Superconformal and Bottom-up Filling of High Aspect Ratio Features

Wednesday, 16 October 2019: 09:20
Room 210 (The Hilton Atlanta)
D. Josell (National Institute of Standards and Technology), T. M. Braun (NIST), S. Ambrozik (National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST), and T. P. Moffat (NIST)
Superconformal, and more particularly bottom-up, copper electrodeposition in fully metallized, high aspect ratio features enables the fabrication of interconnects, including in chip stacking technologies. I will discuss mechanistic understanding of such bottom-up filling processes for cobalt, nickel, gold and copper deposition in through silicon vias from electrolytes containing (only) deposition rate suppressing additives as well as analogous bottom-up gold filling of similar size trenches from electrolyte containing deposition accelerating bismuth additive. Electrochemical measurements on planar substrates combined with mechanistic understanding enable accurate a-priori prediction of filling evolution and, for the nickel, cobalt and gold suppressor-based systems, microstructural variation associated with additive incorporation.