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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007

Filed:

Sep. 02, 2004
Applicants:

Yukiko Nishioka, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshikazu Ariga, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Yukiko Nishioka, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshikazu Ariga, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Assignee:

Ebara Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/66 (2006.01); G01M 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to a cleaning evaluation method for evaluating a surface cleanliness of a substrate which has been cleaned after being polished. This method includes preparing a dummy substrate having a metal film formed on a surface thereof and a monitor substrate on which a cleaning evaluation is performed, and polishing the dummy substrate. After polishing the dummy substrate, the monitor substrate is polished without dressing a polishing surface of a polishing table, the monitor substrate is cleaned, and the surface cleanliness of the monitor substrate which has been cleaned is evaluated.


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