TY - GEN
T1 - Highly reliable interface of self-aligned CuSiN process with low-k SiC barrier dielectric (k=3.5) for 65nm node and beyond
AU - Usami, T.
AU - Ide, T.
AU - Kakuhara, Y.
AU - Ajima, Y.
AU - Ueno, K.
AU - Maruyama, T.
AU - Yu, Y.
AU - Apen, E.
AU - Chattopadhyay, K.
AU - Van Schravendijk, B.
AU - Oda, N.
AU - Sekine, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to dedicate this article to Professor Francesco Calogero in his 70th anniversary. This work was partially supported by the DGI under grant no. BFM2002–02646. A.E. acknowledges the financial support of the Spanish MEC through an FPU scholarship.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A highly reliable interface using a self-aligned CuSiN process with Low-k SiC barrier dielectric (k=3.5) has been developed for 65mn node and beyond. Using this process as the barrier dielectric, a 4% reduction of the capacitance between the adjacent lines was obtained in comparison to SiCN dielectric (k=4.9) without the electrical failure in addition, 39× via electro-migration (EM) improvement and 1.5× better TZDM were obtained in companson to the baseline NH3 plasma pretreatment process. And these interfaces were analyzed by XPS, TBM-EELS. According to these analyses, the mechanism for performance enhancement is proposed.
AB - A highly reliable interface using a self-aligned CuSiN process with Low-k SiC barrier dielectric (k=3.5) has been developed for 65mn node and beyond. Using this process as the barrier dielectric, a 4% reduction of the capacitance between the adjacent lines was obtained in comparison to SiCN dielectric (k=4.9) without the electrical failure in addition, 39× via electro-migration (EM) improvement and 1.5× better TZDM were obtained in companson to the baseline NH3 plasma pretreatment process. And these interfaces were analyzed by XPS, TBM-EELS. According to these analyses, the mechanism for performance enhancement is proposed.
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U2 - 10.1109/IITC.2006.1648665
DO - 10.1109/IITC.2006.1648665
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50249097333
SN - 1424401038
SN - 9781424401031
T3 - 2006 International Interconnect Technology Conference, IITC
SP - 125
EP - 127
BT - 2006 International Interconnect Technology Conference, IITC
T2 - 2006 International Interconnect Technology Conference, IITC
Y2 - 5 June 2006 through 7 June 2006
ER -