• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
• /
• 2000.07a
• /
• pp.90-93
• /
• 2000

In this study, the rise throughput and the stability in fabrication of device can be obtained by applying of CMP process to STI structure in 0.18um semiconductor device. To employ in STI CMP, the reverse moat process has been added thus the process became complex and the defects were seriously increased. Removal rates of each thin films in STI CMP was not equal hence the devices must to be effected, that is, the damage was occured in the device dimension in the case of excessive CMP process and the nitride film was remained on the device dimension in the case of insufficient CMP process than these defects affect the device characteristics. To resolve these problems, the development of slurry for CMP with high removal rate and high selectivity between each thin films was studied then it can be prevent the reasons of many defects by reasons of many defects by simplification of process that directly apply CMP process to STI structure without the reverse moat pattern process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
• /
• 2004.11a
• /
• pp.330-330
• /
• 2004

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
• /
• v.34 no.10
• /
• pp.1499-1505
• /
• 2010

In general, magnetic abrasive polishing can be used to effectively produce a mirror-like surface; however, industrial applications of this process involve some unsolved problems. For example, the polishing efficiency is low, and the used abrasives have to be treated. In this study, which is aimed at solving these problems, a novel medium of silicone gel, consisting of ferromagnetic particles and abrasives, is developed, and the effect of this medium is assessed on the basis of Taguchi's experimental method. The workpiece is a tungsten carbide steel and the surface roughness after magnetic abrasive polishing using the silicone gel is evaluated.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
• /
• v.4 no.1
• /
• pp.47-49
• /
• 2003

The cost of material and slicing of silicon wafer occupied more than 30% of solar cell manufacturing cost. The substitution of silicon wafer into STS 304 stainless steel could be the promising solution to decrease the material cost. Moreover the stainless steel solar cell could have the advantage of low weight and durability. However, the highly polished surface is required to meet the characteristic of solar cell. The electropolishing process in phosphoric acid based solution was used to get the surface quality. The obtained result was 28 nm obtained in current density of 2Amfi/$cm^2$ at $80^{\circ}C$. The leveller effect of glycerine, ethylene glycol and propylen glycol was studied. When the 0.4 g/l of ethylene glycol was added to the electrolyte, the surface roughness was best, 15 nm.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
• /
• 2003.11a
• /
• pp.1816-1821
• /
• 2003

The sapphire wafer for blue light emitting device was manufactured by the implementation of the chemical and mechanical polishing process. The surface polishing of crystalline sapphire wafer was characterized by zeta potential measurement. The reduction process with the alkali slurry provides the surface chemical reaction with sapphire atoms. The poly-urethane pad also provides the frictional force to take out the chemically-reacted surface layers. The surface roughness was measured by the atomic force microscope and the crystalline quality was characterized by the double crystal X -ray diffraction analysis.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
• /
• v.18 no.1
• /
• pp.22-28
• /
• 2009

In order to optimize the polishing process, Run to Run control scheme has been applied to the micro mold polishing in this study. Also, to fully understand the effect of parameters on the surface roughness a design of experiment is performed. By linear approximation of main factors such as gap and rotational speed of micro quill, EWMA (Exponential Weighted Moving Average) gradual mode controller is adopted as a optimizing tool. Consequently, the process converged quickly at a target value of surface roughness Ra 10nm and Rmax 50nm, and was hardly affected by unwanted process noises like initial surface quality and wear of magnetic abrasives.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
• /
• v.17 no.4
• /
• pp.35-41
• /
• 2008

R/In order to satisfy the customer's variant needs for a product quality in recent years, a demand for developing higher precision machining technologies in a lot of application areas such as automobile, cellular phone and semiconductor has been increased more and more. Magnetic abrasive polishing(MAP) process is one of these precision technologies. In this study, to verify the parameters' effect of the MAP process on the surface roughness improvement of the plane and the inclined workpiece, well planned experiments which was called the design of experiments were carried out. Considered polishing factors were spindle speed, supplied current, abrasive type and working gap between the workpiece and the solid tool. As a result, it was seen that the supplied current and the working gap greatly affected the surface roughness improvement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
• /
• 2014.05a
• /
• pp.759-762
• /
• 2014

반도체소자의 제조 공정 기술 중 구리패턴을 얻기 위해서 사용하는 화학.기계적 연마(CMP)를 이용한 평탄화와 연마 공정에서 Wafer에 도포된 구리의 두께를 실시간으로 측정하여 정밀하게 제어할 필요가 있는데, 이때 획득되는 센서값을 실제 두께 값으로 환산하는 계산과정에서 오차가 발생할 수 있다. 실제 측정 값에 근사한 값을 얻도록 단순평균을 이용한 방법, 이동 평균, 필터 들을 사용하여 결과를 비교하여 옹고스트롬 단위의 두께를 실시간으로 측정하는 제어 시스템의 편차를 줄이도록 하는 방법의 구현에 대해 기술한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
• /
• 2011.02a
• /
• pp.197-197
• /
• 2011

고온 스퍼터 공정과 구리 리플로우 공정을 통해 다공성 니켈 지지체에 팔라듐-구리-니켈 삼원계 합금 수소 분리막을 제조하였다. 그러나 스퍼터와 같은 물리적 증착법은 주로 주상정 형태로 증착되기 때문에 다공성 니켈 지지체 표면의 수마이크론 내외의 기공이 존재할 경우 다공성 니켈 지지체에 기인한 많은 기공들 때문에 스퍼터 증착에 영향을 주어 수소 분리막 표면에 기공들이 존재하게 된다. 이를 방지하고 균일한 증착이 이루어지도록 다공성 지지체 표면의 전처리 공정이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 스퍼터 코팅에 의한 균일한 팔라듐 금속층 형성하고 표면에 미세기공이 없는 수소 분리막을 제조하기 위해 다공성 니켈 지지체를 니켈도금, 알루미나 분말 주입 및 미세연마 전처리 공정을 통하여 다공성 니켈 지지체의 표면기공들을 매립하여 치밀한 팔라듐 합금 층을 형성하였다. 전처리를 하지 않은 다공성 니켈 지지체는 팔라듐 및 구리의 고온 스퍼터 증착 및 구리 리플로우 공정에 의해 표면 기공을 막을 수가 없었고 수소분리기능이 없어 수소 분리막으로 역할을 하지 못했다. Al2O3 분말 주입 전처리 공정을 한 다공성 니켈 지지체에 팔라듐 및 구리 고온 스퍼터 증착과 구리 리플로우 공정을 이용하여 제조된 수소 분리막은 다공성 니켈 지지체에 기인한 기공을 메우기 위해서 팔라듐 합금 층이 두꺼워지는 어려움이 있었다. 니켈도금 전처리 공정을 한 다공성 니켈 지지체에 형성한 수소 분리막은 우수한 선택도를 가졌으나 도금 전처리에 사용된 $2{\mu}m$ 두께의 니켈층이 수소의 확산을 방해하는 저항막 역할을 하여 수소 투과도가 3.96 $ml{\cdot}cm-2{\cdot}min-1{\cdot}atm-1$으로 낮게 나타났다. 미세연마 전처리 공정을 한 다공성 니켈 지지체에 형성한 수소 분리막 역시 우수한 수소 선택도를 가졌으며, 수소의 확산을 방해하는 저항막이 존재하지 않아 13.2 $ml{\cdot}cm-2{\cdot}min-1{\cdot}atm-1$의 우수한 수소 투과도를 나타내었다.

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 2004.11a
• /
• pp.48-51
• /
• 2004

Chemical Mechanical Polishing(CMP) is popularly used in production of semiconductor because of large area polishing ability probability of improvement for more integrated circuit. However, present CMP processing causes some non-uniformity errors which can be critical for highly integrated circuit. Previous studies predict that flow-field of slurry during CMP can create non-uniformity, but no quantitative measurement has conducted. In this study, using PIV, slurry velocity flow-field during CMP is measured by changing the ratio of RPM of pad and carrier with tuned PIV system adequate for small room in CMP machine and Cabot's non-groove pad Epad-A100. The result show that velocity of slurry is majorly determined by pad-rpm and the ratio of between carrier and pad rpm make some changes in streamlines.