Tokuyama Corporation

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Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hiroyuki Kohno

Hiroshi Kato

Kazuhiko Hayashi

Naoto Miyashita

Kenji Doi

Masahiro Abe

Yoshihiro Minami

Jun Takayasu

A semiconductor wafer or a film formed thereon is polished by using a polishing agent comprising abrasive containing silica particles as the main component, water as a solvent, and a water-soluble cellulose, an alkali metal impurity content of the polishing agent being 5C ppm or less where the polishing agent contains C % by weight of the water-soluble cellulose, so as to flatten the semiconductor wafer without doing damage to the wafer or the film formed thereon and without bringing about a dishing problem in the polished surface.

Abrasive and method for polishing semiconductor substrate

An abrasive material is prepared by dispersing silicon nitride particles acting as abrasive particles in a solvent such as a pure water or an ultra pure water, followed by adding an adsorptive stickable to the abrasive particles to the dispersion. The resultant abrasive material permits diminishing the polishing rate of a silicon nitride film used as a stopper film, with the result that a CVD SiO.sub.2 film to be polished is selectively polished relative to the Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 film used as the stopper film. This makes it possible to make the stopper film as thin as possible and permits the CVD SiO.sub.2 film to be flattened efficiently without bringing about a dishing problem.

Abrasive material for polishing a semiconductor wafer, and methods for

A polishing slurry is formed of a silica-dispersed solution obtained by dispersing, in an aqueous solvent, a fumed silica having an average primary particle size of from 5 to 30 nm, the silica-dispersed solution exhibiting a light scattering index (n) of from 3 to 6 at a silica concentration of 1.5% by weight, and the fumed silica dispersed therein having an average secondary particle size of from 30 to 100 nm on the weight basis. The polishing slurry is produced by pulverizing, using a high-pressure homogenizer, a silica-dispersed solution obtained by dispersing a fumed silica in an aqueous solvent, so that the fumed silica possesses an average secondary particle size of from 30 to 100 nm on the weight basis. The polishing slurry is used for polishing semiconductor wafers and inter-layer dielectric in an IC process.

Polishing slurries and a process for the production thereof

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Hiroyuki Kohno