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Poly-silicon residues in the form of needle-shaped defects as shown in Figure 2270a can be successfully removed by bevel dry etch.

SEM images of poly-silicon residues at wafer bevel

Figure 2270a. SEM images of poly-silicon residues at wafer bevel. [1]

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[1] Oguz Yavas, Ernst Richter, Christian Kluthe & Markus Sickmoeller, Wafer-edge yield engineering in leading-edge DRAM manufacturing, Wafer Processing, (2002).

 

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