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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
May. 07, 1998
Xia Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Glen Gilfeather, Del Valle, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for bringing up lower level metal nodes of multi-layered IC devices (,) includes a step of boring a passage (,) down through the obstructing or non-target metal layers (,) exposing these layers, through the Inter Layer Dielectric layers (,), stopping at the target metal layer (,), and a step of depositing Gallium implanted insulator (,) forming a node structure (,) with a conductive core (,) and an insulative sheath (,). The conductive core (,) brings up the target metal node or layer (,) and the insulative sheath (,) isolates the exposed non-target metal nodes or layers (,) from the target metal node (,) and the conductive core (,).
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