Electromigration in Integrated Circuits: Nano-Scale Processes Affecting the Reliability of Kilometers of Wiring


Carl V. Thompson, Zung-Sung Choi*, and Reiner Mönig*
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Microsystems Technology Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technolog

Objective:
  • Overview of IC interconnect technology and electromigration
  • In-situ observation of electromigration void dynamics
  • Simulations
  • Conclusions

*now with Samsung, ** now with Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe


IC Interconnects-Metallization

 

 

 

                             Fairchild first IC



Multiple Layers of Interconnection

 

                    (with SiO2 selectively removed)                                            (cross-section with SiO2) 

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