Patent ID: 7687913

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising: an insulating material having a plurality of electrical conductors formed therein; and an intermetal dielectric including an organosilicate film having hydrogen atoms or alkyl or aryl groups attached to silicon atoms; a surface of the organosilicate film comprising a product of reaction with an aminosilane silylating agent and an organosilicate of said film, said aminosilane having the general formula (R 2 N) x SiR′ y R″ z where X, Y and Z are integers with x varying from 1 to 3, and Y and Z varying from 3 to 0 respectively but where x+y+z is always equal to 4, and where R, R′, and R″ are any hydrogen, methyl, aryl, allyl, phenyl or vinyl moiety.