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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
John M Pierce, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29590 ; 148 13 ; 148 203 ;
Abstract
A process for suppressing electromigration in conducting lines formed on integrated circuit structures includes the steps of forming the conducting lines on the integrated circuit structure and heat treating the lines to cause the average grain size in the lines to become larger than the width of the conducting lines.