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Besides the major factors such as the down force, back pressure and the rotating speed of wafer carrier, effect of polishing time is also an important issue in CMP processes. In this study, a neural-Taguchi method based on a cost-effective quasi time-optimisation technique for chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) processes is developed. The key concept of this new technique is that an optimal process parameter set is obtained through a neural-network-simulated CMP process model. Under such an optimal parameter set, the desired material removal rate within-wafer-nonuniformity can be reached with the optimal polishing time. It has been proved by experiment that the proposed method can offer a better polishing performance while reducing the polishing time by 1/3.
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Wang, GJ., Chou, MH. A neural-Taguchi-based quasi time-optimization control strategy for chemical-mechanical polishing processes. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 26, 759–765 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-003-1859-8
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