POLISHING APPARATUS AND POLISHING METHOD

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A film thickness measuring apparatus and an end point detector monitor a film thickness of a conductive film based on an output of an eddy current sensor disposed in a polishing table. The output of the eddy current sensor includes an impedance component, and when a resistance component and a reactance component of the impedance component are associated with the respective axes of a coordinate system having two orthogonal coordinate axes, at least some points on the coordinate system corresponding to the impedance component form at least a part of a circle. The film thickness measuring apparatus determines a distance between a point on the coordinate system and the center of the circle, determines the film thickness from the impedance component and corrects the determined film thickness using the determined distance.

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EBARA CORPORATIONTOKYO

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NAKAMURA, Akira Tokyo, JP 310 3171

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