Abstract:
A semiconductor structure containing a high mobility semiconductor channel material, i.e., a III-V semiconductor material, and asymmetrical source/drain regions located on the sidewalls of the high mobility semiconductor channel material is provided. The asymmetrical source/drain regions can aid in improving performance of the resultant device. The source region contains a source-side epitaxial doped semiconductor material, while the drain region contains a drain-side epitaxial doped semiconductor material and an underlying portion of the high mobility semiconductor channel material.
Abstract:
Fin mask structures are formed over a semiconductor material portion on a crystalline insulator layer. A disposable gate structure and a gate spacer are formed over the fin mask structures. Employing the disposable gate structure and the gate spacer as an etch mask, physically exposed portions of the fin mask structures and the semiconductor material portion are removed by an etch. A source region and a drain region are formed by selective epitaxy of a semiconductor material from physically exposed surfaces of the crystalline insulator layer. The disposable gate structure is removed selective to the source region and the drain region. Semiconductor fins are formed by anisotropically etching portions of the semiconductor material portion, employing the gate spacer and the fin mask structures as etch masks. A gate dielectric and a gate electrode are formed within the gate cavity.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a multigate device includes forming a fin on a substrate of the multigate device, the fin being formed of a semiconductor material, growing a first conformal epitaxial layer directly on the fin and substrate, wherein the first conformal epitaxial layer is highly doped, growing a second conformal epitaxial layer directly on the first conformal epitaxial layer, wherein the second conformal epitaxial layer is highly doped, selectively removing a portion of second epitaxial layer to expose a portion of the first conformal epitaxial layer, selectively removing a portion of the first conformal epitaxial layer to expose a portion of the fin and thereby form a trench, and forming a gate within the trench.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a III-V nanowire. The method may include providing a semiconductor substrate, which includes an insulator, with a wide-bandgap layer on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate; etching the insulator to suspend the wide-bandgap layer; growing a compositionally-graded channel shell over the wide-bandgap layer; forming a gate structure forming spacers on the sidewalls of the gate structure; and forming a doped raised source drain region adjacent to the spacers.
Abstract:
An approach to forming a semiconductor structure for a vertical field effect transistor with a controlled gate overlap. The approach includes forming on a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer, a fifth semiconductor layer, and a first dielectric layer. The etched first dielectric layer and a first drain contact are surrounded by a first spacer. The first drain contact is composed of the fifth semiconductor layer. A second drain contact composed of the fourth semiconductor layer, a channel composed of the third semiconductor layer, and a second source contact composed of the second semiconductor layer are formed. Additionally, first source contact composed of the first semiconductor is formed and a gate electrode is formed on a portion of the first source contact layer surrounding a portion of the first pillar and the second pillar.
Abstract:
An approach to providing a barrier in a vertical field effect transistor with low effective mass channel materials wherein the forming of the barrier includes forming a first source/drain contact on a semiconductor substrate and forming a channel with a first channel layer on the first source/drain contact. The approach further includes forming the barrier on the first channel layer, and a second channel layer on the barrier followed by forming a second source/drain contact on the second channel layer.
Abstract:
In one aspect, a method of forming a multiple VT device structure includes the steps of: forming an alternating series of channel and barrier layers as a stack having at least one first channel layer, at least one first barrier layer, and at least one second channel layer; defining at least one first and at least one second active area in the stack; selectively removing the at least one first channel/barrier layers from the at least one second active area, such that the at least one first channel layer and the at least one second channel layer are the top-most layers in the stack in the at least one first and the at least one second active areas, respectively, wherein the at least one first barrier layer is configured to confine charge carriers to the at least one first channel layer in the first active area.
Abstract:
A method including forming a pair of inner spacers along a vertical sidewall of a gate trench, gate trench extending into a III-V compound semiconductor-containing heterostructure, forming a gate conductor within the gate trench, removing a portion of a first dielectric layer selective to the gate conductor and the pair of inner spacers, forming a pair of outer spacers adjacent to the pair of inner spacers, the outer spacers are in direct contact with and self-aligned to the inner spacers, and forming a pair of source-drain contacts within an uppermost layer of the III-V compound semiconductor-containing heterostructure, the pair of source-drain contacts are self-aligned to the pair of outer spacers such that an edge of each individual source-drain contact is aligned with an outside edge of each individual outer spacer.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a multigate device includes forming a fin on a substrate of the multigate device, the fin being formed of a semiconductor material, growing a first conformal epitaxial layer directly on the fin and substrate, wherein the first conformal epitaxial layer is undoped or lightly doped, growing a second conformal epitaxial layer directly on the first conformal epitaxial layer, wherein the second conformal epitaxial layer is highly doped, selectively removing a portion of the second epitaxial layer to expose a portion of the first conformal epitaxial layer and thereby form a trench, and forming a gate within the trench.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a multigate device includes forming a fin on a substrate of the multigate device, the fin being formed of a semiconductor material, growing a first conformal epitaxial layer directly on the fin and substrate, wherein the first conformal epitaxial layer is highly doped, growing a second conformal epitaxial layer directly on the first conformal epitaxial layer, wherein the second conformal epitaxial layer is highly doped, selectively removing a portion of second epitaxial layer to expose a portion of the first conformal epitaxial layer, selectively removing a portion of the first conformal epitaxial layer to expose a portion of the fin and thereby form a trench, and forming a gate within the trench.