CONTACT RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENT USING 4 CIRCULAR CONTACTS

被引:3
作者
CHUA, SJ
LEE, SH
机构
[1] Centre for Optoelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 0511
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10.1016/0038-1101(92)90168-C
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
In this paper, a simple technique for measuring contact resistivity of metallization is proposed. It makes use of four circular contacts, a structure which is simple to fabricate and requires only two measurement steps to obtain the contact resistivity. This technique is suitable for process monitoring of contact resistivity in large-scale production where simplicity in fabricating the test structure and in measurement is a necessity.
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页码:1331 / 1335
页数:5
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