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Moisture impact on dielectric reliability in low-k dielectric materials

Lee et al., 2016

Document ID
13062881389441216038
Author
Lee K
Yuan Q
Patel A
Mai Z
Brown L
English S
Publication year
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2016 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS)

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Moisture impact on dielectric reliability was investigated with intentional moisture uptake and removal from porous low-k dielectric. In our tests, moisture can reduce TDDB lifetimes by 6 orders, while the kinetics is maintained (for both dry and wet samples). Interestingly …
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