Reduction of annealed-induced wafer defects in dual-damascene copper interconnects

Interconnects in very large scale integration (VLSI) chips are susceptible to failure due to mechanical stress in passivated interconnect lines. These mechanisms play a collective role for intensive research of thermal stability for Cu interconnects reliability in CMOS technologies. This paper prese...

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Published in:Microelectronics Reliability
Main Author: Abdul Wahab Y.; Ahmad A.F.; Hussin H.; Soin N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84866736037&doi=10.1016%2fj.microrel.2012.07.008&partnerID=40&md5=df23c87ff96874d44e22384c15dde7f6