Chemical mechanical polishing is implemented on A-plane sapphire using nano-Al
2O
3 as abrasive to investigate the effect of concentration and particle size of Al
2O
3,polishing time,polishing pressure and the concentration of NH
4F on material removal rate(
MRR)and surface roughness of Aplane sapphire.The surface roughness was measured by atomic force microscopy(AFM).The results showed that polishing performance is good with
MRR of 18.2nm/min and
Ra 22.3 nm when polished at pH=4.0,16.39 kPa for 40 min with NH
4F mass fraction 0.6% NH
4F and 50 nm Al
2O
3 mass fraction 1%.