Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adjusting eddy current measurements
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Application No.: US14179297Application Date: 2014-02-12
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Publication No.: US09636797B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Kun Xu , Ingemar Carlsson , Boguslaw A. Swedek , Doyle E. Bennett , Shih-Haur Shen , Hassan G Iravani , Wen-Chiang Tu , Tzu-Yu Liu
- Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: B24B49/10
- IPC: B24B49/10 ; B24B49/14 ; B24B49/02 ; B24B37/013

Abstract:
Among other things, a method of controlling polishing during a polishing process is described. The method includes receiving a measurement of a thickness, thick(t), of a conductive layer of a substrate undergoing polishing from an in-situ monitoring system at a time t; receiving a measured temperature, T(t), associated with the conductive layer at the time t; calculating resistivity ρT of the conductive layer at the measured temperature T(t); adjusting the measurement of the thickness using the calculated resistivity ρT to generate an adjusted measured thickness; and detecting a polishing endpoint or an adjustment for a polishing parameter based on the adjusted measured thickness.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150224623A1 ADJUSTING EDDY CURRENT MEASUREMENTS Public/Granted day:2015-08-13
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