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| Preface | p. ix |
| The Authors | p. xi |
| Overview of CMP Technology | p. 1 |
| Motivation and Background | p. 1 |
| The Key Factors of CMP Process | p. 3 |
| CMP Polishing Machines | p. 3 |
| Slurry for CMP | p. 4 |
| Pad | p. 6 |
| Slurry Supply Equipment and Filtering Equipment | p. 6 |
| Interlayer Dielectric CMP | p. 9 |
| Interlayer Di... MORE | p. 9 |
| Rheological and Electrokinetic Behavior of Nano Fumed Silica Particle for ILD CMP | p. 9 |
| The Unique Behavior of Concentrated Nano Fumed Silica Hydrosols | p. 10 |
| Electrokinetic Behavior of Nano Silica Hydrosols | p. 11 |
| Geometric Consideration | p. 12 |
| Particle Engineering for Improvement of CMP Performance. | p. 14 |
| Surface Modification of Silica Particle | p. 14 |
| Improvement of ILD CMP with Modified Silica Slurry | p. 16 |
| PAD Dependency in ILD CMP | p. 17 |
| ILD Pattern Dependencies | p. 20 |
| CMP Tool Dependency | p. 20 |
| Pattern Density Dependency | p. 25 |
| Shallow Trench Isolation CMP | p. 35 |
| Requirement for High Selectivity Slurry | p. 35 |
| Particle Engineering of Ceria Nanoparticles and Their Influence on CMP Performance | p. 38 |
| Physical Properties of Ceria Particles | p. 38 |
| STI CMP Performance with Ceria Slurries | p. 39 |
| Influence of Crystalline Structure of Ceria Particles on the Remaining Particles | p. 40 |
| Chemical Engineering for High Selectivity in STI CMP | p. 45 |
| Electrokinetic Behavior of the Ceria Particle, Oxide, and Nitride Films | p. 46 |
| STI CMP Performance in Different Suspension pH | p. 47 |
| The Conformation of Polymeric Molecules and STI CMP Performance | p. 50 |
| Force Measurement Using Atomic Force Microscopy for Mechanism | p. 55 |
| Pattern Dependence of High-Selectivity Slurry | p. 60 |
| Copper CMP | p. 79 |
| Introduction | p. 79 |
| High Selectivity for Copper CMP | p. 82 |
| Copper CMP Pattern Dependence | p. 88 |
| Dishing Dependency on Feature Size and Pattern Density | p. 88 |
| Pattern Effects on Planarization Efficiency of Cu Electropolishing | p. 94 |
| Cu Pad Size and Linewidth Affect Dishing | p. 102 |
| Pattern Dependence of Dishing and Erosion Phenomena | p. 104 |
| TaN Cap Process for Cu Corrosion Prevention and Thermal Stability Improvement | p. 105 |
| Nanotopography | p. 111 |
| What Is Nanotopography? | p. 111 |
| Why Nanotopography Is Important | p. 113 |
| Impact of Nanotopography on CMP | p. 114 |
| General Introduction | p. 114 |
| Spectral Analysis of the Impact of Nanotopography on Oxide CMP and Fourier Transform Method | p. 116 |
| Impact of Nanotopography on Silicon Wafer on Oxide CMP | p. 120 |
| Wafering Method Dependency of Impact of Nanotopography on Oxide CMP | p. 120 |
| Slurry Characteristic Dependency of Impact of Nanotopography on Oxide CMP | p. 126 |
| Effect of Wafer Nanotopography on Remaining Polysilicon Thickness Variation after Polysilicon CMP | p. 130 |
| Effect of VT Variation of Wafer Nanotopography on Remaining Polysilicon Thickness Variation after Polysilicon CMP | p. 131 |
| Equipment in Measuring the Nanotopography | p. 136 |
| Introduction to General Equipment Used in the Measurement of Nanotopography | p. 136 |
| SQM™ (Surface Quality Monitor), from ADE, USA | p. 138 |
| NanoMapper, from ADE Phase Shift, USA | p. 139 |
| DynaSearch, from Raytex, Japan | p. 141 |
| Line Profile Comparison among Three Instruments | p. 143 |
| Calibration among the Standard Deviations of Height Change Measured by Three Kinds of Instruments | p. 143 |
| Novel CMP for Next-Generation Devices | p. 149 |
| The Progress of Semiconductor Devices upon Current Demand | p. 149 |
| Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Memory | p. 151 |
| Noble Metal CMP for DRAM | p. 152 |
| Poly Si CMP for NAND Flash Memory | p. 154 |
| Novel CMP for New Memory | p. 163 |
| GST CMP for PRAM | p. 163 |
| Novel CMP for ReRAM | p. 170 |
| References | p. 171 |
| Index | p. 177 |
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