摘要:
Structure and methods for forming a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of layers comprising at least one copper interconnect layer. The copper interconnect layer provides an electrical conduit between one of physically adjacent layers in the semiconductor structure and an integrated circuit in the semiconductor structure and an electronic device. A plurality of studs is positioned within the at least one copper interconnect layer. The studs are spaced apart by a distance less than or equal to a Blech length of the at least one copper interconnect layer. The Blech length is a length below which damage due to electromigration of metal atoms within the at least one copper interconnect layer does not occur. The plurality of studs comprises copper atom diffusion barriers.
摘要:
A gas cluster ion beam process is used to reduce and/or even eliminate metal void formation in an interconnect structure. In one embodiment, gas cluster ion beam etching forms a chamfer opening in an interconnect dielectric material. In another embodiment, gas cluster ion beam etching reduces the overhang profile of a diffusion barrier or a multilayered stack of a diffusion barrier and a plating seed layer that is formed within an opening located in an interconnect dielectric material. In yet another embodiment, a gas cluster ion beam process deactivates a surface of an interconnect dielectric material that is located at upper corners of an opening that is formed therein. In this embodiment, the gas cluster ion beam process deposits a material that deactivates the upper corners of each opening that is formed into an interconnect dielectric material.
摘要:
A magnetic domain wall memory apparatus with write/read capability includes a plurality of coplanar shift register structures each comprising an elongated track formed from a ferromagnetic material having a plurality of magnetic domains therein, the shift register structures further having a plurality of discontinuities therein to facilitate domain wall location; a magnetic read element associated with each of the shift register structures; and a magnetic write element associated with each of the shift register structures, the magnetic write element further comprising a single write wire having a longitudinal axis substantially orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of each of the coplanar shift register structures.
摘要:
A conductor-dielectric interconnect structure is fabricated by providing a structure comprising a dielectric layer having a patterned feature therein; depositing a plating seed layer on the dielectric layer in the patterned feature; depositing a sacrificial seed layer on the plating seed layer in the via; reducing the thickness of the sacrificial seed layer by reverse plating; and plating a conductive metal on the sacrificial seed layer in the patterned feature. Also provided is a dielectric layer having a via therein; a plating seed layer on the dielectric layer in the patterned feature; and a discontinuous sacrificial seed layer located in the patterned feature.
摘要:
A method of making an interconnect structure: which includes providing an interconnect structure in a dielectric material, recessing the dielectric material such that a portion of the interconnect structure extends above an upper surface of the dielectric material; and depositing an encasing cap over the extended portion of the interconnect structure.
摘要:
A method of forming a stochastically based integrated circuit encryption structure includes forming a lower conductive layer over a substrate, forming a short prevention layer over the lower conductive layer, forming an intermediate layer over the short prevention layer, wherein the intermediate layer is characterized by randomly structured nanopore features. An upper conductive layer is formed over the random nanopore structured intermediate layer. The upper conductive layer is patterned into an array of individual cells, wherein a measurable electrical parameter of the individual cells has a random distribution from cell to cell with respect to a reference value of the electrical parameter.
摘要:
The present invention provides structures and methods for providing facets with different crystallographic orientations than what a semiconductor substrate normally provides. By masking a portion of a semiconductor surface and exposing the rest to an anisotripic etch process that preferentially etches a set of crystallographic planes faster than others, new facets with different surface orientations than the substrate orientation are formed on the semiconductor substrate. Alternatively, selective epitaxy may be utilized to generate new facets. The facets thus formed are joined to form a lambda shaped profile in a cross-section. The electrical properties of the new facets, specifically, the enhanced carrier mobility, are utilized to enhance the performance of transistors. In a transistor with a channel on the facets that are joined to form a lambda shaped profile, the current flows in the direction of the ridge joining the facets avoiding any inflection in the direction of the current.
摘要:
Silicon on insulator devices having the body-tied-to-source are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises: a gate conductor spaced above a semiconductor layer by a gate dielectric; dielectric spacers disposed laterally adjacent to sidewalls of the gate conductor; source and drain junctions laterally spaced apart by a body region in the semiconductor layer; and a conductive implant region comprising metallic species disposed in a bottom region of the semiconductor layer for electrically connecting the source junction to the body region, wherein a drain-side of the implant region is spaced apart from the body region and a source-side of the implant region contacts the body region.
摘要:
A magnetic domain wall memory apparatus with write/read capability includes a plurality of coplanar shift register structures each comprising an elongated track formed from a ferromagnetic material having a plurality of magnetic domains therein, the shift register structures further having a plurality of discontinuities therein to facilitate domain wall location; a magnetic read element associated with each of the shift register structures; and a magnetic write element associated with each of the shift register structures, the magnetic write element further comprising a single write wire having a longitudinal axis substantially orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of each of the coplanar shift register structures.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a structure includes depositing a dense dielectric over the entire wafer, which includes areas that require low dielectric capacitance and areas that require high mechanical strength. The method further includes masking areas of the dense dielectric over the areas that require high mechanical strength and curing unmasked areas of the dense dielectric to burn out porogens inside the dense dielectric and transform the unmasked areas of the dense dielectric to porous dielectric material. A semiconductor structure comprises porous and dense hybrid interconnects for high performance and reliability semiconductor applications.