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公开(公告)号:US20230186962A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-15
申请号:US17644349
申请日:2021-12-15
Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Inventor: Ashim Dutta , Dominik Metzler , Oscar van der Straten , Theodorus E. Standaert
IPC: G11C11/16 , H01L27/22 , H01L43/10 , H01L43/08 , H01L43/02 , H01L43/12 , H01L23/522 , H01L21/768
CPC classification number: G11C11/161 , H01L27/222 , H01L43/10 , H01L43/08 , H01L43/02 , H01L43/12 , H01L23/5226 , H01L21/76816
Abstract: A memory device with modified top electrode contact includes a memory pillar composed of a bottom electrode, a magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) stack above the bottom electrode, and a top electrode above the MRAM stack. A first portion of an encapsulation layer is disposed along opposite sidewalls of the bottom electrode, on opposite sidewalls of the MRAM stack and on opposite sidewalls of a bottom portion of the top electrode, a second portion of the encapsulation layer is located above a second dielectric layer. A metal cap is located above an uppermost surface and opposite sidewalls of a top portion of the top electrode and above an uppermost surface of the first portion of the encapsulation layer. A second conductive interconnect is formed above a top surface of the metal cap wrapping around opposite sidewalls of the first portion of the encapsulation layer and opposite sidewalls of the metal cap.
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公开(公告)号:US20230157181A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-18
申请号:US17455226
申请日:2021-11-17
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Ashim Dutta , Chih-Chao Yang
CPC classification number: H01L43/02 , H01L27/222 , H01L43/12
Abstract: An approach to provide a pillar-type memory device with a bump of a conductive material on a top electrode of the pillar-type memory device. The top electrode is composed of a thin layer of the top electrode material. The bump of the conductive material increases the height of the top electrode after pillar formation for the pillar-type memory device. The pillar-type memory device includes the bump of the conductive material with a semi-sphere-like bump of the conductive metal that is slightly wider than the top electrode of the pillar-type memory device. A contact connects with the bump of the conductive material on the top electrode.
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公开(公告)号:US20230099965A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-30
申请号:US17449381
申请日:2021-09-29
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Ashim Dutta , Ekmini Anuja De Silva , Praveen Joseph , Jennifer Church
IPC: H01L23/532 , H01L21/768
Abstract: Airgap isolation for back-end-of-the-line interconnect structures includes a dielectric liner formed above a top surface and opposite sidewalls of each of a plurality of metal lines on a substrate, the dielectric liner disposed above a top surface of the substrate not covered by the plurality of metal lines, portions of the dielectric liner located on the opposite sidewalls of each of the plurality of metal lines are separated by a space. A dielectric cap is disposed above an uppermost surface of portions of the dielectric liner above each of the plurality of metal lines and above the space, the dielectric cap pinches-off the space between portions of the dielectric liner located on the opposite sidewalls of each of the plurality of metal lines for providing airgaps between adjacent metal lines.
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公开(公告)号:US20230099303A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-30
申请号:US17484649
申请日:2021-09-24
Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Inventor: Dexin Kong , Ashim Dutta , Ekmini Anuja De Silva , Daniel Schmidt
Abstract: A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a memory stack on a first dielectric layer, and a sidewall spacer on the memory stack. The memory device further includes a conductive cap on the sidewall spacer and the memory stack and an upper metal line on the conductive cap and the sidewall spacer, wherein the upper metal line wraps around the conductive cap, sidewall spacer, and memory stack.
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公开(公告)号:US20230096938A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-30
申请号:US17481981
申请日:2021-09-22
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Chi-Chun Liu , Ashim Dutta , Nelson Felix , Ekmini Anuja De Silva
IPC: H01L21/033 , H01L21/311
Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a set of mandrel lines and a set of non-mandrel lines disposed on a hardmask in an alternating pattern. Spacers are disposed between adjacent mandrel lines and non-mandrel lines. The spacers include a composition which exhibits an etch rate greater than an etch rate of the mandrel lines and the non-mandrel lines.
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公开(公告)号:US20230081953A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-16
申请号:US17447586
申请日:2021-09-14
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Saumya Sharma , Ashim Dutta , Tianji Zhou , Chih-Chao Yang
IPC: H01L23/528 , H01L21/768
Abstract: A semiconductor component includes an insulative layer having a lowermost surface arranged on top of a bottom dielectric material. The semiconductor component further includes a first interconnect structure arranged in the bottom dielectric material such that an uppermost surface of the first interconnect structure is arranged at a first height relative to the lowermost surface of the insulative layer. The semiconductor component further includes a pillar connected to the first interconnect structure and extending through the insulative layer. The semiconductor component further includes a second interconnect structure arranged in the bottom dielectric material such that an uppermost surface of the second interconnect structure is arranged at a second height relative to the lowermost surface of the insulative layer. The second height is different than the first height.
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公开(公告)号:US11500293B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-15
申请号:US16657654
申请日:2019-10-18
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Ekmini Anuja De Silva , Indira Seshadri , Jing Guo , Ashim Dutta , Nelson Felix
IPC: G03F7/20 , H01L21/308 , H01L21/027 , G03F1/22 , H01L21/033 , G03F1/54 , G03F7/40
Abstract: A semiconductor structure comprises a semiconductor substrate, and a multi-layer patterning material film stack formed on the semiconductor substrate. The patterning material film stack comprises at least a hard mask layer and a resist layer formed over the hard mask layer. The hard mask layer is configured to support selective deposition of a metal-containing layer on a developed pattern of the resist layer through inclusion in the hard mask layer of one or more materials inhibiting deposition of the metal-containing layer on portions of the hard mask layer corresponding to respective openings in the resist layer. The hard mask layer illustratively comprises, for example, at least one of a grafted self-assembled monolayer configured to inhibit deposition of the metal-containing layer, and a grafted polymer brush material configured to inhibit deposition of the metal-containing layer.
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公开(公告)号:US11302639B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-12
申请号:US16744960
申请日:2020-01-16
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Chih-Chao Yang , Baozhen Li , Ashim Dutta
IPC: H01L23/532 , H01L23/522 , H01L43/08 , H01L27/11597 , H01L45/00 , H01L43/02 , H01L43/12 , H01L27/22 , H01L27/24
Abstract: Re-depositing of metal-containing particles of an embedded electrically conductive structure onto sidewalls of an overlying metal-containing structure is alleviated in the present application by providing a pedestal structure between the embedded electrically conductive structure and the metal-containing structure, wherein the pedestal structure has a flared sidewall that extends beyond a perimeter of the embedded electrically conductive structure. Such a pedestal structure (which can be referred to herein as a footing flare pedestal structure) mitigates, and in some embodiments, entirely eliminates, the exposure of the embedded electrically conductive structure during the patterning of metal-containing layers formed atop the embedded electrically conductive structure.
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公开(公告)号:US11189527B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US16826944
申请日:2020-03-23
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Timothy Mathew Philip , Sagarika Mukesh , Dominik Metzler , Ashim Dutta , John Christopher Arnold
IPC: H01L23/48 , H01L21/768 , H01L23/528 , H01L23/522
Abstract: A method includes forming a plurality of elongated dielectric members on a semiconductor substrate. The elongated dielectric members each extend vertically from the semiconductor substrate and define opposed vertical walls. The method further includes forming opposed spacer walls on the vertical walls of the elongated dielectric members. Adjacent spacer walls of longitudinally adjacent elongated dielectric members define first trenches therebetween. The method also includes depositing a first metal material within the first trenches to form a first set of first metal lines, removing the elongated dielectric members to define second trenches between the opposed spacer walls on the opposed vertical walls of each elongated dielectric member, and depositing a second metal material within the second trenches to form a second set of second metal lines. The first and second metal lines of the first and second sets are disposed in alternating arrangement.
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公开(公告)号:US11133195B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-28
申请号:US16400003
申请日:2019-04-30
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor: Nelson Felix , Ekmini Anuja De Silva , Praveen Joseph , Ashim Dutta
IPC: H01L21/308 , H01L21/033
Abstract: An initial semiconductor structure includes an underlying substrate, a hard mask stack, an organic planarization layer (OPL), a first complementary material, and a patterned photoresist layer patterned into a plurality of photoresist pillars defining a plurality of photoresist trenches. The first material is partially etched inward of the trenches, to provide trench regions, and the photoresist is removed. The trench regions are filled with a second complementary material, preferentially etchable with respect to the first material. A polymer brush is grafted on the second material but not the first material, to form polymer brush regions with intermediate regions not covered by the brush. The first material is anisotropically etched the at the intermediate regions but not the brush regions. The OPL is etched inward of the intermediate regions, to provide a plurality of OPL pillars defining a plurality of OPL trenches inverted with respect to the photoresist pillars.
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