公开(公告)号：US11888034B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US16435358

申请日：2019-06-07

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Abhishek A. Sharma ,  Ashish Agarwal ,  Urusa Alaan ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Kevin Lin ,  Carl Naylor

IPC: H01L29/26 ,  H01L29/51 ,  H01L29/16 ,  H01L27/092

CPC classification number: H01L29/26 ,  H01L27/092 ,  H01L29/16 ,  H01L29/517

Abstract: Transistor structures employing metal chalcogenide channel materials may be formed where a chalcogen is introduced into at least a portion of a precursor material that comprises reactive metal(s). The precursor material may be substantially metallic, or may be a metallic oxide (e.g., an oxide semiconductor). The metal(s) may be transition, Group II, Group III, Group V elements, or alloys thereof. An oxide of one or more such metals (e.g., IGZO) may be converted into a chalcogenide (e.g., IGZSx or IGZSex) having semiconducting properties. The chalcogenide formed in this manner may be only a few monolayers in thickness (and may be more thermally stable than many oxide semiconductors. Where not all of the precursor material is converted, a transistor structure may retain the precursor material, for example as part of a transistor channel or a gate dielectric. Backend transistors including metal chalcogenide channel materials may be fabricated over silicon CMOS circuitry.

公开(公告)号：US20230100451A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US17485153

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Kirby Maxey ,  Ashish Verma Penumatcha ,  Carl Naylor ,  Chelsey Dorow ,  Kevin O?Brien ,  Shriram Shivaraman ,  Tanay Gosavi ,  Uygar Avci

IPC: H01L29/417 ,  H01L29/40 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/24

Abstract: Transistors, devices, systems, and methods are discussed related to transistors including a number of 2D material channel layers and source and drain control electrodes coupled to source and drain control regions of the 2D material channels. The source and drain control electrodes are on opposite sides of a gate electrode, which controls a channel region of the 2D material channels. The source and drain control electrodes provide for reduced contact resistance of the transistor, the ability to create complex logic gates, and other advantages.

公开(公告)号：US20220199812A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17129486

申请日：2020-12-21

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Carl Naylor ,  Chelsey Dorow ,  Kevin O'Brien ,  Sudarat Lee ,  Kirby Maxey ,  Ashish Verma Penumatcha ,  Tanay Gosavi ,  Patrick Theofanis ,  Chia-Ching Lin ,  Uygar Avci ,  Matthew Metz ,  Shriram Shivaraman

IPC: H01L29/76 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L27/092 ,  H01L21/8256 ,  H01L21/02

Abstract: Transistor structures with monocrystalline metal chalcogenide channel materials are formed from a plurality of template regions patterned over a substrate. A crystal of metal chalcogenide may be preferentially grown from a template region and the metal chalcogenide crystals then patterned into the channel region of a transistor. The template regions may be formed by nanometer-dimensioned patterning of a metal precursor, a growth promoter, a growth inhibitor, or a defected region. A metal precursor may be a metal oxide suitable, which is chalcogenated when exposed to a chalcogen precursor at elevated temperature, for example in a chemical vapor deposition process.

公开(公告)号：US20220139775A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-05

申请号：US17087521

申请日：2020-11-02

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Carl Naylor ,  Christopher Jezewski

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

Abstract: Integrated circuit interconnect structures including an interconnect metallization feature with a barrier material comprising a metal and a chalcogen. Introduction of the chalcogen may improve diffusion barrier properties at a given barrier material layer thickness with increasing the barrier layer thickness. A barrier material, such as TaN, may be deposited at minimal thickness, and doped with a chalcogen before or after one or more fill materials are deposited over the barrier material. During thermal processing mobile chalcogen impurities may collect within regions within the barrier material to high enough concentrations for at least a portion of the barrier material to be converted into a metal chalcogenide layer. The metal chalcogenide layer may have greater crystallinity than a remainder of the barrier layer.

公开(公告)号：US20220059702A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-24

申请号：US17517583

申请日：2021-11-02

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Carl Naylor ,  Abhishek Sharma ,  Mauro Kobrinsky ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Urusa Alaan ,  Justin Weber

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L27/12

Abstract: Transistor structures with a channel semiconductor material that is passivated with two-dimensional (2D) crystalline material. The 2D material may comprise a semiconductor having a bandgap offset from a band of the channel semiconductor. The 2D material may be a thin as a few monolayers and have good temperature stability. The 2D material may be a conversion product of a sacrificial precursor material, or of a portion of the channel semiconductor material. The 2D material may comprise one or more metal and a chalcogen. The channel material may be a metal oxide semiconductor suitable for low temperature processing (e.g., IGZO), and the 2D material may also be compatible with low temperature processing (e.g.,

公开(公告)号：US20210408375A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US16915600

申请日：2020-06-29

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Chelsey Dorow ,  Kevin O'Brien ,  Carl Naylor ,  Uygar Avci ,  Sudarat Lee ,  Ashish Verma Penumatcha ,  Chia-Ching Lin ,  Tanay Gosavi ,  Shriram Shivaraman ,  Kirby Maxey

IPC: H01L45/00 ,  H01L27/24

Abstract: A transistor includes a channel including a first layer including a first monocrystalline transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) material, where the first layer is stoichiometric and includes a first transition metal. The channel further includes a second layer above the first layer, the second layer including a second monocrystalline TMD material, where the second monocrystalline TMD material includes a second transition metal and oxygen, and where the second layer is sub-stoichiometric. The transistor further includes a gate electrode above a first portion of the channel layer, a gate dielectric layer between the channel layer and the gate electrode, a source contact on a second portion of the channel layer and a drain contact on a third portion of the channel layer, where the gate electrode is between drain contact and the source contact.

公开(公告)号：US11018075B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16221815

申请日：2018-12-17

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Carl Naylor ,  Ashish Agrawal ,  Kevin Lin ,  Abhishek Sharma ,  Mauro Kobrinsky ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Urusa Alaan

IPC: H01L27/12 ,  H01L23/40 ,  H01L21/822 ,  H01L23/532 ,  H01L21/70

Abstract: An example relates to an integrated circuit including a semiconductor substrate, and a wiring layer stack located on the semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit further includes a transistor embedded in the wiring layer stack. The transistor includes an embedded layer. The embedded layer has a thickness of less than 10 nm. The embedded layer includes at least one two-dimensional crystalline layer including more than 10% metal atoms. Further examples relate to methods for forming integrated circuits.

公开(公告)号：US20210098387A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-01

申请号：US16585666

申请日：2019-09-27

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Carl Naylor ,  Mauro Kobrinsky ,  Richard Vreeland ,  Ramanan Chebiam ,  William Brezinski ,  Brennen Mueller ,  Jeffery Bielefeld

IPC: H01L23/532 ,  H01L21/768

Abstract: Composite integrated circuit (IC) device structures that include two components coupled through a hybrid bonded composite interconnect structure. The two components may be two different monolithic IC structures (e.g., chips) that are bonded over substantially planar dielectric and metallization interfaces. Composite interconnect metallization features formed at a bond interface may be doped with a metal or chalcogenide dopant. The dopant may migrate to a periphery of the composite interconnect structure and form a barrier material that will then limit outdiffusion of a metal, such as copper, into adjacent dielectric material.

公开(公告)号：US20200185532A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16214706

申请日：2018-12-10

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Kevin Lin ,  Abhishek Sharma ,  Carl Naylor ,  Urusa Alaan ,  Christopher Jezewski ,  Ashish Agrawal

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L21/02 ,  H01L21/768 ,  H01L29/24 ,  H01L29/417

Abstract: A transistor structure includes a layer of active material on a base. The base can be insulator material in some cases. The layer has a channel region between a source region and a drain region. A gate structure is in contact with the channel region and includes a gate electrode and a gate dielectric, where the gate dielectric is between the gate electrode and the active material. An electrical contact is on one or both of the source region and the drain region. The electrical contact has a larger portion in contact with a top surface of the active material and a smaller portion extending through the layer of active material into the base. The active material may be, for example, a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) in some embodiments.