Low Cu percentages for reducing shorts in AlCu lines

Details Low Cu percentages for reducing shorts in AlCu lines Low Cu percentages for reducing shorts in AlCu lines

2005-11-01

2005-11-01

Olsen, Allan (Department: 1763)

Etching a substrate: processes

Forming or treating electrical conductor article

C216S067000, C216S077000, C216S078000, C438S710000, C438S717000, C438S720000

Reexamination Certificate

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06960306

ABSTRACT:
In a method of fabricating a metallization structure during formation of a microelectronic device, the improvement of reducing metal shorts in blanket metal deposition layers later subjected to reactive ion etching, comprising:a) depositing on a first underlayer, a blanket of an aluminum compound containing an electrical short reducing amount of an alloy metal in electrical contact with the underlayer;b) depositing a photoresist and exposing and developing to leave patterns of photoresist on the blanket aluminum compound containing an electrical short reducing amount of an alloy metal; andc) reactive ion etching to obtain an aluminum compound containing an alloy metal line characterized by reduced shorts in amounts less than the aluminum compound without said short reducing amount of alloy metal.

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