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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2002
Takenori Hirose, Machida, JP;
Mineo Nomoto, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Kojima, Kawasaki, JP;
Hidemi Sato, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of polishing a film formed on a wafer includes steps of polishing a film formed on a surface of a wafer which is chucked by a wafer chuck and set on a polishing disk so that the film faces the polishing disk, irradiating a plurality of portions of the film under polishing process with lights having different wavelengths from one another through a plurality of holes formed in the polishing disk, detecting lights reflected from the plurality of portions of the film caused by the irradiation, evaluating a thickness distribution of the film from information of an intensity ratio of the detected reflected lights, and controlling a pushing pressure of the wafer chuck according to the evaluated thickness distribution under polishing process.