Invention Application
- Patent Title: Integrated toroidal coil inductors for IC devices
- Patent Title (中): 用于IC器件的集成环形线圈电感器
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Application No.: US10238746Application Date: 2002-09-10
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Publication No.: US20030011041A1Publication Date: 2003-01-16
- Inventor: Raul E. Acosta , Melanie L. Carasso , Steven A. Cordes , Robert A. Groves , Jennifer L. Lund , Joanna Rosner
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: NY ARMONK
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: NY ARMONK
- Main IPC: H01L029/80
- IPC: H01L029/80 ; H01L031/112 ; H01L021/20

Abstract:
A means for fabrication of solenoidal inductors integrated in a semiconductor chip is provided. The solenoidal coil is partially embedded in a deep well etched into the chip substrate. The non-embedded part of the coil is fabricated as part of the BEOL metallization layers. This allows for a large cross-sectional area of the solenoid turns, thus reducing the turn-to-turn capacitive coupling. Because the solenoidal coils of this invention have a large diameter cross-section, the coil can be made with a large inductance value and yet occupy a small area of the chip. The fabrication process includes etching of a deep cavity in the substrate after all the FEOL steps are completed; lining said cavity with a dielectric followed by fabrication of the part of the coil that will be embedded by deposition of a conductive material metal through a mask; deposition of dielectric and planarization of same by CMP. After planarization the fabrication of the remaining part of the solenoidal coil is fabricated as part of the metallization in the BEOL (i.e. as line/vias of the BEOL). To further increase the cross section of the solenoidal coil part of it may be built by electrodeposition through a mask on top of the BEOL layers.
Public/Granted literature
- US06720230B2 Method of fabricating integrated coil inductors for IC devices Public/Granted day:2004-04-13
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