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With continued advances in semiconductor devices below 10 nm, the required specification for ultraclean wafer surfaces (i.e., achieving metal contamination <1 × 109 atoms/cm2 on the final substrate surface) becomes very challenging. During the cleaning process, Cu contamination occurs by drawing electrons from silicon atoms according to their reduction potential difference, whereas Al forms a hydroxide...