Effect of current crowding on copper dual damascene via bottom failure for ULSI applications

R. Arijit*, C. M. Tan, V. V. Anand, K. Ahila, G. Zhang, M. G. Subodh

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Abstract

Reliability issues is becoming more important in interconnect via. Electromigration experiments are performed on line/via structures in two level Cu dual damascene interconnection system and it is found that wide line/via fails earlier than the narrow line/via. Semi-classical width dependence Black's equation together with finite element analysis revealed that the difference in the time to failure is due to the much larger average current density along the heterogeneous interface for the wide line/via structure, and good agreement is obtained between the simulation and experimental results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages173-176
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits, IPFA 2004 - , Taiwan
Duration: 05 07 200408 07 2004

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits, IPFA 2004
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
Period05/07/0408/07/04

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