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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2023
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yan Zhang, Westford, MA (US);
Johannes M. Van Meer, Middleton, MA (US);
Jae Young Lee, Bedford, MA (US);
Naushad Variam, Marblehead, MA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of processing a workpiece that will include a backside power delivery network is disclosed. The method includes forming a CMP marker layer in the workpiece at the depth to which the workpiece is to be thinned. This CMP marker layer, which may be a boron-rich layer, serves to slow the chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) process. To minimize the diffusion of boron in this boron-rich layer, the boron-rich layer is sandwiched by implants of a first species of ions, where this first species of ions serves to slow the diffusion of the boron. In certain embodiments, carbon is used as the first species of ions.