Patent 12080547 was granted and assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on September, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods to form low-k dielectric materials for use as intermetal dielectrics in multilevel interconnect systems, along with their chemical and physical properties, are provided. The deposition techniques described include PECVD, PEALD, and ALD processes where the precursors such as TEOS and MDEOS may provide the requisite O-atoms and O