Effects of annealing and interlayers on the adhesion energy of copper thin films to SiO sub 2 /Si substrates

The adhesion of sputtered copper thin films was measured with a quantitative indentation technique utilizing refractory superlayers to trigger and promote delamination. Adhesion energies of the indentation-induced delaminations were analyzed in terms of the critical strain energy release rate. Two g...

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Veröffentlicht in:Acta materialia 1998-11, Vol.46 (18), p.6623-6630
Hauptverfasser: Gerberich, W W, Kriese, M D, Moody, N R
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The adhesion of sputtered copper thin films was measured with a quantitative indentation technique utilizing refractory superlayers to trigger and promote delamination. Adhesion energies of the indentation-induced delaminations were analyzed in terms of the critical strain energy release rate. Two groups of films were investigated. Group I ranged in thickness from 225-1000 nm in both the as-deposited and annealed condition. Adhesion energies ranged from 2-15 J/m exp 2 , with higher adhesion for the annealed condition. Group II films had nominal thicknesses of 430 and 1100 nm, some with 7-10 nm interlayers of either titanium or chromium. Adhesion energies of these films ranged from 4-30 J/m exp 2 , increasing by a factor from 1.3-7.5, as a function of the interlayer presence and type, with the increase in energy due to a Cr interlayer exceeding that of Ti. Adhesion energies increased with film thickness for all films, with interlayers and annealing producing a larger increase. These quantitative results were compared to previous semi-quantitative and quantitative results, and shown to have comparable magnitudes and trends.
ISSN:1359-6454