A method that forms a sacrificial fill material that can be selectively removed for forming a backside contact via for a transistor backside power rail. In some embodiments, the method may include performing an etching process on a substrate with an opening that is conformally coated with an oxide layer, wherein the etching process is an anisotropic dry etch process using a chlorine gas to remove the oxide layer from a field of the substrate and only from a bottom portion of the opening, and wherein the etching process forms a partial oxide spacer in the opening and increases a depth of the opening and epitaxially growing the sacrificial fill material in the opening by flowing a hydrogen chloride gas at a rate of approximately 60 seem to approximately 90 seem in a chamber pressure of approximately 1 Torr to approximately 100 Torr.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes performing one or more grinding processes on a backside surface of a device wafer to thin the device wafer from a first thickness to a second thickness. A first chemical mechanical polish (CMP) process is performed on the backside surface of the device wafer to thin the device wafer from the second thickness to a third thickness. A second CMP process is performed on the backside surface of the device wafer to selectively remove device wafer material that is disposed over an active device area of the semiconductor device, where a removal rate of the device wafer material is a function of depth.

A workpiece processing method includes holding a workpiece having a structure in which a first substrate is bonded to a second substrate, such that a side of the second substrate is held by an upper surface of a chuck table, after the holding, forming a trimmed portion along an outer edge of the workpiece by, while causing a ring-shaped cutting blade having an outer peripheral surface and a side surface to rotate, causing the rotating cutting blade to cut into the workpiece along the outer edge of the workpiece from a side of the first substrate to such a depth that the cutting blade reaches the second substrate, the trimmed portion having a bottom surface and a side surface, and polishing the bottom surface and the side surface of the trimmed portion by using a polishing pad.

The invention relates to an epitaxially coated semiconductor wafer, processed by a method in which the semiconductor wafer is disposed on a susceptor in a coating apparatus and processed, wherein an etching gas is passed through the coating apparatus in an etching step. A first side of the semiconductor wafer which has been subjected to a polishing operation by CMP, or a second side of the semiconductor wafer opposite the first side, is coated with a protective layer before processing. The resulting wafer has exceptional geometry, as reflected by low ESFQR values.

A device includes a thinned semiconductor substrate having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; and at least one radio frequency device at the first side, wherein the second side of the thinned semiconductor substrate is processed to reduce leakage currents or to improve a radio frequency linearity of the at least one radio frequency device through Bosch etching.

In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a bulk substrate includes a plurality of semiconductor chip regions and a scribe lane region between the semiconductor chip regions. A lower dicing inducer having a first depth is formed in the scribe lane region of the bulk substrate. A dummy layer is formed on the scribe lane region of the bulk substrate. The dummy layer includes at least one upper dicing inducer. A passivation layer is formed on the dummy layer. The passivation layer is etched to form a recess in the passivation layer. A backside of the bulk substrate is grinded to generate cracks along at least one of a boundary of the lower dicing inducer, a boundary of the upper dicing inducer, a boundary between the bulk substrate and the dummy layer and a boundary of the recess. The semiconductor chip regions are singulated by the cracks.

A system and method for sequential single-sided CMP processing of opposite facing surfaces of a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate are disclosed. A method includes urging a first surface of a substrate against one of plurality of polishing pads, wherein the plurality of polishing pads are disposed on corresponding ones of a plurality of rotatable polishing platens. The method includes transferring, using the first side of the end effector, the substrate from the substrate carrier loading station to a substrate alignment station. The method includes transferring, using the first side of the end effector, the substrate from the substrate alignment station to a substrate carrier loading station. The method includes urging a second surface of the substrate against one of the plurality of polishing platens.

A semiconductor substrate grinding apparatus including a chuck table configured to mount and fix a semiconductor substrate, so that a back side of the semiconductor substrate faces upwardly and rotates in one direction; a grinding wheel on the chuck table configured to grind the back side of the semiconductor substrate; a cleaning liquid supplier on the chuck table, spaced apart from the grinding wheel, and configured to supply a cleaning liquid to the back side of the semiconductor substrate for cleaning by-products generated by grinding the semiconductor substrate; a slurry supplier on the chuck table, adjacent to the cleaning liquid supplier, and configured to supply a slurry to the back side of the semiconductor substrate; and a polishing wheel on the chuck table, spaced apart from the slurry supplier, and configured to perform chemical mechanical polishing on the back side of the semiconductor substrate using the slurry.

A substrate processing method includes: performing a backside film forming operation that forms a backside film on a back surface of a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a front surface on which a pattern or device structure is formed and the back surface opposite to the front surface, and wherein the backside film is configured to generate stress on the back surface of the substrate upon exposure; and performing an exposing operation that exposes at least a part of the backside film to reduce warpage of the substrate after the backside film forming operation.

The present disclosure relates to a substrate processing method for processing a substrate having a front side and a back side. A device area is formed on the front side of the substrate. The method comprises the steps of applying a protective sheeting to the front side of the substrate, processing the protective sheeting and the substrate from the front side using a cutting device to form a circumferential wherein at edge, the circumferential edge the processed protective sheeting and the processed substrate are flush in a thickness direction of the substrate, and applying a laser beam from the back side of the substrate to form a modified layer inside the substrate in a predetermined depth.