摘要:
A new method of forming an improved buried contact junction is described. A gate silicon oxide layer is provided over the surface of a semiconductor substrate. A polysilicon layer is deposited overlying the gate oxide layer. A hard mask layer is deposited overlying the polysilicon layer. The hard mask and polysilicon layers are etched away where they are not covered by a mask to form a polysilicon gate electrode and interconnection lines wherein gaps are left between the gate electrode and interconnection lines. A layer of dielectric material is deposited over the semiconductor substrate to fill the gaps. The hard mask layer is removed. The polysilicon layer is etched away where it is not covered by a buried contact mask to form an opening to the semiconductor substrate. Ions are implanted to form the buried contact. A refractory metal layer is deposited overlying the buried contact and the polysilicon gate electrode and interconnection lines and planarized to form polycide gate electrodes and interconnection lines. The dielectric material layer is removed. An oxide layer is deposited and anisotropically etched to leave spacers on the sidewalls of the polycide gate electrodes and interconnection lines to complete the formation of a buried contact junction in the fabrication of an integrated circuit.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a DRAM cell, comprising the following steps. A substrate is provided. An isolation structure is formed within the substrate. The substrate is patterned to form nodes adjacent the isolation structure. Doped regions are formed with the substrate adjacent the nodes. A gate dielectric layer is formed over the patterned substrate, lining the nodes. A conductive layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer, filling the nodes. The conductive layer is patterned to form: a top electrode capacitor within the nodes; and respective word lines over the substrate adjacent the top electrode capacitor; each word line having exposed side walls. Source/drain regions are formed adjacent the word lines.
摘要:
A method for forming, within a double well formation, an array of DRAM memory cells isolated from each other by shallow trench isolation (STI), each cell comprising a MOSFET access transistor and a storage trench capacitor. A top plate of said capacitor is the trench wall within a deep N-well portion of the double well and the bottom plate is formed of a doped polysilicon layer within the trench, which layer is partially separated from the trench sidewalls by a dielectric layer whose upper portion is removed to allow the formation of a autodiffused doped channel between said polysilicon plate and the source region of the access transistor. The method uses a single dielectric layer deposition to serve as both a gate dielectric for the MOSFET and a capacitor dielectric and requires only a single deposition of polysilicon to serve as both the transistor gate electrode and a capacitor plate.
摘要:
A novel sequence of process steps is provided for forming void-free interlevel dielectric layers between closely spaced gate electrodes. Closely spaced gate electrodes having sidewall spacers are formed on a substrate. After using the sidewall spacers to form self-aligned source/drain contacts and self-aligned silicide contacts, the sidewall spacers are removed. By removing the sidewall spacers, the aspect ratio of the gap between adjacent closely spaced gate electrodes is substantially reduced (from greater than 5 to less than 2), thereby preventing voids during the subsequent deposition of an ILD layer.
摘要:
A new method of maintaining good control of the dielectric thickness over a top capacitor plate during planarization by CMP by introducing a CMP stop layer under the topmost dielectric layer is described. Semiconductor device structures, including a node contact region, are provided in and on a semiconductor substrate. A bottom plate electrode is formed contacting the node contact region through an opening in a first insulating layer. A capacitor dielectric layer is deposited overlying the bottom plate electrode. A second conducting layer is deposited overlying the capacitor dielectric to form a top plate electrode of the capacitor. A second insulating layer is deposited overlying the second conducting layer. A silicon nitride polish stop layer is deposited overlying the second insulating layer. The polish stop layer, second insulating layer, second conducting layer, and capacitor dielectric layer are patterned to form the DRAM integrated circuit device. A third insulating layer is deposited overlying the first insulating layer and the polish stop layer of the DRAM integrated circuit device. The third insulating layer is planarized by chemical mechanical polishing stopping at the polish stop layer. The polish stop layer protects the top capacitor plate from damage.
摘要:
Making low resistance contact between two silicon layers has been accomplished by implanting nitrogen ions into a freshly formed silicon surface thereby forming a nitrogen rich layer at the surface which suppresses formation of a surface layer of oxide, the normal 20-30 Angstrom thick native oxide being now restricted to 3 or 4 Angstroms. When a layer of polysilicon is deposited onto this nitrided surface good, low resistance electrical contact is made. The process is fully compatible with existing methods for the manufacture of integrated circuits. An example of its application to making low resistance contact to a FET gate electrode is given.
摘要:
An SRAM transistor cell on a doped semiconductor substrate comprises a first pass transistor and a second pass transistor, a first driver transistor and a second driver transistor and a saturated mode transistor. The device includes a first and second load resistor, first second and third nodes, a bit lines and interconnection lines. The first driver transistor drain region is connects to the first node. The control gate electrode cross connects via the first interconnection line to the second node. The second driver transistor drain region connects to the third node and the control gate electrode cross connects via the second interconnection line to the first node. The control gate electrodes of the pass transistors connect to a single input line. The drain region of the first pass transistor connects to the first node. The drain region of the second pass transistor connects to the second node. The source region of the first pass transistor connect to the bit line bar. The source region of the second pass transistor is connects to the bit line. The drain region and control gate electrode of the saturated mode transistor connect to the second node and the source region of the saturated mode transistor connects to the third node.
摘要:
A method for fabricating CMOS chips, using a SRAM cell composed of, both NFET and PFET devices, or only NFETs, as well as incorporating NFET and PFET peripheral devices, is described. This process features an NFET, used in the SRAM cell, where a lightly doped arsenic source and drain region is used to achieve maximum device performance, in terms of saturation current, as well as gate to diffusion overlap capacitance. However the NFET used for the peripheral device is fabricated using a lightly doped phosphorous source and drain region, to allow for more protection against the deleterious hot carrier injection phenomena.