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Cu(0.5 at.%Mg) alloy films were deposited on glass substrates, and annealed at 200–400 °C in vacuum. The resistivity of the Cu(Mg) films was reduced to about 3.0 μΩcm after annealing at 200 °C for 30 min, and the tensile strength of adhesion of the Cu(Mg) films to the glass substrates was increased to 30–40 and 35–55 MPa after annealing at 250 and 300 °C, respectively. The reduction in resistivity can be explained as reduced impurity scattering and grain-boundary scattering, since Mg segregation to the film surface and Cu(Mg)/glass interface, and consequent Cu grain growth, were observed. Increased adhesion of the Cu(Mg) films to glass substrates after annealing was also explained by the strong segregation of Mg atoms, and the formation of a reaction layer at the interface. Mg atoms were observed to have reacted with the glass substrates and formed a thin crystalline MgO layer at the interface in the samples annealed at 300 °C, while Mg atoms were highly concentrated above the Cu(Mg)/glass interface without oxide formation at the interface in the samples annealed at 250 °C. Thus, the process temperature and time to obtain low-resistivity and high-adhesion Cu alloy films on glass substrates could be reduced to 250 °C and 30 min using Cu(Mg) films.
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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (24360307). The authors would like to thank Dr Takashi Onishi, Shinko Research Co., Ltd. for supplying glass substrate.
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Ito, K., Hamasaka, K., Kohama, K. et al. Low-Temperature Synthesis of High-Adhesion Cu(Mg) Alloy Films on Glass Substrates. J. Electron. Mater. 43, 2540–2547 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-014-3224-0
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