摘要:
A method for removing surface oxide from polysilicon includes depositing a very thin layer of germanium (e.g. monolayers in thickness) over the polysilicon immediately before a subsequent polysilicon deposition step, and then heating the germanium-coated polysilicon in a vacuum to sublime (remove) volatile germanium oxide. This method is applied to formation of a trench capacitor, which uses either doped amorphous silicon or doped amorphous SiGe material in the formation of the electrodes.
摘要:
Various techniques for changing the workfunction of the substrate by using a SiGe channel which, in turn, changes the bandgap favorably for a p-type metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (pMOSFETs) are disclosed. In the various techniques, a SiGe film that includes a low doped SiGe region above a more highly doped SiGe region to allow the appropriate threshold voltage (Vt) for pMOSFET devices while preventing pitting, roughness and thinning of the SiGe film during subsequent cleans and processing is provided.
摘要:
A method for depositing epitaxial films of silicon carbon (Si:C). In one embodiment, the method includes depositing an n-type doped silicon carbon (Si:C) semiconductor material on a semiconductor deposition surface using a deposition gas precursor composed of a silane containing gas precursor, a carbon containing gas precursor, and an n-type gas dopant source. The deposition gas precursor is introduced to the semiconductor deposition surface with a hydrogen (H2) carrier gas. The method for depositing epitaxial films may include an etch reaction provided by hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas etchant and a hydrogen (H2) carrier gas.
摘要:
An embedded silicon carbon (Si:C) having a substitutional carbon content in excess of one percent in order to effectively increase electron mobility by application of tension to a channel region of an NFET is achieved by overfilling a gap or trench formed by transistor gate structures with Si:C and polishing an etching the Si:C to or below a surface of a raised gate structure in a super-Damascene process, leaving Si:C only in selected regions above the transistor source and drain, even though processes capable of depositing Si:C with sufficiently high substitutional carbon content are inherently non-selective.
摘要:
Trenches are formed in a silicon substrate by etching exposed portions of the silicon substrate. After covering areas on which deposition of Si:C containing material is to be prevented, selective epitaxy is performed in a single wafer chamber at a temperature from about 550° C. to about 600° C. employing a limited carrier gas flow, i.e., at a flow rate less than 12 standard liters per minute to deposit Si:C containing regions at a pattern-independent uniform deposition rate. The inventive selective epitaxy process for Si:C deposition provides a relatively high net deposition rate a high quality Si:C crystal in which the carbon atoms are incorporated into substitutional sites as verified by X-ray diffraction.
摘要:
An embedded silicon carbon (Si:C) having a substitutional carbon content in excess of one percent in order to effectively increase electron mobility by application of tension to a channel region of an NFET is achieved by overfilling a gap or trench formed by transistor gate structures with Si:C and polishing an etching the Si:C to or below a surface of a raised gate structure in a super-Damascene process, leaving Si:C only in selected regions above the transistor source and drain, even though processes capable of depositing Si:C with sufficiently high substitutional carbon content are inherently non-selective.
摘要:
An integrated circuit system includes a substrate, a carbon-containing silicon region over the substrate, a non-carbon-containing silicon region over the substrate, and a silicon-carbon region, including the non-carbon-containing silicon region and the carbon-containing silicon region.
摘要:
A disclosed process use low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) of doped oxide film on a substrate. The process includes the steps of providing a substrate in an LPCVD reactor and flowing BTBAS and oxygen into the LPCVD reactor to react on the substrate to deposit an oxide film on the substrate. A doped precursor is flowed into the LPCVD reactor to dope the oxide film as it is deposited on the substrate. This process produces doped oxide film at a relatively low LPCVD reaction temperature.
摘要:
A method of depositing a fluorinated borophosphosilicate glass (FBPSG) on a semiconductor device as either a final or interlayer dielectric film. Gaps having aspect ratios greater than 6:1 are filled with a substantially void-free FBPSG film at a temperature of about 480.degree. C. at sub-atmospheric pressures of about 200 Torr. Preferably, gaseous reactants used in the method comprise TEOS, FTES, TEPO and TEB with an ozone/oxygen mixture. Dopant concentrations of boron and phosphorus are sufficiently low such that surface crystallite defects and hygroscopicity are avoided. The as-deposited films at lower aspect ratio gaps are substantially void-free such that subsequent anneal of the film is not required. Films deposited into higher aspect ratio gaps are annealed at or below about 750.degree. C., well within the thermal budget for most DRAM, logic and merged logic-DRAM chips. The resultant FBPSG layer contains less than or equal to about 5.0 wt % boron, less than about 4.0 wt % phosphorus, and about 0.1 to 2.0 wt % fluorine.
摘要:
Filling of narrow and/or high aspect ratio gaps and trenches with silicate glass is accomplished at reduced temperatures and without reflow by etching the glass concurrently with thermal chemical vapor deposition of the glass such that the deposition rate will exceed the etching rate by a relatively small net deposition rate near the surface with the excess deposition rate increasing over the depth of the trench or gap. The as-deposited glass film is made dense and stable by carrying out the concurrent etch and deposition process at an elevated temperature but which is within the maximum temperature and heat budget which can be tolerated by structures formed by previously performed processes. Fluorine can be incorporated in the silicate glass film as a dopant in sufficient concentration to reduce dielectric constant of the film. Phosphorus and/or boron can be incorporated into the film, as well, and may enhance void-free filling of trenches and gaps.