Wahab, Yasmin Abdul and Fadzil, Anuar and Soin, Norhayati and Fatmadiana, Sharifah and Chowdhury, Zaira Zaman and Hamizi, Nor Aliya and Pivehzhani, Omid Akbarzadeh and Sabapathy, Thennarasan and Al-Douri, Yarub (2019) Uniformity improvement by integrated electrochemical-plating process for CMOS logic technologies. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 38. pp. 422-431. ISSN 1526-6125, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2019.01.025.
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Reliability of metal interconnects and the integration of inspection and metrology with process tools are advancing rapidly to overcome obstacles in down stream production. A significant drawback associated with metal interconnects which has resulted from the recent trend is the difficulty in obtaining uniform electroplated layer thicknesses across the maximum lateral dimension of the CMOS logic wafer. The prime objective of this paper is, to-root-cause uniformity troubleshooting by the adoption of integrated diffuser in electrochemical-plating (ECP) system optimizations. These are to quantify the best degree of uniformity and high resistivity to enhance an even current distribution on the wafer. The results show that uniformity of the deposited film has been improved significantly with 1.9%. i.e., maximum deviation of the deposited film thickness is at about 1.9% of the average film thickness, while standard electroplating processes typically achieves uniformity at best within 5.5%. Furthermore, the origin of “hot spots’’ that caused poor uniformity was identified and greatly overcome with the improved ECP system comprising an integrated diffuser design and process modifications in real troubleshooting of back –end operation line (BEOL) of semiconductor foundry. © 2019 The Society of Manufacturing Engineers
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Thin Film Metal Division from Silterra Malaysia and High Impact Research Grant of University of Malaya ( UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/19 ) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Electrochemical-plating; Hot spots; Integrated diffuser; Uniformity; Resistivity and troubleshooting |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2020 06:33 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2020 06:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/24257 |
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