Reliability of multistacked chemical vapor deposited Ti/TiN structure as the diffusion barrier in ultralarge scale integrated metallization

Po-Tsun Liu, Ting Chang Chang, J. C. Hu, Y. L. Yang, S. M. Sze

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Abstract

The reliability of multistacked titanium/titanium nitride (Ti/TiN) films as a diffusion barrier has been investigated by electrical characteristic measurements and material analyses. Both the chlorine content and the resistivity of the multistacked Ti/TiN films are significantly decreased when compared with a single layer of chemical vapor deposited-TiN film with the same thickness. The endurance of the diffusion barrier to thermal stress is enhanced by increasing the number of stacked layers of Ti/TiN films. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy depth profiles of the multistacked Ti/TiN samples showed that Ti atom distribution is fairly uniform in filling the grain boundary of the TiN film. The result is consistent with the observation of X-ray transmission microscopy. Therefore, the leakage current resulting from junction spiking is further reduced by the grain boundary effects when employing multi-stacked Ti/TiN as the diffusion barrier layer instead of a single layer of TiN film.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)368-372
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of the Electrochemical Society
Volume147
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2000

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