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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Dirk Wollstein, Dresden, DE;
Jan Raebiger, Dresden, DE;
Gerd Marxsen, Radebeul, DE;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and a controller for the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) of substrates and, in particular, for the chemical mechanical polishing of metallization layers is disclosed. In a linear model of the CMP process, the erosion of the metallization layer to be treated is determined by the overpolish time and possibly by an extra polish time on a separate polishing platen for polishing the dielectric layer, wherein the CMP inherent characteristics are represented by sensitivity parameters derived empirically. Moreover, the control operation is designed so that even with a certain inaccuracy of the sensitivity parameters due to subtle process variations, a reasonable controller response is obtained.