Abstract:
The fabrication process comprises a phase of producing a base region having an extrinsic base and an intrinsic base, and a phase of producing an emitter region comprising an emitter block having a narrower lower part located in an emitter window provided above the intrinsic base. Production of the extrinsic base comprises implantation of dopants, carried out after the emitter window has been defined, on either side of and at a predetermined distance dp from the lateral boundaries of the emitter window so as to be self-aligned with respect to this emitter window, and before the emitter block is formed.
Abstract:
An isolation trench formed in a semiconductor substrate has side walls and a bottom wall. Spacers are on the side walls and face each other for forming a narrow channel therebetween. The bottom wall and the spacers are coated with an electrically insulating material for delimiting a closed empty cavity in the channel. The isolation trench is applicable to the manufacture of integrated circuits.
Abstract:
Prior fabricating the transistors, a phase of forming a deep insulative trench in the substrate is followed by a phase of forming a shallow insulative trench in the substrate and extending the deep trench. The phase of forming the deep trench includes coating the inside walls of the deep trench with an initial oxide layer and filling the deep trench with silicon inside an envelope formed from an insulative material. The phase of forming the shallow trench includes coating the inside walls of the shallow trench with an initial oxide layer and filling the shallow trench with an insulative material.
Abstract:
The process includes successively forming, over a base region of a semiconductor substrate, a poly-Ge or poly-SiGe layer, an etch-stop layer over a selected zone of the Ge or SiGe layer, a layer of poly-Si of the same conductivity type as the base region, then an outer layer of dielectric material. Etching the layers includes stopping at the stop layer to form an emitter window preform, removing the stop film and selectively removing the Ge or SiGe layer in the emitter window preform to form an emitter window and to form an emitter made of poly-Si of conductivity type the opposite of the base region in the window.
Abstract:
The vertical bipolar transistor includes an SiGe heterojunction base formed by a stack of layers of silicon and silicon-germanium resting on an initial layer of silicon nitride extending over a side insulation region surrounding the upper part of the intrinsic collector. The stack of layers also extends on the surface of the intrinsic collector which lies inside a window formed in the initial layer of silicon nitride.