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                Interference No. 105,113                                                                                                 

                top schematic view of such an apparatus, which is described at column 4, line 35 to column 5,                            
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                The electroplating system platform 200, which is enclosed in a clean environment using panels                            
                such as plexiglass panels, generally comprises a loading station 210, a thermal anneal chamber                           
                211, a spin-rinse-dry (SRD) station 212, and a mainframe 214 including a mainframe transfer                              
                station 216 and a pair of processing stations 218.  Two loading station transfer robots 228                              
                provide access to wafers in (a) two wafer cassette receiving areas 224 in loading station 210,                           
                (b) a wafer orientor 230 in loading station 210, (c) two thermal anneal chambers 211, and (d) two                        
                SRD modules 238 in SRD station 212.  Robots (unnumbered) in main frame transfer station 216                              


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