Low dielectric constant materials for microelectronics

K Maex, MR Baklanov, D Shamiryan, F Lacopi… - Journal of Applied …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The ever increasing requirements for electrical performance of on-chip wiring has driven
three major technological advances in recent years. First, copper has replaced Aluminum as …

Phase change materials

S Raoux - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Phase change materials (PCMs) can exist in at least two different phases (an amorphous
and one or more crystalline phases), and they can be switched repeatedly between these …

Porogens, porogenated precursors and methods for using the same to provide porous organosilica glass films with low dielectric constants

RN Vrtis, ML O'neill, JL Vincent, AS Lukas… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
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Mountsier 6,068,884 A 5, 2000 Rose et al. 6,171,945 B1 1/2001 Mandal et al. 6,238,751 B1 …

Chemical mechanical planarization: slurry chemistry, materials, and mechanisms

M Krishnan, JW Nalaskowski, LM Cook - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
The concept of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) was invented in IBM in the early
1980s by Klaus D. Beyer in an attempt to create a highly planar surface and enable …

Structure of low dielectric constant to extreme low dielectric constant SiCOH films: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy characterization

A Grill, DA Neumayer - Journal of applied physics, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Carbon doped oxide dielectrics comprised of Si, C, O, and H (SiCOH) have been prepared
by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) from mixtures of …

Chemical mechanical planarization for microelectronics applications

PB Zantye, A Kumar, AK Sikder - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2004 - Elsevier
The progressively decreasing feature size of the circuit components has tremendously
increased the need for the global surface planarization of the various thin film layers that …

Methods for using porogens and/or porogenated precursors to provide porous organosilica glass films with low dielectric constants

RN Vrtis, ML O'neill, JL Vincent, AS Lukas… - US Patent …, 2005 - Google Patents
A method for providing a porous organosilica glass (OSG) film that consists of a single
phase of a material represented by the formula SivOwCxHyFz, v+ w+ x+ y+ z= 100%, v is …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in the development and understanding of advanced low k and ultralow k dielectrics for very large-scale integrated interconnects—State of the art

A Grill, SM Gates, TE Ryan, SV Nguyen… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The improved performance of the semiconductor microprocessors was achieved for several
decades by continuous scaling of the device dimensions while using the same materials for …

Method for fabricating an ultralow dielectric constant material as an intralevel or interlevel dielectric in a semiconductor device and electronic device made

SM Gates, A Grill, DR Medeiros, D Neumayer… - US Patent …, 2006 - Google Patents
US7049247B2 - Method for fabricating an ultralow dielectric constant material as an
intralevel or interlevel dielectric in a semiconductor device and electronic device made …

Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposited SiCOH dielectrics: from low-k to extreme low-k interconnect materials

A Grill - Journal of Applied Physics, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Carbon doped oxide dielectrics comprised of Si, C, O, and H (SiCOH) have been prepared
by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Low-k films with a dielectric constant (k) of …