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Synchrotron X-ray Micro-diffraction Analysis on Microstructure Evolution in Sn under Electromigration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Albert T. Wu ,
N. Tamura ,
J. R. Lloyd ,
C. R. Kao  and
K. N. Tu
Albert T. Wu
Affiliation:
Dep. of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
N. Tamura
Affiliation:
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
J. R. Lloyd
Affiliation:
T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
C. R. Kao
Affiliation:
Chemical & Materials Engineering, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan
K. N. Tu
Affiliation:
Dep. of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Abstract

White Sn (β-Sn) thin film stripe shows a voltage drop about 10% when subjected to electromigration testing. Since β-Sn has anisotropic crystal structure, it possesses different resistivity along a-, b- and c axis. The direction of the axes determines the resistance in each grain. Under electromigration, low resistance grain tends to grow in the expense of the neighboring high resistance grains. The changes of grain orientation in the Sn stripe before and after electromigration was studied by synchrotron x-ray microdiffraction (∼1νm diameter) to achieve grain-by-grain analysis. Grain growth involves grain boundary migration and rotation of neighboring high resistance grains. A model different from normal grain growth is proposed to describe the condition and mechanism of microstructural evolution under electromigration.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 863: Symposium B – Materials, Technology and Reliability of Advanced Interconnects , 2005 , B9.10
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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