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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Disco Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kurokawa, Tokyo, JP;
DISCO CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sapphire substrate flattening method including an ingot slicing step of slicing a sapphire single-crystal ingot to obtain a sapphire substrate, an annealing step of annealing the sapphire substrate, a wafer mounting step of mounting the sapphire substrate processed by the annealing step on a stage having a holding surface in the condition where a first surface of the sapphire substrate is in contact with the holding surface of the stage through a liquid resin, a resin curing step of curing the liquid resin, a first grinding step of grinding a second surface of the sapphire substrate opposite to the first surface, a resin removing step of removing the liquid resin cured on the first surface of the sapphire substrate, and a second grinding step of grinding the first surface of the sapphire substrate.