Study on chemical mechanical polishing of silicon wafer with megasonic vibration assisted.

Abstract:

:Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) is the primary method to realize the global planarization of silicon wafer. In order to improve this process, a novel method which combined megasonic vibration to assist chemical mechanical polishing (MA-CMP) is developed in this paper. A matching layer structure of polishing head was calculated and designed. Silicon wafers are polished by megasonic assisted chemical mechanical polishing and traditional chemical mechanical polishing respectively, both coarse polishing and precision polishing experiments were carried out. With the use of megasonic vibration, the surface roughness values Ra reduced from 22.260nm to 17.835nm in coarse polishing, and the material removal rate increased by approximately 15-25% for megasonic assisted chemical mechanical polishing relative to traditional chemical mechanical polishing. Average Surface roughness values Ra reduced from 0.509nm to 0.387nm in precision polishing. The results show that megasonic assisted chemical mechanical polishing is a feasible method to improve polishing efficiency and surface quality. The material removal and finishing mechanisms of megasonic vibration assisted polishing are investigated too.

journal_name

Ultrasonics

journal_title

Ultrasonics

authors

Zhai K,He Q,Li L,Ren Y

doi

10.1016/j.ultras.2017.04.005

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-09-01 00:00:00

pages

9-14

eissn

0041-624X

issn

1874-9968

pii

S0041-624X(17)30336-0

journal_volume

80

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