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 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:
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:
Disclosed are embodiments of an improved high aspect ratio electroplated metal structure (e.g., a copper or copper alloy interconnect, such as a back end of the line (BEOL) or middle of the line (MOL) contact) in which the electroplated metal fill material is free from seams and/or voids. Also, disclosed are embodiments of a method of forming such an electroplated metal structure by lining a high aspect ratio opening (e.g., a high aspect ratio via or trench) with a metal-plating seed layer and, then, forming a protective layer over the portion of the metal-plating seed layer adjacent to the opening sidewalls so that subsequent electroplating occurs only from the bottom surface of the opening up.
摘要:
The present invention provides a semiconductor interconnect structure with improved mechanical strength at the capping layer/dielectric layer/diffusion barrier interface. The interconnect structure has Cu diffusion barrier material embedded in the Cu capping material. The barrier can be either partially embedded in the cap layer or completely embedded in the capping layer.
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:
The present invention provides an interconnect structure (of the single or dual damascene type) and a method of forming the same, in which a dense (i.e., non-porous) dielectric spacer is present on the sidewalls of a dielectric material. More specifically, the inventive structure includes a dielectric material having a conductive material embedded within at least one opening in the dielectric material, wherein the conductive material is laterally spaced apart from the dielectric material by a diffusion barrier, a dense dielectric spacer and, optionally, an air gap. The presence of the dense dielectric spacer results in a hybrid interconnect structure that has improved reliability and performance as compared with existing prior art interconnect structures which do not include such dense dielectric spacers. Moreover, the inventive hybrid interconnect structure provides for better process control which leads to the potential for high volume manufacturing.
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.
摘要:
A high tensile stress capping layer on Cu interconnects in order to reduce Cu transport and atomic voiding at the Cu/dielectric interface. The high tensile dielectric film is formed by depositing multiple layers of a thin dielectric material, each layer being under approximately 50 angstroms in thickness. Each dielectric layer is plasma treated prior to depositing each succeeding dielectric layer such that the dielectric cap has an internal tensile stress.