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Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ebara Corporation

Masato Kurita

Koji Ono

Kenichi Shigeta

Shozo Oguri

Kenichi Sasabe

Yasuhisa Kojima

Tadanori Egawa

A polishing apparatus comprises a polishing tool, a substrate holding member, and a sensor for detecting a failure of a substrate to be polished.

Polishing apparatus

Disclosed is a polishing apparatus that comprises a polishing tool, a substrate holding member, a measuring device to measure a drive current of a drive unit while the drive unit drives at least one of the polishing tool and the substrate holding member, and a failure detection unit to detect either jumping of the substrate from the substrate member or breakage of the substrate. While a substrate is held by a substrate holding member and pressed against the polishing tool during a polishing operation, the failure detection unit will detect jumping of the substrate from the substrate holding member or breakage of the substrate based on a comparison of the value of the drive current with a threshold value, or a comparison of a waveform pattern of the drive current with a predetermined waveform pattern.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Masato Kurita