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公开(公告)号:US20140151746A1
公开(公告)日:2014-06-05
申请号:US13691070
申请日:2012-11-30
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Nicolas Loubet , Prasanna Khare
IPC: H01L27/088 , H01L29/66
CPC classification number: H01L27/088 , H01L29/66477 , H01L29/66795 , H01L29/785
Abstract: Despite improvements in FinFETs and strained silicon devices, transistors continue to suffer performance degradation as device dimensions shrink. These include, in particular, leakage of charge between the semiconducting channel and the substrate. An isolated channel FinFET device prevents channel-to-substrate leakage by inserting an insulating layer between the channel (fin) and the substrate. The insulating layer isolates the fin from the substrate both physically and electrically. To form the isolated FinFET device, an array of bi-layer fins can be grown epitaxially from the silicon surface, between nitride columns that provide localized insulation between adjacent fins. Then, the lower fin layer can be removed, while leaving the upper fin layer, thus yielding an interdigitated array of nitride columns and semiconducting fins suspended above the silicon surface. A resulting gap underneath the upper fin layer can then be filled in with oxide to isolate the array of fin channels from the substrate.
Abstract translation: 尽管FinFET和应变硅器件有所改进,晶体管在器件尺寸缩小的同时仍继续受到性能的降低。 这些特别包括在半导体沟道和衬底之间的电荷泄漏。 隔离沟道FinFET器件通过在沟道(鳍片)和衬底之间插入绝缘层来防止沟道对衬底的泄漏。 绝缘层物理和电气都将鳍片与衬底隔离开来。 为了形成隔离的FinFET器件,可以从硅表面,在提供相邻鳍片之间的局部绝缘的氮化物柱之间外延生长双层鳍片阵列。 然后,可以除去下部翅片层,同时留下上部翅片层,从而产生悬挂在硅表面上方的氮化物柱和半导体翅片的交错排列。 然后可以用氧化物填充在上翅片层下方的产生的间隙,以将翅片通道阵列与基底隔离。
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公开(公告)号:US12211936B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-28
申请号:US18146962
申请日:2022-12-27
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Nicolas Loubet , Pierre Morin
IPC: H01L29/78 , H01L29/10 , H01L29/15 , H01L29/16 , H01L29/161 , H01L29/165 , H01L29/66
Abstract: Methods and structures for forming strained-channel finFETs are described. Fin structures for finFETs may be formed in two epitaxial layers that are grown over a bulk substrate. A first thin epitaxial layer may be cut and used to impart strain to an adjacent channel region of the finFET via elastic relaxation. The structures exhibit a preferred design range for increasing induced strain and uniformity of the strain over the fin height.
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公开(公告)号:US11302812B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-12
申请号:US17087218
申请日:2020-11-02
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Pierre Morin , Nicolas Loubet
IPC: H01L29/00 , H01L29/78 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/165 , H01L27/088
Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, and source and drain regions adjacent the channel region to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region. A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, source and drain regions adjacent the channel region, and a gate over the channel region. The fin may be canted with respect to the source and drain regions to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region.
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公开(公告)号:US10854750B2
公开(公告)日:2020-12-01
申请号:US16680222
申请日:2019-11-11
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Pierre Morin , Nicolas Loubet
IPC: H01L29/00 , H01L29/78 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/165 , H01L27/088
Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, and source and drain regions adjacent the channel region to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region. A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, source and drain regions adjacent the channel region, and a gate over the channel region. The fin may be canted with respect to the source and drain regions to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region.
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公开(公告)号:US10665497B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-26
申请号:US15457447
申请日:2017-03-13
Inventor: Emmanuel Augendre , Nicolas Loubet , Sylvain Maitrejean , Pierre Morin
IPC: H01L21/20 , H01L21/762 , H01L21/02 , H01L29/78 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/786 , H01L21/18 , H01L29/16 , H01L21/8238 , H01L29/161
Abstract: The method of manufacturing a structure comprising one or several strained semiconducting zones capable of forming one or several transistor channel regions, the method including the following steps: a) providing a substrate coated with a masking layer wherein there are one or several first slits exposing one or several first oblong semiconducting portions made of a first semiconducting material and extending in a first direction, b) making a second semiconducting material grow with a mesh parameter different from the mesh parameter of the first semiconducting material, so as to form one or several first semiconducting blocks strained along the first direction, on said one or several first oblong semiconducting portions.
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公开(公告)号:US20200083376A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-12
申请号:US16680222
申请日:2019-11-11
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Pierre Morin , Nicolas Loubet
IPC: H01L29/78 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/165 , H01L29/66
Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, and source and drain regions adjacent the channel region to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region. A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, source and drain regions adjacent the channel region, and a gate over the channel region. The fin may be canted with respect to the source and drain regions to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region.
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公开(公告)号:US10262905B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-16
申请号:US14867797
申请日:2015-09-28
Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION , STMicroelectronics, Inc. , GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
Inventor: Kangguo Cheng , Bruce B. Doris , Ali Khakifirooz , Qing Liu , Nicolas Loubet , Scott Luning
IPC: H01L21/84 , H01L21/8238 , H01L27/092 , H01L29/16 , H01L29/161 , H01L27/12 , H01L29/49 , H01L29/10
Abstract: A method for semiconductor fabrication includes providing channel regions on a substrate including at least one Silicon Germanium (SiGe) channel region, the substrate including a plurality of regions including a first region and a second region. Gate structures are formed for a first n-type field effect transistor (NFET) and a first p-type field effect transistor (PFET) in the first region and a second NFET and a second PFET in the second region, the gate structure for the first PFET being formed on the SiGe channel region. The gate structure for the first NFET includes a gate material having a first work function and the gate structures for the first PFET, second NFET and second PFET include a gate material having a second work function such that multi-threshold voltage devices are provided.
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公开(公告)号:US10205022B2
公开(公告)日:2019-02-12
申请号:US14939729
申请日:2015-11-12
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Nicolas Loubet , Pierre Morin
IPC: H01L29/78 , H01L29/165 , H01L29/66 , H01L27/088 , H01L21/02 , H01L29/06
Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a first spacer for at least one gate stack on a first semiconductor material layer, and forming a respective second spacer for each of source and drain regions adjacent the at least one gate. Each second spacer has a pair of opposing sidewalls and an end wall coupled thereto. The method includes filling the source and drain regions with a second semiconductor material while the first and second spacers provide confinement.
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公开(公告)号:US10134899B2
公开(公告)日:2018-11-20
申请号:US14983070
申请日:2015-12-29
Applicant: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Loubet , Prasanna Khare , Qing Liu
IPC: H01L29/78 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/165 , H01L21/762 , H01L21/8238 , H01L29/16 , H01L29/161
Abstract: The presence of a facet or a void in an epitaxially grown crystal indicates that crystal growth has been interrupted by defects or by certain material boundaries. Faceting can be suppressed during epitaxial growth of silicon compounds that form source and drain regions of strained silicon transistors. It has been observed that faceting can occur when epitaxial layers of certain silicon compounds are grown adjacent to an oxide boundary, but faceting does not occur when the epitaxial layer is grown adjacent to a silicon boundary or adjacent to a nitride boundary. Because epitaxial growth of silicon compounds is often necessary in the vicinity of isolation trenches that are filled with oxide, techniques for suppression of faceting in these areas are of particular interest. One such technique, presented herein, is to line the isolation trenches with SiN to provide a barrier between the oxide and the region in which epitaxial growth is intended.
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公开(公告)号:US20180323301A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-08
申请号:US16035458
申请日:2018-07-13
Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
Inventor: Qing Liu , Nicolas Loubet
IPC: H01L29/78 , H01L21/02 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/49 , H01L29/165 , H01L29/161 , H01L29/10 , H01L29/06 , H01L27/12 , H01L27/092 , H01L21/84 , H01L21/8238 , H01L21/762 , H01L21/225
CPC classification number: H01L29/7849 , H01L21/02532 , H01L21/2251 , H01L21/7624 , H01L21/76264 , H01L21/76283 , H01L21/8238 , H01L21/823807 , H01L21/823814 , H01L21/823892 , H01L21/84 , H01L21/845 , H01L27/092 , H01L27/1203 , H01L29/0649 , H01L29/1054 , H01L29/161 , H01L29/165 , H01L29/4908 , H01L29/66742 , H01L29/7842 , H01L29/7848
Abstract: A method for forming a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) semiconductor device includes providing a stressed silicon-on-insulator (sSOI) wafer comprising a stressed semiconductor layer having first and second laterally adjacent stressed semiconductor portions. The first stressed semiconductor portion defines a first active region. The second stressed semiconductor portion is replaced with an unstressed semiconductor portion. The unstressed semiconductor portion includes a first semiconductor material. The method further includes driving a second semiconductor material into the first semiconductor material of the unstressed semiconductor portion defining a second active region.
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