Yield issues with local interconnect

Neil Bryan Henis; Scott Bolton; Ruben Montez; James Legg; Sung Kim; Quong Vuong

doi:10.1117/12.324375

28 August 1998 Yield issues with local interconnect

Neil Bryan Henis, Scott Bolton, Ruben Montez, James Legg, Sung Kim, Quong Vuong

Proceedings Volume 3510, Microelectronic Manufacturing Yield, Reliability, and Failure Analysis IV; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.324375
Event: Microelectronic Manufacturing, 1998, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

We report here on process integration issues in the interconnect module of advanced microprocessor. We show how stresses in certain layers can affect yield and result in novel failure mechanisms in other layers. The paper will follow the history of a yield crash from beginning to end. We show how the problem was isolated, how yields were raised once the issues were fixed, and how an understanding of the issues involved can allow us to construct a more robust process from the beginning, therefore minimizing the possibility of such problems occurring in the first pace. The particular work here involves interactions of TiN with TEOS layers, and shows how local interconnect shorting can be caused by interactions between all of these layers. Stress effects in the as deposited TEOS films, although not obvious, can play a large role in determining whether or not problems occur. We also will examine how supposedly identical tools, or even two chambers within one tool can produce dramatically different end results in terms of film properties.

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Neil Bryan Henis, Scott Bolton, Ruben Montez, James Legg, Sung Kim, and Quong Vuong "Yield issues with local interconnect", Proc. SPIE 3510, Microelectronic Manufacturing Yield, Reliability, and Failure Analysis IV, (28 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.324375

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