Patent ID: 9625815
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B81C,G03F,H01L

Claim:
1. A method of fabricating an interconnect structure for a semiconductor die, the method comprising: forming a first level of alternating metal lines and dielectric lines above a substrate; forming a block co-polymer structure above, and having a pattern directed by, the first level of alternating metal lines and dielectric lines, the block co-polymer structure comprising a polystyrene (PS) component and a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) component, wherein the PS component is bound to or blended with a photo acid generator (PAG) moiety and is bound to a protecting group; exposing a portion of the PS component and a portion of the PMMA component of the block co-polymer structure to irradiation, wherein the bound protecting group reduces chain lengths in the exposed PS component during the exposing to form an irradiated PS component, but chain lengths are not reduced in the exposed PMMA component during the exposing, wherein the PAG moiety or the bound protecting group localizes the reducing of chain lengths to the PS component; and developing the block co-polymer structure by removing the irradiated PS component but not the exposed PMMA component to provide a patterned block co-polymer structure.