摘要:
The present invention concerns a method for electrodepositing copper into a trench pattern in a structure including the following steps: forming a patterned metal hard mask layer over the dielectric substrate layer; patterning the dielectric layer by using an etch through the patterned metal-based hardmask optionally, forming a barrier and / or liner layer over the surface of the patterned dielectric substrate layer and the hard mask layer; forming over the barrier layer and the hard mask layer a basic metal seed layer by a wet chemical plating method to provide sufficient conductance for subsequent electrolytic deposition of copper; and immersing the dielectric substrate into an electrolytic copper plating bath in an electrolytic copper plating system to electrodeposit copper into the patterned dielectric substrate layer. The hard mask only needs to be removed after copper deposition.