Test structure, method and circuit for simultaneously testing time dependent dielectric breakdown and electromigration or stress migration

Test structures for simultaneously testing for electromigration or stress migration fails and time dependent dielectric breakdown fails in integrated circuits, test circuits using four test structures arranged as a bridge balance circuit and methods of testing using the test circuits. The electromig...

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Hauptverfasser: BROCHU, JR. DAVID G, SHINOSKY MICHAEL A, MERRILL TRAVIS S, DUFRESNE ROGER A, CHEN FEN
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Test structures for simultaneously testing for electromigration or stress migration fails and time dependent dielectric breakdown fails in integrated circuits, test circuits using four test structures arranged as a bridge balance circuit and methods of testing using the test circuits. The electromigration or stress migration portions of the test structures include via chains of wire segments connected in series by electrically conductive vias, the wire segments formed in at least two adjacent wiring levels of an integrated circuit. The time dependent dielectric breakdown portions of the test structures include digitized wire structures in one of the at least two adjacent wiring levels adjacent to a less than whole portion of the wire segments in the same wiring level as the digitized wire structures.