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Environmentally benign manufacturing of three dimensional integrated circuits

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Somani, Ajay
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Manufacturing of three dimensional integrated circuits
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering.
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Duane S. Boning.
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Along with scaling down in size, novel materials have been introduced into the semiconductor industry to enable continued improvements in performance and cost as predicted by Moore's law. It has become important now more than ever to include an environmental impact evaluation of future technologies, before they are introduced into manufacturing, in order to identify potentially environmentally harmful materials or processes and understand their implications, costs, and mitigation requirements. In this thesis, we introduce a methodology to compare alternative options on the environmental axis, along with the cost and performance axes, in order to create environmentally aware and benign technologies. This methodology also helps to identify potential performance and cost issues in novel technologies by taking a transparent and bottoms-up assessment approach. This methodology is applied to the evaluation of the MIT 3D IC technology in comparison to a standard CMOS 2D IC approach. Both options are compared on all three axes - performance, cost and environmental impact.
 
(cont.) The "handle wafer" unit process in the existing 3D IC technology, which is a crucial process for back-to-face integration, is found to have a large environmental impact because of its use of thick metal sacrificial layers and high energy consumption. We explore three different handle wafer options, between-die channel, oxide release layer, and alternative low-temperature permanent bonding. The first two approaches use a chemical handle wafer release mechanism; while the third explores solid liquid inter-diffusion (SLID) bonding using copper-indium at 2000C. Preliminary results for copper-indium bonding indicate that a sub-micron thick multi-layer copper-indium stack, when bonded to a 300 nm thick copper film results in large voids in the bonding interface primarily due to rough as-deposited films. Finally, we conduct an overall assessment of these and other proposed handle wafer technologies. The overall assessment shows that but the oxide release layer approach appears promising; however, each process option has its strength and weaknesses, which need to be understood and pursued accordingly.
 
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2007.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231).
 
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2007
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40350
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Materials Science and Engineering.

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