Abstract:
A FinFET device includes a fin formed in a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure positioned above a portion of the fin, and source and drain regions positioned on opposite sides of the gate structure, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor material. A silicon-carbide (SiC) semiconductor material is positioned above the fin in the source region and the drain region, wherein the silicon-carbide (SiC) semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material. A graphene contact is positioned on and in direct physical contact with the silicon-carbide (SiC) semiconductor material in each of the source region and the drain region, and first and second contact structures are conductively coupled to the graphene contacts in the source region and the drain region, respectively.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to semiconductor wafers with reduced bowing and warping and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a substrate including plurality of trenches which have progressively different depths as they extend radially inwardly from an edge of the substrate towards a center of the substrate.
Abstract:
Commonly fabricated FinFET type semiconductor devices with different (i.e., both taller and shorter) heights of an entirety of or only the channel region of some of the fins. Where only the channel of some of the fins has a different height, the sources and drains have a common height higher than those channels. The different fin heights are created by recessing some of the fins, and where only the channels have different heights, the difference is created by exposing a top surface of each channel intended to be shorter, the other channels being masked, and partially recessing the exposed channel(s). In both cases, the mask(s) may then be removed and conventional FinFET processing may proceed.
Abstract:
One method disclosed includes forming first, second and third fins for a first NMOS device, a PMOS device and a second NMOS device, respectively. According to this method, the first fin consists entirely of the substrate material, the second and third fins comprise a lower substrate fin portion made of the substrate material and an upper fin portion made of a second semiconductor material and a third semiconductor material, respectively, wherein the second semiconductor material and the third semiconductor material are each different from the substrate material. The method also includes forming a semiconductor material cladding on the exposed upper portion of the third fin for the second NMOS FinFET device.
Abstract:
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a fin in a semiconductor substrate, the fin having a lower first section that contains an oxidation-retarding implant region and an upper second section that is substantially free of the oxidation-retarding implant region, forming a sidewall spacer on opposite sides of the upper portion of the fin, forming a first layer of insulating material adjacent the sidewall spacers and the upper second section of the lower portion of the fin, and, with the first layer of insulating material in position, performing a thermal anneal process to convert the portion of the upper second section of the fin that is in contact with the first layer of insulating material into an oxide fin isolation region positioned under the fin above the lower first section of the fin.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode defined on a base layer. A first plurality of layers is disposed on a first sidewall of the first gate electrode. The first plurality of layers includes a first dielectric layer formed on the first sidewall, a first ballistic conductor layer formed above the first dielectric layer, an intermediate layer formed above the first ballistic conductor layer, a second ballistic conductor layer formed above the intermediate layer, and a second dielectric layer formed above the second ballistic conductor layer. A second gate electrode contacts the second dielectric layer.
Abstract:
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a plurality of initial fins that have the same initial axial length and the same initial strain above a substrate, performing at least one etching process so as to cut a first fin to a first axial length and to cut a second fin to a second axial length that is less than the first axial length, wherein the cut first fin retains a first amount of the initial strain and the cut second fin retains about zero of the initial strain or a second amount of the initial strain that is less than the first amount, and forming gate structures around the first and second cut fins to form FinFET devices.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode defined on a base layer. A first plurality of layers is disposed on a first sidewall of the first gate electrode. The first plurality of layers includes a first dielectric layer formed on the first sidewall, a first ballistic conductor layer formed above the first dielectric layer, an intermediate layer formed above the first ballistic conductor layer, a second ballistic conductor layer formed above the intermediate layer, and a second dielectric layer formed above the second ballistic conductor layer. A second gate electrode contacts the second dielectric layer.
Abstract:
A method includes forming a folding template in a first dielectric layer. The folding template has a plurality of surfaces that are positioned in different planes. A ballistic conductor line is formed on the plurality of surfaces of the folding template. A device includes a first dielectric layer and a vertically folded line disposed in the first dielectric layer, the vertically folded line including a ballistic conductor material.
Abstract:
A method includes forming a plurality of trenches to define a fin, forming a first layer of insulating material in the trenches, forming a sidewall spacer on opposite sides of the fin above an upper surface of the first layer, removing the first layer and performing a fin-trimming etching process to define a plurality of increased-size trenches. The method also includes forming a first oxidation-blocking layer of insulating material in the increased-size trenches, forming a second layer of insulating material above the oxidation-blocking layer, and performing a thermal anneal process to convert at least a part of the portion of the fin that is in contact with the second layer of insulating material into an oxide fin isolation region