Masaaki Hatano
Toshiba
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international interconnect technology conference | 2002
Masaaki Hatano; Takamasa Usui; Y. Shimooka; H. Kaneko
Mean time to failure (MTF) of Cu damascene interconnects with p-SiC cap layer is achieved to be approximately 2 times as long as that with conventional p-SiN cap layer. This improvement can be explained by the difference of adhesion between Cu and the cap layer. It is also found that Cu dominant diffusion path is the interface between Cu and the cap layer for Cu interconnects with TaN/Ta and p-SiC, p-SiN.
international interconnect technology conference | 2006
Atsuko Sakata; Soichi Yamashita; Seiichi Omoto; Masaaki Hatano; Junichi Wada; Kazuyuki Higashi; Hitomi Yamaguchi; T. Yosho; K. Imamizu; Masaki Yamada; Masahiko Hasunuma; S. Takahashi; A. Yamada; Toshiaki Hasegawa; H. Kaneko
This paper elucidated for the first time that titanium (Ti) is an excellent barrier metal (BM) material from the stand point of cost and performance, especially for the porous low-k ILD materials. Both stress induced voiding (SIV) suppression and one order longer electromigration (EM) lifetime were obtained by introducing Ti instead of the conventional tantalum (Ta). It has been considered that the smaller volume change when oxidized and the existence of metallic Ti-O solid-solution phase for Ti would be the reason for its control of moisture penetration from the low-k ILD materials which resulted in excellent SIV suppression. No electrical resistance increase due to intermetallic reaction between Cu and Ti was observed. Furthermore, the suppression of Cu grain boundary migration was attributed to the segregation of Ti atoms at the Cu grain boundaries. This resulted in higher interconnect reliability
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics | 2004
Takamasa Usui; Tadayoshi Watanabe; Masaaki Hatano; Sachiyo Ito; Junichi Wada; Hisashi Kaneko
The electromigration (EM) of Al-0.5 wt%Cu/Nb-based liner dual damascene (DD) interconnects is investigated for the first time. It is found that EM-induced voids nucleate in the line around the via at the cathode end of the line and their number decreases as the distance from the via becomes longer for the tungusten (W)-single damascene (SD)/aluminum (Al)-dual damascene (DD) interconnects. This fact indicates W-SD/Al-DD interconnects has mono-modal EM failure. Regarding the Al-SD/Al-DD interconnects, two types of layered liner, niobium (Nb)/long throw sputtered (LTS)-niobium nitride (NbN)/Nb and Nb/self ionized sputtered (SIS)-NbN/Nb, are applied and the EM failure mode is investigated. It is found that the Nb/LTS-NbN/Nb liner sample has bi-modal failure, which manifests as normal failure similar to W-SD/Al-DD interconnects and failure with long time to failure (TTF), probably due to the continuous atom flow at the sidewall or bottom of the via in the lower Al-SD interconnects. On the contrary, the Nb/SIS-NbN/Nb liner sample has mono-modal failure with a tight distribution of the EM log-normal distribution, resulting in a high EM reliability.
Archive | 2008
Atsuko Sakata; Junichi Wada; Seiichi Omoto; Masaaki Hatano; Soichi Yamashita; Kazuyuki Higashi; Naofumi Nakamura; Masaki Yamada; Kazuya Kinoshita; Tomio Katata; Masahiko Hasunuma
Archive | 2010
Masaaki Hatano; Motoya Okazaki; Junichi Wada; Takeshi Nishioka; Hisashi Kaneko; Takeshi Fujimaki; Kazuyuki Higashi; Kenji Yoshida; Noriaki Matsunaga
international interconnect technology conference | 2004
Motoya Okazaki; Masaaki Hatano; K. Yoshida; S. Shibasaki; H. Kaneko; T. Yoda; N. Hayasaka
Archive | 2009
Atsuko Sakata; Junichi Wada; Seiichi Omoto; Masaaki Hatano; Soichi Yamashita; Kazuyuki Higashi; Naofumi Nakamura; Masaki Yamada; Kazuya Kinoshita; Tomio Katata; Masahiko Hasunuma
Archive | 2008
Masaaki Hatano
Archive | 2006
Masaaki Hatano; Motoya Okazaki; Junichi Wada; Takeshi Nishioka; Hisashi Kaneko; Takeshi Fujimaki; Kazuyuki Higashi; Kenji Yoshida; Noriaki Matsunaga
Archive | 2003
Masaaki Hatano; Hiroshi Ikegami; Takamasa Usui; Mie Matsuo