Patents by Inventor Zhize Zhu
Zhize Zhu 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).
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Patent number: 11931853Abstract: Generating a recipe for controlling a polishing system includes receiving a target removal profile that includes a target thickness to remove for a plurality of locations on a substrate that are angularly distributed around the substrate, and storing a first function defining a polishing rate for a zone from a plurality of pressurizable zones of a carrier head that are angularly distributed around a the carrier head. The first function defines polishing rates as a function of pressures. For each particular zone of the plurality of zones a recipe defining a pressure for the particular zone over time is calculated by calculating an expected thickness profile after polishing using the first function, and minimizing a cost function that incorporates a first term representing a difference between the expected thickness profile and a target thickness profile.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian, Brian J. Brown, Thomas H. Osterheld
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Publication number: 20240087965Abstract: A method for chemical mechanical polishing includes receiving an angular removal profile for a carrier head and an angular thickness profile of a substrate. Prior to polishing the substrate, a desired angle of the carrier head relative to the substrate is selected for loading the substrate into the carrier head. Selecting the desired angle is performed based on a comparison of the angular removal profile for the carrier head and the angular thickness profile of the substrate to reduce angular non-uniformity in polishing. The carrier head is rotated to receive the substrate at the desired angle, the substrate is transferred to the carrier head and loaded in the carrier head with the carrier head at the desired angle relative to the substrate, and the substrate is polished.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu
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Publication number: 20240033878Abstract: Exemplary polishing methods for chemical mechanical polishing may include engaging a substrate with a membrane of a substrate carrier. The methods may include chucking the substrate against a substantially planar surface defined by the substrate carrier. The chucking may reduce a bow in the substrate. The methods may include polishing one or more materials on the substrate for a first period of time. The methods may include disengaging the substrate from the substantially planar surface. The methods may include polishing the one or more materials on the substrate for a second period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Eric L. Lau, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Ekaterina A. Mikhaylichenko, Christopher HeungGyun Lee, Jeonghoon Oh
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Patent number: 11869815Abstract: A method for chemical mechanical polishing includes receiving an angular removal profile for a carrier head and an angular thickness profile of a substrate. Prior to polishing the substrate, a desired angle of the carrier head relative to the substrate is selected for loading the substrate into the carrier head. Selecting the desired angle is performed based on a comparison of the angular removal profile for the carrier head and the angular thickness profile of the substrate to reduce angular non-uniformity in polishing. The carrier head is rotated to receive the substrate at the desired angle, the substrate is transferred to the carrier head and loaded in the carrier head with the carrier head at the desired angle relative to the substrate, and the substrate is polished.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu
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Publication number: 20220281053Abstract: Generating a recipe for controlling a polishing system includes receiving a target removal profile that includes a target thickness to remove for a plurality of locations on a substrate that are angularly distributed around the substrate, and storing a first function defining a polishing rate for a zone from a plurality of pressurizable zones of a carrier head that are angularly distributed around a the carrier head. The first function defines polishing rates as a function of pressures. For each particular zone of the plurality of zones a recipe defining a pressure for the particular zone over time is calculated by calculating an expected thickness profile after polishing using the first function, and minimizing a cost function that incorporates a first term representing a difference between the expected thickness profile and a target thickness profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian, Brian J. Brown, Thomas H. Osterheld
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Publication number: 20220283554Abstract: Generating a recipe for a polishing process includes receiving a target removal profile that includes a target thickness to remove for locations spaced angularly around a center of a substrate, storing a first function providing substrate orientation relative to a carrier head over time, storing a second function defining a polishing rate below a zone of the zone as a function of one or more pressures of one or more zones of the carrier head, and for each particular zone of the plurality of zones, calculate a recipe defining a pressure for the particular zone over time. Calculating the recipe includes calculating an expected thickness profile after polishing from the second function defining the polishing rate and the first function providing substrate orientation relative to the zone over time, and applying a minimizing algorithm to reduce a difference between the expected thickness profile and the target thickness profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian, Brian J. Brown, Thomas H. Osterheld
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Publication number: 20220281052Abstract: A method for optimizing polishing includes, for each respective retaining ring of a plurality of retaining rings mounted on a particular carrier head, performing measurements for a bottom surface of the respective retaining ring mounted on the particular carrier head using a coordinate measurement machine and collecting a respective removal profile of a substrate polished using the respective retaining ring. A machine learning model is trained based on the measurements of the bottom surface of the retaining ring and the respective removal profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Eric Lau, Andrew J. Nagengast, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu
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Publication number: 20220208621Abstract: A method for chemical mechanical polishing includes receiving an angular removal profile for a carrier head and an angular thickness profile of a substrate. Prior to polishing the substrate, a desired angle of the carrier head relative to the substrate is selected for loading the substrate into the carrier head. Selecting the desired angle is performed based on a comparison of the angular removal profile for the carrier head and the angular thickness profile of the substrate to reduce angular non-uniformity in polishing. The carrier head is rotated to receive the substrate at the desired angle, the substrate is transferred to the carrier head and loaded in the carrier head with the carrier head at the desired angle relative to the substrate, and the substrate is polished.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu
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Patent number: 11282755Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing system includes a metrology station having a sensor configured to measure a thickness profile of a substrate, a robotic arm configured to transfer the substrate from the metrology station to a polishing station having, a platen to support a polishing pad having a polishing surface, a carrier head on the polishing surface, the carrier head having a membrane configured to apply pressure to the substrate in the carrier head, and a controller configured to receive measurements from the sensor and configured to control the robotic arm to orient the substrate in the carrier head according to substrate profile and a removal profile for the carrier head.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu
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Publication number: 20210066142Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing system includes a metrology station having a sensor configured to measure a thickness profile of a substrate, a robotic arm configured to transfer the substrate from the metrology station to a polishing station having, a platen to support a polishing pad having a polishing surface, a carrier head on the polishing surface, the carrier head having a membrane configured to apply pressure to the substrate in the carrier head, and a controller configured to receive measurements from the sensor and configured to control the robotic arm to orient the substrate in the carrier head according to substrate profile and a removal profile for the carrier head.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu
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Patent number: 8814631Abstract: A method of polishing includes polishing a substrate, receiving an identification of a selected spectral feature to monitor during polishing, measuring a sequence of spectra of light reflected from the substrate while the substrate is being polished, determining a location value and an associated intensity value of the selected spectral feature for each of the spectra in the sequence of spectra to generate a sequence of coordinates, and determining at least one of a polishing endpoint or an adjustment for a polishing rate based on the sequence of coordinates. At least some of the spectra of the sequence differ due to material being removed during the polishing, and the coordinates are pairs of location values and associated intensity values.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Xiaoyuan Hu, Zhize Zhu, Harry Q. Lee
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Patent number: 8679979Abstract: A method of controlling the polishing of a substrate includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining first and second sequences of measured spectra from first and second regions of the substrate with an in-situ optical monitoring system, generating first and second sequences of values from the first and second sequences of measured spectra, fitting first and second linear functions to the first and second sequences of values, determining a difference between the first linear function and the second linear function, adjusting at least one parameter of a second set of parameters based on the difference, and polishing the substrate on a second platen using the adjusted parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Harry Q. Lee, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Zhize Zhu, Wen-Chiang Tu
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Patent number: 8579675Abstract: A method includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining a plurality of measured spectra from at least two zones, comparing the plurality of measured spectra with a reference spectrum to evaluate the thickness of each of the at least two zones of the substrate, comparing a thickness of a first zone with a thickness of a second zone, determining whether the thickness of the first zone falls within a predetermined range of the thickness of the second zone, and if the thickness does not fall within the predetermined range, at least one of a) adjusting at least one parameter of the first set and polishing a second substrate on the first platen using the adjusted parameters, or b) adjusting at least one parameter of a second set and polishing the substrate on a second platen using the adjusted parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Harry Q. Lee, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Zhize Zhu, Wen-Chiang Tu
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Patent number: 8292693Abstract: A method of controlling the polishing of a substrate includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining first and second sequences of measured spectra from first and second regions of the substrate with an in-situ optical monitoring system, generating first and second sequences of values from the first and second sequences of measured spectra, fitting first and second linear functions to the first and second sequences of values, determining a difference between the first linear function and the second linear function, adjusting at least one parameter of the first set of parameters based on the difference, and polishing the second substrate on the first platen using the adjusted parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Harry Q. Lee, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Zhize Zhu, Wen-Chiang Tu
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Publication number: 20120034845Abstract: A method of controlling polishing includes storing a library having a plurality of reference spectra, polishing a substrate, measuring a sequence of spectra of light from the substrate during polishing, for each measured spectrum of the sequence of spectra, finding a best matching reference spectrum using a matching technique other than sum of squared differences to generate a sequence of best matching reference spectra, and determining at least one of a polishing endpoint or an adjustment for a polishing rate based on the sequence of best matching reference spectra. Finding a best matching reference spectrum may include performing a cross-correlation of the measured spectrum with each of two or more of the plurality of reference spectra from the library and selecting a reference spectrum with the greatest correlation to the measured spectrum as a best matching reference spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Xiaoyuan Hu, Zhihong Wang, Harry Q. Lee, Zhize Zhu, Jeffrey Drue David, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Jimin Zhang, Wen-Chiang Tu
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Publication number: 20120028377Abstract: A method of controlling the polishing of a substrate includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining first and second sequences of measured spectra from first and second regions of the substrate with an in-situ optical monitoring system, generating first and second sequences of values from the first and second sequences of measured spectra, fitting first and second linear functions to the first and second sequences of values, determining a difference between the first linear function and the second linear function, adjusting at least one parameter of a second set of parameters based on the difference, and polishing the substrate on a second platen using the adjusted parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Harry Q. Lee, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Zhize Zhu, Wen-Chiang Tu
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Publication number: 20120021672Abstract: A method of polishing includes polishing a substrate, receiving an identification of a selected spectral feature to monitor during polishing, measuring a sequence of spectra of light reflected from the substrate while the substrate is being polished, determining a location value and an associated intensity value of the selected spectral feature for each of the spectra in the sequence of spectra to generate a sequence of coordinates, and determining at least one of a polishing endpoint or an adjustment for a polishing rate based on the sequence of coordinates. At least some of the spectra of the sequence differ due to material being removed during the polishing, and the coordinates are pairs of location values and associated intensity values.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Xiaoyuan Hu, Zhize Zhu, Harry Q. Lee
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Patent number: 8039397Abstract: A method of controlling the polishing of a substrate includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining first and second sequences of measured spectra from first and second regions of the substrate with an in-situ optical monitoring system, generating first and second sequences of values from the first and second sequences of measured spectra, fitting first and second linear functions to the first and second sequences of values, determining a difference between the first linear function and the second linear function, adjusting at least one parameter of a second set of parameters based on the difference, and polishing the substrate on a second platen using the adjusted parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Harry Q. Lee, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Zhize Zhu, Wen-Chiang Tu
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Publication number: 20100297916Abstract: A method includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining a plurality of measured spectra from at least two zones, comparing the plurality of measured spectra with a reference spectrum to evaluate the thickness of each of the at least two zones of the substrate, comparing a thickness of a first zone with a thickness of a second zone, determining whether the thickness of the first zone falls within a predetermined range of the thickness of the second zone, and if the thickness does not fall within the predetermined range, at least one of a) adjusting at least one parameter of the first set and polishing a second substrate on the first platen using the adjusted parameters, or b) adjusting at least one parameter of a second set and polishing the substrate on a second platen using the adjusted parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Harry Q. Lee, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Zhize Zhu, Wen-Chiang Tu
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Publication number: 20100129939Abstract: A method of controlling the polishing of a substrate includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining first and second sequences of measured spectra from first and second regions of the substrate with an in-situ optical monitoring system, generating first and second sequences of values from the first and second sequences of measured spectra, fitting first and second linear functions to the first and second sequences of values, determining a difference between the first linear function and the second linear function, adjusting at least one parameter of a second set of parameters based on the difference, and polishing the substrate on a second platen using the adjusted parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Drue David, Harry Q. Lee, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Zhize Zhu, Wen-Chiang Tu