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Observation of Joule Heating-Assisted Electromigration Failure Mechanisms for Dual Damascene Cu/SiO₂ Interconnects
(2003-01)
Failure mechanisms observed in electromigration (EM) stressed dual damascene Cu/SiO₂ interconnects trees were studied and simulated. Failure sites with âmelt patch’ or âcrater’ are common for test structures in the top ...
Reliability of Multi-Terminal Copper Dual-Damascene Interconnect Trees
(2003-01)
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 ...
Characterization and Modeling of Stress Evolution During Nickel Silicides Formation
(2003-01)
An curvature measurement technique was used to characterize the stress evolution during reaction of a Ni film and a silicon substrate to form nickel silicide. Stress changes were measured at each stage of the silicide ...
Metallic Cluster Coalescence: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Boundary Formation
(2003-01)
During the evaporative deposition of polycrystalline thin films, the development of a tensile stress at small film thicknesses is associated with island coalescence. Several continuum models exist to describe the magnitude ...
Research on Polycrystalline Films for Micro- and Nano-Systems
(2003-01)
Polycrystalline films are used in a wide array of micro- and nano-scale devices, for electronic, mechanical, magnetic, photonic and chemical functions. Increasingly, the properties, performance, and reliability of films ...
Evolution of AlN buffer layers on Silicon and the effect on the property of the expitaxial GaN film
(2003-01)
The morphology evolution of high-temperature grown AlN nucleation layers on (111) silicon has been studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The structure and morphology of subsequently grown GaN film were characterized ...