Fig. 1.
(Color online) Surface roughness of a-GST under different conditions. (a) Pre-CMP. (b) Post-CMP with REG pad. (c) Post-CMP with AT pad.
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Aodong He, Bo Liu, Zhitang Song, Yegang Lü, Juntao Li, Weili Liu, Songlin Feng, Guanping Wu. Chemical mechanical planarization of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 with a soft pad[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2013, 34(7): 076002. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/7/076002
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A D He, B Liu, Z T Song, Y G Lü, J T Li, W L Liu, S L Feng, G P Wu. Chemical mechanical planarization of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 with a soft pad[J]. J. Semicond., 2013, 34(7): 076002. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/7/076002.
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Chemical mechanical planarization of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 with a soft pad
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/34/7/076002
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Abstract
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 (a-GST) is investigated using two typical soft pads (politex REG and AT) in acidic slurry. After CMP, it is found that the removal rate (RR) of a-GST increases with an increase of runs number for both pads. However, it achieves the higher RR and better surface quality of a-GST for an AT pad. The in-situ sheet resistance (Rs) measure shows the higher Rs of a-GST polishing can be gained after CMP using both pads and the high Rs is beneficial to lower the reset current for the PCM cells. In order to find the root cause of the different RR of a-GST polishing with different pads, the surface morphology and characteristics of both new and used pads are analyzed, it shows that the AT pad has smaller porosity size and more pore counts than that of the REG pad, and thus the AT pad can transport more fresh slurry to the reaction interface between the pad and a-GST, which results in the high RR of a-GST due to enhanced chemical reaction.-
Keywords:
- porosity,
- soft pad,
- chemical mechanical planarization,
- Ge2Sb2Te5
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