摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provide a transistor with stepped source and drain regions. The stepped regions may provide significant strain in a channel region while minimizing current leakage. The stepped regions may be formed by forming two recesses in a substrate to result in a stepped recess, and forming the source/drain regions in the recesses.
摘要:
The ALD process chamber has heating radiation sources and the process sequence includes rapid temperature changes on a substrate surface of a substrate arranged in the ALD process chamber. The temperature changes are controlled and the ALD and CVD processes are optimized by in situ temperature steps, for example in order to produce nanolaminates.
摘要:
An etching mask is produced for etching a substrate by a photoresist layer being exposed such that areas which are exposed once are not yet completely exposed and, on the basis of a reflective layer which is located under the photoresist layer, additionally exposed areas are exposed completely. In consequence, a first etching mask which is used for etching a substrate can be renewed by a second etching mask in that a photoresist layer which is applied to the first etching mask or instead of the first etching mask is exposed such that areas which have been exposed once are not yet completely exposed, and areas which have been additionally exposed on the basis of a reflective layer which is located under the photoresist layer and corresponds to the first etching mask are exposed completely.
摘要:
A trench capacitor has a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode, and a dielectric, which is arranged between the capacitor electrodes. The first capacitor electrode has a tube-like structure, which extends into a substrate. The second capacitor electrode includes a first section which is opposite to the internal side of the tube-like structure, with the dielectric arranged therebetween, and a second section, which is opposite to the external side of the tube-like structure with the dielectric arranged therebetween.
摘要:
Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may include forming an NMOS silicide on an NMOS source/drain contact area, forming a first contact metal on the NMOS silicide, polishing the first contact metal to expose a top surface of a PMOS source/drain region, and forming a PMOS silicide on the PMOS source/drain region.
摘要:
Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may include forming an NMOS silicide on an NMOS source/drain contact area, forming a first contact metal on the NMOS silicide, polishing the first contact metal to expose a top surface of a PMOS source/drain region, and forming a PMOS silicide on the PMOS source/drain region.
摘要:
A CMOS device includes NMOS (110) and PMOS (130) transistors, each of which include a gate electrode (111, 131) and a gate insulator (112, 132) that defines a gate insulator plane (150, 170). The transistors each further include source/drain regions (113/114, 133/134) having a first portion (115, 135) below the gate insulator plane and a second portion (116, 136) above the gate insulator plane, and an electrically insulating material (117). The NMOS transistor further includes a blocking layer (121) having a portion (122) between the gate electrode and a source contact (118) and a portion (123) between the gate electrode and a drain contact (119). The PMOS transistor further includes a blocking layer (141) having a portion (142) between the source region and the insulating material and a portion (143) between the drain region and the insulating material.
摘要:
A semiconductor substrate is provided, on which there is arranged a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. The third layer is, for example, a resist mask that is used to pattern the second layer. The second layer is, for example, a patterned hard mask used to pattern the first layer. Then, the third layer is removed and a fourth layer is deposited. The fourth layer is, for example, an insulator that fills the trenches which have been formed in the first layer. Then, the fourth layer is planarized by a CMP step. The planarization is continued and the second layer, which is, for example, a hard mask, is removed from the first layer together with the fourth layer. The fourth layer remains in place in a trench which is arranged in the first layer.
摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provides a stepped tip junction region between a source/drain region of a transistor and a gate. In some embodiments, a spacer of the transistor includes a tip junction spacer layer and a source/drain spacer layer.
摘要:
A circuit arrangement includes a bit line (10), a reference bit line (12), a sense amplifier with two cross-coupled CMOS inverters, which in each case comprise an n-channel transistor (20, 22) and a p-channel field-effect transistor (30, 32), and also, at the respective source terminals, two voltage sources (40, 42), of which the voltage source (40) linked to the n-channel field-effect transistors can be driven from a lower through to an upper potential and the voltage source (42) linked to the p-channel field-effect transistors (30, 32) can be driven from the upper through to the lower potential. With this circuit arrangement, it is possible to store three different charge states in the memory cell (4) on the bit line (10) if the threshold voltages (UTH1, UTH2) at the transistors are chosen to be greater than half the voltage difference between the lower and upper voltage potentials. This can be achieved by production engineering or, for example, by changing the substrate bias voltage. The third charge state can be utilized for binary logic or for detecting a defect in the memory cell (4).