公开(公告)号：US20250110408A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18375031

申请日：2023-09-29

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Robert JORDAN ,  Brandon HOLYBEE ,  James BLACKWELL ,  Blake BLUESTEIN ,  Eric MATTSON ,  Marie KRYSAK ,  Nicole GUZMAN ,  Shane HARLSON ,  Eungnak HAN ,  Florian GSTREIN

IPC: G03F7/11 ,  G03F7/20 ,  G03F7/38

Abstract: Provided are methods and compounds for using an adhesively switchable underlayer beneath a photoresist in a lithographic process for making a semiconductor wafer.

公开(公告)号：US20230101212A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US17958295

申请日：2022-09-30

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Manish CHANDHOK ,  Elijah V. KARPOV ,  Mohit K. HARAN ,  Reken PATEL ,  Charles H. WALLACE ,  Gurpreet SINGH ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  Eungnak HAN ,  Urusa ALAAN ,  Leonard P. GULER ,  Paul A. NYHUS

IPC: H01L21/768 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L23/535 ,  H01L29/78

Abstract: Contact over active gate (COAG) structures with conductive trench contact taps are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate structures above a substrate, each of the gate structures including a gate insulating layer thereon. A plurality of conductive trench contact structures is alternating with the plurality of gate structures, each of the conductive trench contact structures including a trench insulating layer thereon. One of the plurality of conductive trench contact structures includes a conductive tap structure protruding through the corresponding trench insulating layer. An interlayer dielectric material is above the trench insulating layers and the gate insulating layers. A conductive structure is in direct contact with the conductive tap structure of the one of the plurality of conductive trench contact structures.

公开(公告)号：US20220102210A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-31

申请号：US17033483

申请日：2020-09-25

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Paul A. NYHUS ,  Charles H. WALLACE ,  Manish CHANDHOK ,  Mohit K. HARAN ,  Gurpreet SINGH ,  Eungnak HAN ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  Richard E. SCHENKER ,  David SHYKIND ,  Jinnie ALOYSIUS ,  Sean PURSEL

IPC: H01L21/768 ,  H01L27/088 ,  H01L23/522 ,  H01L23/532

Abstract: Contact over active gate (COAG) structures are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate structures above substrate, each of the gate structures including a gate insulating layer thereon. A plurality of conductive trench contact structures is alternating with the plurality of gate structures, each of the conductive trench contact structures including a trench insulating layer thereon. A remnant of a di-block-co-polymer is over a portion of the plurality of gate structures or the plurality of conductive trench contact structures. An interlayer dielectric material is over the di-block-co-polymer, over the plurality of gate structures, and over the plurality of conductive trench contact structures. An opening in the interlayer dielectric material. A conductive structure is in the opening, the conductive structure in direct contact with a corresponding one of the trench contact structures or with a corresponding one of the gate contact structures.

公开(公告)号：US20220093399A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17544684

申请日：2021-12-07

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Marie KRYSAK ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  Manish CHANDHOK

IPC: H01L21/033 ,  C01G27/02 ,  H01L21/311 ,  C01G19/02 ,  C01G23/04 ,  C01F7/02 ,  C01G25/02 ,  H01L21/02 ,  C01F7/00 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: A dielectric composition including a metal oxide particle including a diameter of 5 nanometers or less capped with an organic ligand at at least a 1:1 ratio. A method including synthesizing metal oxide particles including a diameter of 5 nanometers or less; and capping the metal oxide particles with an organic ligand at at least a 1:1 ratio. A method including forming an interconnect layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first hardmask material and a different second hardmask material on the interconnect layer, wherein at least one of the first hardmask material and the second hardmask material is formed over an area of interconnect layer target for a via landing and at least one of the first hardmask material and the second hardmask material include metal oxide nanoparticles; and forming an opening to the interconnect layer selectively through one of the first hardmask material and the second hardmask material.

公开(公告)号：US20210397084A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17464393

申请日：2021-09-01

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： James M. BLACKWELL ,  Robert L. BRISTOL ,  Marie KRYSAK ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  Eungnak HAN ,  Kevin L. LIN ,  Rami HOURANI ,  Shane M. HARLSON

IPC: G03F7/00 ,  H01L21/027 ,  H01L21/768 ,  G03F7/40

Abstract: Lined photoresist structures to facilitate fabricating back end of line (BEOL) interconnects are described. In an embodiment, a hard mask has recesses formed therein, wherein liner structures are variously disposed each on a sidewall of a respective recess. Photobuckets comprising photoresist material are also variously disposed in the recesses. The liner structures variously serve as marginal buffers to mitigate possible effects of misalignment in the exposure of photoresist material to photons or an electron beam. In another embodiment, a recess has disposed therein a liner structure and a photobucket that are both formed by self-assembly of a photoresist-based block-copolymer.

公开(公告)号：US20210057337A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US16956251

申请日：2018-03-26

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Eungnak HAN ,  Tayseer MAHDI ,  Rami HOURANI ,  Gurpreet SINGH ,  Florian GSTREIN

IPC: H01L23/522 ,  H01L21/768 ,  H01L23/528 ,  G03F7/20

Abstract: Multifunctional molecules for selective polymer formation on conductive surfaces, and the resulting structures, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a lower metallization layer including alternating metal lines and dielectric lines above the substrate. A molecular brush layer is on the metal lines of the lower metallization layer, the molecular brush layer including multifunctional molecules. A triblock copolymer layer is above the lower metallization layer. The triblock copolymer layer includes a first segregated block component over the dielectric lines of the lower metallization layer, and alternating second and third segregated block components on the molecular brush layer on the metal lines of the lower metallization layer, where the third segregated block component is photosensitive.

公开(公告)号：US20200219775A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-09

申请号：US16631352

申请日：2017-09-26

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Ying PANG ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  Dan S. LAVRIC ,  Ashish AGRAWAL ,  Robert NIFFENEGGER ,  Padmanava SADHUKHAN ,  Robert W. HEUSSNER ,  Joel M. GREGIE

IPC: H01L21/8238 ,  H01L27/092 ,  H01L29/66

Abstract: Integrated circuit structures having differentiated workfunction layers are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first gate electrode above a substrate. The first gate electrode includes a first workfunction material layer. A second gate electrode is above the substrate. The second gate electrode includes a second workfunction material layer different in composition from the first workfunction material layer. The second gate electrode does not include the first workfunction material layer, and the first gate electrode does not include the second workfunction material layer. A third gate electrode above is the substrate. The third gate electrode includes a third workfunction material layer different in composition from the first workfunction material layer and the second workfunction material layer. The third gate electrode does not include the first workfunction material layer and does not include the second workfunction material layer.

公开(公告)号：US20190043731A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-07

申请号：US16075555

申请日：2016-04-08

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Robert L. BRISTOL ,  Marie KRYSAK ,  James M. BLACKWELL ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  Kent N. FRASURE

IPC: H01L21/311 ,  G03F7/004 ,  G03F7/039 ,  G03F7/20 ,  G03F7/38 ,  H01L21/027 ,  H01L21/033

Abstract: Two-stage bake photoresists with releasable quenchers for fabricating back end of line (BEOL) interconnects are described. In an example, a photolyzable composition includes an acid-deprotectable photoresist material having substantial transparency at a wavelength, a photo-acid-generating (PAG) component having substantial transparency at the wavelength, and a base-generating component having substantial absorptivity at the wavelength.

公开(公告)号：US20180130707A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15573108

申请日：2015-06-18

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Scott B. CLENDENNING ,  Martin M. MITAN ,  Timothy E. GLASSMAN ,  Flavio GRIGGIO ,  Grant M. KLOSTER ,  Kent N. FRASURE ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  Rami HOURANI

IPC: H01L21/768 ,  H01L21/285 ,  H01L21/311

CPC classification number: H01L21/76879 ,  C23C16/045 ,  H01L21/28 ,  H01L21/28556 ,  H01L21/28562 ,  H01L21/31144 ,  H01L21/76843 ,  H01L21/76861 ,  H01L21/76865 ,  H01L21/76876 ,  H01L29/66545 ,  H01L29/66795 ,  H01L2221/1063

Abstract: Bottom-up fill approaches for forming metal features of semiconductor structures, and the resulting structures, are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes a trench disposed in an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer. The trench has sidewalls, a bottom and a top. A U-shaped metal seed layer is disposed at the bottom of the trench and along the sidewalls of the trench but substantially below the top of the trench. A metal fill layer is disposed on the U-shaped metal seed layer and fills the trench to the top of the trench. The metal fill layer is in direct contact with dielectric material of the ILD layer along portions of the sidewalls of the trench above the U-shaped metal seed layer.

公开(公告)号：US20240071917A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US18384582

申请日：2023-10-27

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Richard E. SCHENKER ,  Robert L. BRISTOL ,  Kevin L. LIN ,  Florian GSTREIN ,  James M. BLACKWELL ,  Marie KRYSAK ,  Manish CHANDHOK ,  Paul A. NYHUS ,  Charles H. WALLACE ,  Curtis W. WARD ,  Swaminathan SIVAKUMAR ,  Elliot N. TAN

IPC: H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/522 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L27/088 ,  H01L29/78

CPC classification number: H01L23/528 ,  H01L23/5226 ,  H01L23/53238 ,  H01L23/5329 ,  H01L27/0886 ,  H01L29/7848

Abstract: Advanced lithography techniques including sub-10 nm pitch patterning and structures resulting therefrom are described. Self-assembled devices and their methods of fabrication are described.