[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive Review on the Impact of Chemical Composition, Plasma Treatment, and Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Irradiation on the Electrical Properties of …

MR Baklanov, AA Gismatulin, S Naumov, TV Perevalov… - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Organosilicate glass (OSG) films are a critical component in modern electronic devices, with
their electrical properties playing a crucial role in device performance. This comprehensive …

Deterministic and Monte Carlo methods for simulation of plasma‐surface interactions

D Marinov, C Teixeira, V Guerra - Plasma Processes and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Two approaches to the modeling of surface kinetics in reactive plasmas are discussed.
Coarse‐grained deterministic models incorporate rate balance equations for coverages of …

Impact of VUV photons on SiO2 and organosilicate low-k dielectrics: General behavior, practical applications, and atomic models

MR Baklanov, V Jousseaume, TV Rakhimova… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an in-depth overview of the application and impact of UV/VUV light in
advanced interconnect technology. UV light application in BEOL historically was mainly …

Dielectric barrier discharge-based defect engineering method to assist flash sintering.

X Zhao, N Yan, Y Li, Z Shen, R Huang… - Journal of …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
Oxygen vacancy OV plays an important role in a flash sintering (FS) process. In defect
engineering, the methods of creating oxygen vacancy defects include doping, heating, and …

Investigation of PTFE-based ultra-low dielectric constant composite substrates with hollow silica ceramics

Y Wang, Z Yang, H Wang, E Li, Y Yuan - Journal of Materials Science …, 2022 - Springer
Polytetrafluoroethylene was composited with low dielectric constant hollow SiO2 powders to
obtain an ultra-low dielectric constant high-frequency microwave composite substrate. The …

Cyclic plasma halogenation of amorphous carbon for defect-free area-selective atomic layer deposition of titanium oxide

M Krishtab, S Armini, J Meersschaut… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
As critical dimensions in integrated circuits continue to shrink, the lithography-based
alignment of adjacent patterned layers becomes more challenging. Area-selective atomic …

Effect of terminal methyl group concentration on critical properties and plasma resistance of organosilicate low-k dielectrics

AA Rezvanov, AV Miakonkikh, DS Seregin… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Surfactant-templated porous organosilicate glass low-k films have been deposited by using
a tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and methyltriethoxysilane (MTEOS) mixture with different ratios …

Multi-step reaction mechanism for F atom interactions with organosilicate glass and SiOx films

YA Mankelevich, EN Voronina… - Journal of Physics D …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
An ab initio approach with the density functional theory (DFT) method was used to study F
atom interactions with organosilicate glass (OSG)-based low-k dielectric films. Because of …

Review of methods for the mitigation of plasma‐induced damage to low‐dielectric‐constant interlayer dielectrics used for semiconductor logic device interconnects

H Miyajima, K Ishikawa, M Sekine… - Plasma Processes and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The developments in advanced interconnect technology for semiconductor logic devices for
the mitigation of plasma‐induced damage to low‐dielectric‐constant (low‐k) materials …

Modification of Porous Ultralow-k Film by Vacuum Ultraviolet Emission

AI Zotovich, SM Zyryanov, DV Lopaev… - ACS Applied …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Modification of spin-on-deposited porous PMO (periodic mesoporous organosilica) ultralow-
k (ULK) SiCOH films (k= 2.33) containing both methyl terminal and methylene bridging …