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US 5,605,488 AGranted
Polishing apparatus of semiconductor wafer
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHiroyuki Ohashi, Naoto Miyashita, Ichiro Katakabe, Tetsuya Tsukihara
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Abstract
A plurality of cells are provided in a concave portion of a top plate. A cloth to which water is penetrated is provided in a back face of each cell, and a wafer is attracted by the cloth. First and second pipes are connected to each cell. The first pipe introduces liquid to the cell, and the second pipe discharges liquid from the cell, and guides liquid to the first pipe. A constant-temperature device is provided to each first pipe, and a temperature of liquid of each cell is adjusted by the constant-temperature device in accordance with a temperature distribution of the wafer. Whereby, a polishing rate of each part of the wafer can be equalized.
Claims12
A polishing apparatus comprising:
- a top plate having a concave portion on its back face;
- a plurality of cells provided in the concave portion of said top plate, each of said cells being filled with liquid and retaining a portion of a semiconductor substrate to be polished;
- a plurality of pipes for introducing said liquid to each of said cells, respectively;
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- adjusting means, provided in each of said pipes, for adjusting temperature of said liquid in each of said cells to compensate for polishing rate variations of the respective portions of said semiconductor substrate.
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A polishing apparatus comprising:
- a top plate having a concave portion on its back face;
- a plurality of cells provided in the concave portion of said top plate, each of said cells being filled with liquid and retaining a portion of a semiconductor substrate to be polished;
- a plurality of first pipes for introducing said liquid to each of said cells, respectively;
- a plurality of second pipes, each having one end connected to one of said cells and another end connected to a corresponding one of said first pipes for discharging said liquid from said one cell, and introducing said liquid to the corresponding one of the first pipes;
- a plurality of heaters, one such heater being provided around each of said first pipes;
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- a controller connected to said heaters for adjusting temperature of said heaters, respectively, whereby said controller adjusts the temperature of liquid of each cell by adjusting the temperature of each heater to compensate for polishing rate variations of the respective portions of said semiconductor substrate.
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A polishing apparatus comprising:
- a top plate having a concave portion on its back face;
- a plurality of flexible cells provided in the concave portion of said top plate, each of said cells being filled with liquid and having a surface retaining a portion of a semiconductor substrate to be polished;
- a plurality of pipes for introducing said liquid to each of said cells, respectively;
- and
- a plurality of adjusting means, one such adjusting means being provided in each of said pipes, for adjusting pressure of said liquid in each of said cells, thereby to adjust position of the surface of each cell retaining a portion of the semiconductor substrate in accordance with an amount of warp of said semiconductor substrate.
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A polishing apparatus comprising:
- a top plate having a concave portion on its back face;
- a plurality of flexible cells provided in the concave portion of said top plate, each of said cells being filled with liquid and having a surface retaining a portion of a semiconductor substrate to be polished;
- a pipe for introducing said liquid to each of said cells;
- measuring means for irradiating said semiconductor substrate with light, and measuring an amount of a warp of said semiconductor substrate in accordance with an angle of light reflected from said semiconductor substrate;
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- adjusting means, provided in said pipe, for adjusting pressure of said liquid, to adjust position of the surface of said cell retaining a portion of the semiconductor substrate in accordance with an amount of the warp of said semiconductor substrate.
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A polishing apparatus comprising:
- a top plate having a concave portion on its back face;
- a plurality of flexible cells provided in the concave portion of said top plate, each of said cells being filled with liquid and having a surface retaining a portion of a semiconductor substrate to be polished;
- a first pipe for introducing said liquid to each of said cells;
- a second pipe having one end connected to each of said cells and other end connected to said first pipe for discharging said liquid from said cell, and introducing said liquid to the first pipe;
- heating means, provided in said first pipe, for heating the liquid of each cell to compensate for polishing rate variations of the respective portions of said semiconductor substrate;
- measuring means for irradiating said semiconductor substrate with light, and measuring an amount of a warp of said semiconductor substrate in accordance with an angle of light reflected on said semiconductor substrate;
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- adjusting means, provided in said first pipe, for adjusting pressure of said liquid to adjust position of the surface of said cell retaining a portion of the semiconductor substrate in accordance with an amount of the warp of said semiconductor substrate.
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A polishing apparatus comprising:
- a polishing plate wherein said polishing plate is rotated and polishing material is applied on a surface of the polishing plate;
- a top plate mounted on a surface of said polishing plate, and having a concave portion on its back face;
- a plurality of cells provided in the concave portion of said top plate, each of said cells being filled with liquid and retaining a portion of a semiconductor substrate, said semiconductor substrate being brought into contact with the surface of said polishing plate and polished;
- a plurality of first pipes for introducing said liquid to each of said cells, respectively;
- a plurality of second pipes, each having one end connected to one of said cells and another end connected to a corresponding one of said first pipes for discharging said liquid from said one cell, and introducing said liquid to the corresponding one of the first pipes;
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- a plurality of heating means, one such heating means being provided in each of said first pipes for heating said liquid of each cell to compensate for polishing rate variations of the respective portions of said semiconductor substrate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.