Method of reworking tungsten particle contaminated semiconductor wafers

摘要

A method for reworking a metal particulate contaminated semiconductor wafer process surface following a metal dry etchback process including providing a semiconductor wafer including a dielectric insulating layer having anisotropically etched openings lined with a first barrier/adhesion layer formed according to a blanket deposition process and an overlying metal layer formed according to a blanket deposition process filling the anisotropically etched openings; dry etching in an etchback process to remove the metal layer to form a process surface revealing at least a portion of the first barrier/adhesion layer; performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process to rework the process surface to remove a remaining portion of the metal layer including the first barrier/adhesion layer to endpoint detection of the dielectric insulating layer; and, blanket depositing a second barrier/adhesion layer over the dielectric insulating layer.