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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1993
Roy A Carruthers, Stormville, NY (US);
Fernand J Dorleans, Wappinger Falls, NY (US);
John A Fitzsimmons, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Richard Flitsch, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
James A Jubinsky, Clinton Corners, NY (US);
Gerald R Larsen, Cornwall, NY (US);
Geraldine C Schwartz, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Paul J Tsang, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert W Zielinski, Wappinger Falls, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A SiCr microfuse, deletable either by electrical voltage pulses or by laser pulses, for rerouting the various components in an integrated circuit, as where redundancy in array structures is implemented, and the method of fabricating same, at any wiring level of the chip, by utilizing a direct resist masking of the SiCr fuse layer to eliminate problems of mask damage and residual metal adjacent the fuse.