Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Local area polishing system and polishing pad assemblies for a polishing system
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Application No.: US15456320Application Date: 2017-03-10
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Publication No.: US10434623B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Eric Lau , Hui Chen , King Yi Heung , Wei-Cheng Lee , Chih Chung Chou , Edwin C. Suarez , Garrett Ho Yee Sin , Charles C. Garretson , Jeonghoon Oh
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan LLP
- Main IPC: B24B37/26
- IPC: B24B37/26 ; B24B37/30

Abstract:
A polishing module including a chuck having a substrate receiving surface and a perimeter, and one or more polishing pad assemblies positioned about the perimeter of the chuck, wherein each of the one or more polishing pad assemblies are coupled to an actuator that provides movement of the respective polishing pad assemblies in one or more of a sweep direction, a radial direction, and a oscillating mode relative to the substrate receiving surface and are limited in radial movement to about less than one-half of the radius of the chuck as measured from the perimeter of the chuck.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170274497A1 LOCAL AREA POLISHING SYSTEM AND POLISHING PAD ASSEMBLIES FOR A POLISHING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-09-28
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