Provided herein are chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurries and methods for producing the same.Embodiments of the invention include CMP slurries that include (a) a metal oxide; (b) a quaternary ammonium base; and (c) a fluorinated surfactant. In some embodiments, the fluorinated surfactant is a non-ionic perfluoroalkyl sulfonyl compound.Also provided herein are methods of polishing a polycrystalline silicon surface, including providing a slurry composition according to an embodiment of the invention to a polycrystalline silicon surface and performing a CMP process to polish the polycrystalline silicon surface.