IP Library Granted Patent US 7,931,714
Granted Patent B2
US 7,931,714 · App. 11/868,577 · Granted Apr 26, 2011

Composition useful to chemical mechanical planarization of metal

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Patent No.
US 7,931,714
App. No.
11/868,577
Granted
Apr 26, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A chemical mechanical polishing composition, the polishing composition includes polishing abrasive, an oxidizing agent, an accelerating compound, an inhibitor, a co-inhibitor, and a solvent as the remaining. The composition can maintain a high removal rate through polishing, meantime it has a feature to inhibit static etch rate and lower the defect of polishing including metal dishing and erosion. Hence it needs no change of the composition for simultaneously removing a most part of a metal layer, particularly for a first stage of polishing bulk copper layer and for a second micro-polishing stage of removing the remaining less copper; the present invention has the advantage of simplifying processing and reducing waste.

Claims (12)

1. A chemical mechanical polishing composition, said polishing composition comprises: (A) polishing abrasive, (B) an oxidizing agent, (C) an accelerating compound, (D) an inhibitor, (E) a co-inhibitor, and (F) a solvent as a remaining part, wherein said co-inhibitor is in an amount of 0.001 to 1% by weight of a gross weight of said polishing composition and is sarcosine or its salt, and said inhibitor is chosen from imidazoline-based compounds and triazole-based compounds and is in an amount of 0.001 to 1% by weight of the gross weight of said polishing composition.

2. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said polishing abrasives are chosen from fumed silica, colloidal silica formed by hydrolysis of sodium silicate or potassium silicate or hydrolysis-and-condensation of silane, precipitated or fumed aluminum oxide, precipitated or fumed titanium dioxide, high molecular material, and hybrid of metallic oxide and high molecular material.

3. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said polishing abrasives are colloidal silica.

4. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said colloidal silica is in an amount of 0.01 to 30% by weight of the gross weight of said polishing composition.

5. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said oxidizing agent is hydrogen peroxide.

6. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said oxidizing agent is in an amount of 0.25 to 5% by weight of the gross weight of said polishing composition.

7. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said accelerating compound is chosen from citric acid, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, histidine, alanine and glycine.

8. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said accelerating compound is in an amount of 0.01 to 5% by weight of the gross weight of said polishing composition.

9. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said triazole-based compound is chosen from 1,2,4-triazole, 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole, 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazole, 3-amino-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-carboxylic acid, 1H-benzotriazole and 5-methyl-1,2,3-benzotriazole.

10. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said sarcosine or its salt is chosen from N-acyl sarcosine, lauroyl sarcosine, cocoyl sarcosine, oleoyl sarcosine, stearoyl sarcosine, and myristoyl sarcosine or its salt.

11. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said solvent is water.

12. The chemical mechanical polishing composition as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said colloidal silica is in an amount of 0.01 to 30% by weight of the gross weight of said polishing composition.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2022
From: CHROMAFLO TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION; FERRO CORPORATION; FERRO ELECTRONIC MATERIALS INC.; PRINCE ENERGY LLC; PRINCE MINERALS LLC; PRINCE SPECIALTY PRODUCTS LLC
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 059845/0082 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2022
From: UWIZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
To: FERRO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058935/0746 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 8, 2007
From: CHANG, SONGYUAN
To: UWIZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 019928/0496 →