不同表面活性剂对铜互连阻挡层CMP一致性的影响北大核心CSCD

为实现铜互连阻挡层化学机械抛光的高平坦化,研究了阻挡层抛光液中表面活性剂的作用。在抛光液中分别添加非离子型表面活性剂异辛醇聚氧乙烯醚(JFC-E)、本课题组研发的Ⅱ型活性剂以及复合表面活性剂,研究其对阻挡层CMP中铜和正硅酸乙酯(TEOS)去除速率及一致性的影响。实验结果表明,表面活性剂不仅可以改善Cu和TEOS的去除速率一致性和晶圆全局一致性,还可以降低铜表面的粗糙度,通过复配两种不同的表面活性剂,可以提高Cu和TEOS的去除速率,使Cu和TEOS的剩余厚度片内非均匀性(WIWNU)分别降低至1.39%和1.38%,铜表面粗糙度从5.25 nm降至1.51 nm。基于实验结果,研究并提出了表面活性剂影响抛光液润湿性,从而改善片内非均匀性和铜表面质量的机理。     

螯合剂与氧化剂协同降低CMP中Co/Cu电偶腐蚀

钴(Co)作为10 nm及以下技术节点的铜互连极大规模集成电路(GLSI)的新型阻挡层材料,在阻挡层化学机械抛光(CMP)中易与铜(Cu)发生电偶腐蚀。本文采用电化学、CMP、静态腐蚀实验以及扫描电镜(SEM)表征方法,研究了弱碱性抛光液中螯合剂和氧化剂在Co/Cu电偶腐蚀中的协同作用。研究表明:抛光液中的氧化作用,使得Co和Cu表面生成一层由氧化物及氢氧化物组成的钝化膜,抑制了Co和Cu的静态腐蚀;多羟多胺螯合剂浓度增加,抛光液pH升高,Co和Cu表面钝化膜的生成加快;CMP过程中,Co和Cu腐蚀电位均有明显降低,去除速率均加快。抛光液组分为1.5 ml·L-1H2O2、0.1%FA/O螯合剂、30%AEO-9、5%硅溶胶(质量分数)时,Co的腐蚀电位低于Cu的腐蚀电位;研磨状态下,Co/Cu腐蚀电位差降到-6 m V,电偶腐蚀电流很小,极大地减弱Co/Cu电偶腐蚀。同时,Co的去除速率为130 nm·min-1,Cu的去除速率为76.5 nm·min-1,Co与Cu的静态腐蚀均不明显,可以很好地满足阻挡层CMP要求。     

碱性铜粗抛液中氧化剂对化学机械平坦化的影响

针对不合腐蚀抑制剂苯并三氮唑(BTA)的碱性铜粗抛液,通过对3英寸(1英寸=2.54 cm)铜片上的动态抛光速率和静态腐蚀速率的研究来模拟评估氧化剂对晶圆表面平坦化的影响.在12英寸铜镀膜片和TM1图形片上分别研究氧化剂体积分数对表面平坦化的影响.实验结果表明:动态抛光速率和静态腐蚀速率均随着氧化剂体积分数的增加先逐渐增大,达到最大值,然后下降,趋于平缓.片内非均匀性和剩余高低差均随H2O2体积分数的增加,先呈下降趋势,后缓慢上升.当氧化剂体积分数为3％时,动态去除速率(vRR)为398.988 nm/min,静态腐蚀速率vER为6.834 nm/min,vRR/vER比值最大,片内非均匀性最小为3.82％,台阶高低差最小为104.6 nm/min,此时晶圆片有较好的平坦化效果.     

PS-b-PDMS/环氧树脂制备疏水性环氧涂层的性能

用共混法将聚苯乙烯-b-聚二甲基硅氧烷(PS-b-PDMS)嵌段共聚物与环氧树脂E-44复合制备了一种疏水性环氧涂层。研究了PS-b-PDMS的用量对涂层力学性能、表面性能及耐化学腐蚀性的影响。结果表明,随着共聚物用量的增加,涂层的冲击强度及柔韧性明显提高,表面能显著降低,接触角明显增大,当PS-b-PDMS用量为E-44的7%(质量分数)时,冲击强度和柔韧性分别为50kg.cm和0.5mm,表面能为13.8mN/m,对水接触角增大至115.9°,具有优异的疏水性及耐化学腐蚀性。     

Alkaline barrier slurry applied in TSV chemical mechanical planarization

We have proposed a TSV （through-silicon-via） alkaline barrier slurry without any inhibitors for barrier CMP （chemical mechanical planarization） and investigated its CMP performance. The characteristics of removal rate and selectivity of Ti/SiO2/Cu were investigated under the same process conditions. The results obtained from 6.2 mm copper, titanium and silica show that copper has a low removal rate during barrier CMP by using this slurry, and Ti and SiO2 have high removal rate selectivity to Cu. Thus it may be helpful to modify the dishing. The TSV wafer results reveal that the alkaline barrier slurry has an obvious effect on surface topography correction, and can be applied in TSV barrier CME     

盐酸胍在阻挡层化学机械抛光中对速率选择性及表面形貌的影响

We propose an alkaline barrier slurry containing guanidine hydrochloride（GH） and hydrogen peroxide.The slurry does not contain any corrosion inhibitors, such as benzotriazole（BTA）. 3-inch samples of tantalum copper and oxide were polished to observe the removal rate. The effect of GH on removal rate selectivity along withhydrogenperoxidewasinvestigatedbycomparingslurrycontainingGHandH2O2withslurrycontainingonly GH. Details about the tantalum polishing mechanism in an alkaline guanidine-based slurry and the electrochemical reactions are discussed. The results show that guanidine hydrochloride can increase the tantalum polishing rate and the selectivity of copper and barrier materials. The variation of the dishing and wire line resistance with the polishing time was measured. The dishing value after a 300 mm pattern wafer polishing suggests that the slurry has an effective performance in topography modification. The result obtained from the copper wire line resistance test reveals that the wire line in the trench has a low copper loss.     

新型碱性精抛液对300mm铜膜全局平坦化的影响

The copper removal rate and uniformity of two types copper slurries were investigated, which was performed on the 300 mm chemical mechanical planarization （CMP） platform. The experiment results illustrate that the removal rate of the two slurries is nearly the same. Slurry A is mainly composed ofa FA/OI1 type chelating agent and the uniformity reaches to 88.32%. While the uniformity of slurry B is 96.68%, which is mainly composed of a FA/OV type chelating agent. This phenomenon demonstrates that under the same process conditions, the uniformity of different slurries is vastly different. The CMP performance was evaluated in terms of the dishing and erosion values. In this paper, the relationship between the uniformity and the planarization was deeply analyzed, which is mainly based on the endpoint detection mechanism. The experiment results reveal that the slurry with good uniformity has low dishing and erosion. The slurry with bad uniformity, by contract, increases Cu dishing significantly and causes copper loss in the recessed region. Therefore, the following conclusions are drawn： slurry B can improve the wafer leveling efficiently and minimize the resistance and current density along the line, which is helpful to improve the device yield and product reliability. This investigation provides a guide to improve the uniformity and achieve the global and local planarization. It is very significant to meet the requirements for 22 nm technology nodes and control the dishing and erosion efficiently.     

Cu CMP工艺中新型低pH碱性抛光液稳定性的研究

Abstract： The stability of a novel low-pH alkaline slurry （marked as slurry A, pH = 8.5） for copper chemical mechanical planarization was investigated in this paper. First of all, the stability mechanism of the alkaline slurry was studied. Then many parameters have been tested for researching the stability of the slurry through comparing with a traditional alkaline slurry （marked as slurry B, pH = 9.5）, such as the pH value, particle size and zeta potential. Apart from this, the stability of the copper removal rate, dishing, erosion and surface roughness were also studied. All the results show that the stability of the novel low-pH alkaline slurry is better than the traditional alkaline slurry. The working-life of the novel low-pH alkaline slurry reaches 48 h.     

非离子表面活性剂在钽基阻挡层CMP中的作用

碱性条件下,非离子型表面活性剂在阻挡层化学机械平坦化中起着重要的作用。分别对阻挡层材料Cu、Ta以及SiO₂介质进行抛光,然后测量铜表面粗糙度。对含有不同浓度活性剂的抛光液进行接触角和Zeta电位的测试,并对活性剂的作用机理进行分析。活性剂体积分数达到3%时,铜表面粗糙度可达0.679 nm,抛光液在铜膜表面的接触角低至10.25°,Zeta电位达到-50.2 mV。实验结果表明,活性剂在减小粗糙度的同时可提高抛光液的湿润性和稳定性,便于抛光后清洗和长时间放置。