Project

Physicochemical mechanism of copper damascene plating

Code
180C4508
Duration
01 June 2008 → 31 August 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Inorganic chemistry
Keywords
damascene plating
 
Project description

In this project, a systematic electrochemical study will be done to investigate the main reactions involved and determine some of the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters, which will then be used in subsequent modeling of the established mechanism. In addition, copper plating experiments will be done on patterned structures to determine the superfilling kinetics associated with certain solution compositions and the effect of feature size. For the electrochemical techniques, mainly the rotating-ring disk technique will be used. With this technique it is possible to follow the formation of cuprous intermediates during copper electrodeposition and determine the effect of the organic additives.