• DocumentCode
    3193597
  • Title

    DRAM performance improvement by lowering interconnect capacitance

  • Author

    Li, Weimin ; Sandhu, Gurtej S. ; Cho, Chih-Chen ; Blalock, G.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Micron Technol. Inc., Boise, ID, USA
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2001
  • Firstpage
    78
  • Lastpage
    80
  • Abstract
    SiOC low k (k∼3.0) ILD was successfully integrated into a 0.18 μm Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) with high yields in probe, backend and QA reliability tests. As a result, the bitline capacitance (Cbit) was reduced by 8%. The refresh, speed and power consumption performances were significantly improved.
  • Keywords
    DRAM chips; VLSI; aluminium; capacitance; dielectric thin films; integrated circuit interconnections; 0.18 micron; Al; C-doped SiO/sub x/ films; DRAM performance improvement; SDRAM; SiO:C; SiOC; SiOC inter-layer dielectric; SiOC low k ILD; bitline capacitance; interconnect capacitance reduction; power consumption performance; refresh performance; speed performance improvement; synchronous DRAM; Capacitors; Conducting materials; Electrical capacitance tomography; Logic; Materials reliability; Probes; Random access memory; SDRAM; Testing; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Interconnect Technology Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 International
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6678-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IITC.2001.930023
  • Filename
    930023