TY - GEN
T1 - Triple-Stacked Silicon-on-Insulator Integrated Circuits Using Au/SiO2Hybrid Bonding
AU - Honda, Yuki
AU - Goto, Masahide
AU - Watabe, Toshihisa
AU - Nanba, Masakazu
AU - Iguchi, Yoshinori
AU - Saraya, Takuya
AU - Kobayashi, Masaharu
AU - Higurashi, Eiji
AU - Toshiyoshi, Hiroshi
AU - Hiramoto, Toshiro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10/14
Y1 - 2019/10/14
N2 - This study demonstrates a triple-stacking process of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer by repeating (1) the embedment of 5-μm-diameter gold (Au) electrode sites in a polished silicon oxide (SiO2) surface, (2) Au/SiO2 hybrid bonding with a thin silicon layer in between, and (3) subsequent lost-wafer processes. Inverters prepared on separate SOI wafers are vertically connected through Au electrodes. Feasibility tests are performed by developing triple-stacked ring oscillators (ROs) with 101 stages. The experimental results confirm a successful RO operation and indicate that the developed process is promising for three-dimensional integrated circuits using the multi-wafer stacking technique.
AB - This study demonstrates a triple-stacking process of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer by repeating (1) the embedment of 5-μm-diameter gold (Au) electrode sites in a polished silicon oxide (SiO2) surface, (2) Au/SiO2 hybrid bonding with a thin silicon layer in between, and (3) subsequent lost-wafer processes. Inverters prepared on separate SOI wafers are vertically connected through Au electrodes. Feasibility tests are performed by developing triple-stacked ring oscillators (ROs) with 101 stages. The experimental results confirm a successful RO operation and indicate that the developed process is promising for three-dimensional integrated circuits using the multi-wafer stacking technique.
KW - 3D integrated circuits (ICs)
KW - CMOS integrated circuits
KW - integrated circuit interconnections
KW - multi wafer stacking
KW - silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
KW - wafer bonding
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U2 - 10.1109/S3S46989.2019.9320733
DO - 10.1109/S3S46989.2019.9320733
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85100843424
T3 - 2019 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference, S3S 2019
BT - 2019 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference, S3S 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference, S3S 2019
Y2 - 14 October 2019 through 17 October 2019
ER -