Nec Electronics Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Ryohei Kitao

Koji Arita

Tatsuya Usami

Koichi Ohto

Noboru Morita

Yoichi Sasaki

Sadayuki Ohnishi

Yasuaki Tsuchiya

Kaoru Mikagi

Takashi Tonegawa

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first via having a first diameter in a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate having a first thickness, after forming a first insulating film on a bottom surface and a side surface of the first via, forming a first through electrode inside the first via a first barrier metal film, after forming the first through electrode, processing the semiconductor substrate from a second main surface on an opposite side of the first main surface to reduce the first thickness of the semiconductor substrate to a second thickness thinner than the first thickness, after processing the semiconductor substrate, forming a third insulating film on the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and after forming the third insulating film, sequentially processing the third insulating film and the semiconductor substrate.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

A silicon substrate is restrained from being warped. A substrate is formed by use of a silicon substrate. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. A metal film is formed over the first surface. An interconnection layer is formed over the second surface. The metal film has a face centered cubic lattice structure. When the metal film is measured by XRD (X-ray diffraction), the [111] orientation intensity A(111), the [220] orientation intensity A(220) and the [311] orientation intensity A(311) of the metal film satisfy the following: A(111)/{A(220)+A(311)}&#x2267;10.

Semiconductor device, and method for producing the same

Technology that achieves high integration of a semiconductor device employing TSV technology is provided. A through electrode is configured by a small-diameter through electrode having a first diameter and being formed on a main surface side of a semiconductor wafer, and a large-diameter through electrode having a second diameter larger than the above-described first diameter and being formed on a back surface side of the semiconductor wafer, and the small-diameter through electrode is arranged inside the large-diameter through electrode in a planar view so that a center position of the small-diameter through electrode and a center position of the large-diameter through electrode do not overlap with each other in the planar view.

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device of the invention includes a plating process of filling a plurality of recesses provided to an insulating film formed on a substrate with an electro-conductive material, wherein the plating process includes a process step (S) of performing the plating with a first current density which was obtained by correcting a predetermined first reference current density based on ratio of surface area Sr=S/Sof a first surface area Sover the entire surface of the substrate which includes the area of side walls of the plurality of recesses over the entire surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a second surface area Sover the entire surface of the substrate which does not include the area of side walls of the plurality of recesses, when fine recesses not larger than a predetermined width, out of all of the plurality of recesses, are filled with the electro-conductive material.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device, and plating apparatus

In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device where at least one insulating layer structure having a metal wiring constitution is formed to thereby construct a multi-layered wiring arrangement, a first SiOCH layer is produced. Then, a surface section of the first SiOCH layer is treated to change the surface section of the first SiOCH layer to a second SiOCH layer which features a carbon (C) density lower than that of the first SiOCH layer, a hydrogen (H) density lower than that of the first SiOCH layer and an oxygen (O) density higher than that of the first SiOCH layer. Finally, a silicon dioxide (SiO) layer is formed on the second SiOCH layer.

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A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a step of forming a via hole in an insulation layer including an organic low dielectric film, such as MSQ, SiC, and SiCN, and then embedding a wiring material in the via hole through a barrier metal. According to this method, a plasma treatment is performed after the via hole is formed and before the barrier metal is deposited, using a He/Hgas capable of replacing groups (methyl groups) made of organic constituents and covering the surface of the exposed organic low dielectric film (MSQ) with hydrogen, or a He gas capable decomposing the groups (methyl groups) without removing organic low dielectric molecules. As a result, the surface of the low dielectric film (MSQ) is reformed to be hydrophilic and adhesion to the barrier metal is hence improved, thereby making it possible to prevent the occurrence of separation of the barrier metal and scratches.

Manufacturing method of semiconductor device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is to be provided, which improves filling performance of a conductive layer to be formed by an electrolytic plating process in an interconnect trench or a via hole, and achieves a higher in-plane uniformity in bottom-up performance. An electrolytic plating process to fill with a conductive layer at least one of an interconnect trench and a via hole formed in a dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate includes a first step of executing a plating operation under a predetermined integrated current density, which is a product of a current density representing a current value supplied per unit area of a plating solution containing a material which constitutes the conductive layer and a plating time, and a second step of executing a plating operation under a lower current density than that of the first step.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device

A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, and a multi-layered wiring arrangement provided thereon. The multi-layered wring arrangement includes at least one insulating layer structure having a metal wiring pattern formed therein. The insulating layer structure includes a first SiOCH layer, a second SiOCH layer formed on the first SiOCH layer, and a silicon dioxide (SiO) layer formed on the second SiOCH layer. The second SiOCH layer features a carbon (C) density lower than that of the first SiOCH layer, a hydrogen (H) density lower than that of the first SiOCH layer, and an oxygen (O) density higher than that of the first SiOCH layer.

Semiconductor device having two distinct sioch layers

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device using a PECVD method is provided, which improves the adhesion strength of a deposited dielectric layer to an underlying layer and the reliability of the deposited dielectric layer. After placing a substrate in a chamber, a gas having a thermal conductivity of 0.1 W/mK or greater (e.g., Hor He) is introduced into the chamber, thereby contacting the gas with the substrate for stabilization of a temperature of the substrate. A desired dielectric layer is deposited on or over the substrate in the chamber using a PECVD method after the step of introducing the gas. As the desired dielectric layer, a dielectric layer having a low dielectric constant, such as a SiCH, SiCHN, or SiOCH layer, is preferably used.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device using plasma-enhanced CVD

In copper plating using a damascene method, in order to prevent cost rise, dishing, erosion and the like due to the protrusion of plating on the dense wiring area to increase the time for CMP polishing, the copper plating is performed so that the current step of the copper plating has only one step for flowing current in the direction opposite to the direction of growing the plating as shown in FIG.. In this time, this opposite direction current step is performed under the condition of a current-time product within a range between 1.0 and 120 mA&#xd7;sec/cm.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryohei Kitao