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Aluminum Wiring Reliability of Fluorinated Amorphous Carbon Interlayer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

M. Iguchi
Affiliation:
ULSI Device Development Labs, NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
Y. Matsubara
Affiliation:
ULSI Device Development Labs, NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
S. Ito
Affiliation:
ULSI Device Development Labs, NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
K. Endo
Affiliation:
Silicon System Res. Labs., NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
K. Koyanagi
Affiliation:
ULSI Device Development Labs, NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
K. Kishimoto
Affiliation:
ULSI Device Development Labs, NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
H. Gomi
Affiliation:
ULSI Device Development Labs, NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
T. Tatsumi
Affiliation:
Silicon System Res. Labs., NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
T. Horiuchi
Affiliation:
ULSI Device Development Labs, NEC Corporation Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
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Abstract

We investigated the aluminum wiring reliability of fluorinated amorphous carbon (a-C:F) interlayer dielectrics (ILD) using electromigration tests at the wafer level under accelerated stress conditions with current density ranging from 25–32 MA/cm2 and a the substrate temperature of 300 K. The a-C:F film is one of the low-k organic materials with a dielectric constant of 2.5. The thermal conductivity of the a-C:F film (0.108 W/m·K) is about one order lower than that of SiO2 (1.2 W/m.K). We found that joule heating effect is enhanced by the lower thermal conductivity of a-C:F and that the wiring lifetime for a-C:F ILD is about one order lower than that for SiO2 ILD under high current stress. However, when the wiring lifetime is plotted as a function of the wiring temperature, the wiring lifetimes for both a-C:F ILD and SiO2 ILD became almost the same. The degradation of the wiring lifetime for a-C:F ILD is explained by the increase of the wiring temperature which is caused from joule heating. Moreover, the activation energy of the electromigration for a-C:F ILD has the same value as that of SiO2 LD at a temperature.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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