Reliability tests of electroless barriers against copper diffusion under bias-temperature stress with n- and p-type substrates

Autor: Makoto Yamashita, Shota Fujishima, Akiyoshi Mitsumori, Kazuyoshi Ueno
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 55:056501
ISSN: 1347-4065
0021-4922
DOI: 10.7567/jjap.55.056501
Popis: To investigate the similarity and difference of substrate conduction type in the time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) tests for the barrier integrity against Cu diffusion under bias-temperature stress (BTS), the TDDB reliability of electroless NiB and CoWP/NiB was determined by metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) structures on n-type Si (n-Si) substrates, and the test results were compared with those using p-type Si (p-Si) substrates. The TDDB results and mechanism were observed to be qualitatively the same as Cu diffusion for both conduction types. However, the TDDB lifetime using p-Si was found to be potentially shorter because of the reverse bias conditions than that using n-Si under the forward bias conditions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE