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EP0588055A2 Expired / Lapsed EP ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Method for manufacturing wafer

Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corp
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Filing: 1993-08-10
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2013-08-10
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Abstract

Abstract There is disclosed a wafer-manufacturing method in which a single crystal ingot is first sliced into a plurality of wafers, and both surfaces of each wafer are subjected to grinding or lapping operation. Then, the front and back surfaces of the wafer are subjected to etching. Thereafter, the back surface of the wafer is subjected to chemical mechanical polishing to half-polish the same, following which the wafer is placed on a polishing machine, with the half-polished back surface of the wafer being adhered to a carrier plate, and the front surface of the wafer is mirror-polished. In the foregoing, a polysilicon film for extrinsic gettering may be formed on the back surface of the etched wafer prior to the half-polishing.

Inventors

  • 👤 Mineo c/o Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Watanabe
  • 👤 Hitoshi c/o Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Harada
  • 👤 Masanori c/o Mitsubishi Materials Takemura

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
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Last Synchronized 2026-11-05 06:07
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10P; H10P90/00; H10P90/12; B; B24; B24B; B24B37/00; B24B37/04; B24B37/042; C; C30; C30B; C30B33/00

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim 119 words
A method of manufacturing a wafer, comprising the steps of: slicing a single crystal ingot into a plurality of wafers each having front and back surfaces, and subjecting said front and back surfaces of each wafer to one of grinding operation or lapping operation; subsequently subjecting said front and back surfaces of said wafer to etching; and thereafter, placing said wafer on a polishing device, with said polysilicon film being adhered to a carrier plate of said polishing device, and subjecting said front surface of said wafer to mirror polishing, characterized in that, before said mirror polishing step, said back surface of said etched wafer is subjected to chemical mechanical polishing to half-polish the back surface of the wafer.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 60 words
A method of manufacturing a wafer, according to claim 1, wherein said chemical mechanical polishing step includes carrying out polishing, while supplying an alkaline polishing liquid containing polishing particles therein, at an abutting pressure of 50 to 400 gf/cm², and pH concentration of 10 to 11, said polishing particles having an average particle size ranging from 0.01 to 0.02 µm.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 35 words
A method of manufacturing a wafer, according to claim 1, wherein said chemical mechanical polishing step includes removing said back surface of said wafer in an average amount of removal of 0.01 to 0.2 µm.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 36 words
A method of manufacturing a wafer according to claim 1, further comprising the step of forming a polysilicon film on said back surface of said wafer between said etching step and said chemical mechanical polishing step.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 64 words
A method of manufacturing a wafer, according to claim 4, wherein said step of forming the polysilicon film includes forming said polysilicon film so as to have a thickness ranging from 0.1 to 5 µm, said chemical mechanical polishing step including removing the polysilicon film formed on the back surface of the wafer in an average amount of removal of 0.02 to 0.1 µm.

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