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CLEANING OF CARBON-BASED CONTAMINANTS IN METAL INTERCONNECTS FOR INTERCONNECT CAPPING APPLICATIONS
CLEANING OF CARBON-BASED CONTAMINANTS IN METAL INTERCONNECTS FOR INTERCONNECT CAPPING APPLICATIONS
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机译:互连覆盖应用中金属互连中碳基污染物的清洁
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Protective caps residing at an interface between copper lines and dielectric diffusion barrier layers are used to improve various performance characteristics of interconnects. The caps, such as cobalt-containing caps or manganese-containing caps, are selectively deposited onto exposed copper lines in a presence of exposed dielectric using CVD or ALD methods. The deposition of the capping material is affected by the presence of carbon-containing contaminants on the surface of copper, which may lead to poor or uneven growth of the capping layer. A method of removing carbon-containing contaminants from the copper surface prior to deposition of caps involves contacting the substrate containing the exposed copper surface with a silylating agent at a first temperature to form a layer of reacted silylating agent on the copper surface, followed by heating the substrate at a higher temperature to release the reacted silylating agent from the copper surface.
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