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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2016
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tomohiko Kitajima, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Drue David, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Qian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Taketo Sekine, Cupertino, CA (US);
Garlen C. Leung, Campbell, CA (US);
Sidney P. Huey, Fremont, CA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling polishing includes storing a base measurement, the base measurement being a measurement of a substrate after deposition of at least one layer overlying a semiconductor wafer and before deposition of an outer layer over the at least one layer, after deposition of the outer layer over the at least one layer and during polishing of the outer layer on substrate, receiving a sequence of raw measurements of the substrate from an in-situ monitoring system, normalizing each raw measurement in the sequence of raw measurement to generate a sequence of normalized measurements using the raw measurement and the base measurement, and determining at least one of a polishing endpoint or an adjustment for a polishing rate based on at least the sequence of normalized measurements.