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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
Based on 2μm-wide CoSi2-n+- and TiSi2-n+-polycide structures with a l00nm-thick silicide and a standard AlSi-metallization a comparison between conventional and the high accelerated SWEAT-test was carried out. Supported by simulations different parameters (e.g. activation energie EA) were determined by time-to-failure-measurements. Because of comparable results out of both different tests the SWEAT-test will be prefered due to short time-to-test. Also it will be shown that both silicide systems have an about three times higher activation energy for the inducing of EM-based “open”-failures than the tested standard AlSi-metallization. The failure-rate was less than 100 FIT for both polycides but because of process advantages the CoSi2-polycide should be a promissing metallization to improve the reliability of single and/or multilevel-metallization.