Defect structure and electronic properties of SiOC: H films used for back end of line dielectrics

TA Pomorski, BC Bittel, PM Lenahan, E Mays… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Back end of the line dielectrics (BEOL) with low dielectric constants, so called low-k
dielectrics, are needed for current and future integrated circuit technology nodes. However …

Defect chemistry and electronic transport in low-κ dielectrics studied with electrically detected magnetic resonance

MJ Mutch, PM Lenahan, SW King - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Defect mediated electronic transport phenomena in low-κ dielectric films are of great
technological interest for state-of-the-art and next generation microprocessors. At the …

Band diagram for low-k/Cu interconnects: The starting point for understanding back-end-of-line (BEOL) electrical reliability

MJ Mutch, T Pomorski, BC Bittel, CJ Cochrane… - Microelectronics …, 2016 - Elsevier
The starting point for describing the electrostatic operation of any semiconductor device
begins with a band diagram illustrating changes in the semiconductor Fermi level and the …