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US 5,020,283 AGranted
Polishing pad with uniform abrasion
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorMark E. Tuttle
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Abstract
A polishing pad for semiconductor wafers, having a face shaped by a series of voids. The voids are substantially the same size, but the frequency of the voids increases with increasing radial distance to provide a constant, or nearly constant, surface contact rate to a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer, in order to effect improved planarity of the workpiece.
Claims8
Apparatus to polish a workpiece, comprising:
- a polishing pad, rotatable about an axis and having a face perpendicular to and coaxial with said axis;
- said face, in use, to be urged against the workpiece to facilitate polishing of same;
- said face shaped by a plurality of like shaped substantially circular voids;
- and
- each said void having a radius, wherein the radius of that void increases with the distance of that void from said axis,
- whereby said face is configured to be able to provide to the workpiece a surface contact rate having a magnitude independent of radius from said axis.
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Apparatus to polish a workpiece, comprising:
- a polishing pad, rotatable about an axis and having a face perpendicular to and coaxial with said axis;
- said face, in use, to be urged against the workpiece to facilitate polishing of same;
- said face shaped by a plurality of like sized substantially circular voids;
- and
- said voids having a density within a work zone between radii from said axis which increases with the distance of the voids from said axis,
- wherein said face, by virtue of its shape, is able to provide a constant, or nearly so, surface contact rate to the workpiece for any radius bounded by an inner radius and an outer radius from said axis, said radii being sufficiently different to accommodate the workpiece between them.
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Apparatus to polish a workpiece, comprising:
- a polishing pad, rotatable about an axis and having a face perpendicular to and coaxial with said axis;
- said face, in use, to be urged against the workpiece to facilitate polishing of same, said face shaped by a plurality of like sized substantially circular voids;
- and
- voids having a density within a work zone between radii from said axis which increases with the distance of the voids from said axis,
- whereby said face is configured to be able to provide to the workpiece a surface contact rate having a magnitude independent of radius from said axis, and in use, is urged against the workpiece to facilitate polishing of same, and wherein said face, by virtue of its shape, is able to provide a constant, or nearly so, surface contact rate to the workpiece for any radius within the work zone, said radii being sufficiently different to accommodate the workpiece between them.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.