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Electromigration Damage Studied by 1/f Noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

K. Dagge
K. Dagge*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut fiir Metallforschung, Institut fur Physik, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany, e-mail: noiseQphysx4.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de
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Abstract

Thin polycrystalline aluminum films were investigated by high-resolution ac noisemeasurements before and after damaging by high direct current. Immediately after the interruption of the dc-stress a transient noise component was observed that was inversely proportional to the square of the frequency f (1/f2 -noise). It was caused by discrete jumps in the resistance presumably due to the relaxation of mechanical stress. The second component of noise was stable and in all cases approximately proportional to 1/f. The spectral density of 1/f-noise showed characteristic discrete steps as a function of damaging time, in contrast to the resistance which increased almost continuously up to the failure of the film. This indicates that nucleation-and-growth processes of mobile defects were observed in the noise measurements. Thus noise measurements might help to understand the microscopic process of electromigration.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 428: Symposium L – Materials Reliability in Microelectronics VI , 1996 , 147
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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