摘要:
A planarization apparatus and method that thins and planarizes a substrate by grinding and polishing the rear surface of the substrate with high throughput, and that fabricates a semiconductor substrate with reduced adhered contaminants. A planarization apparatus that houses various mechanism elements in semiconductor substrate loading/unloading stage chamber, a rear-surface polishing stage chamber, and a rear-surface grinding stage chamber. The throughput time of the rear-surface polishing stage that simultaneously polishes two substrates is typically about double the throughput time of the rear-surface grinding stage that grinds one substrate.
摘要:
A planarization apparatus and method that thins and planarizes a substrate by grinding and polishing the rear surface of the substrate with high throughput, and that fabricates a semiconductor substrate with reduced adhered contaminants. A planarization apparatus that houses various mechanism elements in semiconductor substrate loading/unloading stage chamber, a rear-surface polishing stage chamber, and a rear-surface grinding stage chamber. The throughput time of the rear-surface polishing stage that simultaneously polishes two substrates is typically about double the throughput time of the rear-surface grinding stage that grinds one substrate.
摘要:
A method of detecting an end point of polishing of a wafer, comprising the steps of: using a color identifying sensor for recognizing a color component of light by applying light from a light source and by converging reflected light to an optical fiber to cause the color identifying sensor to previously recognize a color component of a substance of a wafer which must be polished; displaying an ON-state when the color component is recognized and an OFF-state when the color component is not recognized; one point (except for the central point) of the surface of the rotating wafer is irradiated with light emitted from the color identifying sensor to cause the color identifying sensor to detect the number of times (m) of off-states; and determining an end of polishing of the wafer when the detected number of times (m) coincides with the number (n) of off-states indicating an optimum end point of polishing of the wafer.
摘要:
A polishing device includes a wafer chuck mechanism which retains a wafer while its plane to be polished faces upward, a polishing pad component which possesses a polishing plane which polishes the wafer, a polishing head, and a shift mechanism which enables a relative displacement of said polishing pad component in relation to the wafer. A fixation and retention mechanism fixes and retains said polishing pad component to the polishing head in a detachable fashion while its polishing plane faces downward. The displacement distance of the shift mechanism ranges from the polishing position of the wafer to the exchange position of the polishing pad component, so that the polishing pad component is automatically exchanged.
摘要:
A method of detecting an end point of polishing arranged to perform CMP polishing with which an insulating layer of a wafer incorporating a substrate having a metal-containing permalloy layer formed thereon and the insulating layer formed on the metal-containing permalloy layer is chemimechanically polished to expose the flat permalloy layer, the method of detecting an end point of polishing, having the steps of: collecting abrasive material slurry on a surface plate for polishing as a continuous flow from the start or during CMP polishing; continuously mixing a color developing reagent with the collected continuous flow to prepare a specimen for the continuos flow; reading the color of the specimen as a digital value (Ii) by a color identifying sensor; and determining a moment of time at which the digital value (Ii) reaches a digital value (Io) of a specimen of a waste flow of the abrasive material slurry at the end of polishing to be the end of CMP polishing.