| abstract |
A process is disclosed for improving the adhesion of a polymeric resist to a gold metallization surface. The process includes the use of a chelating silane as an adhesion promoter between the resist and the gold metallization surface. The improved resist adhesion to the gold metallization surface is attributed to a complexation or chemisorption mechanism. The adhesion promoters of interest contain moieties capable of acting as chelating or chemisorption sites on the molecular silane, thus creating layer-to-layer bonding with greater strength than that observed where just Van der Waals interactions occur to the gold surface atoms. |