CN112038286A - Method for improving hillock defect in copper interconnection process - Google Patents

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CN112038286A
CN112038286A CN202010877270.6A CN202010877270A CN112038286A CN 112038286 A CN112038286 A CN 112038286A CN 202010877270 A CN202010877270 A CN 202010877270A CN 112038286 A CN112038286 A CN 112038286A
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The invention discloses a method for improving hillock-shaped bulge defects in a copper interconnection process, which comprises the following steps: step S1, forming a semiconductor device with a copper substrate pattern; step S2, depositing a 300-350 ℃ silicon carbide film on the surface of the semiconductor device as a copper overflow barrier layer; and S3, depositing the silicon carbide film, and then performing thermal annealing treatment by using a low-temperature furnace tube process at 300-350 ℃, and depositing a high-temperature silicon nitride film serving as an etching barrier layer on the surface of the copper overflow barrier layer in S4. According to the invention, a thin silicon carbide film is deposited at a low temperature before the silicon nitride film is deposited at a high temperature of 400 ℃ after copper CMP and is used as a copper overflow barrier layer, and low-temperature furnace tube annealing treatment is carried out after the copper overflow barrier layer is formed, so that copper overflow is blocked by using the silicon carbide layer, copper diffusion is reduced, the silicon carbide layer after annealing treatment can be better adhered to the copper surface, the copper property after annealing is more stable, the effect of stabilizing the copper surface is achieved, and the defect of the hillock-shaped bulge is further improved.

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Method for improving hillock defect in copper interconnection process
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of semiconductor manufacturing, in particular to a method for improving hillock-shaped bulge defects in a copper interconnection process.
Background
With the development of the integrated circuit manufacturing process, the critical dimension of the device is smaller and smaller, the integration level is higher and higher, the line width of the metal interconnection line is continuously reduced, the occupied area and the cost of the metal interconnection line in the whole circuit are higher and higher, five to six layers of wiring are needed for the metal interconnection, and the influence of the back-end metal interconnection on the working speed, the power consumption and the like of the chip is larger and larger.
In back-end metal interconnection, due to the characteristics of low resistivity, strong electromigration resistance and the like of copper, aluminum metal is replaced, and the copper-based back-end metal interconnection is a material commonly adopted in the manufacturing of an interconnection layer of a semiconductor integrated circuit at present and becomes an industrial standard. To date, the mainstream 0.13 μm and below processes have used copper interconnect processes for back-end metal interconnects.
Because of the high reactivity of copper, preventing copper diffusion becomes critical, and many new methods are applied to device fabrication processes for improving device performance. Among them, silicon nitride is widely used because of its properties such as good etching selectivity, good copper adhesion, and capability of blocking copper diffusion between interfaces.
In the reports so far, researchers generally believe that the diffusion of copper between interfaces is better suppressed only by increasing the adhesion of silicon nitride to the copper surface, and therefore, most have focused on the addition of a pretreatment step after copper CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) to remove the copper oxide layer due to copper denuded, thereby reducing the contact resistance between interfaces and preventing the diffusion phenomenon of copper between interfaces.
In the current process node of 65/55/40/28/22nm and the like, a silicon nitride film (usually under a process condition of 400 ℃) is deposited as an etching barrier layer after the top copper CMP, as shown in FIG. 1, and a large amount of hillock defects inevitably occur after the silicon nitride film is deposited, as shown in FIG. 2 b. In essence, the reason for the hillock defect is that the hillock defect is caused by the fact that the copper-clad dielectric layer with low dielectric constant is adopted to satisfy the capacitive reactance caused by the lower dielectric layer, and the dielectric layer with low dielectric constant is often loose, and the loose dielectric layer has the side effect that the copper wire overflow is difficult to be pressed under high temperature or other external factors.
With the gradual shrinkage of the process node, the copper hillock defect becomes more serious to reach more than 250000 at the process node of 40nm, as shown in fig. 2 a. Copper hillock protruding defect has always had the copper infiltration phenomenon that the angle area is relatively weak, and the copper infiltration phenomenon is because the distance of copper line and copper line becomes shorter and shorter under the condition that the technology node reduces gradually to the risk that causes the electric current breakdown that shows can be bigger and bigger.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a method for improving the hillock-shaped protrusion defect in the copper interconnection process, which can solve the problem that a large amount of spherical protrusion defects appear after a silicon nitride film is deposited after copper CMP in the existing copper interconnection process.
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a method for improving hillock defect in copper interconnect process, comprising the following steps:
step S1, forming a semiconductor device with a copper substrate pattern on the surface;
step S2, depositing a silicon carbide film on the surface of the semiconductor device, taking the silicon carbide film as a copper overflow barrier layer, and depositing the silicon carbide film at the temperature of 300-350 ℃;
step S3, after the silicon carbide film is deposited, carrying out thermal annealing treatment by using a low-temperature furnace tube process at 300-350 ℃, wherein the treatment time is 20-30 minutes;
and step S4, depositing a required silicon nitride film serving as an etching barrier layer on the surface of the silicon carbide film, wherein the silicon nitride film is deposited at the temperature of 400 ℃.
In step S2, the copper overflow barrier layer has a thickness of 50 to 200 angstroms.
Wherein, in step S2, the silicon carbide film is deposited under the condition of 350 ℃.
In step S3, the temperature of the thermal annealing treatment is 350 ℃.
Wherein the process conditions for forming the copper overflow barrier include: the pressure is 1 Torr-5 Torr, the flow rate of nitrogen is 100 sccm-10000 sccm, the flow rate of tetramethylsilane is 100 sccm-1000 sccm, the working power of the high-frequency radio frequency source is 100W-1000W, and the duration is 1 s-20 s.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
according to the invention, a layer of silicon carbide film is deposited at a low temperature before the deposition of the high-temperature silicon nitride film which causes the hillock-shaped bulge defect is carried out after copper CMP, the silicon carbide film is used as a copper overflow barrier layer to reduce the diffusion of copper, and the surface of the silicon carbide film is subjected to low-temperature annealing treatment, so that the silicon carbide film can be better adhered to the surface of the copper, the stability of the copper between interfaces is effectively improved, the number of hillock-shaped bulge defects caused by rapid extrusion due to the fact that the high-temperature silicon nitride deposition process is directly carried out on the surface of the copper can be obviously improved, and the effect is obvious.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional copper interconnect process;
FIG. 2a is a graph showing a hillock defect in a conventional copper interconnect process;
FIG. 2b is a schematic diagram of a hillock defect in a conventional copper interconnect process;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a method of an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a copper interconnect process in an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating hillock defects in a copper interconnect process according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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Embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are intended to illustrate general characteristics of methods, structures and/or materials used in certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and to supplement the description in the specification. The drawings of the present invention, however, are not to scale and may not accurately reflect the precise structural or performance characteristics of any given embodiment, and should not be construed as limiting or restricting the scope of values or properties encompassed by exemplary embodiments in accordance with the present invention.
Other advantages and effects of the present invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art from the disclosure herein. In the following description, specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, but the present invention may be practiced or applied in different embodiments, and the details may be based on different viewpoints and applications, and may be widely spread and replaced by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
It should be noted that the features of the above embodiments and examples may be combined with each other without conflict. Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs.
The method for improving the hillock defect in the copper interconnection process in the embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, includes the following steps:
step S1, forming a semiconductor device 100 with a copper substrate pattern, wherein the surface of the semiconductor device 100 is a plane formed by copper and dielectric;
step S2, depositing a silicon carbide film 101 on the surface of the semiconductor device 100, using the silicon carbide film 101 as a copper overflow barrier layer, and depositing the silicon carbide film 101 at 300-350 ℃;
preferably, the silicon carbide film 101 is deposited at 350 ℃;
step S3, depositing the silicon carbide film 101, and then performing thermal annealing treatment by using a low-temperature furnace tube process at 300-350 ℃, wherein the treatment time is 20-30 minutes;
step S4, depositing a silicon nitride film 102 as an etching barrier layer on the surface of the silicon carbide film 101, depositing the silicon nitride film 102 at 400 ℃, and forming a cross-sectional view of the device structure as shown in fig. 4.
In step S2, the copper overflow barrier 101 has a thickness of 50 to 200 angstroms.
In step S2, the process conditions for forming the copper overflow barrier 101 include: the pressure is 1Torr to 5Torr, the flow rate of nitrogen is 100sccm (standard cubic centimeter) to 10000sccm, the flow rate of tetramethylsilane (4MS) is 100sccm to 1000sccm, the working power of the high-frequency radio frequency source is 100W to 1000W, and the duration is 1s to 20 s.
In step S3, the temperature of the low-temperature annealing treatment is 300-350 ℃. In this embodiment, the temperature of the annealing treatment is preferably 350 ℃.
In step S4, the formation temperature of the silicon nitride film 102 is 400 ℃.
According to the embodiment of the invention, a silicon carbide film is deposited at a low temperature before a high-temperature silicon nitride film causing hillock defects is deposited after copper CMP, the silicon carbide film is used as a copper overflow barrier layer to reduce copper diffusion, and low-temperature annealing treatment is carried out on the surface of the silicon carbide film, so that the treated silicon carbide film can be better adhered to the copper surface, and the annealed copper property is more stable, thereby playing a role in stabilizing the copper surface, and effectively improving the stability of copper between interfaces, so that the number of hillock defects caused by sharp extrusion due to the fact that the copper surface is directly subjected to a high-temperature silicon nitride deposition process can be remarkably improved, as shown in FIG. 5, the hillock defects on the copper surface can be reduced to 0 from more than 250000 in FIG. 2a after the silicon carbide layer is deposited, and the effect is remarkable.
The present invention has been described in detail with reference to the specific embodiments, which are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Equivalent alterations and modifications in the setting of process conditions by those skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the invention should be considered to be within the technical scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

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1. A method for improving hillock defects in a copper interconnect process, comprising the steps of:
step S1, forming a semiconductor device with a copper substrate pattern on the surface;
step S2, depositing a silicon carbide film on the surface of the semiconductor device, taking the silicon carbide film as a copper overflow barrier layer, and depositing the silicon carbide film at the temperature of 300-350 ℃;
step S3, after the silicon carbide film is deposited, carrying out thermal annealing treatment by using a low-temperature furnace tube process at 300-350 ℃, wherein the treatment time is 20-30 minutes;
and step S4, depositing a silicon nitride film which is required to be used as an etching barrier layer on the surface of the silicon carbide film.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein in step S2, the thickness of the copper overflow barrier layer is 50-200 angstroms.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the process conditions for forming the copper overflow barrier layer comprise: the pressure is 1Torr to 5Torr, the flow rate of nitrogen is 100sccm to 10000sccm, the flow rate of tetramethylsilane is 100sccm to 1000sccm, and the working power of the high-frequency radio source is 100W to 1000W.
4. The method of improving hillock defects in a copper interconnect process as recited in claim 1, wherein in step S2, said silicon carbide film is deposited at 350 ℃.
5. The method for improving hillock defects in copper interconnect processes as recited in claim 1, wherein the thermal annealing treatment temperature is 350 ℃ in step S3.
6. The method of improving hillock defects in copper interconnect processes as recited in claim 1, wherein said silicon nitride film is deposited at 400 ℃ in step S4.
7. The method for improving hillock defects in copper interconnect processes as recited in claim 3, wherein the duration of said copper overflow barrier deposition process is in the range of 1s to 20 s.
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