Abstract:
The source/drain of a fully III-V semiconductor or Si-based transistor includes a bottom barrier layer that may be lattice matched to the channel, a lower layer of a wide bandgap III-V material and a top layer of a comparatively narrow bandgap III-V material, with a compositionally graded layer between the lower layer and top layer gradually transitioning from the wide bandgap material to the narrow bandgap material.
Abstract:
A layer of ferroelectric material is incorporated into the gate contact of a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), i.e., outside of the device active area. Flexibility in the deposition and patterning of the ferroelectric layer geometry allows for efficient matching between the capacitance of the ferroelectric layer and the capacitance of the gate, providing a step-up voltage transformer, decreased threshold voltage, and a sub-threshold swing for the device of less than 60 mV/decade.
Abstract:
A method of performing an early PTS implant and forming a buffer layer under a bulk or fin channel to control doping in the channel and the resulting bulk or fin device are provided. Embodiments include forming a recess in a substrate; forming a PTS layer below a bottom surface of the recess; forming a buffer layer on the bottom surface and on side surfaces of the recess; forming a channel layer on and adjacent to the buffer layer; and annealing the channel, buffer, and PTS layers.
Abstract:
A vertical FinFET includes a semiconductor fin formed over a semiconductor substrate. A self-aligned first source/drain contact is electrically separated from a second source/drain contact by a spacer layer that is formed over an endwall of the fin. The spacer layer, which comprises a dielectric material, allows the self-aligned first source/drain contact to be located in close proximity to an endwall of the fin and the associated second source/drain contact without risk of an electrical short between the adjacent contacts.
Abstract:
Methods of forming a VFET SRAM or logic device having a sub-fin level metal routing layer connected to a gate of one transistor pair and to the bottom S/D of another transistor pair and resulting device are provided. Embodiments include pairs of fins formed on a substrate; a bottom S/D layer patterned on the substrate around the fins; conformal liner layers formed over the substrate; a ILD formed over a liner layer; a metal routing layer formed between the pairs of fins on the liner layer between the first pair and on the bottom S/D layer between at least the second pair, an upper surface formed below the active fin portion; a GAA formed on the dielectric spacer around each fin of the first pair; and a bottom S/D contact xc or a dedicated xc formed on the metal routing layer adjacent to the GAA or through the GAA, respectively.
Abstract:
Methods for fabricating transistor structures are provided, the methods including: forming a fin structure with an upper fin portion and a lower fin portion, the upper fin portion including a sacrificial material; forming a gate structure over the fin; selectively removing the upper fin portion to form a tunnel between the gate structure and lower fin portion; and providing a channel material in the tunnel to define the channel region of the gate structure. The sacrificial material may be a material that can be selectively etched without etching the material of the lower fin portion. The channel material may further be provided to form source and drain regions of the transistor structure, which may result in a junctionless FinFET structure.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to vertical transport field effect transistor devices and methods of manufacture. A structure includes: a vertical fin structure having a lower dopant region, an upper dopant region and a channel region between the lower dopant region and the upper dopant region; and a doped semiconductor material provided on sides of the vertical fin structure at a lower portion. The lower dopant region being composed of the doped semiconductor material which is merged into the vertical fin structure at the lower portion.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a vertical field effect transistor includes an isotropic etch of a gate conductor to recess the gate and define the length of the transistor channel. A symmetric gate conductor geometry prior to the etch, in combination with the isotropic (i.e., lateral) etch, allows the effective vertical etch rate of the gate conductor to be independent of local pattern densities, resulting in a uniform channel length among plural transistors formed on a semiconductor substrate.
Abstract:
Methods of fabricating one or more semiconductor fin structures are provided which include: providing a substrate structure including a first semiconductor material; providing a fin stack(s) above the substrate structure, the fin stack(s) including at least one semiconductor layer, which includes a second semiconductor material; depositing a conformal protective film over the fin stack(s) and the substrate structure; and etching the substrate structure using, at least in part, the fin stack(s) as a mask to facilitate defining the one or more semiconductor fin structures. The conformal protective film protects sidewalls of the at least one semiconductor layer of the fin stack(s) from etching during etching of the substrate structure. As one example, the first semiconductor material may be or include silicon, the second semiconductor material may be or include silicon germanium, and the conformal protective film may be, in one example, silicon nitride.