The present invention provides an electro-chemical deposition system that
is designed with a flexible architecture that is expandable to
accommodate future designs and gap fill requirements and provides
satisfactory throughput to meet the demands of other processing systems.
The electro-chemical deposition system generally comprises a mainframe
having a mainframe wafer transfer robot, a loading station disposed in
connection with the mainframe, one or more processing cells disposed in
connection with the mainframe, and an electrolyte supply fluidly
connected to the one or more electrical processing cells. Preferably, the
electro-chemical deposition system includes a spin-rinse-dry (SRD)
station disposed between the loading station and the mainframe, a rapid
thermal anneal chamber attached to the loading station, and a system
controller for controlling the electro-chemical deposition process and
the components of the electro-chemical deposition system.