WO2008016740A2 - Interconnect structure and process of making the same - Google Patents
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- the current invention relates to the field of semiconductor device manufacturing.
- it relates to an interconnect structure having trenches and vias and processes of making the same.
- interconnects or interconnect structures may be formed or created using well-known back end of line (BEOL) technologies.
- BEOL back end of line
- An interconnect may include for example trenches and/or vias, made of conductive and/or metal materials, and may be used to selectively connect a set of active devices to achieve a desired function or performance or a combination thereof.
- two or more layers of interconnect structures may be formed together, creating an interconnect block, referred to herein as an interconnect unit.
- an interconnect structure or a layer of interconnect structure may be formed by first creating one or more via openings in a layer of ILD materials.
- the ILD layer may be formed or deposited, such as through a conventional CVD or MOCVD technique as well-known in the art, on a surface of a prior level of interconnect layer or interconnect structure.
- one or more trench openings may be created in the same ILD layer, in regions or areas where at least one or more of the via openings have been created. The trench openings may therefore overlap at least partially with the via openings.
- a layer of liner which may be a metal liner, may be deposited onto the bottom and/or to the sidewalls of the opening in the ILD layer.
- the liner may be deposited to reduce and/or prevent possible diffusion of a conductive material, which fills up the via and trench opening in a follow-up step, into the ILD material for example during the manufacturing of the interconnect structure. Such diffusion of conductive metal materials into the ILD layer may cause device shortage and performance degradation, among others.
- the metal liner may be deposited with a thickness that is sufficient to provide a relatively good coverage for the via openings.
- the metal liner in the trench region which is deposited at the same time as that in the via region and thus having a thickness being dictated by the thickness of the metal liner deposited in the via region, may be unnecessarily thicker than it needs to be because a trench usually requires less liner coverage, as is known in the art. Consequently, a thicker metal liner in the trench region, coupled with a relatively low conductivity of the liner material, may cause an overall high resistance of the metal line formed later in the trench region.
- the conventional process of forming interconnect structures may cause trenches or metal lines to have roughened trench bottoms.
- the roughness at the bottom of trench is known, as described below in detail, to be caused by performing via gouging before applying the metal liner to the via and trench openings. This roughness becomes particularly severe when a layer of ultra-low dielectric k-constant (ULK) material is used as the ILD layer.
- ULK ultra-low dielectric k-constant
- FIGS. 1-5 are illustrations of a conventional process and/or method of forming an interconnect unit and/or an interconnect structure
- FIGS. 6-11 are illustrations of a dual liner interconnect structure and/or interconnect unit and a process of making the same according to one embodiment of the invention.
- Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of forming an interconnect structure in a layer of inter-layer dielectric (ILD) material.
- One embodiment of the method teaches creating one or more via openings in the layer of ILD material; forming a first liner covering at least one of the one or more via openings; creating one or more trench openings on top of at least one of the one or more via openings covered by the first liner; and forming a second liner covering at least one of the one or more trenching openings and at least part of the first liner.
- the method further teaches filling the via openings and trench openings with a conductive material; and planarizing the conductive material to be coplanar with a top surface of the layer of ILD material to form the interconnect structure, wherein the via openings are covered by the first and second liners and the trench openings are covered by the second liner.
- the method teaches a step of, before forming the first liner, gouging the via openings to create a gouge at a bottom of the via openings in a conductive area of a prior level interconnect structure, wherein the gouging comprises ion- sputtering the bottom of the via openings to create the gouge suitable for the deposition of the first liner.
- forming the first and/or second liner includes depositing a layer of metal lining material onto the via openings.
- the metal lining material may be selected from the group of Ta, TaN, Ti, TiN, W, WN and Ru.
- the layer of metal lining material has a thickness ranging from 1 metallic monolayer to tens of monolayers, and preferably between 1 and 5 monolayers.
- creating the one or more via openings includes forming a photo-mask pattern representing a top view of the via openings and applying wet-etching to copy the pattern into the ILD material to produce the via openings.
- creating the one or more trench openings includes forming a photo-mask pattern representing a top view of the trench openings and applying wet-etching to copy the pattern partially into the ILD material overlapping the via openings to produce the trench openings.
- Embodiments of the present invention also provide an interconnect structure in a semiconductor chip for connecting one or more semiconductor devices.
- the interconnect structure includes one or more vias; one or more trenches formed on top of at least one of the one or more vias; a first liner lining perimeters of at least one of the one or more vias; and a second liner lining perimeters of the one or more trenches and the first liner.
- the first and/or second liners include Ta, TaN, Ti, TiN, W, WN and Ru materials.
- Embodiments of the present invention further provide an interconnect structure, with tailored liner thicknesses at trench and via, serves to enhance the structural integrity of the via for reliability and reduce the parasitic electrical degradation through a more improved liner coverage, whilst optimizing conductivity performance of the trench.
- a conventional BEOL processing may include following well-known operations or steps such as, for example, dielectric barrier (“cap”) deposition, ILD deposition, hard-mask or photo-mask deposition, lithography, wet etching or dry etching, and deposition, among others.
- dielectric barrier (“cap") deposition ILD deposition
- hard-mask or photo-mask deposition lithography
- wet etching or dry etching and deposition
- FIGS. 1-5 are schematic illustrations of a conventional process and/or method of forming an interconnect unit and/or an interconnect structure.
- FIG. 1 illustrates that an interconnect structure 20 may be formed on top of a prior level of interconnect structure 10.
- a dielectric barrier layer 21 may be formed or deposited directly on top of interconnect structure 10, upon which a layer of inter-level dielectric (ILD) material 22 may be subsequently formed.
- ILD inter-level dielectric
- Via openings 23 may or may not be etched down into dielectric barrier layer 21.
- Interconnect structure 10 which may also be referred to as an interconnect layer or metal layer 10, may include one or more metal trenches and/or vias 14 embedded in a prior level of ILD layer 12.
- Dielectric barrier layer 21 may be formed or deposited on top of prior interconnect layer 10 to enable adequate over-etch of ILD layer 22 and provide process tolerance due to variations. According to one conventional process, dielectric barrier layer 21 provides protection for the metal structure, for example Cu structure of prior interconnect layer 10, from destructive device processing environments, such as resist removal, and possible surface diffusion by processing chemicals into the metal structure causing reliability issues of the structure. Therefore, dielectric barrier layer 21 may not be etched through and the etching process may need to be controlled adequately.
- FIG. 2 illustrates that after the creation, via openings 23 may be filled with certain types of planarizing materials such as, for example, an anti-reflection coating (ARC) material 32.
- ARC material 32 may fill up via openings 23 and may cover the top surface of ILD layer 22.
- resist poisoning may occur at this stage as is common in advanced integration construction. Resist poisoning occurs due to unfavorable interaction between dielectric structures, such as via openings 23, and resist material, such as ARC material 32. Resist poisoning may interfere with proper development of features of resist material 32 and shall be avoid if possible.
- a top surface of ARC material 32 may be planarized either during application or using post-processing techniques.
- the planarization may include, but not limited to, spin- on program optimization, thermal reflow, or chemical mechanical polishing (CMP).
- CMP chemical mechanical polishing
- a photo-mask 34 may subsequently be formed using techniques such as, for example, a lithographic technique or other conventional techniques that may be known in the art.
- the pattern of photo-mask 34 representing a desired and/or pre-determined shape of trenches, may be copied down or transferred to ILD layer 22, as illustrated in FIG. 3, by using techniques such as, for example, a reactive ion etching (RIE) technique.
- RIE reactive ion etching
- the etching of trench pattern may stop at a pre-determined depth, which is less deep than that of via openings 23, thus to form one or more trench openings 25 on top of via openings 23.
- ARC material 32 remaining in via openings 23 may be removed or stripped off, using well-known wet-etching or other techniques, to expose dielectric barrier layer 21 at the bottom of via openings 23 (FIG. 1).
- Dielectric barrier layer 21 at the bottom of via openings 23 is then removed by one of conventional etching processes, to expose metal element of trenches and/or vias 14 in the prior level of interconnect structure 10.
- FIG. 5 illustrates that after the formation of liner 30, a conductive metal material 24 is filled in the via and trench openings according to the conventional process.
- Conductive metal material 24 may be separated or isolated from ILD layer 22 of, for example, porous ULK material by liner 30.
- a planarizing process such as a CMP process, for example, may follow to produce a flat top surface 26 of interconnect layer or interconnect structure 20.
- the liner 30 is designed to have a sufficient thickness in order to provide good coverage for the via openings 23.
- the thickness of liner 30 in the trench openings, deposited during the same process and therefore being dictated by the thickness in the via openings 23, may in general not be suitable or tailored for the trench openings 25.
- liner 30 at the sidewalls of trench openings 25 may be thicker than required and therefore may result in increase in overall resistance of the trench which includes conductive metal material 24 and liner 30.
- Liner 30 may be a metal liner.
- the roughness 32 at trench bottom 25 may cause device performance degradation such as, for example, increased resistance and possible shortage with neighboring active devices. In severe cases, this may cause limitation in the possible depth of trenches that may be formed.
- a method or process is provided to create an interconnect layer or structure having dual liners of different thickness respectively for the trenches and for the vias.
- a method or process is provided to create an interconnect structure having via gouging at the bottom of vias but not at the bottom of trenches.
- FIGS. 6-11 are illustrations of a dual liner interconnect structure and/or interconnect unit and a process of making the same according to one embodiment of the invention.
- dielectric barrier layer 41 may be formed or deposited on top of a prior level interconnect layer 10.
- Dielectric barrier layer 41 may include materials such as, for example, SiN, SiNCH or other suitable Si- and/or N-containing materials.
- FIG. 6 further illustrates the formation of an interconnect structure 40 on top of prior level interconnect layer 10 via dielectric barrier layer 41 by depositing an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer 42 on top of dielectric barrier layer 41.
- ILD inter-level dielectric
- One or more via openings 43 may be subsequently created or formed through for example etching in ILD layer 42.
- Via openings 43 may be etched down into, and through, dielectric barrier layer 41.
- dielectric barrier layer 41 may be removed at this stage (in contrary to a conventional process as shown in FIG. 2) without causing reliability and/or damage to the metallic structure 14 of prior level interconnect layer or metal layer 10, as described below in detail with reference to FIG. 7.
- Prior level of metal layer 10 may include one or more trenches and/or vias 14, made of a metal or metal element such as copper (Cu) or other suitable conductive materials. Trenches and/or vias 14 are embedded in ILD layer 12.
- FIG. 7 illustrates that after their creation, a layer of lining material or a liner 50 may be deposited onto via openings 43 at the bottom and sidewalls, and on the top of interconnect structure 40.
- Liner 50 may be a metal liner and may include materials such as Ta, TaN, Ti, TiN, W, WN and Ru.
- the thickness of liner 50 may range from 1 metallic monolayer to tens of monolayers and preferably between 1 and 5 monolayers. However, the invention is not limited in this respect and other thicknesses may be used depending on factors such as, for example, the material of liner 50. Multiple layers of the aforementioned lining materials may be combined to form a multi-layer composite barrier structure for better performance.
- the application of metal liner 50 enables the removal of dielectric barrier layer 41 at this stage (FIG. 6) without causing possible reliability and/or damage to metal structure 14 and avoiding resist poisoning in a subsequent process step.
- via gouging may be performed to mitigate stresses at the bottom of via openings 43 to improve adhesiveness of metal liner 50 to metal element 14 of prior level of interconnect layer 10.
- via gouging is performed prior to the creation of trench openings 55 (FIG. 9)
- roughness at the bottom of trenches caused by via gouging as those shown in FIG. 4 may be avoided.
- metal liner 50 is deposited prior to the filling of via openings 43 with resist material 52 (FIG.
- metal liner 50 prevents resist material 52 from getting direct contact with dielectric materials (41 and 42) and metal element 14, thus prevents potential negative and/or unfavorable interaction of dielectric materials (41 and 42) and metal element 14 with the resist materials, as that in a conventional process shown in FIG. 2.
- FIG. 8 illustrates that, after being covered by liner 50, via openings 43 may be subsequently filled with a material 52 suitable for planarization.
- Material 52 may include, but not limited to, OPL (organic planarizing layer), IPL (inorganic planarizing layer), ARC (anti-reflection coating) or combinations thereof.
- a top surface of material 52 may then be planarized, and on the planarized top surface of material 52, a photo-mask 54 may be developed using a conventional lithographic technique as may be known in the art.
- the trench pattern may be copied down into ILD layer 42, as illustrated in FIG. 9, through a process known as line-level etching and using one or more conventional methods such as, for example, a reactive ion etching (RIE) method.
- RIE reactive ion etching
- a combination of multiple techniques may be used such as a concerted etching process, which may be non-selective, to open the ARC, metallic liner and ILD materials. Or selective processes which would first open the ARC and followed by a metal etch chemistry to remove the metallic liner in the lithographically defined pattern area may be used.
- the etching may be fluorine rich to prevent possible metal residues.
- a separate dielectric etch process which may stops at a pre-determined or desired depth less deep than that of via openings 43, may be employed to form one or more trench openings 55 on top of via openings 43.
- a combination of selective and non-selective etch processes may be applied to control the extent of recess of ARC material 52 in the via region to ensure metallic liner 50 at the bottom of the via is preserved.
- Trench openings 55 may be created or formed on top of at least one via opening 43, have a width that may be approximately the same as the diameter of underneath via opening 43, and align vertically, at least on one side, with via opening 43.
- trench openings 55 may have different widths from via openings 43, and in addition may not be in vertical alignment with via openings 43 as shown in FIG. 9.
- via openings 43 may have shapes other than those resembling a cylinder.
- photo-mask 54 remaining at the top surface of ILD layer 42 and ARC material 52 remaining in via openings 43 may be removed by applying techniques, as may be well- known in the art, for example, a wet-etching technique.
- a second layer of liner 51 may be applied or deposited onto the exposed sidewalls of trench openings 55 and on top of first layer of liner 50 inside via openings 43 as shown in FIG. 10.
- Liner 51 may be a metal liner and may include materials such as Ta, TaN, Ti, TiN, W, WN and Ru.
- thickness of liner 51 may be independently adjusted.
- thickness of liner 51 may be optimized to achieve a relative low, and possibly, minimum resistance.
- the thickness of liner 51 may range from 1 metallic monolayer to tens of monolayers, and preferably between 1 and 5 monolayers but the invention is not limited in this respect and other thickness may be used depend on factors including, but not limited to, the material of liner 51. Multiple layers of the aforementioned liner materials may be combined to form a multi-layer composite barrier structure for optimal performance.
- via and trench openings 43 and 55 may be filled with a metal material, such as copper (Cu), gold (Au), silver (Ag), tungsten (W) and alloys and/or compounds, as shown in FIG. 11, thereof suitable for interconnecting active devices.
- the filling of openings 43 and 55 may be through plating or seeding, forming interconnect metal line 44.
- a top surface of the metal material filling via and trench openings 43 and 55 may be planarized to be coplanar with the top surface of interconnect structure 40 through, for example, a CMP process.
- the resulting flat surface 46 may be suitable for subsequent device processing such as the manufacturing of a next level interconnect layer.
- An additional advantage provided by this invention is that the multiple metallic liner depositions may be tailored to provide a thicker liner in the field.
- a thicker liner provides a wider process window during Cu CMP as described above. For example, during a two step Cu CMP polish, the process may be designed to stop on the field liner or liner 50 (FIG. 10).
- the thicker field liner 50 enables more aggressive Cu polishing without compromising integrity of the dielectric material below. Otherwise, a lack of selectivity between the Cu polish step and the liner may contribute to the cause of non-planarity.
- the thicker liner provided by this invention can lead to improved planarity.
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