IP Library Granted Patent US 7,718,524
Granted Patent B2
US 7,718,524 · App. 11/530,710 · Granted May 18, 2010

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

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Patent No.
US 7,718,524
App. No.
11/530,710
Granted
May 18, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including the steps of: forming an interlayer insulating film on a semiconductor substrate; forming a metal mask on the interlayer insulating film; forming a pattern trench in the metal mask and the interlayer insulating film by etching away parts of the metal mask and the interlayer insulating film; forming a conductive layer on the interlayer insulating film so as to fill in the pattern trench; and polishing the excessive conductive layer and the metal mask on the interlayer insulating film so as to leave the conductive layer in the pattern trench.

Claims (13)

1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of:

forming an interlayer insulating film containing Si on a semiconductor substrate;

forming a metal mask on said interlayer insulating film, said metal mask being formed to a thickness of approximately 10 nm;

forming a resist layer on said metal mask having a wiring pattern formed by a lithography technique;

forming a pattern trench in said metal mask and said interlayer insulating film by etching away parts of said metal mask and said interlayer insulating film using the resist mask wiring

removing said resist layer through an ashing using O 2 plasma;

forming a seed layer containing an alloy of copper and another metal manganese on an internal wall of said pattern trench;

forming a conductive layer containing copper on said interlayer insulating film so as to fill in said pattern trench;

forming a barrier layer for preventing diffusion of copper by causing said seed layer and said interlayer insulating film to react with each other through an annealing treatment; and

polishing the conductive layer and said metal mask on said interlayer insulating film to remove excessive Cu or Cu alloy using said metal mask as a polishing stopper so as to leave said conductive layer in said pattern trench, wherein

said step of polishing the conductive layer and said metal mask on said interlayer insulating film to remove said excessive Cu or Cu alloy using said metal mask as said polishing stopper comprises:

first polishing step of polishing said conductive layer by using a slurry having a polishing selectivity of said conductive layer to each of said metal mask and said interlayer insulating film; and

second polishing step of polishing surfaces of said interlayer insulating film and said conductive layer until at least said metal mask is removed by using a slurry for substantially equalizing polishing rates of said metal mask, said interlayer insulating film, and said conductive layer to one another.

Assignments (6)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 19, 2025
From: TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
To: ADEIA SEMICONDUCTOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Reel/Frame 073635/0304 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 11, 2020
From: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
To: TESSERA, INC.; INVENSAS BONDING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (F/K/A ZIPTRONIX, INC.); FOTONATION CORPORATION (F/K/A DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION AND F/K/A DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION MEMS); INVENSAS CORPORATION; TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC; DTS, INC.; DTS LLC; PHORUS, INC.; IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052920/0001 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2020
From: ROVI SOLUTIONS CORPORATION; ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION; ROVI GUIDES, INC.; TIVO SOLUTIONS INC.; VEVEO, INC.; INVENSAS CORPORATION; INVENSAS BONDING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; TESSERA, INC.; TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; DTS, INC.; PHORUS, INC.; IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
Reel/Frame 053468/0001 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 2, 2016
From: INVENSAS CORPORATION; TESSERA, INC.; TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; ZIPTRONIX, INC.; DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION; DIGITALOPTICS CORPORATION MEMS; DTS, LLC; DTS, INC.; PHORUS, INC.; IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION
To: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 040797/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 16, 2015
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: TESSERA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 035430/0231 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2006
From: OOKA, YUTAKA
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018232/0693 →