Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fluid filtering system and a method for being used during semiconductor processing.SOLUTION: A fluid filtering system filters ions and particles from fluid by a dual medium filter 18b when the fluid is supplied to a semiconductor wafer processing apparatus such as a semiconductor wafer cleaning apparatus. The fluid filtering system is characterized in that the dual medium filter 18b has a housing 44 equipped with an inlet 46 and an outlet 48, the inlet 46 is joined with a fluid supply source and the outlet 48 is joined with a semiconductor wafer manufacturing apparatus and the housing 44 includes an ion exchange medium 35 and a particle filtering medium 37. The ion exchange medium 35 removes ions from the fluid and the particle filtering medium 37 removes particles from the fluid.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pad conditioner for solving the problem that an uneven face is formed during CMP process and the uneven faces are piled up in the following steps. SOLUTION: A conditioner 40 includes non uniform conditioning faces having a plurality of conditioning elements 44. The nonuniform conditioning face includes a first section 46 having a first cutting amount/unit width, and a second section 50 having a second cutting amount/unit width different from the first cutting amount/unit width. The difference of the cutting amount is given according to a different projection width of each conditioning element and according to the difference in linear density between the two sections.