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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2014
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Katayun Barmak Vaziri, White Plains, NY (US);
Kevin Coffey, Oviedo, FL (US);
Dooho Choi, Goyang, KR;
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
Interconnects for semiconductors formed of materials that exhibit crystallographic anisotropy of the resistivity size effect such that line resistivity in one crystallographic orientation becomes lower than the resistivity in the other directions and methods of fabrication and use thereof are described. A wire having a dimension that results in an increase in the electrical resistivity of the wire can be formed of a material with a conductive anisotropy due to crystallographic orientation relative to the direction of current flow that minimizes the increase in the electrical resistivity as compared to the other orientations at that dimension.