there seems to be large series resistance beteen my silicide and interconnect metal. I use Ni silicide, followed by PECVD nitride passivation. After opening nitride window using RIE, Al interconnect metal was sputtered. I suspect silicide/Al has poor adhesion or has interface layer inbetween which reduced device conducting ability. Anyone has similair experiences? Any idea how to achieve clean and good adhesion to interconnect metal? It seems that silicide process doesn't allow cap layer(like TiW, TiN) to be used or someone tried that? Yuzhu