Editors' Choice—Interface Engineering Strategy Utilizing Electrochemical ALD of Cu-Zn for Enabling Metallization of Sub-10 nm Semiconductor Device Nodes

  • Joi A
  • Venkatraman K
  • Tso K
  • et al.
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© The Author(s) 2019. A novel interface engineering approach, utilizing electrochemical atomic layer deposition (e-ALD) of Cu(Zn) on a Ru liner, is presented for enabling the metallization of sub-10 nm interconnects in future semiconductor devices. Upon thermal treatment, Zn present in the e-ALD Cu layer at ∼0.8 at.% is shown to diffuse through the Ru liner and react with the SiO2 to form a Zn-silicate layer at the Ru-SiO2 interface. This ‘self-forming’ interfacial layer provides adhesion enhancement to the Ru-SiO2 interface and serves as a diffusion barrier retarding Cu diffusion into the SiO2 layer while enabling void-free gap-filling of high aspect ratio trench structures. Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy and Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure analyses confirm that the self-formed barrier layer is composed primarily of Zn2SiO4. The interface engineering approach utilizing Cu(Zn) presented herein offers several potential advantages over traditional Mn-based self-forming barrier approaches, i.e., scalability to narrower dimensions and minimal impact to interconnect resistance.

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Joi, A., Venkatraman, K., Tso, K.-C., Dictus, D., Dordi, Y., Wu, P.-W., … Akolkar, R. (2019). Editors’ Choice—Interface Engineering Strategy Utilizing Electrochemical ALD of Cu-Zn for Enabling Metallization of Sub-10 nm Semiconductor Device Nodes. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 8(9), P516–P521. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0181909jss

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