Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Stephan Stanton
  • Patent number: 6224737
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure having a trench formed therein is provided. The semiconductor structure may be a substrate with an overlying interlevel metal dielectric layer having the trench. A voltage is applied to the trenched semiconductor inducing a bias field where there is a first field proximate the trench bottom and a second field, greater than the first field, proximate the trench's upper side walls and the semiconductor upper surface proximate the trench. The semiconductor structure is placed into an electroplating solution containing a predetermined concentration of brighteners and levelers. Because of the induced bias field, the brightener concentration is greater proximate the trench bottom and the leveler concentration is greater the trench's upper side walls and the semiconductor upper surface proximate the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Ming-Hsing Tsai, Wen-Jye Tsai, Shau-Lin Shue, Chen-Hua Yu