Dow Electronic Materials Launches New IKONIC™ 4000 Series CMP Polishing Pads for Ceria Polishing Applications

Post date: Feb 14, 2014 8:04:19 AM

New pads deliver industry-leading stability and low defectivity; extend advantages of IKONIC™ technology into new applications.

SEOUL, South Korea, Feb 13, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dow Electronic Materials , a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, today introduced the IKONIC™ 4000 series of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing pads. This series of pads are initially targeting ceria-based applications.

"The industry’s overall response to IKONIC™ technology has been extremely favorable," said Colin Cameron, director of marketing CMPT Dow Electronic Materials. “The IKONIC 4000 series provides many of the critical attributes common to our most advanced product designs. The pads are highly tunable and can be customized to address process specific requirements. Dow's volume manufacturing methods and commitment to process control further enhance performance by ensuring consistency and reliability in our customer’s processes,” said Cameron.

The new IKONIC 4000 series balances the historic trade-off associated with cutting edge planarization requirements and low defectivity. The novel chemistries deliver removal rate stability over pad life, making them ideal for the challenges associated with ceria based polishing applications. The IKONIC 4000 series delivers step-out defectivity performance representing a 70 percent improvement when compared with the industry-standard IC1000 polishing pad.

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