Effects of annealing on the microstructural evolution of copper films using texture analysis

Autor: A. Moskvinova, Michael Hietschold, Stefan E. Schulz, Steffen Schulze, Ramona Ecke, I. Schubert
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: EMC 2008 14th European Microscopy Congress 1–5 September 2008, Aachen, Germany ISBN: 9783540851547
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85156-1_374
Popis: Successful copper investigation is a key for the newest technologies. Today copper becomes a more and more widespread material in interconnect technology. Its main advantages are a lower resistivity, high conductivity and high purity. Thin copper films were grown by electrodeposition on copper seed layers which were grown by MOCVD and PVD on different barrier layers such as MOCVD titanium-nitride and sputtered tantalum-nitride coated silicon wafers. The bulk copper films were then subjected to i) self-annealing at room temperature, ii) vacuum annealing and iii) N2 annealing at various temperatures periods of time.
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