Pad Scratching in Chemical-Mechanical Polishing: The Effects of Mechanical and Tribological Properties

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In chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP), even the soft pad asperities may, under certain conditions, generate scratches on the relatively hard surfaces being polished. In the present study, contact mechanics models of pad-induced scratching are formulated, and the effects of the hardness of the surface layers and of pad asperities as well as the interfacial friction are elucidated. Additionally, scratch-regime maps are proposed to provide criteria for scratching hard surface layers by the softer pad asperities. Furthermore, scratching indexes are introduced to predict the proportion of asperities in contact that are likely to scratch. The contact mechanics models of scratching have been validated by sliding experiments with two commercial CMP pads (Pad A and IC1000) and various thin-films (Al, Cu, SiO2, Si3N4, TiN and three low-k dielectrics) using deionized water as a "lubricant." Both the theoretical models and the experimental results show that the number of scratches increases as the scratching index exceeds 0.33. Al and Cu layers are found to be more susceptible to pad scratching due to their low hardness and high interfacial friction. The scratch-regime maps provide practical guidelines for mitigating pad scratching in CMP. (C) The Author(s) 2014. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
Issue Date
2014-04
Language
English
Article Type
Article
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ECS JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, v.3, no.5, pp.P169 - P178

ISSN
2162-8769
DOI
10.1149/2.027405jss
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/245060
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ME-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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