Impact of Joule Heating on Deep Sub-Micron Cu/low-k Interconnects
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This paper investigates the impact of Joule heating on the scaling trends of advanced VLSI interconnects. It shows that the interconnect Joule heating can strongly affect the maximum operating temperature of the global wires which, in turn, will constrain the scaling of current density to mitigate electromigration and, thus, greatly degrade the expected speed improvement from the use of low-k dielectrics. Through a combination of extensive electrothermal simulation and 2D field solver for capacitance calculation, the thermal characteristics of various Cu/low-k schemes are quantified and their effects on electromigration reliability and interconnect delay is determined. The effect of vias, as efficient heat conduction paths, is included for realistic evaluation. Our analysis suggests that the Joule heating will be a bottleneck in scaling interconnects and will not meet the projection of International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS’01) [1] requirements.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004