Combined electrical and mechanical properties of titanium nitride thin films as metallization materials
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 86 (9), 5296-5298
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.371514
Abstract
Titanium nitride (TiNx) thin films, ∼100 nm thick, were deposited on Si(100) substrates by dc reactive magnetron sputtering. The effects of the substrate bias voltage and deposition temperature on their optical, electrical, and mechanical properties have been studied. It was found a strong correlation between the electrical and mechanical properties of the films which are significantly improved with increasing the substrate bias voltage and the deposition temperature. The low resistivity (43 μΩ cm), combined with the high hardness and elastic modulus values, suggest the TiNx as a promising metallization material in Si technology.Keywords
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