METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING A SUBSTRATE WITH A SEMI-NOBLE METAL LAYER

Method and apparatus for preparing a substrate with a semi-noble metal layer are disclosed. The substrate can be pretreated so that a metal oxide surface on the semi-noble metal layer can be reduced to a modified metal surface integrated with the semi-noble metal layer. The substrate can be pretreat...

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Hauptverfasser: SPURLIN TIGHE A, RIGSBY MATTHEW A, REID JONATHAN D, PORTER DAVID, DOUBINA NATALIA V
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Method and apparatus for preparing a substrate with a semi-noble metal layer are disclosed. The substrate can be pretreated so that a metal oxide surface on the semi-noble metal layer can be reduced to a modified metal surface integrated with the semi-noble metal layer. The substrate can be pretreated using a remote plasma treatment. A copper seed layer can be formed on the semi-noble metal layer using either an acidic or alkaline bath with a plating solution including either at least two copper complexing agents with varying dentacity or a single hexadentate copper complexing agent that is in excess of the copper source. The copper complexing agents can include a hexadentate ligand and a bidentate ligand. In some embodiments, a bulk layer of copper can be subsequently deposited on the copper seed layer using an acidic bath.