Patent ID: 7728436

Claim:
A semiconductor device, the device comprising a damascene copper interconnect structure and a self-assembled monolayer, wherein the damascene copper interconnect structure comprises exposed dielectric parts and exposed copper parts, and wherein the self assembled monolayer is selectively deposited exclusively onto the exposed dielectric parts by bonding through a head group, but is not deposited on the exposed copper parts of the damascene copper interconnect structure, wherein the self-assembled monolayer comprises a plurality of molecules of chemical formula (Z) 3 Si—R 3 —SH, wherein —R 3 — is an alkyl chain, wherein —SH is a terminal group, wherein the head group is —Si(Z) 3 , and wherein Z is independently selected from the group consisting of CH 3 , Cl, C 2 H 5 , OCH 3 , and OC 2 H 5 .