摘要:
This invention provides a method of making an improved gate structure in which the gate electrode is self-aligned with respect to the field isolation oxide regions.Gate constituting layers are formed on a substrate prior to formation of the field isolation oxide regions. An oxidation barrier layer is provided on such layers, also covering the other regions which should be formed into the source and drain regions, etc. By etching off the oxidation barrier layer above the field isolation regions, the boundary edges of the gate on the field isolation regions are formed. Then oxidation is performed using the oxidation barrier as a masking pattern to form the field isolation oxide regions. The field isolation oxide regions and the gate thus formed completely coincide with each other at their boundary edges.
摘要:
An element of an integrated circuit, such as an ion implanted region or a metal layer, may be laser trimmed without exposing P-N junctions or other circuit elements not to be trimmed to damage by the laser through use of the present protection process and structure. In the process, an oxide through which the laser trimming is carried out is formed over a selected portion of the circuit to be trimmed by the laser. A bare layer of a metal reflective to the laser radiant energy beam, such as aluminum, gold or silver, is formed surrounding the selected portion of the circuit. The selected portion of the integrated circuit is then trimmed with the laser. The oxide promotes trimming in the selected area by absorbing the laser radiant energy beam. The bare metal layer protects the portion of the integrated circuit underlying it by reflecting most of its energy.
摘要:
A method is disclosed for eliminating under-etchings. In a substrate having a lower silicon dioxide layer thereon, a polysilicon layer on the silicon dioxide layer, and an upper silicon dioxide layer on the polysilicon layer, an etched window provided in the layers has first under-etchings formed at an edge of the lower silicon dioxide layer adjacent the substrate and a second under-etching formed at an edge of the polysilicon layer. A sputtering source is provided with a given target voltage. A grid potential is applied to the substrate wherein the grid potential is between one-tenth and one-third of the target voltage. A layer is then sputter deposited in the etching window for filling in the first under-etching by re-emission from the surface of the substrate and for sloping the edge of the polysilicon layer at the second under-etching. An overhanging portion of the upper silicon dioxide layer is also removed at the second under-etching by re-emission during the sputter deposition.
摘要:
A method of forming extremely small impurity regions within other impurity regions without the need for providing critical masks. In the preferred embodiment this is achieved by forming an undercut band within masking layers atop a substrate to define a first impurity region, such as the base region of a bipolar transistor. After this region is formed by the introduction of impurities, the undercut is filled-in by a chemical vapor deposition process. A blocking mask may then be used for the formation of the second impurity region, in this case the emitter, within the first region. The window of the second region is defined by the filled-in band, thereby insuring a selected distance between the peripheries of said first and second impurity regions. The same mask may also be used to form other self-aligned regions with the first region.
摘要:
An insulated gate semiconductor is prepared by forming auxiliary regions for source-drain regions having a shallow junction by a self-aligning process using a gate electrode as a mask; covering it with a thick insulating membrane for surface protection; forming a contact hole for bonding an electrode in the thick insulating membrane; and forming source-drain regions having deep junction through the contact hole and bonding an electrode metal to it in the contact hole.
摘要:
The specification describes a self-aligning masking technique for the fabrication of charge coupled device-metal oxide semiconductor (CCD/MOS) transistor combinations. Both the CCD devices and the output MOS transistors are formed on the same semiconductor substrate during the same processing steps. Two layers of polycrystalline silicon, isolated from each other by a layer of dielectric material and isolated from the semiconductor substrate by another dielectric layer are used to form two sets of partially overlapping semiconductor strips. These strips and predetermined portions of the substrate are then doped, with a conductivity determining impurity opposite the conductivity type of the substrate. This process produces two self-aligned sets of gate electrodes for a two-phase or a four-phase CCD device and also produces two output self-aligned gate field effect transistors at the end of the CCD array.
摘要:
A method of fabricating bipolar transistors with increased gain. A base region is formed adjacent the collector (or emitter) region of the transistor, and a portion of the base region is then removed by etching. The emitter (or collector) is then formed by diffusing dopant into the base region where the portion has been removed, with the base region separating the emitter and collector having reduced thickness due to the etching. Advantageously, the base region may be formed with a more heavily-doped region overlying a less heavily-doped region, with a part of the more heavily-doped region removed by etching, thereby providing a highly conductive path to the lower conductivity base region separating the emitter and collector regions. The process steps are compatible with conventional integrated-circuit fabrication processes.
摘要:
A region in an integrated circuit substrate is formed by first ion implanting impurities of a selected conductivity-determining type into a semiconductor substrate through at least one aperture in a masking electrically insulative layer, and then diffusing a conductivity-determining impurity of the same type through the same aperture into said substrate.The method has particular application when the electrically insulative layer is a composite of two layers, e.g., a top layer of silicon nitride and a bottom layer of silicon dioxide and the aperture is thus a pair of registered openings respectively through said silicon nitride and silicon dioxide layers, and the aperture through the silicon dioxide layer has greater lateral dimensions than that in the silicon nitride layer to provide an undercut beneath the silicon nitride ion implantation barrier layer.
摘要:
The process employs both silicon dioxide and silicon nitride layers used for selectively masking areas to be etched in order to allow a single photomask to be used for defining areas having different conductivities simultaneously, thereby eliminating problems caused by misregistry between photomasks.
摘要:
An extremely short channel Field Effect Transistor (FET) is made by making a first ion implant through a polysilicon mask aperture, converting the surface of the polysilicon into SiO.sub.2 to constrict the aperture size and then making a second ion implant of the opposite type impurity through the constricted aperture. The SiO.sub.2 growth effectively moves the edge of the mask by a small controlled distance. This permits a small controlled spacing between the two ion implants, which is used for defining an extremely short FET channel. Alternatively, a bipolar transistor with a narrow base zone can be made by analogous processing.