Method of fabricating a semiconductor device
First Claim
1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising the step of applying chemical mechanical polishing to a copper wiring layer formed at a surface of a wafer, said copper wiring layer being polished on the condition that a linear velocity at a center of said wafer is equal to or smaller than 0.1 m/s.
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Abstract
There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, including the steps of (a) forming recesses at a surface of an underlying insulating film, (b) covering inner surfaces of the recesses and a surface of the underlying insulating film with a barrier film, (c) depositing a copper film over the barrier film to thereby fill the recesses with copper, and (d) applying chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) to the copper film through the use of inorganic slurry on the condition that a polishing load is equal to or smaller than 140 g/cm2 and a linear velocity at a center of a wafer is equal to or smaller than 0.1 m/s. Though a copper film tends to be peeled off after CMP has been applied thereto in a conventional method, the method ensures that a copper film is no longer peeled off even after CMP has been applied thereto.
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1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising the step of applying chemical mechanical polishing to a copper wiring layer formed at a surface of a wafer, said copper wiring layer being polished on the condition that a linear velocity at a center of said wafer is equal to or smaller than 0.1 m/s.
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2. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of:
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(a) forming recesses at a surface of an underlying insulating film; (b) covering inner surfaces of said recesses and a surface of said underlying insulating film with a barrier film; (c) depositing a copper film over said barrier film to thereby fill said recesses with copper; and (d) applying chemical mechanical polishing to said copper film through the use of inorganic slurry on the condition that a polishing load is equal to or smaller than 140 g/cm2 and a linear velocity at a center of a wafer is equal to or smaller than 0.1 m/s. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of:
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(a) forming recesses at a surface of an underlying insulating film; (b) depositing a copper film over said underlying insulating film to thereby fill said recesses with copper; and (c) applying chemical mechanical polishing to said copper film through the use of inorganic slurry on the condition that a polishing load is equal to or smaller than 140 g/cm2 and a linear velocity at a center of a wafer is equal to or smaller than 0.1 m/s. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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