Cleaning wafer substrates of metal contamination while maintaining wafer smoothness

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PATENT NO 5989353
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08729565

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Microelectronics wafer substrate surfaces are cleaned to remove metal contamination while maintaining wafer substrate surface smoothness by contacting the wafer substrate surfaces with an aqueous cleaning solution of an alkaline, metal ion-free base and a polyhydroxy compound containing from two to ten --OH groups and having the formula: ##STR1## wherein or in which --R--, --R.sup.1 --, --R.sup.2 -- and --R.sup.3 -- are alkylene radicals containing two to ten carbon atoms, x is a whole integer of from 1 to 4 and y is a whole integer of from 1 to 8, with the proviso that the number of carbon atoms in the polyhydroxy compound does not exceed ten, and wherein the water present in the aqueous cleaning solution is at least about 40% by weight of the cleaning composition.

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AVANTOR PERFORMANCE MATERIALS LLC100 MATSONFORD ROAD BUILDING ONE SUITE 200 RADNOR PA 19087

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Schwartzkopf, George Franklin Township, NJ 15 481
Skee, David C Bethlehem, PA 6 444

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