Abstract:
A system for determining an amount of radiation includes a dosimeter configured to receive the amount of radiation, the dosimeter comprising a circuit having a resonant frequency, such that the resonant frequency of the circuit changes according to the amount of radiation received by the dosimeter, the dosimeter further configured to absorb RF energy at the resonant frequency of the circuit; a radio frequency (RF) transmitter configured to transmit the RF energy at the resonant frequency to the dosimeter; and a receiver configured to determine the resonant frequency of the dosimeter based on the absorbed RF energy, wherein the amount of radiation is determined based on the resonant frequency.
Abstract:
Cobalt is added to a copper seed layer, a copper plating layer, or a copper capping layer in order to modify the microstructure of copper lines and vias. The cobalt can be in the form of a copper-cobalt alloy or as a very thin cobalt layer. The grain boundaries configured in bamboo microstructure in the inventive metal interconnect structure shut down copper grain boundary diffusion. The composition of the metal interconnect structure after grain growth contains from about 1 ppm to about 10 % of cobalt in atomic concentration. Grain boundaries extend from a top surface of a copper-cobalt alloy line to a bottom surface of the copper-cobalt alloy line, and are separated from any other grain boundary by a distance greater than a width of the copper-cobalt alloy line.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a submicron interconnection structure for an integrated circuit. SOLUTION: A seamless conductor without void can be obtained by electroplating Cu from a bath, usually employed for adhering Cu metal which comprises an adhering agent and which is flat, glossy, ductile and low stress. The capability of this method which permits super feature fill up without leaving void or seam is unique and more excellent than any other adhering methods. The resistance of electromigration having a structure utilizing Cu electroplated by this method is superior to the resistance of electromigration having a structure manufactured by employing Cu adhered in an AlCu structure or by a method except electroplating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing submicron interconnection structures for integrated circuits. SOLUTION: A void-less and seamless conductor can be obtained by electro-plating copper (Cu) in an ordinary additive-containing bath used to plate flat, glossy, ductile, and low stress copper metal. This method capable of super-filling features without leaving voids or seams has a unique capability and is superior to any other methods. The electromigration resistance of a structure utilizing Cu electroplated by this method is superior to the electromigration resistance of an AlCu structure or a structure manufactured using copper deposited by any other method than electroplating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a submicron interconnection structure for an integrated circuit. SOLUTION: By electroplating Cu in a bath which includes an additive and is usually used for adhering Cu metal which is flat and glossy and has high ductility and low stress, seamless semiconductor without void is obtained. This method allows a feature to be super-filled up without leaving void or seam. The resistance of electromigration with the structure utilizing Cu which is electroplated by this method is more excellent than the resistance of electromigration with the structure manufactured using Cu which is adhered by methods other than AlCu structure or electroplating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dual damascene process that can reliably form aluminum interconnection exhibiting improved electro migration characteristics, as compared with aluminum interconnection that is formed by the conventional RIE technique. SOLUTION: More specifically, the dual damascene process depends on a PVD-Ti/CVD-TiN barrier layer and forms an aluminum line showing great reduction in a saturation resistance level, the inhibition of the electro migration, or both of them especially in a line longer than 100 micrometers. The electromigration life time of the dual damascene aluminum line depends greatly on the conditions of materials and material-filling processes. When there is deviation in the materials and treatment, the electromigration life time way possibly become shorter than life time that is achieved by an aluminum RIE interconnection line, and this becomes a serious matter.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of chem-mech polishing an electronic component substrate. The method includes the following steps; obtaining a substrate having at least two features thereon or therein which have a different etch rate with respect to a particular etchant; and contacting the substrate with a polishing pad while contacting the substrate with a slurry containing the etchant wherein the slurry includes abrasive particles, a transition metal chelated salt and a solvent for the salt. The chem-mech polishing causes the at least two features to be substantially coplanar. Also disclosed is the chem-mech polishing slurry.
Abstract:
A sputtered low copper concentration multilayered device interconnect metallurgy structure is disclosed herein. The interconnect metallurgy is seen to comprise a four-layer structure over an interplanar stud connection (10) surrounded by an insulator (8) to make connection to a device substrate (6). The four-layer structure consists of an intermetallic bottom layer (12 min ) typically 700 ANGSTROM thick and, in a preferred embodiment would comprise TiAl3. Above is a low percent (
Abstract:
An implantation mask 204 is formed on a SOI or bulk silicon substrate such that a first portion of the substrate is located under the implant mask and a second portion of the substrate is exposed to oxygen ion implantation 301, forming charge/hole traps 302 in a buried oxygen layer (BOX) 202 or in the bulk silicon layer only in the un-masked portion of the substrate. After the mask is removed, FETs formed on the first portion of the substrate may be CMOS devices. FETs formed on the second portion of the substrate exhibit enhanced radiation sensitivity on account of the enhanced BOX layer (Fig. 4; 401) and can function as an on-chip semiconductor dosimeter to monitor the radiation exposure history of other devices on the substrate. After the oxygen ion implantation step, the mask may be further patterned and a second ion implantation step may be performed to give an area within the first portion of the substrate which comprises a BOX layer with an intermediate density of hole traps (Fig. 6; 604) so that FETs with intermediate radiation sensitivity can be fabricated. Multiple dosimeters may be formed, and different filter layers can correspond to different radiation types, for example a cover formed over an on-chip FDSOI dosimeter can prevent the dosimeter from detecting alpha-particles, or a filter can attenuate low energy x-rays but pass high energy gamma rays.
Abstract:
A process is described for the fabrication of submicron interconnect structures for integrated circuit chips. Void-free and seamless conductors are obtained by electroplating Cu from baths that contain additives and are conventionally used to deposit level, bright, ductile, and low-stress Cu metal. The capability of this method to superfill features without leaving voids or seams is unique and superior to that of other deposition approaches.