Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention provides a kind of Cutting Road for semiconductor chip, can satisfy Cutting Road and place markd demand, can effectively reduce the ratio that blank Cutting Road zone takies the exposing unit area again.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the Cutting Road for semiconductor chip of the present invention is to adopt following technical scheme to realize, the Cutting Road of wide, narrow two kinds of width dimensions is set; Use the Cutting Road of wide size in the periphery of exposing unit, and place therein various marks for aiming at and monitor purposes; The Cutting Road of narrow dimension is used in other zones, to distinguish different chips.
The present invention is by the Cutting Road of the two kinds of different width dimensions of arranging simultaneously, both can guarantee under the situation of not doing any change that original Cutting Road placed characteristic and the function of various marks, again can decrease blank Cutting Road zone take the ratio of exposing unit area, significantly promote on the single-wafer the effectively quantity of chip; Do not produce any negative effect, can not bring new complexity to the statistics of effective chip yet.
Embodiment
After chip area significantly dwindled, number of chips can significantly increase in the exposing unit, and Cutting Road is after placing every mark, and the area of blank Cutting Road will occur vacant in a large number, and the ratio that makes blank Cutting Road zone take the exposing unit area increases.In order to address this problem, the present invention proposes a kind of new design, use simultaneously the Cutting Road of two kinds of width dimensions.
Embodiment one
Referring to shown in Figure 1, use the Cutting Road of wide size in the periphery of exposing unit, be used for placing various for such as photoetching alignment mark and every process-monitor mark; Use the Cutting Road of narrow dimension in other zone of exposing unit, namely between each chip, use the Cutting Road of narrow dimension, be used for the interval and distinguish different chips.On the Cutting Road of narrow dimension, do not place any mark, can significantly reduce so the shared area of Cutting Road of original wide size.After all processing steps of product are all finished, use the method for etching that all Cutting Roads are directly worn quarter, thereby realize the cutting and separating of product.
Stand out between the Cutting Road of wide size and the Cutting Road of narrow dimension more is conducive to the utilization to effective area apart from larger.Wherein, the Cutting Road width of narrow dimension should be as far as possible little, to save to greatest extent its shared area, preferably is controlled at less than or equal to 20 μ m.
Need to be placed on the periphery owing to be used for the mark of measurement alignment precision, therefore, present embodiment moves on to specific zone to all marks, i.e. the outmost turns position of exposing unit as far as possible.Be used for placing the width of Cutting Road of the wide size of various marks, can reach required separately actual effect and be as the criterion to satisfy every mark.Various alignings and monitoring mark are arranged in according to the actual production demand in the Cutting Road of wide size, need be placed on respectively four corners such as overlay mark etc.
Embodiment two
Referring to shown in Figure 2, the difference of present embodiment and embodiment one is, vertically also is provided with a Cutting Road that runs through the wide size of exposing unit along the center of described exposing unit.All the other and embodiment one are identical.
Embodiment three
Referring to shown in Figure 3, the difference of present embodiment and embodiment one is, also is provided with a Cutting Road that runs through the wide size of exposing unit along the central cross of described exposing unit.All the other and embodiment one are identical.
Embodiment four
Referring to shown in Figure 4, the difference of present embodiment and embodiment one is, along the center of described exposing unit, horizontal and vertical also the intersection respectively is provided with a Cutting Road that runs through the wide size of exposing unit.All the other and embodiment one are identical.
Embodiment five
Referring to shown in Figure 2, the difference of present embodiment and embodiment three is that the Cutting Road of the wide size that this laterally runs through can be in the excentral optional position of described exposing unit.
Embodiment six
Referring to shown in Figure 3, the difference of present embodiment and embodiment two is that the Cutting Road of the wide size that this vertically runs through can be in the excentral optional position of described exposing unit.
Embodiment seven
Referring to shown in Figure 4, the difference of present embodiment and embodiment four is that the Cutting Road of this horizontal and vertical wide size that runs through can be in the excentral optional position of described exposing unit.
Embodiment two to embodiment four considers the difference that needs generally speaking to detect exposing unit center and four corners, and therefore the Cutting Road of width dimensions is set near the exposing unit center, is used for placing certification mark.
In addition, the Cutting Road that is arranged on the width dimensions at exposing unit periphery and center in above-described embodiment two to embodiment four should be tried one's best into the symmetry distribution.
The present invention is for having a large amount of chips in the exposing unit, thereby causes the product of large stretch of Cutting Road blank to have obvious reduction Cutting Road occupation proportion, promotes the advantage of the Effective number of chips amount of chip product on the single-wafer.Simultaneously, use the present invention fully without any need for redesign and the change of mark, also do not affect the quantitative statistics of edge Effective number of chips.
Although the present invention utilizes specific embodiment to describe, the explanation of embodiment is not limit the scope of the invention.The one skilled in the art is by with reference to explanation of the present invention, in the situation that does not deviate from the spirit and scope of the present invention, carries out easily various modifications or can make up embodiment, and these belong to protection scope of the present invention equally.