Patent ID: 8486832

Claim:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, the method comprising steps of: forming a trench in an interlayer dielectric formed on a substrate; forming a barrier seed film to cover the interlayer dielectric and inner walls of the trench; and embedding copper in the trench by forming the copper directly on a surface of the barrier seed film by electrolytic plating using the barrier seed film as an electrode, wherein: the barrier seed film is a single-layer film made of an oxide of at least one metal of Zn, Ti, Zr, Hf, Nd, Ta, W, V, Mo, Mn, Ru, Os, Co, Rh and Ir, and contains a low-resistance metal other than copper as a dopant to provide conductivity to the barrier seed film, the step of forming the barrier seed film includes a step of doping the low-resistance metal in the barrier seed film so that a concentration of the low-resistance metal in the vicinity of an interface of the barrier seed film in contact with the copper embedded in the trench is higher than a concentration of the low-resistance metal in the vicinity of an interface of the barrier seed film in contact with the interlayer dielectric, and the low-resistance metal is any one of Al, Ag and Au.