Semiconductor device
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsJung-Chih Tsao, Yu-Sheng Wang, Kei-Wei Chen, Ying-Lang Wang
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Abstract
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The device includes a substrate; a first metal layer overlying the substrate; a dielectric layer overlying the first metal layer; and a second metal layer overlying the dielectric layer, wherein the first metal layer comprises: a first body-centered cubic lattice metal layer; a first underlayer, underlying the first body-centered cubic lattice metal layer, wherein the first underlayer is metal of body-centered cubic lattice and includes titanium (Ti), tungsten (W), molybdenum (Mo) or niobium (Nb); and a first interface of body-centered cubic lattice between the first body-centered cubic lattice metal layer and the first underlayer.
Claims6
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first metal layer overlying the substrate;
- a dielectric layer overlying the first metal layer;
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- a second metal layer overlying the dielectric layer, wherein the first metal layer comprises:
- a first body-centered cubic lattice metal layer;
- a first underlayer, underlying the first body-centered cubic lattice metal layer, wherein the first underlayer is metal of body-centered cubic lattice and comprises titanium (Ti), tungsten (W), molybdenum (Mo) or niobium (Nb);
- wherein the second metal layer comprises:
- a second body-centered cubic lattice metal layer;
- a second underlayer, underlying the second body-centered cubic lattice metal layer;
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- a second interface of body-centered cubic lattice between the second body-centered cubic lattice metal layer and the second underlayer,
- wherein the first metal layer further comprises:
- an aluminum-copper alloy layer underlying the first underlayer;
- a third body-centered cubic lattice metal layer underlying the aluminum-copper alloy layer;
- a third underlayer, underlying the third body-centered cubic lattice metal layer;
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- a third interface of body-centered cubic lattice between the third body-centered cubic lattice metal layer and the third underlayer;
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- a first interface of body-centered cubic lattice between the first body-centered cubic lattice metal layer and the first underlayer.
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