Patent ID: 8709943

Claim:
A method of forming a device, the method comprising: providing a substrate, the substrate comprising a dielectric region, a conductive region, and a molecular self-assembled monolayer; wherein the molecular self-assembled monolayer covers the dielectric region, wherein the molecular self-assembled monolayer is absent from the conductive region, and wherein the molecular self-assembled monolayer comprises head groups formed on the dielectric region, linking groups connected to the head groups, and terminal groups connected to the linking groups; forming a capping layer over the substrate, wherein the capping layer covers the conductive region, and wherein the capping layer covers at least a portion of the dielectric region; removing at least the terminal groups of the molecular self-assembled monolayer from the dielectric region, wherein the removing of the at least the terminal groups of the molecular self-assembled monolayer from the dielectric region comprises removing the capping layer from the dielectric region, wherein at least the head groups of the molecular self-assembled monolayer remains and covers the dielectric region after the removing of the terminal groups; and forming a dielectric barrier layer over at least the dielectric region.