摘要:
The capacitance of deep trench capacitors is enhanced by increasing the surface area of the doped region of the trench to be used for one electrode of the capacitor. After formation of the deep trench and a collar on an upper region of the trench, and after optional bottling of the trench, hemispherical silicon grain (HSG) is deposited on a lower region of the trench. The HSG is then oxidized, along with that portion of the silicon substrate not covered by HSG, to form a roughened surface in the trench, thereby enhancing the trench capacitance. Oxidation of the HSG and the substrate occurs simultaneously with formation of the buried plate, and the formed oxide may be stripped along with the collar, thereby providing a simpler and more robust capacitance enhancement scheme.
摘要:
P-type metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (PMOSFET) devices have a characteristic property known as threshold voltage. This threshold voltage may consist of separate threshold voltages associated with the main portion of the gate region of the device and with the sidewall corner of the device. Under some conditions, the threshold behavior in the sidewall corner region of the device may dominate the performance of the device, not necessarily in the manner intended by the designer of the device. A method of controlling threshold voltage behavior is described. In particular, ion implantation of nitrogen in the gate sidewall region of the device can provide such control. Devices made by this method are also described.
摘要:
Dual work function transistors are provided in a cmos support area 14 with an embedded vertical dram array 12. A wordline layer 54, and nitride cap layer 56 cover the dram array 12 and a gate oxide layer 42 and an undoped polysilicon layer 44 cover the support area 14. A common mask is applied and patterned over the substrate to define the wordlines line structures in the dram array 12 and the gate structures in the support 14. The unwanted portions of the layers 54, 56, 42 and 44 are removed by etching.
摘要:
An N-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) driver circuit (and method for making the same), includes a boost gate stack formed on a substrate and having a source and drain formed by a low concentration N-type implantation, and an N-driver coupled to the boost gate stack.
摘要:
A 6F2 memory cell structure comprising a plurality of capacitors each located in a separate trench in a substrate; a pluralaity of transfer transistors each having a vertical gate dielectric, a gate conductor, and a bitline diffusion, each transistor being located above and electrically connected to a respective trench capacitor; a plurality of troughs in a striped pattern about said transistor, said troughs being spaced apart by a substantially uniform spacing, said plurality of striped troughs comprising a first group of troughs consisting of every other one of said troughs being filled with a dielectric material, and a second group of troughs being the remaining troughs of said plurality, said second group of troughs containing dielectric material, damascened wordlines and damascene wordline contacts; a respective wordline electrical contact connected to each respective gate conductor; and a bitline contacted to each bitline diffusion, wherein said bitline diffusions have a width defined by said spacing of said striped troughs and each wordline electrical contact is self-aligned to an edge of a trough of said second group of troughs.
摘要:
This invention relates to integrated circuit product and processes. More particularly, the invention relates to high performance Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips and processes for making such chips. An IC fabrication is provided, according to an aspect of the invention, including a silicon wafer, a DRAM array fabrication disposed on said silicon wafer having a first multitude of gate sidewall oxides, and a logic support device fabrication disposed on said wafer adjacent said DRAM array fabrication and having a second multitude of gate sidewall oxides, said first multitude of gate sidewall oxides being substantially thicker than said second multitude of gate sidewall oxides. Methods of making IC fabrications according to the invention are also provided.
摘要:
A method is provided for making a bipolar transistor which includes a tapered, i.e. frustum-shaped, collector pedestal having an upper substantially planar surface, a lower surface, and a slanted sidewall extending between the upper surface and the lower surface, the upper surface having substantially less area than the lower surface. The collector pedestal can be formed on a surface of a collector active region exposed within an opening extending through first and second overlying dielectric regions, where the opening defines vertically aligned edges of the first and second dielectric regions.
摘要:
A method is provided for making a bipolar transistor which includes a tapered, i.e. frustum-shaped, collector pedestal having an upper substantially planar surface, a lower surface, and a slanted sidewall extending between the upper surface and the lower surface, the upper surface having substantially less area than the lower surface. The collector pedestal can be formed on a surface of a collector active region exposed within an opening extending through first and second overlying dielectric regions, where the opening defines vertically aligned edges of the first and second dielectric regions.
摘要:
A method is provided for fabricating a bipolar transistor that includes growing an epitaxial layer onto an underlaying region having a low dopant concentration and a trench isolation region defining the edges of an active region layer, implanting a portion of the epitaxial layer through a mask to define a collector region having a relatively high dopant concentration, the collector region laterally adjoining a second region of the epitaxial layer having the low dopant concentration; forming an intrinsic base layer overlying the collector region and the second region, the intrinsic base layer including an epitaxial region in conductive communication with the collector region; forming a low-capacitance region laterally separated from the collector region by the second region, the low-capacitance region including a dielectric region disposed in an undercut directly underlying the intrinsic base layer; and forming an emitter layer overlying the intrinsic base layer.
摘要:
A double gated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFET is fabricated by forming epitaxially grown channels, followed by a damascene gate. The double gated MOSFET features narrow channels, which increases current drive per layout width and provides low out conductance.