Detailed Description
The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention.
In the conventional silicon wafer processing process, firstly, a silicon rod is cut into silicon wafers with certain thickness by using a linear cutting process, specifically, the silicon wafers with certain thickness are cut by using the linear cutting process, namely, a cutting line is wound on a guide wheel, the guide wheel drives the cutting line to move, mortar is sprayed to the cutting line while cutting, the mortar is tightly pressed on the silicon rod by the cutting line, and unidirectional or reciprocating cutting movement is carried out relative to the silicon rod, so that grinding type cutting is completed, and the silicon rod is cut into pieces. However, the silicon wafer obtained by wire cutting has large surface roughness and generally has the problems of bending, warping and the like, and the thickness of different silicon wafers is often different greatly and the thickness consistency is poor. Based on the above problems, the silicon wafer needs to be processed by multiple processes in the following process to improve the quality of the silicon wafer.
However, if the process sequence is not properly arranged during the subsequent processing, the flatness of the wafer after further processing, particularly the flatness of the edge of the wafer, may be reduced, and even the outer circumference of the wafer may be sagged.
As shown in fig. 1, taking 3 silicon wafers processed by the current processing method as an example, sampling points are selected in a range from a position 100mm away from the center of a circle on the surface of the silicon wafer to the outer circumference of the silicon wafer, the thickness of the silicon wafer at the sampling points is measured, and finally a silicon wafer thickness change curve graph is drawn according to the measurement result, so that the trend of the silicon wafer thickness change can be seen from fig. 1, and obvious edge collapse can be seen at the outer circumferential edge of the silicon wafer, which means that the flatness of the edge of the silicon wafer is not good. Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a graph of a calculation method of an indicator ERO (Edge roll-off) for evaluating the sag amount of the Edge of the silicon wafer, in which the abscissa of the graph is the distance of the sampling point from the Edge of the silicon wafer and the ordinate is the displacement amount of the sampling point from the reference plane.
In order to solve the problem of poor flatness, especially edge sag, of the edge of the silicon wafer, referring to fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides a silicon wafer processing method, which may include:
s101: carrying out film coating processing on the silicon wafer subjected to the first chamfering processing and grinding processing;
s102: carrying out double-sided polishing processing on the silicon wafer after the film coating processing;
s103: and carrying out secondary chamfering processing on the silicon wafer subjected to double-side polishing processing.
According to the silicon wafer processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the silicon wafer cut from the silicon rod is firstly subjected to the first chamfering processing, specifically, the edge of the silicon wafer is subjected to primary treatment by grinding processing by utilizing the relative rotation motion of the grinding wheel and the silicon wafer, so that the edge breakage or chipping in the rough grinding process is prevented. The silicon wafer after the first chamfering process is then subjected to a rough grinding and fine grinding process, wherein the rough grinding process and the fine grinding process can remove a difference in thickness of the silicon wafer, and preferably, a re-etching process is additionally performed on the silicon wafer after the rough grinding process and a light etching process is additionally performed on the silicon wafer after the fine grinding process, wherein the re-etching process and the light etching process can remove processing deformation or contaminants caused by the first chamfering process and grinding as described above.
In order to protect the surface and the edge of the silicon wafer so that the silicon wafer can continue to undergo subsequent processing, the silicon wafer which undergoes grinding processing and etching processing is subjected to film coating processing, namely, an oxide film is formed on the surface and the edge of the silicon wafer in a deposition mode.
The silicon wafer after the plating process is then subjected to a double-side polishing process to make the surface of the silicon wafer a mirror surface. Specifically, the silicon wafer is supported by a double-side polishing apparatus, a polishing cloth is attached to an upper surface plate and a lower surface plate of the double-side polishing apparatus, the silicon wafer is sandwiched therebetween, and then, a polishing liquid is supplied to a polishing surface, and the surface plates of the silicon wafer are mirror-polished by rotating the surface plates.
However, the above-mentioned double-side polishing process may cause edge roll off of the silicon wafer edge because the polishing pad and the polishing solution may generate mechanical friction and chemical action on the silicon wafer edge, and specifically, the polishing pad, which is made of a flexible material, may cover the silicon wafer edge after receiving pressure, and the polishing solution is easily accumulated at the silicon wafer edge, which all results in more edge grinding.
In order to remove the sagging, the embodiment of the present invention proposes to perform the second chamfering process after the first chamfering, grinding, plating, and double-side polishing processes, and since the removal amount of the second chamfering process is large and the influence on the diameter is large, it is possible to remove the sagging portion by removing the outer circumference of the silicon wafer of a certain width through the second chamfering process, thereby improving the sagging situation.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, after the silicon wafer is subjected to the second chamfering process, the edge of the silicon wafer can take two forms, specifically, referring to fig. 4 and 5, wherein the silicon wafer shown in fig. 4 has an R-shaped chamfer and the silicon wafer shown in fig. 5 has a T-shaped chamfer, which can be selected according to the requirements of customers in actual operation.
In summary, the embodiment of the invention provides a silicon wafer processing method; the silicon wafer processing method improves the problem of silicon wafer edge collapse through two aspects: on one hand, the silicon wafer processing method comprises the steps of carrying out film coating processing on a silicon wafer, so that a layer of oxidation film can be deposited on the surface and the edge of the silicon wafer, and the oxidation film can play a role in protecting the silicon wafer, particularly the edge part of the silicon wafer; on the other hand, according to the silicon wafer processing method, the second chamfering processing is performed after the double-side polishing processing is performed on the silicon wafer, so that the edge collapse part of the silicon wafer caused in the double-side polishing processing process of the previous working procedure can be removed through the chamfering process, and the problem of edge collapse of the silicon wafer is solved.
Referring to fig. 6, in order to clean impurities and processing traces formed on the edge of the silicon wafer by the second chamfering process and make the chamfered portion mirror-finished, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the silicon wafer processing method further comprises:
s104: and carrying out edge polishing processing on the silicon wafer subjected to the second chamfering processing.
If the silicon wafer subjected to the above processing still does not satisfy the requirements due to flatness and roughness, preferably, referring to fig. 6, the silicon wafer processing method further comprises:
s105: and finally polishing the surface of the silicon wafer after the edge polishing.
According to the preferred embodiment of the invention, the plating process for the silicon wafer after the first chamfering process and the grinding process comprises the following steps: 900 to 1000 angstroms of silicon oxide is formed on the surface and edges of the silicon wafer.
More preferably, the plating process of the silicon wafer after the first chamfering process and the polishing process is to form 1000 angstrom of silicon oxide on the surface of the silicon wafer.
According to the silicon wafer processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the edge collapse phenomenon of the silicon wafer in the processing process is mainly removed through the second chamfering processing, so that the removal amount of the second chamfering processing is reasonably set.
Based on this, preferably, the second chamfering process of the silicon wafer after the double-side polishing process includes: and removing the circumferential edge of the silicon wafer by 0.5-1 mm along the radius direction.
More preferably, the second chamfering of the silicon wafer after double-side polishing is performed by removing the circumferential edge of the silicon wafer by 1mm in the radial direction.
According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the performing the edge polishing process on the silicon wafer after the second chamfering process includes: and removing 5 um-10 um on the circumferential edge of the silicon wafer along the radius direction.
The embodiment of the invention also provides a silicon wafer, which is obtained by using the silicon wafer processing method.
It should be noted that: the technical schemes described in the embodiments of the present invention can be combined arbitrarily without conflict.
The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.