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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2016
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Benjamin Stassen Cook, Rockwall, TX (US);
Archana Venugopal, Dallas, TX (US);
Luigi Colombo, Dallas, TX (US);
Robert Reid Doering, Garland, TX (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit has a substrate and an interconnect region disposed on the substrate. The interconnect region has a plurality of interconnect levels. The integrated circuit includes a thermal routing structure in the interconnect region. The thermal routing structure extends over a portion, but not all, of the integrated circuit in the interconnect region. The thermal routing structure includes a cohered nanoparticle film in which adjacent nanoparticles cohere to each other. The thermal routing structure has a thermal conductivity higher than dielectric material touching the thermal routing structure. The cohered nanoparticle film is formed by a method which includes an additive process.