摘要:
Apparatus and method for wax mounting of thin wafers such as slices of semiconductor silicon to a carrier for polishing wherein the carrier is heated after being coated with wax which is maintained in a sticky condition by the heated carrier. A chamber is utilized for enclosing the thin wafers on resilient supports with the sticky wax-coated, heated carrier disposed above them. The chamber has an air tight seal permitting it to be evacuated. After evacuation a pneumatic cylinder is utilized to press the carrier against the wafers, which adhere to the sticky wax coating. The chamber is vented then to atmospheric pressure, the wafers remaining mounted by the wax coating to the carrier for subsequent polishing. The method avoids entrapment of gas bubbles between wafers and carrier.
摘要:
Apparatus for improving polished wafer flatness such as slices of semiconductor materials through mounting of the wafers onto a deformable thin disc carrier which is mounted through a resilient device to a rotable pressure plate, the combined mounting being rotably engageable with a rotable turntable supported polishing surface, the turntable having an axis of rotation to edge bow away from the mounted wafers. The carrier is deformed to a concave shape opening toward the bowed table; thus permitting the mounted wafers to achieve through rotation polishing, uniformly improved flatness.
摘要:
Method for combined chemical-mechanical polishing of III - V semiconductor planar surfaces by applying a weak aqueous hydrochloric acid solution in combination with an aqueous source of chlorine to the surface to be polished while simultaneously mechanically polishing the surface.