Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.

Mimasu Semiconductor Industry Co., Ltd.

Ohtomo Chemical Ind., Corp.

Hitachi Zosen Metal Works Co., Ltd.

Kazuo Hayakawa

Etsuo Kiuchi

Kohei Toyama

Kouhei Toyama

Shingo Kaburagi

Akio Ashida

Kuniaki Noami

Takara Ito

A system for reusing water soluble slurry waste fluid wherein separated available abrasive grains and extracted water soluble coolant are reused. This system is capable of reducing a disposal cost due to a reduction of a load to a waste water disposal plant by effectively reusing water soluble slurry waste fluid, and making a contribution to a reduction of a total slicing cost by reusing abrasive grains and water soluble coolant.

Recovery of coolant and abrasive grains used in slicing semiconductor

In a wire saw for slicing a cylindrical workpiece such as a silicon ingot so as to obtain wafers or the like, the feed rate of slurry fed to the workpiece, the viscosity of the slurry, or the feed rate of a wire is varied according to the cutting length in the workpiece or the angle between the wire and the circumference of the workpiece. It becomes possible to obtain wafers or the like, each having a uniform thickness.

Method for slicing cylindrical workpieces by varying slurry conditions

A method of manufacturing wire for use in a wire saw used for slicing a semiconductor ingot into wafers is disclosed. A starting wire, which is an iron or iron alloy wire plated with copper or copper alloy, is drawn into a fine wire in a finish drawing step. Subsequently, copper or copper alloy plating is removed from the fine wire surface through chemical polishing with an acid treatment solution or a like solution, physical polishing with polishing cloth or the like, or electropolishing, or through combined polishing thereof. The method makes it possible to manufacture wire having excellent quality characteristics without raising a problem such as metal contamination of product wafers sliced from the ingot.

Method of manufacturing wire for use in a wire saw and wire for use in a

A wire saw apparatus which is less susceptible to loosening of the wire and to breakage thereof, includes a wire supply spool, a cutting head having a plurality of main rollers around which a wire from the wire supply spool is wrapped, a wire take-up spool for taking-up the wire from the cutting head, and a plurality of guide rollers for guiding the wire which are arranged between the wire supply spool and the cutting head and between the cutting head and the wire take-up spool, wherein each of the guide rollers has a peripheral groove having a square-shaped section with a width of 2-20 times the diameter of the wire, and the number of turns of the wire which is wrapped around each guide roller in the groove having a square-shaped section is not less than 1 and not more than 5.

Wire saw apparatus

A method of slicing a semiconductor single crystal ingot by a wire saw slicing apparatus and a semiconductor wafer produced by the method, in which the running direction of the wire is not corresponding with the cleavage directions of the semiconductor single crystal ingot so that occurrence of cracks or breakage in the semiconductor wafer produced by the method can be suppressed significantly without any additional processes or an increase in cost.

Method of slicing semiconductor single crystal ingot

A wire saw for slicing a semiconductor single crystal ingot with which alignment of the crystallographic orientation of the ingot is simple and easy in a slicing process and a method for slicing the ingot by means of the wire saw. Main rollers are three-dimensionally arranged with a predetermined distance between each other, and a wire runs over the main rollers to form arrays of wire portions parallel to each other, with said wire saw an ingot being sliced into rods by pressing it to an array of wire portions between a pair of main rollers that are used to slice the ingot, while the wire is being driven and slurry is fed to the array of wire portions between the pair of main rollers, wherein the wire runs over the pair of main rollers used for slicing in a ratio of one turn over the pair of main rollers to more than one turn over the other main roller or rollers so that the array of wire portions running over the pair of main rollers used for slicing can be arranged at a desired pitch.

Method for cutting a workpiece with a wire saw

Wire saw

A water-soluble cutting fluid is produced by dissolving a polymer fatty acid triglyceride imidazole, 2-methyl-1-stearate, and boric acid imidazole in the dispersion of inorganic bentonite in water thereby preparing a main component and adding oleic acid (agent for enhancing the lubricity), Na salt of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (metallic ion adsorbent), benzotriazole (rust-preventing auxiliary agent), and a silicone type defoaming agent to the main component.

Cutting fluid, method for production thereof, and method for cutting

A roller with grooves for a wire saw around which a cutting wire is wrapped. The roller comprises a core member having an inside divided into two areas which have a boundary at the center in the longitudinal direction of the core member, wherein each of the areas has a passage for circulation of a coolant and the inlet and the outlet of each passage are provided in the vicinity of the outer end of one area side in which the passage belongs.

Roller having grooves for wire saw

To keep, with a simple structure, roller bearing devices, rotatably supporting the end sections of two rollers, at the same and substantially constant temperature, working fluid is applied not only to the slicing sections, but also to roller bearing devices 14b, 14c, 16b, 16c, 18b and 18c. The flow rate of the working-fluid supply to nozzles 20, 22 for slicing-section is controlled in such a way that the temperature of the working fluid coming down from the slicing sections becomes a first preset temperature; and the flow rate of the working-fluid supply to nozzles 24-29 for bearing-section is controlled in such a way that the temperature of the working fluid coming down from the bearing sections becomes a second preset temperature.

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Takasaki, Japan

Kazuo Hayakawa