Apparatus and method for uniformly polishing a wafer

摘要

For providing a method for polishing in which it is possible to polish a substance uniformly over a whole surface of a wafer without observing the polished surface of the wafer halfway through polishing, a wafer with current detective patterns formed of conductors directly contacted with a semiconductor substrate, and an insulating film covering the current detective patterns is held by a wafer holder with conductivity, and the insulating film is polished by a polisher in which a supporting plate with conductivity is exposed in openings through a polishing cloth while supplying a polishing slurry containing ions.