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Planar tungsten interconnect

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6955781

A method of forming an interconnect level for VLSI devices is described comprising: forming on planar surface of a VLSI wafer a first silicon dioxide dielectric layer; forming a second layer of a second dielectric material on the top surface of the first layer to produce a composite dielectric; patterning and etching the composite dielectric to produce at least one interconnect channel in the first layer; implanting silicon in the exposed bottom surface of the silicon dioxide interconnect channel through the mask; removing the mask; selectively depositing a refractionary metal in the interconnect channel to fill the channel to the level of the planar top surface of the first layer to thereby form a metal interconnect line, the line and the first layer forming a first planar interconnect level.

Assignee:
Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., Ithaca, NY
Patent Number(s):
US 4746621
OSTI ID:
6955781
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English