Abstract
The cleaning solutions augmented with tetraalkylammonium hydroxides (TAAHs) with various chain-lengths of hydrocarbon substituents were developed for post-poly-Si chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) cleaning. The cleaning performance with respect to particle, organic, and metal removal as well as surface roughness was evaluated for a series of 3% solutions dosed with 0.26 M of a TAAH and 100 ppm of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). The experimental results demonstrated that the cleaning solutions enhanced with these surfactants (TAAH) and a chelating agent (EDTA) achieved significantly better removal efficiencies of particle and metal impurities than the control solution containing 3% only. A conceptual model involving surface adsorption and double-layer formation was used to postulate the aqueous-phase surface interactions between the tetraalkylammonium cations and the poly-Si surface, and to explain the removal mechanisms of particle and metal impurities from the surface. The improved electrical properties (current density-electric field and charge-to-breakdown characteristics) of the post-CMP capacitor after cleaning further demonstrated the reliability and feasibility of the proposed cleaning recipes. © 2002 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.
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