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Fabrication method of metal interconnection structure

A technology of metal interconnection structure and manufacturing method, which is applied in semiconductor/solid-state device manufacturing, electrical components, circuits, etc., and can solve problems such as difficulties in the manufacture of metal interconnection structures

Active Publication Date: 2016-05-11
SHANGHAI HUAHONG GRACE SEMICON MFG CORP
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If relying on the existing technology, it is very difficult to realize the metal interconnection structure of semiconductor devices with a feature size below 22nm

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[0061] Specific as figure 1 As shown, a semiconductor substrate 11 is provided, on which a dielectric layer 10 and a mask layer 20 having small-sized through holes are formed. In the figure, only two through holes 1a, 1b are drawn in the mask layer 20 for brief description. In practice, the mask layer 20 may have some through holes arranged in an array, and its diameter width and spacing are: 22nm, 23nm, 32nm, etc. are smaller than the minimum precision that the lithography machine can achieve. When forming the through holes in the mask layer 20, the size that can be achieved by general photolithography can be reduced by using the double pattern exposure technology, so as to form the through holes with small diameter width and pitch in this embodiment. In this embodiment, the diameter width of the through holes 1a and 1b is 22nm, and the distance between them is 22nm.

[0062] In this embodiment, a metal interconnection structure consisting of two contact holes and a trench...

Embodiment 2

[0072] In this embodiment, a structure formed by intersecting two-dimensional lines is used as a mask layer to form the structure to be formed in the present invention, and the structure includes a metal interconnection structure of a contact hole and a trench.

[0073] provide as Figure 9 As shown in the semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate 100 and a dielectric layer 200 formed on the semiconductor substrate 100 . Wherein, the metal interconnection structure of the present invention will be formed in the dielectric layer 200 later. As an embodiment, there is a first buffer layer 300 on the dielectric layer 200, and a first hard mask layer 400 is formed on the first buffer layer 300. The first hard mask layer 400 is composed of a plurality of lines with a pitch of k Composition, the plurality of lines are arranged in a first pattern. The k is 22nm, 23nm, 32nm, etc., which are smaller than the minimum precision that the phot...

Embodiment 3

[0094] Similar to Embodiment 2, provide such as Figure 9 The semiconductor structure shown, its top view is as Figure 27 shown. In this embodiment, it is necessary to form two metal interconnection structures corresponding to the through-hole patterns circled by the dotted circles in the figure, one of the metal interconnection structures includes a contact hole aligned with the through-hole pattern 31 and a contact hole aligned with the through-hole pattern 34. Aligned contact holes and a trench connecting the two contact holes, another metal interconnection structure including a contact hole aligned with via pattern 33 and a contact hole aligned with via pattern 32 next to via pattern 34 and a groove connecting the two contact holes. Since the through-hole pattern 34 and the through-hole pattern 33 are adjacent to each other, if their corresponding photoresist patterns are to be formed in the same exposure, then in the process of exposure, in the mask plate corresponding...

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Abstract

A production method of a metal interconnection structure comprises the following steps of forming a medium layer, a first buffering layer, a first hard masking layer, a second buffering layer and a second hard masking layer on a semiconductor substrate from bottom to top, intersecting a linear graph of the second hard masking layer and a linear graph of the first hard masking layer and collectively limiting the position and the size of a first contact hole and a second contact hole; forming a first photo-etching graph on the second hard masking layer to expose the position of the first contact hole, etching until the medium layer is exposed, and forming a first through hole; forming a second photo-etching graph for exposing the position of the second contact hole, and etching and forming a second through hole; etching the medium layer according to the graphs of the first through hole and the second through hole to form the first contact hole and the second contact hole; and finally forming a groove for connecting the first contact hole and the second contact hole. The masking structure with the through hole (small hole) is used for limiting the size of the contact hole, the through holes which are close to each other are respectively photoetched and etched for multiple times, and the limit of technology nodes of a traditional photoetching machine can be broken through.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a semiconductor manufacturing process, in particular to a method for manufacturing a metal interconnection structure. Background technique [0002] Metal interconnection in the manufacturing process of semiconductor integrated circuits refers to the connection made of different conductive materials, such as aluminum, polysilicon or copper, to realize the interconnection between the various devices on the chip, so as to transmit electrical signals to different parts of the chip. part. Generally, the metal interconnection structure includes a contact structure / via structure, and a metal interconnection groove. Among them, the contact structure refers to the structure that realizes the connection between the device in the chip and the first metal layer on the surface of the silicon wafer, and the through hole structure refers to the structure that realizes the formation of electrical connections from a certain metal layer to anot...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H01L21/768
Inventor 夏建慧顾以理奚裴
Owner SHANGHAI HUAHONG GRACE SEMICON MFG CORP