Improved geometry of double-sided polished parallel wafers prepared for direct wafer bonding.
Optical technological applications have upgraded polishing, including flat-surface polishing, to an extremely high level of geometrical precision. We deal with the application of this type of precision technology for the preparation of, e.g., silicon or fused-silica wafers that are thin compared to their diameter. To this end a standard optical polishing process using a double-sided polishing machine was modified by giving the polishing pad holder an adaptable curvature. By carefully choosing the process conditions 10-cm-diameter silicon and fused-silica wafers (500-µm thickness) were obtained with a very small deviation from parallelism in the 0.01-µm range. The level of smoothness, surface and subsurface damage, was identical with that required for integrated-circuit processing.
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Haisma
F J
FJ
van der Kruis
B A
BA
Spierings
J J
JJ
Baalbergen
B H
BH
Bijsterveld
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R
Brehm
J H
JH
Faasen
J J
JJ
Groenen
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PW
de Haas
T B
TB
Haddeman
T M
TM
Michielsen
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Vijfvinkel