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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2001
Ramkumar Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Fei Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Lynne A. Okada, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Calvin T. Gabriel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Darrell M. Erb, Los Altos, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The dimensional accuracy of trenches and, hence, the width of metal lines, in damascene interconnection structures is improved by employing silicon carbide as a capping layer/BARC on an underlying metal feature, e.g., Cu. Embodiments include via first-trench last dual damascene techniques employing a silicon carbide capping layer/BARC having an extinction coefficient (k) of about −0.2 to about −0.5, without the need for a middle etch stop layer, thereby improving efficiency by reducing the number of processing steps.