Patent ID: 8557703

Claim:
A method of pre-migrating metal ions, the method comprising: exposing a metal in a semiconductor configuration to water and oxygen to yield metal ions, the metal operable to couple a conductor to a first material, and the metal being in a first area; exposing the metal and the conductor to an electrical field in such a manner that one or both of the metal and the conductor becomes an anode to a corresponding cathode; allowing, based on the exposing of the metal in the semiconductor configuration to water, oxygen, and the electrical field, a non-trivial amount of the metal ions to migrate from the anode to the cathode to form a migrated metal; applying a migration inhibitor on top of the migrated metal to prevent further migration; and wherein the exposing of the metal in the semiconductor configuration to water, oxygen, and the electrical field occurs prior to a normal operational use of the metal in the semiconductor configuration.