Provided, is a reliable semiconductor device with a layered interconnect
structure that may develop no trouble of voids and interconnect
breakdowns, in which the layered interconnect structure comprises a
conductor film and a neighboring film as so layered on a semiconductor
substrate that the neighboring film is contacted with the conductor film.
In the device, the materials for the conductor film and the neighboring
film are so selected that the difference between the short side, a.sub.p,
of the rectangular unit cells that constitute the plane with minimum free
energy of the conductor film and the short side, a.sub.n, of the
rectangular unit cells that constitute the plane with minimum free energy
of the neighboring film, {|a.sub.p-a.sub.n|/a.sub.p}.times.100=A (%) and
the difference between the long side, b.sub.p, of the rectangular unit
cells that constitute the plane with minimum free energy of the conductor
film and the long side, b.sub.n, of the rectangular unit cells that
constitute the plane with minimum free energy of the neighboring film,
{|b.sub.p-b.sub.n|/b.sub.p}.times.100=B (%) satisfy an inequality of
{A+B.times.(a.sub.p/b.sub.p)}<13. In this, the diffusion of the
conductor film is retarded.