• DocumentCode
    709818
  • Title

    TDDB improvement of copper/dielectric in the highly-integrated BEOL structure for 28nm technology node and beyond

  • Author

    Cheng-Pu Chiu ; Yen-Chun Liu ; Bin-Siang Tsai ; Yi-Jing Wang ; Yeh-Sheng Lin ; Yun-Ru Chen ; Chien-Lin Weng ; Sheng-Yuan Hsueh ; Hung, Jack ; Ho-Yu Lai ; Jei-Ming Chen ; Cheng, Albert H.-B ; Chien-Chung Huang

  • Author_Institution
    Adv. Technol. Dev. Div., United Microelectron. Corp., Tainan, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    19-23 April 2015
  • Abstract
    Here we demonstrate the copper/dielectric TDDB improvement of 8 metal layers in 28nm technology node with 90 nm pitch. After the process optimization, the Weibull slope of MOM TDDB increase from 0.85 to 1.28 that improves the estimated MOM TDDB about 200 times.
  • Keywords
    copper; dielectric materials; electromigration; MOM TDDB estimation; Weibull slope; copper-dielectric TDDB improvement; highly-integrated BEOL structure; metal layers; process optimization; size 28 nm; Copper; Dielectrics; Integrated circuit reliability; Method of moments; Process control; BEOL; TDDB; process optimization; reliability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 2015 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRPS.2015.7112701
  • Filename
    7112701