摘要:
A method for processing a semiconductor memory device is disclosed, the memory device including an array area and a support area thereon. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the method includes removing, from the array area, an initial pad nitride material formed on the device. The initial pad nitride material in the support area, however, is still maintained. Active device areas are then formed within the array area, wherein the initial pad nitride maintained in the support area helps to protect the support area from wet etch processes implemented during the formation of active device areas within the array area.
摘要:
In a vertical-transistor DRAM cell, the problem of making a reliable electrical connection between the node of the deep trench capacitor and the lower electrode of the vertical transistor is solved by; depositing a temporary insulator layer, forming a vertical spacer on the trench walls above the temporary insulator, then stripping the insulator to expose the substrate walls; diffusing dopant into the substrate walls to form a self-aligned extension of the buried strap; depositing the final gate insulator; and then forming the upper portion of the DRAM cell.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of simultaneously supplying trench isolations for array and support areas of a semiconductor substrate made of a substrate material, the method comprising providing a first hard mask layer for the array and support areas, said first hard mask comprising mask openings defining trench isolations in the array and support areas, providing deep array trench isolations in the array areas, providing a blanketing planarized conductive material layer over both support and array areas sufficient to fill said mask openings and deep array trench isolations, etching said conductive material through said first hard mask material down into said semiconductor substrate so as to form support trench isolations, such that both deep array trench isolations and support trench isolations are of equal depth, and wherein a conductive element, comprising a quantity of said conductive material, remains in the bottom of each of said deep array trenches.
摘要:
An Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor (IGFET), fabricated using Shallow Trench Isolation (STI), has an edge of a channel region of the IGFET which has a curved shape with a controlled radius of curvature so as to reduce the electric field at the edge of the channel region. A method of controlling the shape of the edge of the channel region is to limit the supply of oxygen to the region at the edge of the channel region during the oxidation process when the side walls of the silicon island, in which the transistor will be formed, are initially covered with a layer of silicon oxide.
摘要:
A method for forming an oxide collar in a trench, in accordance with the present invention, includes forming a trench in a silicon substrate, and depositing and recessing a nitride liner in the trench to expose a portion of the silicon substrate on sidewalls of the trench. An oxide is deposited selective to the nitride liner on the portion of the silicon substrate. Residue oxide is removed from surfaces of the nitride liner to form a collar in the trench.
摘要:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, in accordance with the present invention, includes the steps of providing a semiconductor wafer having exposed p-doped silicon regions and placing the wafer in an electrochemical cell such that a solution including electrolytes interacts with the exposed p-doped silicon regions to form an oxide on the exposed p-doped silicon regions when a potential difference is provided between the wafer and the solution.
摘要:
A method is provided for fabricating a first and second MOSFET transistors in different electrically isolated active areas of a semiconductor body, each one of the transistors having a plurality of layers. A first gate oxide layer and a first poly-crystalline silicon layer are deposited over the semiconductor body over the active areas. Trenches are etched in said first gate oxide and poly-crystalline silicon layers and said semiconductor body to delineate the first and second active areas, thereby forming first delineated gate oxide layer and poly-crystalline silicon layers coextensive with the first active area. Material is deposited in said trenches to form the active area isolations, the active area isolations having a top surface above said semiconductor body. A masking layer is then formed over said first and second active areas and selective portions of it are removed to expose said second active area. The masking layer and the active area isolations together form a mask defining an opening coextensive with the second active area with the active area isolations defining said opening. Material through the opening to form a second gate oxide layer and a second poly-crystalline layer, such second layer and second poly-crystalline layer being coextensive with the second active area. The first transistor with the first delineated gate oxide and poly-crystalline layer as a pair of the plurality of layers of the first transistor and the second transistor with the second gate oxide layer and second poly-crystalline layer as a pair of the plurality of layers of the second transistor.