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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2002
Yi-Lung Cheng, Taipei, TW;
Wen-Kung Cheng, Toufen, TW;
Sez-An Wu, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Yi-Lung Wang, Tai-chung County, TW;
Shin-Chi Lin, Taipei, TW;
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd, Hsin Chu, TW;
Abstract
A method of depositing a plasma enhanced CVD metal nitride layer over an exposed copper surface in a semiconductor wafer manufacturing process to improve the metal nitride layer adhesion and to reduce copper hillock formation including providing a process surface which is an exposed copper surface; preheating the process surface; plasma sputtering the exposed copper surface in-situ to remove copper oxides; and, depositing a metal nitride layer in-situ according to a plasma enhanced CVD process at a selected deposition pressure to reduce plasma ion bombardment energy transfer and to suppress-copper hillock formation.