Modified silanized colloidal silica particles are reaction products of silanized colloidal silica particles having epoxy moieties with a nitrogen of an amino group of an amino acid to form stable modified silanized colloidal silica particles. The modified silanized colloidal silica particles can be used as an abrasive in chemical mechanical polishing of various substrates.

An aspect of the present invention provides a polishing agent for polishing a base substrate having an organic silicon oxide and an insulating material containing silicon (excluding the organic silicon oxide) to remove at least a part of the organic silicon oxide, the polishing agent containing abrasive grains containing silica and an allylamine-based polymer, in which the abrasive grains have a positive charge in the polishing agent, the allylamine-based polymer is at least one selected from the group consisting of a tertiary allylamine-based polymer and a quaternary allylamine-based polymer, and a pH of the polishing agent is 2.8 to 5.0.

A polishing liquid containing abrasive grains, a hydroxy acid, a polyol, and a liquid medium, in which a zeta potential of the abrasive grains is positive, and the hydroxy acid has one carboxyl group and one to three hydroxyl groups.

According to the present invention, a moderately high polishing speed for a specific material and appropriate ratio of polishing speeds between two or more different materials are achieved in polishing using a polishing composition. The present invention relates to a polishing composition comprising abrasive grains, a water-soluble polymer having no alcoholic hydroxyl group in a side chain, a polyvalent carboxylic acid (salt), and an oxidizing agent, and having a pH of less than 6.

The present invention relates to a slurry composition for polishing an organic film, and the slurry composition for polishing an organic film according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: abrasive particles; a polishing control agent containing an organic acid, an inorganic acid, or both; an organic film polishing enhancer containing an amide compound or an amide polymer; an oxidizing agent; and a pH control agent.

An aqueous alkaline chemical mechanical polishing composition includes a quaternary ammonium compound having a phenyl group which enables enhanced reduction of defects on silicon oxide substrates and enables good silicon oxide removal rates during chemical mechanical polishing.

Modified silanized colloidal silica particles are reaction products of silanized colloidal silica particles having epoxy moieties with nitrogen of amines to form stable and tunable modified silanized colloidal silica particles. The modified silanized colloidal silica particles can be used as an abrasive in chemical mechanical polishing of various substrates.

An aqueous alkaline chemical mechanical polishing composition includes a quaternary ammonium compound having a phenyl group which enables enhanced reduction of defects on silicon oxide substrates and enables good silicon oxide removal rates during chemical mechanical polishing.

The present invention relates to core shell silica particles, wherein each core shell silica particle comprises a silica core, and a surface of the silica core is etched with metal silicate, the core shell silica particles prepared by: i) admixing an amount of silica particles in water with an amount of a base, wherein the base comprises a monovalent metal ion, to produce core shell silica particles, each core shell silica particle comprising a silica core, and a surface of the silica core etched with a silicate of the monovalent metal ion; and ii) reacting the core shell silica particles formed in step i) with a metal salt comprising a second metal ion, to form core shell silica particles comprising silicate of the second metal ion on the surface of the silica core.

Provided are improved slurry compositions useful in the CMP polishing of glass and other dielectric materials. In one aspect, the compositions of the invention are comprised of water; silica abrasive; a cationic surfactant; and ceria abrasive. The compositions effect a high removal rate while limiting the number of scratches typically observed when utilizing ceria alone.