Globalfoundries Inc.

Dongfei Pei

Xunyuan Zhang

Frank Wilhelm Mont

The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to via and skip via structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming a plurality of openings in a hardmask material; blocking at least one of the plurality of openings of the hardmask material with a blocking material; etching a skip via to a metallization feature in a stack of metallization features through another of the plurality of openings which is not blocked by the blocking material; and at least partially filling the skip via by a bottom up fill process.

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Schenectady, NY, United States of America

Dongfei Pei