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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2003
Timothy G. Dunham, South Burlington, VT (US);
Howard S. Landis, Underhill, VT (US);
William T. Motsiff, Essex Junction, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising: a multiplicity of wiring levels, each wiring level comprising conductive wires and a multiplicity of conductive fill shapes embedded in a dielectric; at least some of the fill shapes in at least two adjacent wiring levels being co-aligned; and where the fill shapes on adjacent levels are aligned, one or more conductive vias extending between and joining each co-aligned fill shape in each adjacent wiring level. The joined fill shapes serve to reinforce and support the dielectric, which may be a non-rigid or low-k dielectric.