公开(公告)号：US12027458B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-02

申请号：US17841551

申请日：2022-06-15

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Kevin Lin ,  Noriyuki Sato ,  Tristan Tronic ,  Michael Christenson ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Jiun-Ruey Chen ,  James M. Blackwell ,  Matthew Metz ,  Miriam Reshotko ,  Nafees Kabir ,  Jeffery Bielefeld ,  Manish Chandhok ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Elijah Karpov ,  Carl Naylor ,  Ramanan Chebiam

IPC: H01L23/522 ,  H01L21/3213 ,  H01L21/768 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/532

CPC classification number: H01L23/5226 ,  H01L21/32139 ,  H01L21/76819 ,  H01L21/7682 ,  H01L21/76843 ,  H01L23/5283 ,  H01L23/53209

Abstract: IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.

公开(公告)号：US11594673B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16367129

申请日：2019-03-27

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Noriyuki Sato ,  Angeline Smith ,  Tanay Gosavi ,  Sasikanth Manipatruni ,  Kaan Oguz ,  Kevin O'Brien ,  Benjamin Buford ,  Tofizur Rahman ,  Rohan Patil ,  Nafees Kabir ,  Michael Christenson ,  Ian Young ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Christopher Wiegand

IPC: H01F10/32 ,  H01L43/10 ,  G11C11/16 ,  H01L43/02 ,  H01L27/22 ,  H01L43/12 ,  H01F41/34

Abstract: A memory device includes a first electrode including a spin-orbit material, a magnetic junction on a portion of the first electrode and a first structure including a dielectric on a portion of the first electrode. The first structure has a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall. The memory device further includes a second structure on a portion of the first electrode, where the second structure has a sidewall adjacent to the second sidewall of the first structure. The memory device further includes a first conductive interconnect above and coupled with each of the magnetic junction and the second structure and a second conductive interconnect below and coupled with the first electrode, where the second conductive interconnect is laterally distant from the magnetic junction and the second structure.

公开(公告)号：US11610810B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-21

申请号：US16230250

申请日：2018-12-21

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Miriam R. Reshotko ,  Richard E. Schenker ,  Nafees Kabir

IPC: H01L21/768

Abstract: A method for fabricating an integrated circuit comprises forming one or more conductive features supported by pillars of a first insulating layer in a first metal layer. One or more vias are formed in a via layer, the one or more vias over and on the first metal layer and in electrical connection with ones of the one or more conductive features. Subsequent to via formation, air gaps are between adjacent ones of the one or more conductive features in the first metal layer to separate the one or more conductive features. A second insulating layer is formed over the one or more conductive features and over the one or more vias, such that the second insulating layer covers the first metal layer and the via layer while bridging over the air gaps, wherein tops the air gaps are substantially coplanar with tops of the one or more conductive features.

公开(公告)号：US20220352068A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17841551

申请日：2022-06-15

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Kevin Lin ,  Noriyuki Sato ,  Tristan Tronic ,  Michael Christenson ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Jiun-Ruey Chen ,  James M. Blackwell ,  Matthew Metz ,  Miriam Reshotko ,  Nafees Kabir ,  Jeffery Bielefeld ,  Manish Chandhok ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Elijah Karpov ,  Carl Naylor ,  Ramanan Chebiam

IPC: H01L23/522 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L21/3213 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.

公开(公告)号：US20220336267A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-20

申请号：US17850876

申请日：2022-06-27

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Manish Chandhok ,  Ramanan Chebiam ,  Brennen Mueller ,  Colin Carver ,  Jeffery Bielefeld ,  Nafees Kabir ,  Richard Vreeland ,  William Brezinski

IPC: H01L21/768 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/535 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H04B1/40

Abstract: An integrated circuit interconnect structure includes a first interconnect in a first metallization level and a first dielectric adjacent to at least a portion of the first interconnect, where the first dielectric having a first carbon content. The integrated circuit interconnect structure further includes a second interconnect in a second metallization level above the first metallization level. The second interconnect includes a lowermost surface in contact with at least a portion of an uppermost surface of the first interconnect. A second dielectric having a second carbon content is adjacent to at least a portion of the second interconnect and the first dielectric. The first carbon concentration increases with distance away from the lowermost surface of the second interconnect and the second carbon concentration increases with distance away from the uppermost surface of the first interconnect.

公开(公告)号：US11444024B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-13

申请号：US17087519

申请日：2020-11-02

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Kevin Lin ,  Noriyuki Sato ,  Tristan Tronic ,  Michael Christenson ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Jiun-Ruey Chen ,  James M. Blackwell ,  Matthew Metz ,  Miriam Reshotko ,  Nafees Kabir ,  Jeffery Bielefeld ,  Manish Chandhok ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Elijah Karpov ,  Carl Naylor ,  Ramanan Chebiam

IPC: H01L23/522 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L21/3213 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.

公开(公告)号：US20210305098A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-30

申请号：US16832500

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Aaron Lilak ,  Ehren Mannebach ,  Nafees Kabir ,  Patrick Morrow ,  Gilbert Dewey ,  Willy Rachmady ,  Anh Phan

IPC: H01L21/822 ,  H01L27/088 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L29/04 ,  H01L21/768 ,  H01L29/16 ,  H01L21/311 ,  H01L23/522

Abstract: Integrated circuitry comprising stacked first and second transistor structures. One of a source, drain or gate terminal of an upper-level transistor structure is coupled to one of a source, drain or gate terminal of a lower-level transistor structure through an asymmetrical interconnect having a lateral width that increases within a dimension parallel to a semiconductor sidewall of the upper-level transistor by a greater amount than in an orthogonal dimension. A dielectric material between the upper and lower transistor structures may be anisotropically etched asymmetrically by orienting a workpiece to be non-orthogonal to a reactive ion flux. Varying an angle between the reactive ion flux and a plane of the second transistor during an etch of the dielectric material may ensure an etched opening is of sufficient bottom dimension to expose a terminal of the lower-level transistor even if not perfectly aligned with the second transistor structure.

公开(公告)号：US11424160B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-23

申请号：US16274758

申请日：2019-02-13

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Aaron D. Lilak ,  Ehren Mannebach ,  Anh Phan ,  Richard Schenker ,  Stephanie A. Bojarski ,  Willy Rachmady ,  Patrick Morrow ,  Jeffery Bielefeld ,  Gilbert Dewey ,  Hui Jae Yoo ,  Nafees Kabir

IPC: H01L21/768 ,  H01L29/78 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L27/092 ,  H01L23/522 ,  H01L21/8238 ,  H01L21/02

Abstract: In some embodiments, a semiconductor device structure is formed by using an angled etch to remove material so as to expose a portion of an adjacent conductor. The space formed upon removing the material can then be filled with a conductive material during formation of a contact or other conductive structure (e.g., and interconnection). In this way, the contact formation also fills the space to form an angled local interconnect portion that connects adjacent structures (e.g., a source/drain contact to an adjacent source/drain contact, a source/drain contact to an adjacent gate contact, a source/drain contact to an adjacent device level conductor also connected to a gate/source/drain contact). In other embodiments, an interconnection structure herein termed a “jogged via” establishes and electrical connection from laterally adjacent peripheral surfaces of conductive structures that are not coaxially or concentrically aligned with one another.

公开(公告)号：US20220181251A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17677858

申请日：2022-02-22

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Richard Vreeland ,  Colin Carver ,  William Brezinski ,  Michael Christenson ,  Nafees Kabir

IPC: H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: Composite integrated circuit (IC) device structures that include two components coupled through hybrid bonded interconnect structure. The two components may be two different monolithic IC structures (e.g., chips) that are bonded over a substantially planar dielectric and metallization layer. A surface of a metallization feature may be augmented with supplemental metal, for example to at least partially backfill a recess in a surface of the metallization feature as left by a planarization process. In some exemplary embodiments, supplemental metal is deposited selectively onto a metallization feature through an autocatalytic (electroless) metal deposition process. A surface of a dielectric material surrounding a metallization feature may also be recessed, for example to at least partially neutralize a recess in an adjacent metallization feature, for example resulting from a planarization process.

公开(公告)号：US11239156B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16824366

申请日：2020-03-19

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Elijah Karpov ,  Manish Chandhok ,  Nafees Kabir

IPC: H01L23/52 ,  H01L23/522 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: Integrated circuitry comprising devices electrically coupled through a plurality of interconnect levels in which lines of a first and second interconnect level are coupled through a planar slab via. An interconnect line may include a horizontal line segment within one of the first or second interconnect levels, and the slab via may be a vertical line segment between the first and second interconnect levels. A planar slab via may comprise one or more layers of conductive material, which have been deposited upon a planarized substrate material that lacks any features that the conductive material must fill. A planar slab via may be subtractively defined concurrently with a horizontal line of one or both of the first or second interconnect levels.