Scapa Group Plc

Brian Lombardo

A seamless, composite belt that is designed to maintain a substantially flat surface in the span between two rollers. The belts typically have one or more polymer layers, including the polishing layer, and one or more supporting woven or non-woven layers. The belts have the necessary balance between down-cupping and up-cupping forces achieved by: 1) varying the relative thickness of the different polymer and supporting layers in the belt, 2) varying the relative hardness or rigidity of the different layers in the belt, 3) varying the temperatures at which the different layers are formed, 4) varying the compositions of supporting layers, and 5) prestressing one or more of the composite layers. The belts are particularly useful in chemical mechanical polishing of semiconductor wafers.

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Amherst, NH, United States of America

Brian Lombardo