Interfacial Adhesion Energy of Ru-AlO Thin Film Deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition between Cu and SiO2: Effect of the Composition of Ru-AlO Thin Film
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, v.51, no.5, pp.05EB04
Abstract
The effect of the composition of Ru-AlO thin films on the interfacial adhesion energy of an Ru-AlO thin film deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) between Cu and SiO2, which is a potential candidate for a Cu direct-plateable diffusion barrier, was evaluated using a four-point bending test. The interfacial adhesion energy increased with increasing AlOx content in the Ru-AlO thin films. The results were quantitatively correlated with the interfacial chemical bonding characteristics analyzed by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, which showed that the adhesion energy is closely related to the formation of strong Al-O-Si bonds at film/substrate interfaces. (C) 2012 The Japan Society of Applied Physics