Semiconductor device with multilayered metal pattern
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsShin Hashimoto, Tadaaki Mimura
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Abstract
A semiconductor device comprises a first insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate, a first metal pattern formed on the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed on the first metal pattern, a second metal pattern formed on the second insulating film, and a third metal pattern formed in the second insulating film and connecting between the first metal pattern and the second metal pattern. The third metal pattern is a single continuous structure, and the principal orientation axes of crystals of a metal constituting the third metal pattern are parallel to the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate.
Claims11
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, said method comprising the steps of:
- forming a first insulating film on a semiconductor substrate;
- forming a first metal layer on the first insulating film;
- patterning the first metal layer to form at least one first interconnect and a first pad;
- forming a second insulating film on the first interconnect and the first pad;
- forming, in the second insulating film, at least one hole-like first opening exposing the first interconnect and a trench-like second opening exposing the first pad;
- in a common step, filling the first opening with a metal to form at least one first via connected to the first interconnect and filling the second opening with the metal to form a network via connected to the first pad;
- forming a second metal layer on the second insulating film, the first via and the network via;
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- patterning the second metal layer to form at least one second interconnect connected to the first via and a second pad connected to the network via,
- wherein the network via is a single continuous structure having a honeycomb structure.
The method for fabricating a semiconductor device, wherein the metal constituting the second metal pattern is aluminum or copper.
The method for fabricating a semiconductor device, wherein the first via and the network via is made of tungsten or copper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.