Low dielectric constant materials

W Volksen, RD Miller, G Dubois - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Modern computer microprocessor chips are marvels of engineering complexity. For the
current 45 nm technology node, there may be nearly a billion transistors on a chip barely 1 …

[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 …

Research progress on porous low dielectric constant materials

M Xie, M Li, Q Sun, W Fan, S Xia, W Fu - Materials Science in …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI) of integrated circuits, the
feature size of the silicon chip continues shrinking and the physical gate length is …

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 …

PECVD low and ultralow dielectric constant materials: From invention and research to products

A Grill - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This paper is based on the 2015 AVS John A. Thornton Memorial Award Lecture. In 2015,
the semiconductor industry celebrated the 50th anniversary of Moore's law, which has been …

Plasma atomic layer etching of molybdenum with surface fluorination

Y Kim, H Kang, H Ha, C Kim, S Cho, H Chae - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
This work developed a plasma atomic layer etching (ALE) process for molybdenum (Mo)
with surface fluorination and ion bombardment. The Mo surface was fluorinated with CHF 3 …

Effect of wiring density and pillar structure on chip packaging interaction for mixed-signal Cu low k chips

W Chu, T Jiang, PS Ho - IEEE Transactions on Device and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel finite element analysis (FEA) was used to study the effects of wiring density and
solder pillar structure on chip-package interaction (CPI) for advanced Cu/low k mixed-signal …

Nuclear reaction analysis for H, Li, Be, B, C, N, O and F with an RBS check

WA Lanford, M Parenti, BJ Nordell, MM Paquette… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract 15 N nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) for H is combined with 1.2 MeV deuteron (D)
NRA which provides a simultaneous analysis for Li, Be, B, C, N, O and F. The energy …

Surface energy characterization for die-level Cu hybrid bonding

K Sakuma, R Yu, M Belyansky… - 2022 IEEE 72nd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The characteristics and quality of the bonding interface in hybrid bonding vary greatly
depending on physical and chemical factors during the bonding process. Quantitative …

Porous dielectrics in microelectronic wiring applications

V McGahay - Materials, 2010 - mdpi.com
Porous insulators are utilized in the wiring structure of microelectronic devices as a means of
reducing, through low dielectric permittivity, power consumption and signal delay in …