Viewing Asperity Behavior Under the Wafer. During Chemical Mechanical Polishing
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1 Viewing Asperity Behavior Under the Wafer During Chemical Mechanical Polishing Caprice Gray, Daniel Apone, Chris Rogers, Vincent P. Manno, Chris Barns, Mansour Moinpour, Sriram Anjur, Ara Philipossian Abstract Recent experimental advances using Dual Emission Laser Induced Fluorescence (DELIF) and image processing have provided high spatial and temporal resolution maps of the slurry layer during Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP). Intensity differences in the images correspond to fluid layer thickness variations as the slurry passes between different pad and wafer topographies. Asperities expand under 14µm deep wells and are compressed beyond the trailing edge of the well. Air pockets travel from the leading to the trailing edge of the wafer through 27µm deep wells. The pads tested were Freudenberg FX9, Rodel IC1000, and experimental pads from Cabot Microelectronics.
2 Introduction Understanding the physical process of Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) has become vital to the semiconductor industry. Today s state-of-the-art microelectronic device features are smaller than 100 nm, and many MEMS features are now approaching the µm scale (1). Faster computer processors require smaller features for integrated circuits (IC), which in turn requires smoother surfaces after CMP for IC patterning. Many attempts have been made to model the behavior of the fluid layer between the wafer and the polishing pad (2, 3, 4). However, physical evidence to prove or disprove the modeling results has been difficult to observe. Some measurements were attained via examination of wafers and pads after polishing runs (5, 6). Fluid film thicknesses have been inferred by mathematical extrapolation based upon pressure and velocity measurements (7). Lu et al. (8) used Dual Emission Laser Induced Fluorescence (DELIF) with a UV lamp to excite a dye in the slurry and obtain an in-situ spatially and temporally averaged slurry layer thickness using an inquisition area of 21.3 cm 2 over a 3 second time integration. The goal of this letter is to present new images using a modified version of the DELIF technique used by Lu with a 6 ns UV laser pulse to obtain an instantaneous, high spatial resolution images during polish. Experimental Setup Experiments are performed on a laboratory scale Struers RotoPol-31 table top polisher. The polishing pad is rotated at 30 RPM against a 7.62 cm diameter, 1.27 cm
3 thick BK-7 glass wafer, which is optically transparent over the visible and UV spectrum. The experimental setup is shown in figure 1 and described elsewhere (8, 9). Square wells were etched into the surface of some wafers to observe fluid flow characteristics near a patterned step change. Each polishing pad was conditioned for 30 minutes before the polishing run and conditioning continued during image acquisition. A diluted solution (9 to 1) of Cab-O-Sperse SC-1 slurry was mixed with a fluorescent dye, Calcien, in a concentration of 1g/L for imaging purposes. The slurry flow rate was held constant at 50 cc/min. The dilute slurry insures that no appreciable material removal occurs during the course of the experimental runs. LabVIEW software provides an interface through which Nd/YAG laser pulses and the cameras can be timed and controlled for slurry film imaging at a frequency of 2 Hz with a camera exposure time of 200 ms. The cameras were fitted with a Nikon EL-Nikkor zoom lens so that the field of view is 1.6 mm by 2.7 mm. The DELIF technique is fully presented in previous papers (9, 10, 11), but will be briefly described here. A Nd/YAG laser emits a UV pulse at a wavelength of 355 nm which causes the polishing pads to fluoresce. The Calcein in the slurry absorbs the emitted pad fluorescence and in turn fluoresces at a lower energy wavelength. The fluorescence of the pad and the dye are optically separated into two cameras; one observes the pad fluorescence (camera A) while the other detects the Calcein fluorescence (camera B). The ratio of the emitted fluorescence is measured by cameral B/camera A, eliminating any lighting variations due to nonuniformities in the excitation source, ambient light contributions, and light scattering of the slurry particles. The
4 resulting ratio value at each pixel is therefore proportional to the amount of Calcein (and the amount of slurry) along a specific column of fluid. The intensity values in the ratio images can be directly correlated to a slurry film thickness using the following calibration technique. A BK-7 optical glass wafer is etched such that it contains wells of two different depths, d 1 and d 2. DELIF of a fluid layer beneath known depths, d 1 and d 2, will yield corresponding ratio intensities R 1 and R 2. Previous work has shown a near linear relationship between thickness and ratio. Therefore, slurry film thickness is related to intensity by a calibration factor, X as follows: X d R 2 1 =. (1) 2 d R 1 The factor, X, provides a means to calculate relative thickness of the fluid layer allowing us to compare intensity differences within ratio images. However, this factor alone does not yield absolute slurry film thickness. To obtain absolute thickness values, the intensity value corresponding to a slurry layer thickness of zero must also be defined. Since the goal of this letter is to present the initial results of this technique, only relative thickness is presented and a complete discussion of the calibration will be provided in a future article. Results and Discussion All images presented in Figures 2-5 are processed images of the ratio obtained by dividing the Calcein fluorescence intensity by the pad fluorescence intensity. All images
5 were taken while the platen and the wafer were both in rotation, and those presented here were picked from thousands of available images. The dark areas in the image correspond to low values of the ratio of intensities and indicate where the pad and the wafer are close to each other, or the tops of the pad asperities. Conversely, the lighter sections of the image indicate high values of the ratio and slurry filled valleys between pad asperities. Figure 2a is an image of the slurry layer between a Freudenberg FX9 polishing pad and a flat BK-7 wafer. Intimate contact of the pad and wafer would imply a boundary lubrication regime. Profilometer measurements of the Freudenberg FX9 pad indicate a surface roughness, R a = 4.3±0.3µm, suggesting that the asperity peak-to-valley height averages around 8.6µm. The image in figure 2a shows these peaks and valleys clearly, and one can estimate R a = 3.1±0.3 µm from roughly calibrating the images. This observation implies that the asperities are compressed 2-3 µm during polishing. In the future we plan to measure the percentage of the pad in contact with the wafer. Contact measurements require the absolute calibration mentioned earlier. In addition to detecting slurry flow over pad asperities, most images show patterns in the asperities as indicated by the dashed lines in figure 2. The striation lines in Figure 2a run from the top left to bottom right at almost 45 degrees. In figure 2b the striation lines are just off the horizontal with a slightly positive slope. These lines are most likely gouges in the pad caused by the diamond grit conditioner. Figure 2b shows a slurry layer beneath a 14.5µm deep, 1000µm square well etched into the BK7 wafer over a Freudenberg FX9 polishing pad. The overall average
6 intensity underneath the square well is significantly higher than that of the surrounding region. These high intensity regions have no black areas indicating that the asperities are not in contact with the bottom of the well. Preliminary analysis of surface roughness based upon intensity measurements on this and similar images show that the average roughness beneath the contact regions is less than the roughness beneath the wells (difference of approximately 1µm). These data suggest asperity compression outside the well as in figure 2a, and the asperities have time to expand under the wells as both surfaces rotate. Figure 3 contains images from a polishing run with 27µm deep, square wells etched into a BK7 wafer over a Freudenberg FX9 pad. The arrows in figure 3 show the direction of slurry flow. The slurry does not always fill this deeper well completely leading to air pockets within the well. The majority of the images showed air bubbles of different sizes moving across the wells. Figure 3a shows an air pocket in the center of a well. The irregular shape can probably be attributed to slurry flowing around different size asperities. The majority of the images from the runs with a 27µm well are similar to figure 3b, showing air pockets in the upper left corner of the wells, which is the trailing edge of the slurry flow. Figure 3c shows one of the larger air pockets as it is dissipating through the contact region just behind the trailing edge of the well. The behavior of the air in these images implies that there is air entrapment, not cavitation, during the polishing process. One can also see the slurry in the pad below the air pocket, implying that one can estimate the dimensions and volume of the air bubble by comparing the fluorescence under the well outside of the air bubble as compared to inside the air bubble.
7 Figure 4 shows images of a BK7 wafer with 27µm wells over a Rodel IC1000 k- grooved pad. Figures 4a and 4b are the two extreme cases observed during this run where the grooves in the pad are completely filled (4a) and have almost no slurry present (4b). Most images indicated that the grooves were partially filled as in figure 4c. In these images, air pockets beneath the wells were confined to the grooves in the pad and did not accumulate at the trailing edge of the well as observed on the flat pad figure 3. Note that it is difficult to see the well in figure 4b because the amount of slurry in the groove is significantly greater than outside the groove. This same pad was used to observe the slurry layer beneath a wafer with 14 µm wells. The shallower wells were difficult to observe because the intensity contrast between the inside and outside of the wells was too low due to the dominance of the grooved regions. Figure 5 includes images from experimental polishing pads produced by Cabot Microelectronics Corporation. Figure 5a show the slurry layer between a flat BK7 wafer and the M2 thin grooved pad. Figure 5b shows fluid over an M3 xy-grooved pad. The M3 pad is slightly smoother than the M2 pad. Besides the obvious groove, the dominant features in image 5a are cross-hatched regions of high intensity indicating a pattern of valleys in the pad. This pattern was imprinted onto the pad with a woven material and tests the ability of the DELIF technique to observe larger scale features. It will not be present in the final version of this experimental pad. The surface roughness of these pads is an order of magnitude larger than the Fruedenberg FX-9 and Rodel IC1000 pads. Therefore, the intensity contrast between asperities in the Cabot pads overshadows even a
8 27µm deep well. These large asperities limit our ability to study pad rebound and surface roughness under a patterned wafer in a similar manner as discussed in figures 2 and 3. Conclusion Dual Emission Laser Induced Fluorescence (DELIF) has provided a means to directly observe the slurry layer thickness instantaneously during CMP for the first time at high spatial and temporal resolution. In-situ images are taken at a frequency of 2 Hz over an area of 1.6 x 2.7 mm with an exposure time of 20 ms. The fluid layers were observed between the wafer and several types of polishing pads that are commercially available and in development. Images were collected under both patterned and unpatterned wafers. A direct correlation between intensities in the ratio images and fluid film thickness can be done by comparing ratio values under patterned wells of two different depths, allowing the estimation of asperity compression during polishing. Deeper wells led to air pockets underneath wafer features and over both flat and grooved pads. Pad and wafer features can be distinguished using DELIF to observe the slurry layer provided that the features are of the same order of magnitude. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Intel and Cabot Microelectronics for the funding for this project. We are especially thankful for patterned and etched the BK7 wafers from Intel,
9 and for the experimental pads from Cabot Microelectronic. In addition, we thank Veeco Metrology for providing the profilometer and Freudenberg for providing pads. We also want to thank Mike Lacy from Cabot for helping take some of the images.
10 Figure Captions Figure 1. Experimental Setup. Slurry flow, conditioning, wafer and platen rotation are constant. The laser is directed through the wafer, excites the pad, which in turn excites the dye in the slurry. The two cameras observe the pad and the slurry fluorescence. Figure 2. The gray arrow indicates the slurry flow direction and the dashed white line indicates the conditioner striation direction. (a) The fluid layer during CMP of a flat wafer over a Freudenberg FX9 polishing pad. (b) Slurry film thickness between a wafer with etched 14.5µm deep square well over the Freudenberg FX9 pad. Figure 3. The fluid layer between a BK7 wafer with etched 27µm deep square wells and a Freudenberg FX9 polishing pad. Arrows denote slurry flow direction. (a) An irregularly shaped air pocket. (b) An air pocket at the trailing corner of the well. (c) An air pocket dissipating into the pad-wafer contact region. Figure 4. Slurry beneath a BK7 wafer with 27µm deep well on a Rodel IC100 k-grooved pad. Arrows denote slurry flow direction. (a) The grooves are completely filled with slurry. (b) The grooves have no slurry even under the square well. (c) Small air pockets are trapped in the grooves. Figure 5. Experimental polishing pads from Cabot Microelectronics. (a) The slurry layer between a flat BK7 wafer and an M2 thin grooved pad. (b) The slurry layer between a BK7 wafer with 27mm deep wells over an M3 x-y grooved pad.
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