摘要:
An improved source/drain junction configuration in a metal-oxide semiconductor transistor is provided, as well as a novel method for fabricating this junction. This configuration employs gate double sidewall spacers in the peripheral region and gate single sidewall spacers in the cell array region. The double sidewall spacers are advantageously formed to suppress the short channel effect, to prevent current leakage, and to reduce sheet resistance. The insulating layer used to form the second spacers in the peripheral region remains in the cell array region and serves as an etching stopper during the etching step of interlayer insulating layer for contact opening formation and also serves as a barrier layer during the step of silicidation formation. As a result the fabrication process of the resulting device is simplified.
摘要:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device with different gate oxide layers is provided. In this method, oxidation is controlled in accordance with the active area dimension so that the oxide grows more thinly at a wider active width in a peripheral region, and grows more thickly at a narrower active width in a cell array region. In this method, a gate pattern is formed over a semiconductor substrate having different active areas. Gate spacer are formed and an active-dimension-dependant oxidation process is then performed to grow oxide layers of different thicknesses in the cell array region and the peripheral region.
摘要:
Active areas of integrated circuits can be formed by implanting first ions into a first active area of a substrate adjacent to an isolation structure in the substrate and between a source and a drain region of the integrated circuit to provide a first concentration of ions in the first active area. Second ions are implanted into the first active area and a second active area of the substrate adjacent to the first active area and spaced-apart from the isolation structure on the substrate to provide a second concentration of ions in the second active area and a third concentration of ions in the first active area that is greater than the first and second concentrations. As a result, the level of ion concentration can be higher at the edge of an active channel region than at the center of the channel. The increased concentration of ions in the active area adjacent to the side wall of the trench may reduce a current between the source and drain regions of the transistor when voltage that is less than a threshold voltage of the transistor is applied to the gate electrode of the transistor. Thus, a reduction in the threshold voltage of the transistor can be inhibited. Integrated circuit transistors are also disclosed.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a MOS transistor is provided. According to the method, a rapid thermal anneal is applied to a semiconductor substrate having active regions doped with well impurity ions and channel impurity ions. Thus, during implantation of the well and the channel impurity ions, crystalline defects resulting from the implantation can be cured by the rapid thermal anneal.
摘要:
Active areas of integrated circuits can be formed by implanting first ions into a first active area of a substrate adjacent to an isolation structure in the substrate and between a source and a drain region of the integrated circuit to provide a first concentration of ions in the first active area. Second ions are implanted into the first active area and a second active area of the substrate adjacent to the first active area and spaced-apart from the isolation structure on the substrate to provide a second concentration of ions in the second active area and a third concentration of ions in the first active area that is greater than the first and second concentrations. As a result, the level of ion concentration can be higher at the edge of an active channel region than at the center of the channel. The increased concentration of ions in the active area adjacent to the side wall of the trench may reduce a current between the source and drain regions of the transistor when voltage that is less than a threshold voltage of the transistor is applied to the gate electrode of the transistor. Thus, a reduction in the threshold voltage of the transistor can be inhibited. Integrated circuit transistors are also disclosed.
摘要:
The size of a pad in the present invention is reduced, thereby preventing a polymer etch-stop, suppressing a short between a gate and a gate conductive layer exposed by the damage of an oxide layer covering the gate conductive layer, and extending a top surface area of a pad beyond the technical limitation of a photo equipment. As a result, it is possible to greatly secure the alignment of a buried contact electrically connected to the pad.
摘要:
Substrate test probing equipment having a force-receiving pattern for a probe card and a forcing part for a test head, and methods of using the same, in which with the force-receiving pattern for the probe card and the forcing part for the test head, thermal expansion and contraction of the probe card can be suppressed when the semiconductor substrate is being tested at high and low temperatures. To this end, to substrate test probing equipment having a substrate mover, a probe card, and a test head is prepared, in which the test head has a forcing part and the probe card has a force-receiving plate. A semiconductor substrate is placed on the substrate mover to be electrically connected with the probe card. The semiconductor substrate is electrically tested by the probe card and the test head. When the semiconductor substrate is being tested, the forcing part of the test head is brought into contact with the force-receiving pattern of the probe card.
摘要:
A semiconductor device including storage nodes and a method of manufacturing the same: The method includes forming an insulating layer and an etch stop layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming storage node contact bodies to be electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate by penetrating the insulating layer and the etch stop layer; forming landing pads on the etch stop layer to be electrically connected to the storage node contact bodies, respectively; and forming storage nodes on the landing pads, respectively, the storage nodes of which outward sidewalls are completely exposed and which are arranged at an angle to each other.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device and method is shown in which a built-in system test (BIST) circuit determines, based upon the test algorithm and the refresh requirements of a DRAM memory cell array, a refresh point address where the BIST circuit performs a refresh operation on the test data in the memory cell array when the test address reaches the refresh point address. Another embodiment of a semiconductor memory device and method is also shown in which a BIST circuit descrambles the test address and test data before input to a memory circuit which includes address and data scrambling circuits such that the logical test address and test data generated according to a test algorithm matches the physical address and data in the memory cell array.
摘要:
A testing apparatus includes a test controller configured to output a plurality of chip selection signals for selecting chips to be tested from among a plurality of chips, a plurality of first control signals for controlling supply of a power supply voltage to the chips selected by the chip selection signals, and a plurality of second control signals for controlling receiving of test voltages output from the chips supplied with the power supply voltage, and a probe card including one or more test blocks each having a plurality of signal transmitters configured to respectively transfer the power supply voltage to the corresponding chips in response to the different first control signals and respectively apply the test voltages output from the corresponding chips to the test controller in response to the different second control signals.