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公开(公告)号:US20200303247A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-24
申请号:US16355853
申请日:2019-03-18
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: JIEHUI SHU , HUI ZANG , SCOTT HOWARD BEASOR , DALI SHAO
IPC: H01L21/768 , H01L29/417
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor device fabrication and integrated circuits. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods of forming a protective liner in transistor devices for protecting one or more gate spacers having a low-K dielectric material. The present disclosure further provides a semiconductor structure including a gate structure having a gate spacer, a trench having upper and lower sidewall portions adjacent to the gate spacer, the trench having a conductive structure over a device element and an adjoining insulative structure over an electrical isolation region, a dielectric liner disposed on the lower sidewall portion of the trench, and a protective liner disposed on the upper sidewall portion of the trench and within the insulative structure.
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公开(公告)号:US20180323191A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-08
申请号:US15873006
申请日:2018-01-17
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: HAITING WANG , WEI ZHAO , HONG YU , XUSHENG WU , HUI ZANG , ZHENYU HU
IPC: H01L27/088 , H01L29/06 , H01L21/8234 , H01L21/02 , H01L21/311 , H01L21/308
CPC classification number: H01L27/0886 , H01L21/02164 , H01L21/3086 , H01L21/31111 , H01L21/762 , H01L21/823418 , H01L21/823431 , H01L21/823468 , H01L21/823481 , H01L29/0649
Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor structure, including at least one fin-type field effect transistor and at least one single-diffusion break (SDB) type isolation region, and a method of forming the semiconductor structure. In the method, an isolation bump is formed above an isolation region within a semiconductor fin and sidewall spacers are formed on the bump. During an etch process to reduce the height of the bump and to remove isolation material from the sidewalls of the fin, the sidewall spacers prevent lateral etching of the bump. During an etch process to form source/drain recesses in the fin, the sidewalls spacers protect the semiconductor material adjacent to the isolation region. Consequently, the sides and bottom of each recess include semiconductor surfaces and the angle of the top surfaces of the epitaxial source/drain regions formed therein is minimized, thereby minimizing the risk of unlanded source/drain contacts.
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公开(公告)号:US20200343142A1
公开(公告)日:2020-10-29
申请号:US16396775
申请日:2019-04-29
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: JIEHUI SHU , RINUS TEK PO LEE , WEI HONG , HUI ZANG , HONG YU
IPC: H01L21/8234 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/423 , H01L21/306 , H01L21/3213 , H01L21/3065 , H01L21/285
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor device fabrication and integrated circuits. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to replacement metal gate processes and structures for transistor devices having a short channel and a long channel component. The present disclosure also relates to processes and structures for multi-gates with dissimilar threshold voltages. The present disclosure further provides a method of forming structures in a semiconductor device by forming a first and second cavities having sidewalls and bottom surfaces in a dielectric structure, where the first cavity has a narrower opening than the second cavity, forming a first material layer in the first and second cavities, forming a protective layer over the first material layer, where the protective layer fills the first cavity and conformally covers the sidewall and the bottom surfaces of the second cavity, performing a first isotropic etch on the protective layer to selectively remove a portion of the protective layer and form a retained portion of the protective layer, performing a second isotropic etch on the first material layer to selectively remove a portion of the first material layer and form a retained portion of the first material layer, removing the retained portion of the protective layer, and forming a second material layer in the first and second cavities, the second material layer being formed on the retained portion of the first material layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20180358452A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-13
申请号:US15615925
申请日:2017-06-07
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: YI QI , JIANWEI PENG , HSIEN-CHING LO , RUILONG XIE , XUNYUAN ZHANG , HUI ZANG
CPC classification number: H01L29/66666 , H01L29/0847 , H01L29/6653 , H01L29/66787 , H01L29/7827
Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of an improved method for forming a vertical field effect transistor (VFET). In each of the embodiments of the method, a semiconductor fin is formed sufficiently thick (i.e., wide) so that the surface area of the top of the semiconductor fin is sufficiently large to facilitate epitaxial growth thereon of a semiconductor material for a second source/drain region. As a result, the second source/drain region will be sufficiently large to avoid potential contact-related defects (e.g., unlanded contacts, complete silicidation of second source/drain region during contact formation, etc.). Additionally, either before or after this second source/drain region is formed, at least the center portion of the semiconductor fin, which will include the channel region of the VFET, is thinned down to a desired critical dimension for optimal VFET performance. Also disclosed are VFET structure embodiments resulting from this method.
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公开(公告)号:US20180374851A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-27
申请号:US15632702
申请日:2017-06-26
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: YANZHEN WANG , HUI ZANG , BINGWU LIU
IPC: H01L27/092 , H01L29/06 , H01L21/8238 , H01L29/66 , H01L23/535
Abstract: A method and structure for a semiconductor device that includes one or more fin-type field effect transistors (FINFETs) and single-diffusion break (SDB) type isolation regions, which are within a semiconductor fin and define the active device region(s) for the FINFET(s). Asymmetric trenches are formed in a substrate through asymmetric cuts in sacrificial fins formed on the substrate. The asymmetric cuts have relatively larger gaps between fin portions that are closest to the substrate, and deeper portions of the asymmetric trenches are relatively wider than shallower portions. Channel regions are formed in the substrate below two adjacent fins. Source/drain regions of complementary transistors are formed in the substrate on opposite sides of the channel regions. The asymmetric trenches are filled with an insulator to form a single-diffusion break between two source/drain regions of different ones of the complementary transistors. Also disclosed is a semiconductor structure formed according to the method.
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公开(公告)号:US20160163705A1
公开(公告)日:2016-06-09
申请号:US15040953
申请日:2016-02-10
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
IPC: H01L27/092 , H01L29/49
CPC classification number: H01L27/0922 , H01L21/28088 , H01L27/0924 , H01L29/4966 , H01L29/66545 , H01L29/66795
Abstract: An improved method and structure for fabrication of replacement metal gate (RMG) field effect transistors is disclosed. P-type field effect transistor (PFET) gate cavities are protected while N work function metals are deposited in N-type field effect transistor (NFET) gate cavities.
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公开(公告)号:US20200312775A1
公开(公告)日:2020-10-01
申请号:US16368836
申请日:2019-03-28
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: RINUS TEK PO LEE , FUAD AL-AMOODY , ASLI SIRMAN , JOSEPH KYALO KASSIM , HUI ZANG , BHARAT V. KRISHNAN
IPC: H01L23/532 , H01L23/522 , H01L21/768
Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided that includes a dielectric layer and a barrier layer having at least two layers of two dimensional materials on the dielectric layer, wherein each layer is made of a different two dimensional material.
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公开(公告)号:US20200227323A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-16
申请号:US16246536
申请日:2019-01-13
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: HUI ZANG , RUILONG XIE , JESSICA MARY DECHENE
IPC: H01L21/8234 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/66 , H01L21/762
Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided, which includes providing sacrificial gate structures over a plurality of fins, wherein the sacrificial gate structures include a first sacrificial gate structure and a second sacrificial gate structure. A fin cut process is performed to form a fin cut opening in the first sacrificial gate structure. A gate cut process is performed to form a gate cut opening in the second sacrificial gate structure. A first dielectric layer is deposited in the fin cut opening and the gate cut opening, and the first dielectric layer is recessed in the openings. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the first dielectric layer in the fin cut opening and the gate cut opening to concurrently form a diffusion break structure and a gate cut structure respectively.
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公开(公告)号:US20200211903A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-02
申请号:US16237757
申请日:2019-01-02
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: JIEHUI SHU , JESSICA MARY DECHENE , HUI ZANG , NAVED AHMED SIDDIQUI
IPC: H01L21/8234 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/66 , H01L21/308
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor device fabrication and integrated circuits. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods of forming a two-part trench in a semiconductor device that includes one or more field-effect transistors (FETs). The present method includes forming a semiconductor layer above a substrate, forming a mask layer above the semiconductor layer, forming a mask opening with sidewalls in the mask layer and exposing the semiconductor layer, depositing a profile control layer on the sidewalls of the mask opening, and forming a trench in the semiconductor layer by simultaneously etching the profile control layer and the exposed semiconductor layer, where the etching of the profile control layer forms the trench with top and bottom sections having different widths.
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公开(公告)号:US20200119002A1
公开(公告)日:2020-04-16
申请号:US16162373
申请日:2018-10-16
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: RUILONG XIE , WILLIAM TAYLOR , HUI ZANG
IPC: H01L27/088 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/78 , H01L21/8234
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to integrated circuit (IC) structures and their method of manufacture. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to forming a semiconductor device having generally fork-shaped contacts around epitaxial regions to increase surface contact area and improve device performance. The integrated circuit (IC) structure of the present disclosure comprises a plurality of fins disposed on a semiconductor substrate, at least one epitaxial region laterally disposed on selected fins, and a contact material positioned over and surrounding the epitaxial region.
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