摘要 |
An object is to provide a polishing carrier that can prevent scratches from occurring on the edge face of a substrate, and prevent debris from being produced from the edge face, while a single crystal silicon substrate, which is fragile, and has a high cleavage strength, is polished, and to make it difficult for debris to be produced due to rubbing against a cassette when it is stored in a cassette in subsequent processing, and prevent the substrate from being broken. Therefore a part of the internal circumference of a substrate holding hole in a polishing carrier, that makes contact with the silicon substrate is formed from a cushion whose hardness is less than that of the silicon substrate. For the cushion, any type selected from for example suede, polyamide resin, polypropylene resin, or epoxy resin may be used. Especially, the use of epoxy resin is desirable.
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