Abstract
Recent results on up-direction electromigration (EM) studies on Cu dual-damascene (DD) interconnects are presented. The issue of the DD process and its potential effect on EM reliability is described with special focus on the peculiarities of the DD interconnect architecture in comparison to the previous subtractively etched Al-based interconnect technology. Experiments performed on multilink, DD interconnects that highlight EM reliability issues, such as early failure, and the Blech effect are summarized.
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