the substrate at a first rotational speed, forming a liquid film of the etchant supplied to the substrate in a puddle shape; and a thickness adjusting operation of changing a rotational speed of the substrate to a rotational speed different from the first rotational speed to adjust a thickness of the liquid film of the etchant. Using the method, dispersion of the etching rate may be effectively controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Jee Young LEE, Won Geun KIM, Young Dae CHUNG, Ji Hoon JEONG, Tae Shin KIM, Won Sik SON
  • Publication number: 20230360933
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate treating facility, including: a process chamber including an annular beam emitting unit which emits an annular laser beam to a substrate and heats the substrate; and a laser beam generator configured to generate the laser beam emitted to the substrate through the annular beam emitting unit of the process chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Tae Shin KIM, Ji Hoon JEONG, Young Dae CHUNG, Jee Young LEE, Won-Geun KIM
  • Patent number: 11715651
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes a substrate support unit, a chemical supply unit supplying a chemical solution onto an upper surface of a substrate supported on the substrate support unit, a laser irradiation unit applying a laser pulse to the substrate to heat the substrate, and a controller controlling the laser irradiation unit to emit the laser pulse such that the substrate is repeatedly heated and cooled to maintain a preset temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Dae Chung, Won Geun Kim, Jee Young Lee, Ji Hoon Jeong, Tae Shin Kim, Jung Suk Goh, Cheng Bin Cui, Ye Rim Yeon
  • Publication number: 20230213867
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a mask treatment apparatus. The mask treatment may include a support unit that supports the mask, and a light irradiation unit that irradiate the mask with a light to adjust a critical dimension of a pattern formed in the mask, wherein the light irradiation unit includes a light source that generates the light, and a light modulation element that modulates the light generated by the light source and forms an irradiation pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Hee KIM, Ji Hoon JEONG, Tae Shin KIM, Young Dae CHUNG, Young Eun JEON
  • Publication number: 20230213866
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for treating a substrate. The substrate treatment apparatus includes a support unit that supports a substrate, a liquid supply unit that supplies a liquid to the substrate supported by the support unit, and a laser unit that heats the substrate supported by the support unit, wherein the laser unit includes an oscillation unit that emits a light, and a diffraction unit that separates the light into a plurality of light bundles and irradiates the substrate supported by the support unit with an adjustment light having a profile changed from a profile of the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun YOON, Ji Hoon Jeong, Young Dae Chung, Ki Hoon Choi
  • Publication number: 20230213852
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of treating a substrate, the method including: supplying a liquid to the substrate, emitting a laser to the substrate supplied with the liquid to heat the substrate, and emitting imaging light for capturing the substrate to obtain an image of the substrate including a region to which the laser is emitted, in which the laser and the imaging light are emitted to the substrate through a head lens, and a divergence angle of the laser emitted from the head lens and a divergence angle of the imaging light are matched with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Jeong, Young Dae Chung, Hyun Yoon
  • Publication number: 20230207324
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate treating method of treating a substrate including a plurality of cells, the substrate treating method including: a liquid treating operation of supplying a treatment liquid to the substrate; and a heating operation of heating the substrate by supplying the treatment liquid and irradiating laser light to a specific region located outside a region in which the plurality of cells is provided, in which the laser light is formed to cover the specific region when viewed from the top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Sik Son, Hyun Yoon, Hyo Won Yang, Ji Hoon Jeong, Young Dae Chung, In Ki Jung
  • Publication number: 20230207350
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for treating a substrate, which includes: a chamber having a treating space; a substrate support unit supporting and rotating a substrate in the treating space; a liquid supply unit supplying a chemical liquid to the substrate supported on the substrate support unit; a laser irradiation unit irradiating a laser to a bottom of the substrate supported on the substrate support unit; and a laser reflection unit coupled to the laser irradiation unit, and reflecting the laser irradiated and reflected to the bottom of the substrate, in which the laser reflection unit includes a reflection member reflecting the laser reflected from the substrate, and a driving member tilting the reflection member at a predetermined tilt angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Shin KIM, Young Dae Chung, Won-Geun Kim, Jee Young Lee, Ji Hoon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20230166285
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method. The substrate treating apparatus includes: a chamber for providing a processing space; a substrate support unit provided in the processing space to support a substrate and rotate the substrate; a liquid supply unit including a chemical liquid discharge nozzle that discharges a chemical liquid to the substrate supported by the substrate support unit; and a microwave applying member for emitting microwaves to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Sang Kim, Yoon Seok Choi, Young Dae Chung, Soon-Cheon Cho, Se Hoon Oh
  • Publication number: 20230084076
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a mask treating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun YOON, Ki Hoon CHOI, Tae Hee KIM, Hyo Won YANG, Young Dae CHUNG, Ji Hoon JEONG