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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721.1/3730| Title: | Reliability of Multi-Terminal Copper Dual-Damascene Interconnect Trees |
| Keywords: | copper dual-damascene interconnect trees electromigration via-to-via dotted-I interconnect trees levels of metallization |
| Issue Date: | 9-Oct-2013 |
| Description: | Electromigration tests on different Cu dual-damascene interconnect tree structures consisting of various numbers of straight via-to-via lines connected at the common middle terminal have been carried out. Like Al-based interconnects, the reliability of a segment in a Cu-based interconnect tree strongly depends on the stress conditions of connected segments. The analytic model based on a nodal analysis developed for Al trees gives a conservative estimate of the lifetime of Cu-based interconnect trees. However, there are important differences in the results obtained under similar test conditions for Al-based and Cu-based interconnect trees. These differences are attributed to the variations in the architectural schemes of the two metallization systems. The absence of a conducting electromigration-resistant overlayer in Cu technology and the low critical stress for void nucleation at the Cu/inter-level diffusion barrier (i.e. Si₃N₄) interface leads to different failure modes between Cu and Al interconnects. As a result, the most highly stressed segment in a Cu-based interconnect tree is not always the least reliable. Moreover, the possibility of liner rupture at stressed dual-damascene vias leads to significant differences in tree reliabilities in Cu compared to Al. While an interconnect tree can be treated as a fundamental unit whose reliability is independent of that of other units in Al-based interconnect architectures, interconnect trees can not be treated as fundamental units for circuit-level reliability analyses for Cu-based interconnects. Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3730 |
| Appears in Collections: | MIT Items |
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