High-rate CMP polishing method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10857647
APP PUB NO 20180361532A1
SERIAL NO

15725876

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The invention provides a method for polishing or planarizing a wafer of at least one of semiconductor, optical and magnetic substrates. The method includes rotating a polishing pad having radial feeder grooves in the polishing layer separating the polishing layer into polishing regions. The radial feeder grooves include a series of biased grooves connecting a pair of adjacent radial feeder grooves. A majority of the biased grooves have either an inward bias toward the center or an outward bias toward the outer edge of the polishing pad. Pressing and rotating the wafer against the rotating polishing pad for multiple rotations of the polishing pad at a fixed distance from the center of the polishing pad increases polishing or planarizing removal rate of the wafer.

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DUPONT ELECTRONIC MATERIALS HOLDING INC451 BELLEVUE ROAD NEWARK DE 19713

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Hendron, Jeffrey James Elkton, US 21 66
Nguyen, John Vu Chadds Ford, US 6 8
Stack, Jeffrey Robert Clayton, US 12 13
Tran, Tony Quan Bear, US 14 49

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