05-1 Digital Integrated Circuits 05: Advanced Fabrication & Lithography Revision
05-2 Advanced CMOS Processing Copper Metal Metal Gates High-K Dielectric
05-3 Damascene Process A B
05-4 Damascene Process C D
05-5 Damascene Process E F
05-6 Metal Gates Polysilicon gates Higher specific resistivity than metal Carrier depletion effects Metal Gates Must withstand high temperatures (self-aligned process) Must provide reasonable work function differences for both types of transistors (e.g. Ru for p-MOS, TaSiN for n-MOS)
05-7 High-K Dielectric SiO 2 Gate Insulator ( = 3.9) High purity, excellent interface At current device dimensions (tox = 2 nm), the oxide leakage current is excessive High-K Dielectric A thicker layer may be used with similar electrical characteristics
05-8 Lithography and Masks positive resist
05-9 Lithography Systems 45 nm NODE 193 nm ArF EXCIMER LASER 4X STEPPER PROJECTION 150 nm THICK RESIST QUARTZ MASKS
05-10 Pushing the Diffraction Limit MOS transistor structure MOS transistors with 25 nm gate lengths. Diffraction “limit”
05-11 Layout Design Rules
05-12 Defects and Circuit Yield
05-13 Burn-in and Accelerated Testing Burn-in is performed to screen-out parts with early failure Accelerated Testing is used to estimate failure rates under normal operating temperatures