Modeling and characterization of contact-edge roughness for minimizing design and manufacturing variations

Yongchan Ban; Yuangsheng Ma; Harry Levinson; David Z. Pan

doi:10.1117/1.3504697

1 October 2010 Modeling and characterization of contact-edge roughness for minimizing design and manufacturing variations

Yongchan Ban, Yuangsheng Ma, Harry Levinson, David Z. Pan

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Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 9, Issue 4, 041211 (October 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3504697

Abstract

Despite intensive attention on line-edge roughness (LER), contact-edge roughness (CER) has been relatively less studied. Contact patterning is one of the critical steps in a state of the art lithography process; meanwhile, design rule shrinking leads to larger CER in contact holes. Since source/drain (S/D) contact resistance depends on contact area and shape, larger CER results in significant change in a device current. We first propose a CER model based on the power spectral density function, which is a function of rms edge roughness, correlation length, and fractal dimension. Then, we present a comprehensive contact extraction methodology for analyzing process-induced CER effects on circuit performance. In our new contact extraction model, we first dissect the contact with a same distance, and then calculate the effective resistance considering both the shape weighting factor and the distance weighting factor for stress-induced complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) cells. Using the results of CER, we analyze the impact of both random CER and systematic variation on the S/D contact resistance, and the device saturation current. Results show that the S/D contact resistance and the device saturation current can vary by as much as 135.7 and 4.9%, respectively.

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Yongchan Ban, Yuangsheng Ma, Harry Levinson, and David Z. Pan "Modeling and characterization of contact-edge roughness for minimizing design and manufacturing variations," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 9(4), 041211 (1 October 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3504697

Published: 1 October 2010

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