Stress-induced voiding under vias connected to 'narrow' copper lines

Autor: I.T. Suzuki, Tsutomu Hosoda, Ken Shono, Yoshiyuki Ohkura, Motonobu Sato, Hirofumi Watatani, I.Y. Mizushima, I.T. Nakamura, Motoshu Miyajima, S. Otsuka, Shunichi Fukuyama, M. Shiozu, Hideya Matsuyama, T. Kouno
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: IEEE InternationalElectron Devices Meeting, 2005. IEDM Technical Digest..
DOI: 10.1109/iedm.2005.1609302
Popis: Stress-induced voiding under vias connected to "narrow" Copper (Cu) lines (SIV-N) was observed, for the first time, using newly prepared test structures which consisted of isolated vias between narrow (0.14 mum-wide) and very long (200 mum-long) 2-level Cu wires. Mechanism of SIV-N is different from that of well-known stress-induced voiding under vias connected to "wide" Cu lines (SIV-W), because SIV-N cannot occur during actual time according to the model that explains SIV-W. In addition, we found the effect of plasma pretreatment of cap dielectrics and cap dielectrics themselves on SIV-N and the other reliability issues, and succeeded in obtaining the condition which satisfied SIV-N, SIV-W and EM
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