An apparatus for aligning a wafer is provided, which normally senses a
flat zone of the wafer by sensors regardless of an external light so that
the wafer is aligned in a set mode, in order to increase or maximize
production yield. A body has all kinds of drivers. An orient chuck is
provided to protrude to an upper portion of the body for rotating the
wafer; a guide plate ascending and descending to slide a circumference
surface of the wafer so that a center of the wafer is located on the
orient chuck. A plurality of sensors sense a flat zone of the wafer being
rotated on the orient chuck. A wafer carrier cassette is formed at an
upper portion of the orient chuck in order to load the wafer aligned in
one direction by the sensors and the orient chuck, and is supported by a
plurality of frames formed at respective corners of the body. A panel
wall encloses a circumference of the frame at peripheries of the orient
chuck and sensors between the wafer carrier cassette and the body, and
intercepts an external light to be incident to the sensors.