Patent 7600522 was granted and assigned to Dainippon Screen Mfg Co on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A substrate treatment method including the steps of: generating droplets of a treatment liquid by mixing the treatment liquid with a gas; and causing the treatment liquid droplets generated in the liquid droplet generating step to impinge on a surface of a substrate being treated. The treatment liquid droplets have a volume median diameter of 5 μm to 40 μm.