SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2003--Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) announces Reflexion(R) LK, the industry's only low down force, high throughput CMP (chemical mechanical ...
HSINCHU, Taiwan — September 10, 2008 — Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials (NYSE:ROH), CMP Technologies, a leader and innovator in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) technology for the global ...
AURORA, Ill.–Cabot Microelectronics Corp. here today reported sequentially flat revenues at $51.4 million in the company's fiscal fourth quarter, ended Sept. 30, compared to results from the prior ...
Electromigration and resistivity present serious obstacles to interconnect scaling, as previously discussed. In a copper damascene process, grain growth is constrained by the narrow trenches into ...
Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) is a critical process in the semiconductor, LED wafer, and hard disk manufacturing industry and is used to achieve the substrate wafer's required planarity.
Chemical Mechanical Planarization is a semiconductor manufacturing process that uses slurries consisting of abrasive particles and ancillary chemicals to clean and condition semiconductor wafers ...
This paper describes a method to effectively monitor the film stack at different metal CMP process steps using a spectroscopic ellipsometer metrology tool. By proper modeling of the Cu dispersion and ...