The sapphire wafer is widely used in optical semiconductor devices as important substrate materials. The wafer should have high flatness and defect-free surface by mechanical lapping and chemical mechanical polishing, since the poor surface may lead t...
The sapphire wafer is widely used in optical semiconductor devices as important substrate materials. The wafer should have high flatness and defect-free surface by mechanical lapping and chemical mechanical polishing, since the poor surface may lead to high fraction defective. Hence, mechanical lapping is one of the most critical process in terms of final step to determine flatness of the wafer. In this process, one of the major factors determining the thickness variation of the wafer is a platen shape and the others are pressure distribution on the wafer, thermal deformation of the platen and velocity ratio of the head to the platen. To control the flatness of a wafer, the relations between these factors and thickness of a wafer should be defined. So, the experiment was focused on finding out the relationship between platen and wafer shape by using different set of platen shape. The thickness model of the wafer and the platen was obtained from the results. This model can easily explain the relations between them and help optimize the initial platen shape. Also it can be a tool for evaluating lapping system.