A method of manufacturing electronic devices, in particular, but not exclusively,
semiconductor devices, and apparatus for carrying out such a method, in which method
wafers 1, which are provided at a surface 2 with a material 3
to be removed, are subjected, while being divided into successive batches,
to a wet treatment in a bath 4 containing a solution 5 of an active
component in a solvent. The successive batches of wafers 1 are immersed
in the solution 5 at first time intervals during the wet treatment of the
successive batches, which first time intervals each consist of a processing period
during which the material 3 is removed from the surface 2 of the
wafers 1, thereby forming ionic components, and a waiting period following
the removal of the wafers 1 from the bath 4 at the end of the processing
period. During the wet treatment of the successive batches the conductivity of
the solution 5 is monitored, which monitored conductivity is brought to
approximately a desired conductivity at second time intervals during the wet treatment
of the successive batches by adding the active component or the solvent, or both,
to the solution 5 inside the bath 4. In order to improve the process
stability of the wet treatment of the successive batches of wafers 1 in
the solution 5 of the active component in the solvent and to lengthen the
lifetime of the bath 4 containing the solution 5, the desired conductivity
is changed at third time intervals during the wet treatment of the successive batches
with a value, which value is determined at each one of the third time intervals
on the basis of the amount of the material removed during the latest completed
one of the third time intervals.