• DocumentCode
    2052213
  • Title

    Use of bidirectional current stress for in depth analysis of electromigration mechanism

  • Author

    Doyen, L. ; Arnaud, L. ; Federspiel, X. ; Waltz, P. ; Wouters, Y.

  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    April 27 2008-May 1 2008
  • Firstpage
    681
  • Lastpage
    682
  • Abstract
    Electromigration under bidirectional current is studied on dual damascene copper interconnects for the 65 nm node. Physical analyses confirm void location a both ends of the line and copper transport over long distance. Resistance evolution was studied and correlated to void healing/growth kinetics. Finally, we show the interest of bidirectional tests to study multimodal failure mode.
  • Keywords
    copper; electromigration; integrated circuit interconnections; voids (solid); Cu; bidirectional current stress; copper transport; dual damascene copper interconnects; electromigration; multimodal failure mode; resistance evolution; void healing-growth kinetics; void location; Circuit testing; Copper; Current density; Electrical resistance measurement; Electromigration; Electron mobility; Failure analysis; Integrated circuit interconnections; Microelectronics; Stress;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability Physics Symposium, 2008. IRPS 2008. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2049-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2050-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RELPHY.2008.4558986
  • Filename
    4558986