Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an electroplated diamond dressing disk for chemical mechanical planarization processing of chips and a preparation method thereof, aiming at solving the problem that the electroplated diamond dressing disk has low dressing efficiency on polishing pads.
In a first aspect the present invention provides a diamond conditioning disk comprising: the diamond trimming disk comprises a diamond trimming disk substrate, inert small particles, a first metal coating layer, a second metal coating layer, a third metal coating layer and diamond particles, wherein the diamond trimming disk substrate comprises an electroplating surface, the inert small particles are deposited on the electroplating surface of the diamond trimming disk substrate, the first metal coating layer is partially embedded with the inert small particles, the diamond particles are deposited on the first metal coating layer, and the inert small particles play a fulcrum role on the diamond particles so that edges or vertexes of the diamond are upward;
further, the inert small particles comprise one or more of corundum, silicon carbide, titanium carbide, chromium carbide, silicon dioxide and polytetrafluoroethylene;
further, the particle size of the inert small particles is between 10 and 40 mu m;
further, the height of the inert small particles exposed above the first metal plating layer is between 5 and 20 micrometers;
further, the second metal coating covers the first metal coating and the inert small particles, and is partially embedded with diamond particles, and the height of the diamond particles embedded with the second metal coating is 1/4-1/3 times of the diameter of the diamond particles;
furthermore, the third metal coating covers the second metal coating and the electroplating surface, and is partially embedded with diamond particles, and the height of the diamond particles exposed out of the third metal coating is between 1/5 and 1/3 times of the diameter of the diamond particles;
further, the diameter of the diamond particles ranges from 80 to 350 μm.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a method of making a diamond conditioning disk comprising the steps of:
s1: carrying out oil removal treatment on a diamond trimming disk substrate, and then fixing a template with meshes and designed sizes and arranged patterns on an electroplating surface of the diamond trimming disk substrate;
s2: placing the diamond trimming disk substrate subjected to pre-plating treatment into a plating bath, using impact plating, and then using normal current density for pre-plating;
s3: uniformly dispersing the inert small particles on the surface of the template with meshes by using a sanding tool, wherein a part of the inert small particles can fall into the meshes of the template to be contacted with the diamond trimming disk substrate, and the projected area of the inert small particles falling into each mesh accounts for 5-20% of the area of a single mesh;
s4: electroplating the first metal coating layer with normal current density until the inert particles are exposed above the first metal coating layer, wherein the height of the inert particles is between 5 and 20 mu m;
s5: using a sanding tool to uniformly disperse diamond particles on the first metal coating partially embedded with the small inert particles, then electroplating a second metal coating until the diamond particles are embedded by the second metal coating to be 1/4-1/3 times of the diameter of the diamond particles;
s6: taking out of the groove, removing the template with meshes, carrying out electrochemical activation, then re-putting the semi-finished diamond trimming disc subjected to inert small particle composite plating and diamond sand coating in the steps S1-S5 into the groove, electroplating at normal current density until the height of the diamond particles exposed out of the third metal coating is 1/5-1/3 times of the diameter of the diamond particles, and taking out of the groove to obtain the diamond trimming disc;
further, the sanding tool is a tool comprising mechanical stirring, air stirring or a vibration device;
further, the pre-plating treatment comprises one or more of the following steps: chemical cleaning, electrochemical oil removal and electrochemical activation.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the inert small particles are compositely electroplated on the base of the diamond trimming disk, so that the contact angle between the crystal face of the diamond particles and the plated surface of the trimming disk is effectively changed, the edge or the vertex of the diamond particles in a complete crystal form is upward, the contact area between a diamond cutting edge and a polishing pad in the trimming process is reduced, the pressing depth is increased, and the cutting rate of the polishing pad and the chip removing effect are improved.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following presents a simplified summary of the invention in order to provide a basic understanding of the invention and to provide a basic understanding of the invention.
As mentioned above, the diamond particles on the plated surface of the existing diamond conditioning disk usually work in contact with the plated surface with a certain complete crystal plane, resulting in that most of the cutting edges of the diamond conditioning disk are crystal planes of the diamond particles, the contact area of the crystal planes of the diamond particles and the polishing pad is large, and the pressing depth is low, thus resulting in low conditioning efficiency of the diamond conditioning disk and poor cleaning capability of the polishing pad.
In order to solve the problems, the invention provides a diamond dressing disk containing small inert particles, wherein a layer of small inert particles is electroplated on an electroplating surface of a base body of the diamond dressing disk, and the small inert particles play a role of supporting points for diamond particles which are electroplated subsequently, so that diamond edges or vertexes which are electroplated subsequently are upward, compared with the diamond dressing disk without small particles, the diamond dressing disk reduces the contact area between a diamond cutting edge and a polishing pad in the dressing process, and compared with crushed diamond, the diamond dressing disk reduces the risk of falling off of the diamond particles.
In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, embodiments accompanying figures are described in detail below.
The embodiment of the invention provides a preparation method of a diamond trimming disk, which comprises the following steps:
s1: the diamond conditioning disk substrate was degreased and then a mesh template with a designed size and pattern was attached to its plated surface, as shown in fig. 1.
In the present invention, the diamond conditioning disk substrate may be in the shape of a disk, and may be optionally configured in other shapes suitable for conditioning a polishing pad, such as: square, oval, etc., and the material can be carbon steel or stainless steel, or other high-hardness metal materials, such as: nichrome, chromium alloy, titanium alloy, etc., or high hardness non-metallic materials such as: ceramic, the above materials are only suitable choices for the diamond conditioning disk and should not be limited to the above materials.
In the present invention, the mesh-equipped stencil having a designed size and an arrangement pattern is not particularly limited and may be selected according to the actual circumstances.
S2: putting the diamond trimming disk substrate subjected to the plating pretreatment into a plating bath, using impact plating, and then using normal current density for pre-plating.
In the present invention, the pre-plating treatment includes one or more of chemical cleaning, electrochemical degreasing and electrochemical activation treatment, and other methods suitable for the pre-plating treatment in the art are also suitable for the present invention, and should not be limited to the above methods.
In the invention, the current density of the impact plating is 2.0-2.4A/dm 2 The normal current density is 1.4-1.8A/dm 2 Preferably, in the present invention, the impact plating current density is 2.2A/dm 2 The normal current density is 1.6A/dm 2 。
In the invention, the impact plating electroplating time can be selected from 1-20 min, preferably, the impact plating time can be selected from 1-2 min; the normal current density preplating time can be selected from 10-40 min, and preferably, the normal current density preplating time can be selected from 10-15 min.
S3: as shown in fig. 2, the inert small particles are uniformly dispersed on the surface of the template with meshes by using a sanding tool, wherein a part of the inert small particles fall into the meshes of the template to contact with the diamond conditioner disk substrate, and the projected area of the inert small particles falling into each mesh accounts for 5 to 20 percent of the area of each mesh.
In the present invention, the sanding tool includes one or more of mechanical stirring, air stirring or a tool including a vibration device, and other suitable sanding tools in the art are also applicable to the present invention, and should not be limited to the above tools.
In the present invention, the inert small particles include one or more of corundum, silicon carbide, titanium carbide, chromium carbide, silicon dioxide, and polytetrafluoroethylene, and in the present invention, it is preferable that the inert small particles are corundum in terms of hardness and particle morphology.
S4: the height of the first metal coating layer from the inert particles to the first metal coating layer is between 5 and 20 μm.
According to the invention, the inert small particles are partially embedded in the first metal coating, and the height of the inert small particles exposed out of the first metal coating is controlled within a certain range, so that a good supporting effect can be realized, the diamond particles in the obtained diamond trimming disk show upward edges or upward vertexes, and when the height of the inert small particles exposed out of the first metal coating is lower than 5 mu m, the height of the inert small particles protruding out of the first metal coating is slightly lower, so that a good supporting effect cannot be realized; when the height of the inert small particles exposed on the first metal coating is higher than 20 micrometers, the inert small particles are only 10-40 micrometers in particle size, and if the height of the inert small particles exposed on the first metal coating is higher, the bonding force between the inert small particles and the first metal coating is weakened, so that the phenomenon that diamond particles are loosened and fall off easily occurs in the using process; preferably, the height of the small inert particles exposed on the first metal plating layer is between 10 and 18 μm, and particularly preferably, the height of the small inert particles exposed on the first metal plating layer is between 10 and 15 μm.
In the invention, the particle size of the small inert particles is between 10 and 40 microns, and if the particle size of the small inert particles is less than 10 microns, the particle size is small, the process is difficult to control during electroplating, the proper height is difficult to expose on the first metal coating, and the purpose of supporting the diamond particles cannot be realized; if the particle size of the inert small particles is larger than 40 μm, the exposed height is too high, the wrapping and inlaying fastness of the inert small particles on the first metal coating is deteriorated, and the diamond particles on the upper part of the inert small particles can be loosened in the using process; preferably, the particle size of the small inert particles in the present invention is between 15 and 25 μm, and particularly preferably, the particle size of the small inert particles in the present invention is 20 μm.
In the invention, on the other hand, the purpose that the diamond particle edge faces upwards or the vertex points upwards in the diamond trimming disk is realized by controlling the area proportion of the projection area of the small inert particles in a single mesh to be between 5% and 20%, if the area proportion of the projection area of the small inert particles in the single mesh is lower than 5%, the small inert particles cannot play a supporting role, the distance between the small inert particles is too large and larger than the particle size of the diamond particles, so that a large number of diamond particles are still distributed on the first metal coating in a crystal face-up manner, and the trimming efficiency is reduced; if the projected area of the inert small particles accounts for more than 20% of the area of a single mesh, the distribution density of the inert small particles is too high, the space between the inert small particles is too small, the inert small particles can be regarded as a plane, and the diamond particles are distributed on the plane of the inert small particles in a mode that the crystal faces are still upwards, so that the dressing efficiency is also reduced; preferably, the projected area of the small inert particles in the present invention is 8 to 18% of the area of the single mesh.
In the present invention, it is preferable that the shape of the inert small particles is selected from a spherical shape and an equiaxed polyhedral shape, in view of the ease of high control of the exposure of the inert small particles to the first metal plating layer.
S5: as shown in fig. 3 and 4, diamond particles are uniformly dispersed on a first metal coating partially encasing inert small particles using a sanding tool, followed by electroplating of a second metal coating until the diamond particles are encased by the second metal coating to between 1/4 and 1/3 times the diameter of the diamond.
In the present invention, the angle between the crystal plane of the diamond particle on the side facing the plating surface and the first metal plating layer is 10 to 30 ° in view of a good cutting height and cutting rate.
In the invention, the second metal coating is used for temporarily fixing the diamond particles, and the distribution state and the relative position of the diamond particles are fixed before the template is removed by controlling the height of the diamond particles partially embedded by the second metal coating; if the diamond particles are embedded by the second metal coating layer to less than 1/4 of the diamond diameter, the force between the diamond particles and the second metal coating layer becomes weak, which may cause the diamond particles to be dropped or dislocated in the subsequent template removing operation, and if the diamond particles are embedded by the second metal coating layer to more than 1/3 of the diamond diameter, which may cause the diamond conditioning disk to fail to maintain a good cutting height in the subsequent plating.
S6: and (3) discharging, removing the template with meshes, carrying out electrochemical activation, then re-feeding the semi-finished diamond dressing disc subjected to inert small particle composite plating and diamond sand coating in the steps S1-S5 into a groove, electroplating at normal current density until the height of the diamond particles exposed out of the third metal coating is 1/5-1/3 times of the diameter of the diamond particles, and discharging to obtain the diamond dressing disc shown in the figure 5.
In the invention, the third metal coating is partially embedded with diamond particles, wherein the exposed height of the diamond particles exposed out of the third metal coating is between 1/5 and 1/3 times of the diameter of the diamond particles, if the exposed height is less than 1/5 times of the diameter of the diamond particles, the edge height of the diamond trimming disc is lower, the trimming effect is poorer, and if the exposed height is more than 1/3 times of the diameter of the diamond particles, the risk of dropping the diamond particles is increased, and the polished wafer is scratched.
In the present invention, the diamond particles are regular in shape and are polyhedral, such as hexahedral, octahedral, hexa-octahedral, rhombohedral, icosahedral, prismatic or truncated pyramid structures, and in view of cost and difficulty in obtaining, one of hexahedral and hexa-octahedral diamond particles is preferably used in the present invention, and hexa-octahedral diamond particles are particularly preferably used; in the present invention, the diameter of the diamond particles is in the range of 80 to 350. Mu.m.
In the present invention, the first metal plating layer, the second metal plating layer and the third metal plating layer are made of the same or different plating materials, and may be one or more selected from nickel alloy, chromium alloy, nickel-chromium alloy and nickel-cobalt alloy.
Example 1
Electroplated diamond conditioning disk with diamond particle diameter of 180 mu m
Diamond conditioning disk substrate treatment
Firstly, processing a diamond trimming disc substrate, and fixing a template with meshes on an electroplating surface of the diamond trimming disc substrate after chemical degreasing, wherein the size of the meshes is 240 mu m, and the space between the meshes is 380 mu m; assembling a tool clamp, adopting cathode degreasing and anode degreasing for 2 minutes respectively, wherein the current density is 5A/dm 2 Then carrying out electrochemical activation after hot water washing and cold water washing, wherein the activation current density is 15A/dm 2 The time is 1.5min, and then the diamond trimming disk substrate is quickly electrified into a groove after being washed by tap water and rinsed by distilled water;
(II) inert small particle electroplating
At 2.2A/dm 2 Current density impact plating of (2) for 2min, followed by 1.6A/dm 2 Pre-plating for 15min; sanding, dropping corundum particles with a diameter of 20 μm into the meshes of the template at a rate of 1.6A/dm 2 Electroplating for 0.5h to obtain a first metal coating;
(III) electroplating of Diamond particles
Uniformly distributing 180 mu m hexa-octahedron diamond particles on a template, rotating the diamond trimming disk substrate for one circle according to a tilting angle of 20 degrees, ensuring that each mesh contains diamond particles at a rate of 1.6A/dm 2 Electroplating for 3 hours to obtain a second metal coating; removing sand after sand coating, removing template, reactivating diamond particles by the electrochemical activation process, and charging into the tank to obtain the final product1.6A/dm 2 The current density is thickened and plated for 3.5 hours to obtain a third metal plating layer; then, the jig was disassembled to obtain an electroplated diamond conditioning disk having a grain size of 180 μm.
Comparative example 1
The preparation method is the same as that in example 1 above except that the plating contains no inert small particles.
Comparative example 2
The production method was the same as that in comparative example 1 except that the above-described hexa-octahedral diamondoid particles were replaced with diamond crumbles.
Cutting rate
The diamond conditioning disks of the prepared examples and comparative examples were subjected to an on-machine test, and the cutting rate was evaluated under the following test conditions:
the testing machine is AMAT Refelxion (Modify 5 Zone);
the polishing PAD is a DH3000 series PAD controlled by Dinglong;
the polishing solution was ANJI3060 (1 2 O 2 % = 1%), flow rate 150mL/min;
the diamond conditioning disks were the diamond conditioning disks prepared in example 1 and comparative examples 1 and 2;
the wafers (wafers) used were pattern wafers: semitech 754, cu Blanket wafer PreThickness 10KA.
The change in weight of the pad was recorded and the cut rate was calculated.
The electroplated diamond conditioning disk obtained in example 1 has uniform diamond distribution, the number of diamond particles with crystal planes parallel to the plated surface of the conditioning disk substrate is obviously reduced, the cutting rate is far higher than that of a diamond conditioning disk without inert small particles, although the initial cutting rate is slightly lower than that of a crushed diamond conditioning disk, the cutting rate attenuation is less, and the electroplated diamond conditioning disk still has certain cutting capacity after being operated for a long time of 20 hours.
The diamond conditioning disk and the method for making the same according to the present invention are described in detail above. The principles and embodiments of the present invention are explained herein using specific examples, which are presented only to assist in understanding the method and its core concepts. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make various improvements and modifications to the present invention without departing from the principle of the present invention, and those improvements and modifications also fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention.