Obtainment of Residual Stress Distribution from Surface Deformation under Continuity Constraints for Thinned Silicon Wafers

Precision machining (e.g., fine grinding, polishing) induced residual stress is very small and often not constant across the wafer and it is difficult to be directly obtained by stress testing equipment or Stoney equation. The residual stress could be obtained theoretically based on the principle of...

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Autores principales: Haijun Liu, Tao Yang, Jiang Han, Xiaoqing Tian, Shan Chen, Lei Lu
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:Precision machining (e.g., fine grinding, polishing) induced residual stress is very small and often not constant across the wafer and it is difficult to be directly obtained by stress testing equipment or Stoney equation. The residual stress could be obtained theoretically based on the principle of superposition in which the entire wafer deformation is taken as the sum of all deformations induced by the residual stresses of different positions on the wafer surface. However, the solved residual stress is affected greatly by deformation measurement errors and fluctuates greatly across the wafer surface. To solve the problem, a regularization method with continuity constraints was proposed in this study. The mechanisms for the discontinuity of the residual stress distribution and the sensitivity of calculation results to the measurement errors were studied. The influences of the number of subareas of the silicon wafer were investigated and the continuity constraint term was constructed based on the positional relationship of different subareas. Stable and continuous residual stress distribution was successfully obtained after using the proposed regularization method. The method may also be applied to estimate the residual stress from surface deformation for thin substrate plates of other materials.