Abstract: A method of treating semiconductor wafers in a sealed container is provided and includes transferring and vertically placing a plurality of wafers in the container and sealing the container. An inert gas is fed into the sealed container and a quantity of warm pure water is fed into the sealed container sufficient to completely submerge the plurality of wafers and establish a level of the warm pure water in the sealed container. A vapor or fog of an organic solvent is fed into at least a space in the sealed container above the level of the warm pure water and is then terminated at a prescribed time. The plurality of wafers is dried by aspirating the warm pure water through an outlet in the bottom of the container wherein the pressure in the container is reduced during the aspiration. The inert gas is fed into the sealed container until at least the termination of the drying of the plurality of wafers.

Abstract: A treatment method of semiconductor wafers and the like, for carrying out step by step in a sealed container, a series of processes comprising chemical process with a cleaning chemical (chemical process) and final water rinsing process by using rinsing pure water (rinse process) and a drying process of removing attached water from the surface of an object through mixing substitution using an organic solvent, and a treatment system for the same, wherein warm pure water is fed into the sealed container after the final water rinsing process of the cleaning process is completed. The vapor or fog of the organic solvent is fed into the space procured on the upper side of the container upward the water surface of pure warm water, where the object as placed vertically in parallel arrangement is immersed and sunk.