Abstract:
A semiconductor structure, such as a FinFET, etc., includes a bi-portioned junction. The bi-portioned junction includes a doped outer portion and a doped inner portion. The dopant concentration of the outer portion is less than the dopant concentration of the inner portion. An electrical connection is formed by diffusion of the dopants within outer portion into a channel region and diffusion of the dopants within the outer portion into the inner region. A low contact resistance is achieved by a contact electrically contacting the relatively higher doped inner portion while device shorting is limited by the relatively lower doped outer portion.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor region. The first semiconductor region includes a first semiconductor layer composed of a group IV semiconductor material having a top surface and a back surface. The first semiconductor layer has an opening in the top surface to at least a depth greater than an aspect ratio trapping (ART) distance. The first semiconductor region also has a second semiconductor layer composed of a group III/V semiconductor compound deposited within the opening and on the top surface of the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer forms an ART region from the bottom of the opening to the ART distance.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming a nanowire on an insulator layer at a surface of a substrate; forming a dummy gate over a portion of the nanowire and a portion of the insulator layer; forming recesses in the insulator layer on opposing sides of the dummy gate; forming spacers on opposing sides of the dummy gate; forming source regions and drain regions in the recesses in the insulator layer on opposing sides of the dummy gate; depositing an interlayer dielectric on the source regions and the drain regions; removing the dummy gate to form a trench; removing the insulator layer under the nanowire such that a width of the trench underneath the nanowire is equal to or less than a distance between the spacers; and forming a replacement gate in the trench.
Abstract:
Methods for forming substantially uniform depth trenches and/or semiconductor fins from the trenches are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include depositing a germanium including layer over a substrate, the substrate including a plurality of sacrificial semiconductor fins, each pair of sacrificial semiconductor fins separated by a sacrificial pillar. Germanium is diffused from the germanium including layer into the plurality of sacrificial semiconductor fins to a defined uniform depth. The germanium including layer is removed, and the plurality of sacrificial semiconductor fins are etched to the defined uniform depth and selective to the substrate, creating a plurality of trenches having a substantially uniform depth. The trenches can be used to epitaxial grow semiconductor fins having substantially uniform height.
Abstract:
An e-fuse is provided in one area of a semiconductor substrate. The E-fuse includes a vertical stack of from, bottom to top, base metal semiconductor alloy portion, a first metal semiconductor alloy portion, a second metal semiconductor portion, a third metal semiconductor alloy portion and a fourth metal semiconductor alloy portion, wherein the first metal semiconductor alloy portion and the third metal semiconductor portion have outer edges that are vertically offset and do not extend beyond vertical edges of the second metal semiconductor alloy portion and the fourth metal semiconductor alloy portion.
Abstract:
A relaxed fin and a strained fin are formed upon a semiconductor substrate. The strained fin is more highly strained relative to relaxed fin. In a particular example, the relaxed fin may be SiGe (e.g., between 20% atomic Ge concentration and 40% atomic Ge concentration, etc.) and strained fin may be SiGe (e.g., between 50% atomic Ge concentration and 80% atomic Ge concentration, etc.). The strained fin may be located in a pFET region and the relaxed fin may be located in an nFET region of a semiconductor device. As such, mobility benefits may be achieved with the strained fin in the pFET region whilst mobility liabilities may be limited with the relaxed fin in nFET region. The height of the strained fin is greater relative to a critical thickness that which growth defects occur in an epitaxially formed Si blanket layer or in an epitaxially formed Ge blanket layer.
Abstract:
A method for forming a U-shaped semiconductor device includes growing a U-shaped semiconductor material along sidewalls and bottoms of trenches, which are formed in a crystalline layer. The U-shaped semiconductor material is anchored, and the crystalline layer is removed. Backfilling is formed underneath the U-shaped semiconductor material with a dielectric material for support. A semiconductor device is formed with the U-shaped semiconductor material.
Abstract:
A method may include forming a germanium-including fin on a substrate, and forming a dummy gate extending over the germanium-including fin, creating a channel under the gate and a source/drain region of the germanium-including fin extending from under the dummy gate on each side of the dummy gate. An in-situ p-type doped silicon germanium layer may be grown over the source/drain region, the germanium-including fin having a higher concentration of germanium than the in-situ p-type doped silicon germanium layer. An anneal thermally mixes the germanium of the in-situ p-type doped silicon germanium layer and the germanium of the germanium-including fin in the source/drain region of the germanium-including fin and diffuses the p-type dopant of the in-situ p-type doped silicon germanium layer into the channel of the germanium-including fin, forming a source/drain extension. A portion of the channel has a higher germanium concentration than the source/drain region.
Abstract:
A lateral bipolar junction transistor is fabricated using a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate. The transistor includes a germanium gradient within a doped silicon base region, there being an increasing germanium content in the direction of the collector region of the transistor. The use of a substrate including parallel silicon fins to fabricate lateral bipolar junction transistors facilitates the inclusion of both CMOS FinFET devices and lateral bipolar junction transistors having graded silicon germanium base regions on the same chip.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming a nanowire on an insulator layer at a surface of a substrate; forming a dummy gate over a portion of the nanowire and a portion of the insulator layer; forming recesses in the insulator layer on opposing sides of the dummy gate; forming spacers on opposing sides of the dummy gate; forming source regions and drain regions in the recesses in the insulator layer on opposing sides of the dummy gate; depositing an interlayer dielectric on the source regions and the drain regions; removing the dummy gate to form a trench; removing the insulator layer under the nanowire such that a width of the trench underneath the nanowire is equal to or less than a distance between the spacers; and forming a replacement gate in the trench.