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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2015
Globalfoundries Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Vibhor Jain, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Qizhi Liu, Lexington, MA (US);
Ian A. McCallum-Cook, Burlington, VT (US);
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
Electrical fuses and methods for forming an electrical fuse. A semiconductor substrate is implanted to define a modified region in the semiconductor substrate. Trenches that surround the modified region and that penetrate into the semiconductor substrate to a depth greater than a depth of the modified region are formed in the modified region so as to define a fuse link of the electrical fuse. The substrate is removed from beneath the fuse link with a selective etching process that removes the semiconductor substrate with a first etch rate that is higher than a second etch rate of the modified region.