Investigation of improving the uniformity of Cu dishing depth in Cu-SiO2 chemical mechanical polishing

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作者
Liu, Yujia [1 ,2 ]
Xiao, Kelaiti [2 ]
Zhang, Kai [2 ]
Zhang, Jin [3 ]
Liu, Daoxiang [2 ]
机构
[1] Shanghai Univ, Sch Microelect, Shanghai 200050, Peoples R China
[2] Shanghai Inst Microsyst & Informat Technol SIMIT, State Key Lab Funct Mat Informat, Shanghai 200050, Peoples R China
[3] Shanghai Inst Microsyst & Informat Technol SIMIT, State Key Lab Transducer Technol, Shanghai 200050, Peoples R China
来源
2024 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY, ICEPT | 2024年
关键词
Chemical mechanical polishing; shirty selection ratio; dishing; PLANARIZATION; COPPER;
D O I
10.1109/ICEPT63120.2024.10668676
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
As chip manufacturing trends towards miniaturization and integration, the focus of the semiconductor industry has shifted from traditional 2D packaging to more complex 3D packaging, with hybrid bonding technology emerging as a critical method for heterogeneous integration. Currently, Cu-Cu/SiO2-SiO2 bonding is the mainstream hybrid bonding technique. To achieve effective bonding, wafers require surface planarization of Cu-SiO2 through chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). The CMP process for Cu-SiO2 surfaces typically consists of two steps: copper CMP and barrier layer CMP. However, due to the uneven thickness of electroplated copper, over-polishing is inevitable during the copper CMP in order to effectively remove the copper layer. This will lead to excessive dishing or recession of Cu pads with orginal thinner Cu layer electroplated and then finally affect the bonding quality. To address this challenge, in this paper, a three-step CMP method is developed, which introduces an additional SiO2 CMP step after the barrier layer CMP to achieve the appropriate dishing depth of the pads. In this study, the influence of pad size on the Cu pad dishing depth was investigated. The results indicated that as the polishing time increased, the Cu pad dishing became deeper and larger pad sizes resulted in a faster growth rate of the dishing depth. The polishing slurry plays an important role in the CMP process. It is necessary to find a polishing slurry with appropriate material remove rate during additional SiO2 CMP to reduce the Cu dishing. Through experiments, a SiO2 polishing slurry was selected with Cu: SiO2 remove rate of 1:3. Then the process parameters for the SiO2 CMP were optimized to achieve an ideal dishing depth for the pads. Finally, the dishing depth of pads with a side length of 15um was optimized from 100-200nm to 20-40nm. The experimental results indicate that this method can correct the Cu dishing caused by over-polishing even for large pads, eliminate the negative impact of dishing on subsequent bonding processes, and decrease the requirement for flatness of electroplated Cu on wafer.
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