Chemical-mechanical polishing of blanket and patterned oxide films has been studied. Fundamental parameters governing the planarization technique were examined for the development of the process window as well as for the understanding of the process characteristics. Excellent local and global planarity achieved by chem-mechanical polishing is demonstrated.
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