Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Koyama

Naoyuki Koyama has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7837800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CMP polishing slurry, comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersing agent, a water-soluble polymer and water, wherein the water-soluble polymer is a compound having a skeleton of any one of an N-mono-substituted product and an N,N-di-substituted product of any one selected from the group consisting of acrylamide, methacrylamide and ?-substituted products thereof. The amount of the water-soluble polymer is preferably in the range of 0.01 part or more by weight and 10 parts or less by weight for 100 parts by weight of the polishing slurry. Thus it is possible to provide a polishing slurry and a polishing method which make it possible to polish a film made of silicon oxide or the like effectively and rapidly and further control the process therefor easily in CMP technique for flattening an interlayer insulating film, a BPSG film, an insulator film for shallow trench isolation, and other films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Masato Yoshida, Naoyuki Koyama, Yuto Ootsuki, Chiaki Yamagishi, Kazuhiro Enomoto, Kouji Haga, Yasushi Kurata
  • Patent number: 7838482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CMP polishing slurry, comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersing agent, a water-soluble polymer and water, wherein the water-soluble polymer is a compound having a skeleton of any one of an N-mono-substituted product and an N,N-di-substituted product of any one selected from the group consisting of acrylamide, methacrylamide and ?-substituted products thereof. The amount of the water-soluble polymer is preferably in the range of 0.01 part or more by weight and 10 parts or less by weight for 100 parts by weight of the polishing slurry. Thus it is possible to provide a polishing slurry and a polishing method which make it possible to polish a film made of silicon oxide or the like effectively and rapidly and further control the process therefor easily in CMP technique for flattening an interlayer insulating film, a BPSG film, an insulator film for shallow trench isolation, and other films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Masato Yoshida, Naoyuki Koyama, Yuto Ootsuki, Chiaki Yamagishi, Kazuhiro Enomoto, Kouji Haga, Yasushi Kurata
  • Patent number: 7799686
    Abstract: Provided are a metal-polishing liquid that comprises an oxidizing agent, an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent, and water; a method for producing it; and a polishing method of using it. Also provided are materials for the metal-polishing liquid, which include an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, and a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Uchida, Tetsuya Hoshino, Hiroki Terazaki, Yasuo Kamigata, Naoyuki Koyama, Yoshio Honma, Seiichi Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20100210109
    Abstract: A CMP polishing slurry of the present invention contains cerium oxide particles, water, and a polymer of at least one of a methacrylic acid and the salt thereof, and/or a polymer of at least one of a methacrylic acid and the salt thereof and a monomer having an unsaturated double bond, preferably contains furthermore a dispersant or a polymer of monomers containing at least one of an acrylic acid and the salt thereof. The present invention provides a CMP polishing slurry and a polishing method that, after polishing, give a polished film having a smaller difference in residual film thickness due to a pattern density difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Naoyuki Koyama, Kouji Haga, Toshiaki Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20090253355
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a CMP abrasive comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersant, an organic polymer having an atom or a structure capable of forming a hydrogen bond with a hydroxyl group present on a surface of a film to be polished and water, a method for polishing a substrate comprising polishing a film to be polished by moving a substrate on which the film to be polished is formed and a polishing platen while pressing the substrate against the polishing platen and a polishing cloth and supplying the CMP abrasive between the film to be polished and the polishing cloth, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of the above-mentioned polishing method, and an additive for a CMP abrasive comprising an organic polymer having an atom or a structure capable of forming a hydrogen bond with a hydroxyl group present on a surface of a film to be polished, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Naoyuki Koyama, Kouji Haga, Masato Yoshida, Keizou Hirai, Toranosuke Ashizawa, Youiti Machii
  • Publication number: 20090047786
    Abstract: The present invention provides a CMP abrasive slurry for polishing insulation film, that allow efficiently and high-speed polishing of insulation films such as SiO2 film and SiOC film in the CMP method of flattening an interlayer insulation film, a BPSG film, an insulation film for shallow trench isolation, or a wiring-insulating film layer, a polishing method by using the abrasive slurry, and a semiconductor electronic part polished by the polishing method. A CMP abrasive slurry for polishing insulation film containing cerium oxide particles, a dispersant, a water-soluble polymer having amino groups on the side chains and water, a polishing method by using the CMP abrasive slurry, and a semiconductor electronic part polished by the polishing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Kazuhiro Enomoto, Chiaki Yamagishi, Naoyuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20080254717
    Abstract: A CMP polishing slurry of the present invention contains cerium oxide particles, water, and a polymer of at least one of a methacrylic acid and the salt thereof, and/or a polymer of at least one of a methacrylic acid and the salt thereof and a monomer having an unsaturated double bond, preferably contains furthermore a dispersant or a polymer of monomers containing at least one of an acrylic acid and the salt thereof. The present invention provides a CMP polishing slurry and a polishing method that, after polishing, give a polished film having a smaller difference in residual film thickness due to a pattern density difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: HITACHI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Naoyuki Koyama, Kouji Haga, Toshiaki Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20080214093
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CMP polishing slurry, comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersing agent, a water-soluble polymer and water, wherein the water-soluble polymer is a compound having a skeleton of any one of an N-mono-substituted product and an N,N-di-substituted product of any one selected from the group consisting of acrylamide, methacrylamide and ?-substituted products thereof. The amount of the water-soluble polymer is preferably in the range of 0.01 part or more by weight and 10 parts or less by weight for 100 parts by weight of the polishing slurry. Thus it is possible to provide a polishing slurry and a polishing method which make it possible to polish a film made of silicon oxide or the like effectively and rapidly and further control the process therefor easily in CMP technique for flattening an interlayer insulating film, a BPSG film, an insulator film for shallow trench isolation, and other films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Masato Yoshida, Naoyuki Koyama, Yuto Ootsuki, Chiaki Yamagishi, Kazuhiro Enomoto, Kouji Haga, Yasushi Kurata
  • Patent number: 7410409
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a CMP abrasive comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersant, an organic polymer having an atom or a structure capable of forming a hydrogen bond with a hydroxyl group present on a surface of a film to be polished and water, a method for polishing a substrate comprising polishing a film to be polished by moving a substrate on which the film to be polished is formed and a polishing platen while pressing the substrate against the polishing platen and a polishing cloth and supplying the CMP abrasive between the film to be polished and the polishing cloth, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of the above-mentioned polishing method, and an additive for a CMP abrasive comprising an organic polymer having an atom or a structure capable of forming a hydrogen bond with a hydroxyl group present on a surface of a film to be polished, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Koyama, Kouji Haga, Masato Yoshida, Keizou Hirai, Toranosuke Ashizawa, Youiti Machii
  • Publication number: 20080121840
    Abstract: Provided are a metal-polishing liquid that comprises an oxidizing agent, an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent, and water; a method for producing it; and a polishing method of using it. Also provided are materials for the metal-polishing liquid, which include an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, and a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Takeshi Uchida, Tetsuya Hoshino, Hiroki Terazaki, Yasuo Kamigata, Naoyuki Koyama, Yoshio Honma, Seiichi Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20080003925
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CMP polishing slurry comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersant, a water-soluble polymer and water, wherein the water-soluble polymer is a polymer obtained in polymerization of a monomer containing at least one of a carboxylic acid having an unsaturated double bond and the salt thereof by using at least one of a cationic azo compound and the salt thereof as a polymerization initiator. The present invention provides a polishing slurry and a polishing method allowing polishing efficiently uniformly at high speed without scratch and also allowing easy process management in the CMP technology of smoothening an interlayer dielectric film, BPSG film, and insulation film for shallow trench isolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Naoyuki Koyama, Yasushi Kurata, Kouji Haga, Toshiaki Akutsu, Yuuto Ootsuki
  • Publication number: 20070270085
    Abstract: To provide a slurry for Chemical Mechanical Polishing, a Chemical Mechanical Polishing method using said slurry, and a method of producing electronic devices using said method that makes it possible to achieve a low scratch process capability in processing surfaces such as SiO2 film surfaces and the like and also to enable speed polishing to attain a high processing efficiency. Slurry for Chemical Mechanical Polishing characterized in comprising abrasive grains and water, wherein said abrasive grains are composite particles coated with ceria particles consisting of organic host particles and ceria particles, zeta potential of said composite particles being a negative potential, the organic host particles constituting the composite particles coated with ceria particles are organic host particles to which carboxyl groups and sulfonyl groups are introduced; the slurry is added with panarization additive; and the planarization additive is poly(methyl)acrylic acid ammonium salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Ryo Ota, Takayuki Nakakawaji, Toranosuke Ashizawa, Naoyuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20070218811
    Abstract: A CMP polishing slurry of the present invention, contains cerium oxide particles, a dispersant, a polycarboxylic acid, a strong acid having a pKa of its first dissociable acidic group at 3.2 or less, and water, the pH of the polishing slurry is 4.0 or more and 7.5 or less, wherein the strong acid is contained 100 to 1,000 ppm or 50 to 1,000 ppm, or the strong acid is a monovalent strong acid contained 50 to 500 ppm or is a bivalent strong acid contained 100 to 1,000 ppm. The preferable polycarboxylic acid is a polyacrylic acid. The present invention allows polishing in the CMP methods of surface-smoothening an interlayer dielectric film, a BPSG film and a shallow-trench-isolation insulation film with high speed operation efficiently and easier process management and cause smaller fluctuation in film thickness due to difference in pattern density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kurata, Kazuhiro Enomoto, Naoyuki Koyama, Masato Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 7250369
    Abstract: Provided are a metal-polishing liquid that comprises an oxidizing agent, an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent, and water; a method for producing it; and a polishing method of using it. Also provided are materials for the metal-polishing liquid, which include an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, and a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Uchida, Tetsuya Hoshino, Hiroki Terazaki, Yasuo Kamigata, Naoyuki Koyama, Yoshio Honma, Seiichi Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20070169421
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a CMP abrasive comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersant, an organic polymer having an atom or a structure capable of forming a hydrogen bond with a hydroxyl group present on a surface of a film to be polished and water, a method for polishing a substrate comprising polishing a film to be polished by moving a substrate on which the film to be polished is formed and a polishing platen while pressing the substrate against the polishing platen and a polishing cloth and supplying the CMP abrasive between the film to be polished and the polishing cloth, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of the above-mentioned polishing method, and an additive for a CMP abrasive comprising an organic polymer having an atom or a structure capable of forming a hydrogen bond with a hydroxyl group present on a surface of a film to be polished, and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Naoyuki Koyama, Kouji Haga, Masato Yoshida, Keizou Hirai, Toranosuke Ashizawa, Youiti Machii
  • Publication number: 20070167017
    Abstract: Provided are a metal-polishing liquid that comprises an oxidizing agent, an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent, and water; a method for producing it; and a polishing method of using it. Also provided are materials for the metal-polishing liquid, which include an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, and a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Takeshi Uchida, Tetsuya Hoshino, Hiroki Terazaki, Yasuo Kamigata, Naoyuki Koyama, Yoshio Honma, Seiichi Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20060289826
    Abstract: A polishing slurry containing a slurry dispersing particles of tetravalent metal hydroxide in a medium therein and an additive, characterized in that the additive is a polymer containing at least one kind of monomer component selected from a group of monomers represented with a general formulae (I) and (II) below (In the general formulae (I) and (II), R1 denotes hydrogen, a methyl group, a phenyl group, a benzil group, a chlorine group, a difluoromethyl group, a trifluoromethyl group or a cyano group, R2 and R3 denote hydrogen or an alkyl chain having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, a methylol group, an acetyl group or a diacetonyl group, and a case where both are hydrogen is not included. R4 denotes a morpholino group, a thiomorpholino group, a pyrrolidinyl group or a piperidino group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Naoyuki Koyama, Youichi Machii, Masato Yoshida, Masato Fukasawa, Toranosuke Ashizawa
  • Publication number: 20060216939
    Abstract: Provided are a metal-polishing liquid that comprises an oxidizing agent, an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent, and water; a method for producing it; and a polishing method of using it. Also provided are materials for the metal-polishing liquid, which include an oxidized-metal etchant, a protective film-forming agent, and a dissolution promoter for the protective film-forming agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Takeshi Uchida, Tetsuya Hoshino, Hiroki Terazaki, Yasuo Kamigata, Naoyuki Koyama, Yoshio Honma, Seiichi Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20060148667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CMP polishing slurry, comprising cerium oxide particles, a dispersing agent, a water-soluble polymer and water, wherein the water-soluble polymer is a compound having a skeleton of any one of an N-mono-substituted product and an N,N-di-substituted product of any one selected from the group consisting of acrylamide, methacrylamide and ?-substituted products thereof. The amount of the water-soluble polymer is preferably in the range of 0.01 part or more by weight and 10 parts or less by weight for 100 parts by weight of the polishing slurry. Thus it is possible to provide a polishing slurry and a polishing method which make it possible to polish a film made of silicon oxide or the like effectively and rapidly and further control the process therefor easily in CMP technique for flattening an interlayer insulating film, a BPSG film, an insulator film for shallow trench isolation, and other films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Fukasawa, Masato Yoshida, Naoyuki Koyama, Yuto Ootsuki, Chiaki Yamagishi, Kazuhiro Enomoto, Kouji Haga, Yasushi Kurata
  • Patent number: 6786945
    Abstract: A polishing slurry and a polishing method which are suitably used in a CMP technique for flattening a surface of a substrate in a production process of a semiconductor device. The polishing slurry comprises particles and a medium in which at least a part of the particles are dispersed, wherein the particles are made of at least one of (1) a cerium compound selected from cerium oxide, cerium halide and cerium sulfide and having a density of 3 to 6 g/cm3 and an average particle diameter of secondary particles of 1 to 300 nm and (2) a tetravalent metal hydroxide. A polishing method using the polishing slurry takes advantage of a chemical action of particles in the polishing slurry and minimizes a mechanical action of the particles, thereby achieving a decrease in scratches caused by the particles and an increase in polishing rate at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youichi Machii, Naoyuki Koyama, Masaya Nishiyama, Masato Yoshida