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Manufacturing and Technology Requirements for Submicron Multilevel Metal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

T. E. Seidel*
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SEMATECH, 2706 Montopolis Drive, Austin, TX 78741
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Multilevel Metal (MLM) technology has been driven by the need for ever faster switching speed. In the simplest considerations, this need has been described by the RC time constant applied to the metal interconnect runner embedded in a dielectric medium:

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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