• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.5 No.2
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• pp.1312-1315
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• 2004

Chemical Mechanical Polishing is referred to as a three body tribological system, because it includes two solids in relative motion and the slurry. On the assumption that the abrasives between the pad and the wafer could be a major reason of not only the friction force but also material removal during polishing. The friction force generated by the abrasives was inspected with the change of abrasive size and concentration in this paper. The variation of coefficient of friction with abrasive concentration and size could result from the condition of contact and load balance between wafer and abrasives carried by pad asperity. The simulation was performed in this paper and compared with the result of experiment. The material removal rate also estimated with abrasive concentration and size increasement.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.514-520
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• 2009

In configuring an automated polishing system, a monitoring scheme to estimate the surface roughness is necessary. In this study, a precision polishing process, magnetic abrasive finishing (MAF), along with an in-process monitoring setup was investigated. A magnetic tooling is connected to a CNC machining to polish the surface of stavax(S136) die steel workpieces. During finishing experiments, both AE signals and force signals were sampled and analysed. The finishing results show that MAF has nano scale finishing capability (upto 8nm in surface roughness) and the sensor signals have strong correlations with the parameters such as gap between the tool and workpiece, feed rate and abrasive size. In addition, the signals were utilized as the input parameters of artificial neural networks to predict generated surface roughness. Among the three networks constructed -AE rms input, force input, AE+force input- the ANN with sensor fusion (AE+force) produced most stable results. From above, it has been shown that the proposed sensor fusion scheme is appropriate for the monitoring and prediction of the nano scale precision finishing process.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.43-43
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• 2010

반도체 및 디스플레이의 진공부품은 알루미늄 모제에 전해연마법(electrolytic polishing), 양극산화피막법(anodizing), 플라즈마 용사법(plasma spray) 등을 사용하여 $Al_2O_3$ 피막을 성장시켜 사용되고 있다. 반도체 제조공정 중 30~40% 이상의 비중을 차지하는 식각(etching) 및 증착(deposition) 공정의 대부분 은 플라즈마에 의해 화학적, 물리적 침식이 발생하여 피막에 손상을 일으켜 피막이 깨지거나 박리되면서 다량의 particle을 생성함으로써 생산수율에도 문제를 야기 시킨다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 진공부품의 하나인 etcher용 상부전극을 양극산화피막법(Anodizing)으로 $Al_2O_3$ 피막을 성장시킨 샘플을 제작하여 플라즈마 처리에 따른 내전압, 식각율, 표면 미세구조의 변화를 관찰하였고 이를 종합적으로 고려하여 etcher용 상부전극의 Life Time 평가 방법을 연구하였다. 이러한 실험을 통해 플라즈마 처리 후 피막에 크랙이 발생되는 것을 확인할 수 있었고 피막의 손상으로 전기적 특성이 감소되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 플라즈마 처리 중 ISPM 장비를 이용하여 플라즈마 공정에서 발생하는 오염입자를 실시간으로 측정할 수 있는 방법을 연구하였다. 이러한 결과를 이용하여 진공공정에서 사용되는 코팅부품이 플라즈마에 의한 손상정도를 정량화 하고 etcher용 상부전극의 Life Time 평가 방법을 개발하여 부품 양산업체의 진공장비용 코팅부품의 개발 신뢰성 향상이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.965-971
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• 2001

$\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ nanobelts and nanoparticles were synthesized from mechanically ground GaN powders with thermal annealing in a nitrogen atmosphere and an oxygen atmosphere, respectively. The study of field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) on the microstructures of nanomaterials revealed that the nanobelts synthesized in the nitrogen atmosphere are with the range of 20~1000nm width and 10 ~100nm thickness, and that nanomaterials are nanoparticles with 20~50nm radius obtained by thermal annealing in an oxygen atmosphere. The crystal structure of the $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ nanobelts and nanoparticles was in this study investigated by X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM). The formation processes of the nanobelts and nanoparticles will be discussed in this paper.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.38-45
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• 2005

Chemical mechanical polishing(CMP) has been widely accepted for the planarization of multi-layer structures in semiconductor fabrication. But a variety of defects such as abrasive contamination, scratch, dishing, erosion and corrosion are occurred during CMP. Especially, dishing and erosion defects increase the metal resistance because they decrease the interconnect section area, and ultimately reduce the lift time of the semiconductor. Due to this reason dishing and erosion must be prohibited. The pattern density and size in chip have a significant influence on dishing and erosion occurred by over-polishing. The fixed abrasive pad(FAP) was applied and tested to reduce dishing and erosion in this paper. The abrasive concentration decrease of FAP results in advanced pattern selectivity which can lead the uniform removal in chip and declining over-polishing. Consequently, reduced dishing and erosion was observed in CMP of tungsten pattern wafer with proposed FAP and chemicals.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2006

Chemical Mechanical Polishing(CMP) in semiconductor production is characterized its output property by Removal Rate(RR) and Non-Uniformity(NU). Some previous works show that RR is determined by production of pressure and velocity and NU is also largely affected by velocity of flowfield during CMP. This study is about the direct measurement of velocity of slurry during CMP and whole flowfield upon the non-groove pad by Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV). Typical PIV system is modified adequately for inspecting CMP and slurry flowfield is measured by changing both pad rpm and carrier rpm. We performed measurement with giving some variation in the kinds of pad. The results show that the flowfield is majorly determined not by Carrier but by Pad in the case of non-groove pad.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2001

An internal finishing process applying Magnetic Abrasive Finishing (MAF) was proposed to produce smooth inner surfaces of tubes at a high rate. Since this process uses the tube rotation system, it has been considered applicable only to tubes which are rotatable at high speeds. Here development of the stainless tube(STS 304) rotation system to extend the scope of the application of the internal finishing process applying MAF was made. By the stainless tube(STS 304) rotation system, the abrasive magnetically attracted by the poles is rotated along the inner surface of the tube by magnetic force together with fixed poles, finishing the inner surface of the tube. The main results obtained are as follows : 1) The magnet abrasive finishing minimized influence due to external force because non-contact finishing, 2) The profile of surface roughness decreased very good in 11.4m/min range because abrasive size and speed, 3) The profile of surface roughness by flux density decreased in finishing speed 28m/min, 4) The profile of surface roughness by fled rate decreased in 0.16mm/rev and 0.18mm/rev.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.529-529
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• 2007

Ruthenium (Ru) is a white metal and belongs to platinum group which is very stable chemically and has a high work function. It has been widely studied to apply Ru as an electrode material in memory devices and a Cu diffusion barrier metal for Cu interconnection due to good electrical conductivity and adhesion property to Cu layer. To planarize deposited Ru layer, chemical mechanical planarization(CMP) was suggested. However, abrasive particle can induce particle contamination on the Ru layer surface during CMP process. In this study, zeta potentials of Ru and interaction force of alumina particles with Ru substrate were measured as a function of pH. The etch rate and oxidation behavior were measured as a function of chemical concentration of several organic acids and other acidic and alkaline chemicals. PRE (particle removal efficiency) was also evaluated in cleaning chemical.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.5 No.1
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• pp.252-255
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• 2004

반도체는 high integrated, high speed, low power를 위하여 design 뿐만 아니라 재료 측면에서도 많은 변화를 가져오고 있으며, RC delay time을 줄이기 위하여 Al 배선보다 비저항이 낮은 Cu와 low-k material 적용이 그 대표적인 예이다. 그러나, Cu 배선의 경우 dry etching이 어려우므로, 기존의 공정으로는 그 한계를 가지므로 damascene 또는 dual damascene 공정이 소개, 적용되고 있다. Damascene 공정은 절연막에 photo와 RIE 공정을 이용하여 trench를 형성시킨 후 electrochemical plating 공정을 이용하여 trench에 Cu를 filling 시킨다. 이후 CMP 공정을 이용하여 절연막 위의 Cu와 barrier material을 제거함으로서 Cu 배선을 형성하게 된다. Dual damascene 공정은 trench와 via를 동시에 형성시키는 기술로 현재 대부분의 Cu 배선 공정에 적용되고 있다. Cu CMP는 기존의 metal CMP와 마찬가지로 oxidizer를 이용한 Cu film의 화학반응과 연마 입자의 기계가공이 기본 메커니즘이다. Cu CMP에서 backside pressure 영향이 uniformity에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았으며, electrochemical plating 공정에서 발생하는 hump가 CMP 결과에 미치는 영향과 dishing 결과를 통하여 그 영향을 평가하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.5 No.1
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• pp.20-23
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• 2004

As the integrated circuit device shrinks to the smaller dimension, the chemical mechanical polishing(CMP) process was required for the global planarization of inter-metal dielectric(IMD) layer with free-defect. However, as the IMD layer gets thinner, micro-scratches are becoming as major defects. Chemical-Mechanical polishing(CMP) of conductors is a key process in Damascene patterning of advanced interconnect structure. The effect of alternative commercial slurries pads, and post-CMP cleaning alternatives are discuss, with removal rate, scratch dentisty, surface roughness, dishing, erosion and particulate density used as performance metrics. Electroplated copper deposition is a mature process from a historical point of view, but a very young process from a CMP perspective. While copper electro deposition has been used and studied for decades, its application to Cu damascene wafer processing is only now gaining complete acceptance in the semiconductor industry. The polishing mechanism of Cu-CMP process has been reported as the repeated process of passive layer formation by oxidizer and abrasion action by slurry abrasives. however it is important to understand the effect of oxidizer on copper passivation layer in order to obtain higher removal rate and non-uniformity during Cu-CMP process. In this paper, we investigated the effects of oxidizer on Cu-CMP process regarding the additional volume of oxidizer.