公开(公告)号：US20080142995A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-19

申请号：US12034901

申请日：2008-02-21

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles William Koburger ,  Chung Hon Lam

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles William Koburger ,  Chung Hon Lam

IPC分类号： H01L23/48

CPC分类号： H01L21/32139 ,  H01L21/0337 ,  H01L21/0338 ,  H01L21/76885 ,  H01L21/76895 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L2224/06 ,  H01L2924/0002 ,  H01L2924/00

摘要： An integrated circuit and method for fabrication includes first and second structures, each including a set of sub-lithographic lines, and contact landing segments connected to at least one of the sub-lithographic lines at an end portion. The first and second structures are nested such that the sub-lithographic lines are disposed in a parallel manner within a width, and the contact landing segments of the first structure are disposed on an opposite side of a length of the sub-lithographic lines relative to the contact landing segments of the second structure. The contact landing segments for the first and second structures are included within the width dimension, wherein the width includes a dimension four times a minimum feature size achievable by lithography.

摘要翻译： 一种用于制造的集成电路和方法，包括第一和第二结构，每个结构包括一组子光刻线，以及在端部处连接到至少一个子光刻线的接触着陆段。 第一和第二结构被嵌套，使得亚光刻线以平行的方式设置在宽度内，并且第一结构的接触着陆段设置在相对于子平版印刷线的相对侧 第二结构的接触着陆段。 用于第一和第二结构的接触着陆段包括在宽度尺寸内，其中宽度包括通过光刻实现的最小特征尺寸的四倍的尺寸。

公开(公告)号：US07352030B2

公开(公告)日：2008-04-01

申请号：US11374939

申请日：2006-03-14

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark C. Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles W. Koburger, III

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark C. Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles W. Koburger, III

IPC分类号： H01L27/01

CPC分类号： H01L29/0653 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  H01L21/28114 ,  H01L21/3086 ,  H01L21/31144 ,  H01L21/76224 ,  H01L21/76243 ,  H01L21/76267 ,  H01L21/76283 ,  H01L29/0649 ,  H01L29/0657 ,  H01L29/1083 ,  H01L29/165 ,  H01L29/66545 ,  H01L29/66575 ,  H01L29/6659 ,  H01L29/66772 ,  H01L29/7833 ,  H01L29/78654 ,  H01L29/78684

摘要： Semiconductor structures and method of forming semiconductor structures. The semiconductor structures including nano-structures or fabricated using nano-structures. The method of forming semiconductor structures including generating nano-structures using a nano-mask and performing additional semiconductor processing steps using the nano-structures generated.

摘要翻译： 半导体结构和形成半导体结构的方法。 包括纳米结构或使用纳米结构制造的半导体结构。 形成半导体结构的方法包括使用纳米掩模生成纳米结构，并使用所生成的纳米结构进行附加的半导体加工步骤。

公开(公告)号：US20070296937A1

公开(公告)日：2007-12-27

申请号：US11426458

申请日：2006-06-26

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark C. Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles W. Koburger ,  Peter H. Mitchell

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark C. Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles W. Koburger ,  Peter H. Mitchell

IPC分类号： G03B27/42

CPC分类号： G03B27/42 ,  G03F7/70341 ,  G03F7/7085 ,  G03F7/70916

摘要： Embodiments of the invention present a system, method, etc. for illumination light in an immersion lithography stepper for particle or bubble detection. More specifically, embodiments herein provide an immersion lithography expose system comprising a wafer holder for holding a wafer, an immersion liquid for covering the wafer, an immersion head to dispense and contain said immersion liquid, and a light source adapted to lithographically expose a resist on the wafer. The system also comprises a light detector at a first location of the immersion head and a laser source at a second location within said immersion head.

摘要翻译： 本发明的实施例在用于颗粒或气泡检测的浸没式光刻步进机中提供照明光的系统，方法等。 更具体地，本文的实施例提供了浸没式光刻曝光系统，其包括用于保持晶片的晶片保持器，用于覆盖晶片的浸没液体，用于分配和容纳所述浸没液体的浸没头，以及适于光刻曝光抗蚀剂的光源 晶圆。 该系统还包括在浸没头的第一位置处的光检测器和位于所述浸没头内的第二位置处的激光源。

公开(公告)号：US20070262450A1

公开(公告)日：2007-11-15

申请号：US11379582

申请日：2006-04-21

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  Steven Holmes ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  Steven Holmes ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger

IPC分类号： H01L23/52

CPC分类号： H01L23/53276 ,  H01L23/5256 ,  H01L2924/0002 ,  Y10S977/742 ,  H01L2924/00

摘要： A fuse structure and a method for operating the same. The fuse structure operating method includes providing a structure. The structure includes (a) an electrically conductive layer and (b) N electrically conductive regions hanging over without touching the electrically conductive layer. N is a positive integer and N is greater than 1. The N electrically conductive regions are electrically connected together. The structure operating method further includes causing a first electrically conductive region of the N electrically conductive regions to touch the electrically conductive layer without causing the remaining N−1 electrically conductive regions to touch the electrically conductive layer.

摘要翻译： 熔丝结构及其操作方法。 熔丝结构操作方法包括提供一种结构。 该结构包括（a）导电层和（b）悬挂在不接触导电层的N个导电区域。 N是正整数，N大于1.N导电区域电连接在一起。 结构操作方法还包括使N个导电区域的第一导电区域与导电层接触而不会使剩余的N-1导电区域接触导电层。

公开(公告)号：US07268028B1

公开(公告)日：2007-09-11

申请号：US11279962

申请日：2006-04-17

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Jack Allan Mandelman ,  William Robert Tonti

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Jack Allan Mandelman ,  William Robert Tonti

IPC分类号： H01L21/336 ,  H01L21/8234 ,  H01L21/8238 ,  H01L21/8249 ,  H01L21/8244 ,  H01L21/8242

CPC分类号： H01L21/823892 ,  H01L21/76229 ,  H01L21/823878 ,  H01L27/11

摘要： A well isolation trenches for a CMOS device and the method for forming the same. The CMOS device includes (a) a semiconductor substrate, (b) a P well and an N well in the semiconductor substrate, (c) a well isolation region sandwiched between and in direct physical contact with the P well and the N well. The P well comprises a first shallow trench isolation (STI) region, and the N well comprises a second STI region. A bottom surface of the well isolation region is at a lower level than bottom surfaces of the first and second STI regions. When going from top to bottom of the well isolation region, an area of a horizontal cross section of the well isolation region is an essentially continuous function.

摘要翻译： CMOS器件的良好隔离沟槽及其形成方法。 CMOS器件包括（a）半导体衬底，（b）半导体衬底中的P阱和N阱，（c）夹在P阱和N阱之间并与P阱和N阱直接物理接触的阱隔离区域。 P阱包括第一浅沟槽隔离（STI）区域，并且N阱包括第二STI区域。 阱隔离区域的底表面处于比第一和第二STI区域的底表面更低的水平面。 当从隔离区域的顶部到底部进行时，阱隔离区域的水平横截面的区域是基本上连续的函数。

公开(公告)号：US20070194403A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-23

申请号：US11360345

申请日：2006-02-23

申请人： Ethan Cannon ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger ,  Jimmy Kontos ,  Jack Mandelman ,  William Tonti

发明人： Ethan Cannon ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger ,  Jimmy Kontos ,  Jack Mandelman ,  William Tonti

IPC分类号： H01L21/76

CPC分类号： H01L27/0921 ,  H01L21/76229 ,  H01L21/823878

摘要： Semiconductor methods and device structures for suppressing latch-up in bulk CMOS devices. The method comprises forming a trench in the semiconductor material of the substrate with first sidewalls disposed between a pair of doped wells, also defined in the semiconductor material of the substrate. The method further comprises forming an etch mask in the trench to partially mask the base of the trench, followed by removing the semiconductor material of the substrate exposed across the partially masked base to define narrowed second sidewalls that deepen the trench. The deepened trench is filled with a dielectric material to define a trench isolation region for devices built in the doped wells. The dielectric material filling the deepened extension of the trench enhances latch-up suppression.

摘要翻译： 用于抑制大量CMOS器件中的闩锁的半导体方法和器件结构。 该方法包括在衬底的半导体材料中形成沟槽，其第一侧壁设置在也在衬底的半导体材料中定义的一对掺杂阱之间。 该方法还包括在沟槽中形成蚀刻掩模以部分地掩蔽沟槽的基底，随后去除暴露在部分屏蔽的基底上的衬底的半导体材料，以限定加深沟槽的变窄的第二侧壁。 加深的沟槽填充有介电材料以限定用于内置于掺杂阱中的器件的沟槽隔离区域。 填充沟槽加深的介质材料增强了闩锁抑制。

公开(公告)号：US20070190713A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-16

申请号：US11307671

申请日：2006-02-16

申请人： Bruce Doris ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  Steven Holmes ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger

发明人： Bruce Doris ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  Steven Holmes ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger

IPC分类号： H01L21/8238

CPC分类号： H01L21/32139 ,  H01L21/0337 ,  H01L21/0338 ,  H01L21/823828 ,  H01L21/823864

摘要： A sidewall image transfer process for forming sub-lithographic structures employs a layer of sacrificial polymer containing silicon that is deposited over a gate conductor layer and covered by a cover layer. The sacrificial polymer layer is patterned with conventional resist and etched to form a sacrificial mandrel. The edges of the mandrel are oxidized or nitrided in a plasma at low temperature, after which the polymer and the cover layer are stripped, leaving sublithographic sidewalls. The sidewalls are used as hardmasks to etch sublithographic gate structures in the gate conductor layer.

摘要翻译： 用于形成亚光刻结构的侧壁图像转印工艺使用沉积在栅极导体层上并被覆盖层覆盖的含有硅的牺牲聚合物层。 牺牲聚合物层用常规抗蚀剂图案化并蚀刻以形成牺牲心轴。 心轴的边缘在低温下在等离子体中被氧化或氮化，之后剥离聚合物和覆盖层，留下亚光刻的侧壁。 侧壁用作硬掩模来蚀刻栅极导体层中的亚光刻栅极结构。

公开(公告)号：US20070178639A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-02

申请号：US11683454

申请日：2007-03-08

申请人： Delbert Cecchi ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Jack Mandelman

发明人： Delbert Cecchi ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Jack Mandelman

IPC分类号： H01L21/8238

CPC分类号： H01L27/0921 ,  H01L27/0928 ,  H01L29/1087 ,  H01L29/7833

摘要： A triple-well CMOS structure having reduced latch-up susceptibility and a method of fabricating the structure. The method includes forming a buried P-type doped layer having low resistance under the P-wells and N-wells in which CMOS transistors are formed and forming a gap in a buried N-type doped layer formed in the P-wells, the is gap aligned under a contact to the P-well. The buried P-type doped layer and gap in the buried N-type doped layer allow a low resistance hole current path around parasitic bipolar transistors of the CMOS transistors.

公开(公告)号：US07250347B2

公开(公告)日：2007-07-31

申请号：US10905979

申请日：2005-01-28

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark C. Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles W. Koburger, III ,  Peter H. Mitchell ,  Larry A. Nesbit

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark C. Hakey ,  Steven J. Holmes ,  David V. Horak ,  Charles W. Koburger, III ,  Peter H. Mitchell ,  Larry A. Nesbit

IPC分类号： H01L21/336

CPC分类号： H01L29/66772 ,  H01L29/42384 ,  H01L29/78648 ,  H01L29/78654

摘要： A method for forming transistors with mutually-aligned double gates. The method includes the steps of (a) providing a wrap-around-gate transistor structure, wherein the wrap-around-gate transistor structure includes (i) semiconductor region, and (ii) a gate electrode region wrapping around the semiconductor region, wherein the gate electrode region is electrically insulated from the semiconductor region by a gate dielectric film; and (b) removing first and second portions of the wrap-around-gate transistor structure so as to form top and bottom gate electrodes from the gate electrode region, wherein the top and bottom gate electrodes are electrically disconnected from each other.

摘要翻译： 一种用于形成具有相互对准的双栅极的晶体管的方法。 该方法包括以下步骤：（a）提供环绕栅极晶体管结构，其中环绕栅极晶体管结构包括（i）半导体区域和（ii）围绕半导体区域包围的栅电极区域，其中 栅电极区域通过栅极电介质膜与半导体区域电绝缘; 以及（b）去除环绕栅极晶体管结构的第一和第二部分，以便从栅极电极区域形成顶部和底部栅电极，其中顶部和底部栅电极彼此电断开。

公开(公告)号：US20070166981A1

公开(公告)日：2007-07-19

申请号：US11335372

申请日：2006-01-19

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  Steven Holmes ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger ,  Chung Lam

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Hakey ,  Steven Holmes ,  David Horak ,  Charles Koburger ,  Chung Lam

IPC分类号： H01L21/44

CPC分类号： H01L21/76816 ,  H01L21/0337 ,  H01L21/0338 ,  H01L21/31144 ,  H01L21/76885

摘要： Methods for fabricating a semiconductor device include forming a first layer on an underlying layer, forming a hardmask on the first layer, and patterning holes through the hardmask and first layer. An overhang is formed extending over sides of the holes. A conformal layer is deposited over the overhang and in the holes until the conformal layer closes off the holes to form a void/seam in each hole. The void/seam in each hole is exposed by etching back a top surface. The void/seam in each hole is extended to the underlying layer.

摘要翻译： 制造半导体器件的方法包括在下层上形成第一层，在第一层上形成硬掩模，以及通过硬掩模和第一层图形化孔。 形成在孔的侧面上延伸的突出端。 保形层沉积在悬垂孔和孔中，直到共形层封闭孔，以在每个孔中形成空隙/接缝。 每个孔中的空隙/接缝通过蚀刻顶部表面而暴露出来。 每个孔中的空隙/接缝延伸到下层。