摘要:
An electronic fuse for an integrated circuit and a method of fabrication thereof are presented. The electronic fuse has a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion interconnected by a fuse element. The fuse element has a convex upper surface and a lower surface with a radius of curvature at a smallest surface area of curvature less than or equal to 100 nanometers. Fabricating the electronic fuse includes forming an at least partially freestanding dielectric spacer above a supporting structure, and then conformably forming the fuse element of the fuse over at least a portion of the freestanding dielectric spacer, with the fuse element characterized as noted above. The dielectric spacer may remain in place as a thermally insulating layer underneath the fuse element, or may be removed to form a void underneath the fuse element.
摘要:
A method for fabricating and back-end-of-line (BEOL) metalization structures includes simultaneous high-k and low-k dielectric regions. An interconnect structure includes a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer and a second ILD layer with the first ILD layer underlying the second ILD layer. A plurality of columnar air gaps is formed in the first ILD. The columnar air gap structure is created using a two-phase photoresist material for providing different etching selectivity during subsequent processing.
摘要:
In a first aspect, a first apparatus is provided. The first apparatus is an element of an integrated circuit (IC) having (1) a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) having source/drain diffusion regions; (2) an electrical fuse (eFuse) coupled to the MOSFET such that a portion of the eFuse serves as a gate region of the MOSFET; and (3) an implanted region coupled to the source/drain diffusion regions of the MOSFET such that a path between the source/drain diffusion regions functions as a short circuit or an open circuit. In another aspect, a design structure embodied in a machine readable medium for designing manufacturing, or testing a design is provided. Numerous other aspects are provided.
摘要:
A semiconductor structure including at least one e-fuse embedded within a trench that is located in a semiconductor substrate (bulk or semiconductor-on-insulator) is provided. In accordance with the present invention, the e-fuse is in electrical contact with a dopant region that is located within the semiconductor substrate. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating such a semiconductor structure in which the embedded e-fuse is formed substantially at the same time with the trench isolation regions.
摘要:
Design structure embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing a design. The design structure includes an interconnect structure with a liner formed on roughened dielectric material in an insulating layer and a conformal liner repair layer bridging that breaches in the liner. The conformal liner repair layer is formed of a conductive material, such as a cobalt-containing material. The conformal liner repair layer may be particularly useful for repairing discontinuities in a conductive liner disposed on roughened dielectric material bordering the trenches and vias of damascene interconnect structures.
摘要:
Electrically programmable fuse structures for an integrated circuit and methods of fabrication thereof are presented, wherein the electrically programmable fuse has a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion interconnected by a fuse element. The first terminal portion and the second terminal portion reside at different heights relative to a supporting surface of the fuse structure, and the interconnecting fuse element transitions between the different heights of the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion. The first and second terminal portions are oriented parallel to the supporting surface, while the fuse element includes a portion oriented orthogonal to the supporting surface, and includes at least one right angle bend where transitioning from at least one of the first and second terminal portions to the orthogonal oriented portion of the fuse element.
摘要:
Programmable anti-fuse structures for semiconductor device constructions, fabrication methods for forming anti-fuse structures during semiconductor device fabrication, and programming methods for anti-fuse structures. The programmable anti-fuse structure comprises first and second terminals and an anti-fuse layer electrically coupled with the first and second terminals. An electrically-conductive diffusion layer is disposed between the first terminal and the anti-fuse layer. The diffusion layer inhibits diffusion of conductive material from the first terminal to the anti-fuse layer when the anti-fuse structure is unprogrammed, but permits diffusion of the conductive material when a programming voltage is applied between the first and second terminals during operation. Advantageously, the first terminal may be composed of metal and the anti-fuse layer may be composed of a semiconductor. The methods of fabricating the anti-fuse structure do not require an additional lithographic mask but instead rely on damascene process steps used to fabricate interconnection structures for neighboring active devices.
摘要:
A method for fabricating and back-end-of-line (BEOL) metalization structures includes simultaneous high-k and low-k dielectric regions. An interconnect structure includes a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer and a second ILD layer with the first ILD layer underlying the second ILD layer. A plurality of columnar air gaps is formed in the first ILD. The columnar air gap structure is created using a two-phase photoresist material for providing different etching selectivity during subsequent processing.
摘要:
A system and method for automatically adjusting one or more electrical parameters in a memory device, e.g., SRAM arrays. The system and method implements an SRAM sensing sub-array for accelerated collection of fail rate data for use in determining the operating point for optimum tradeoff between single event upset immunity and performance of a primary SRAM array. The accelerated fail rate data is input to an algorithm implemented for setting the SEU sensitivity of a primary SRAM memory array to a predetermined fail rate in an ionizing particle environment. The predetermined fail rate is maintained on a real-time basis in order to provide immunity to SEU consistent with optimum performance.
摘要:
In a first aspect, a first method of manufacturing a dielectric material with a reduced dielectric constant is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) forming a dielectric material layer including a trench on a substrate; and (2) forming a cladding region in the dielectric material layer by forming a plurality of air gaps in the dielectric material layer along at least one of a sidewall and a bottom of the trench so as to reduce an effective dielectric constant of the dielectric material. Numerous other aspects are provided.