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Cu grain growth in damascene narrow trenches

Maitrejean, S.
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Carreau, V.
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Thomas, O.
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2009
AIP Conference Proceedings
10th International Workshop on Stress-Induced Phenomena in Metallization

Since the end of the last century, Cu damascene integration scheme has been the favoured choice for advanced interconnect technologies. Indeed, due to the lowest Cu bulk resistivity and to it higher resistance to electromigration, performances enhancement with respect to Al have been obtained. Nevertheless, dimensional scaling considerably reduces these performances. At line width below 150nm, grain size is usually measured around line dimension and thus decreases with down scaling. Moreover, columnar grain morphology perpendicular to line sidewall is frequently observed. This results in a large increase of Cu resistivity and in degradation of resistance to electromigration. Optimization of Cu microstructure in damascene architecture is then required. This is the topic of this work. Direct measurements of microstructure through electron microscopy (TEM, EBSD) and X ray diffraction methods are performed. Indirect measurement of grain size evolutions via resistivity characterization is done. Complementary grain growth simulations are performed using vertex method. It is observed that, depending on line dimension, anneal conditions and electrolyte, different type of microstructures are achieved. As expected, certainly due grain boundary pinning on sidewall, for long time anneal, a stable situation is reached. We evidence that Cu line microstructure results from an interaction between grain growth inside the trenches and grain growth in the Cu overburden. On one hand, for the larger lines, the grain size is directly related to the grain growth in the overburden, on the other hand, for the narrowest lines, interfaces limit the impact of this layer on the inline grain growth. A quantitative measurement of overburden microstructure extension in trenches is reported. It could be used to optimize the in-line microstructure with respect to resistivity and electromigration resistance. © 2009 American Institute of Physics.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1063/1.3169253
Author(s)
Maitrejean, S.
Carreau, V.
Thomas, O.
Labat, S.
Kaouache, B.
Verdier, M.
Lepinoux, J.
Bréchet, Y.
Legros, M.
Douin, J.
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Date Issued

2009

Published in
AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume

1143

Start page

135

Subjects

Cu

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Grain growth

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Interconnects

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10th International Workshop on Stress-Induced Phenomena in Metallization

2009

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