US 7,601,638 B2
Interconnect metallization method having thermally treated copper plate film with reduced micro-voids
Masahiko Hasunuma, Yokohama (Japan); Hisashi Kaneko, Fujisawa (Japan); and Hiroshi Toyoda, Kamakura (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/926,614.
Claims priority of application No. P2006-293488 (JP), filed on Oct. 30, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2008/0102628 A1, May 01, 2008
Int. Cl. H01L 21/4763 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 438—660  [257/E21.495] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising:
preparing a substrate having a recessed portion on a surface;
forming a plating film to bury the recessed portion, the plating film having a lower portion and an upper portion, including a higher impurity concentration in the upper portion than in the lower portion, and a boundary of the lower portion and the upper portion being at a height 1.2 times as large as or larger than a depth of the recessed portion from a bottom surface of the recessed portion;
thermally treating the plating film; and
removing the thermally treated plating film except for a portion buried in the recessed portion.