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Chemical Mechanical Polishing Characteristics of Mixed Abrasive Silica Slurry (MAS) by adding of Manganese oxide (MnO2) Abrasive

산화망간이 첨가된 혼합 연마제 실리카 슬러리의 산화막 CMP 특성

  • Received : 2019.11.07
  • Accepted : 2019.12.02
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we have studied the chemical mechanical polishing(CMP) characteristics of mixed abrasive silica slurry(MAS) retreated by adding of manganese oxide(MnO2) abrasives within 1:10 diluted silica slurry. A slurry designed for optimal performance should produce high removal rates, acceptable polishing selectivity with respect to the underlying layer, low surface defects after polishing, and good slurry stability. The polishing performances of MnO2 abrasive-added MAS are evaluated with respect to their particle size distribution, surface morphology, and CMP performances such as removal rate and non-uniformity. As an experimental result, we obtained the comparable slurry characteristics compared to original silica slurry in the view-point of high removal rate and low non-uniformity. Therefore, our proposed MnO2-MAS can be useful to save on the high cost of slurry consumption since we used a 1:10 diluted silica slurry.

논문에서는 1:10으로 희석된 실리카 슬러리에 산화망간(MnO2) 연마제를 첨가하여 재처리된 혼합연마제 슬러리(Mixed Abrasive Slurry; MAS)의 화학기계적연마(CMP) 특성을 연구하였다. 최적의 연마 성능을 갖는 슬러리를 설계하기 위해서는 높은 연마율, 하부층에 대한 적절한 연마선택비, 연마 후의 낮은 표면결함, 슬러리의 안정성 등을 얻어야 한다. 산화망간이 첨가된 MAS의 연마 성능은 연마율 및 비균일도와 같은 CMP 성능, 입도 분석, 표면 형상에 대해 평가하였다. 실험결과, 높은 연마율과 낮은 비균일도 측면에서 볼 때 원액 실리카 슬러리와 대등한 슬러리 특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제안하는 MnO2-MAS를 사용하면 고가의 소모재인 슬러리를 절약하는데 매우 유용할 것이다.

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