摘要:
An electrochemical method is provided for producing trenches for trench capacitors in p-doped silicon with a very high diameter/depth aspect ratio for large scale integrated semiconductor memories. Trenches (macropores) having a diameter of less than about 100 nm and a depth of more than 10 μm can be produced on p-doped silicon having a very low resistivity at a high etching rate.
摘要:
A method for producing a silicon-on-insulator layer structure on a silicon surface with any desired geometry can locally produce the silicon-on-insulator structure. The method includes formation of mesopores in the silicon surface region, oxidation of the mesopore surface to form silicon oxide and rib regions from silicon in single-crystal form; and execution of a selective epitaxy process that that silicon grows on the uncovered rib regions, selectively with respect to the silicon oxide regions. Rib regions remain in place between adjacent mesopores, this step being ended as soon as a predetermined minimum silicon wall thickness of the rib regions is reached, the uncovering of the rib regions, which are arranged at the end remote from the semiconductor substrate between adjacent mesopores. The method can be used to fabricate a vertical transistor and a memory cell having a select transistor of this type.
摘要:
Silicon nanocrystals are applied as storage layer (6) and removed using spacer elements (11) laterally with respect to the gate electrode (5). By means of an implantation of dopant, source/drain regions (2) are fabricated in a self-aligned manner with respect to the storage layer (6). The portions of the storage layer (6) are interrupted by the gate electrode (5) and the gate dielectric (4), so that a central portion of the channel region (3) is not covered by the storage layer (6). This memory cell is suitable as a multi-bit flash memory cell in a virtual ground architecture.
摘要:
Silicon nanocrystals are applied as storage layer (6) and removed using spacer elements (11) laterally with respect to the gate electrode (5). By means of an implantation of dopant, source/drain regions (2) are fabricated in a self-aligned manner with respect to the storage layer (6). The portions of the storage layer (6) are interrupted by the gate electrode (5) and the gate dielectric (4), so that a central portion of the channel region (3) is not covered by the storage layer (6). This memory cell is suitable as a multi-bit flash memory cell in a virtual ground architecture.
摘要:
The upper capacitor electrode of the trench capacitor is connected to an epitaxially grown source/drain region of the select transistor by a tubular, monocrystalline Si contact-making region. The gate electrode layer has an oval peripheral contour around the transistor, the oval peripheral contours of the gate electrode layers of memory cells arranged in a row along a word line forming overlap regions in order to increase the packing density.
摘要:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor trench structure includes forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate and filling it with a filler. A first thermal process having a first maximum temperature cures the filler. Removing the filler from an upper region of the trench as far as a boundary surface defines a collar region. In a second thermal process having a second maximum temperature that is not significantly higher than the first maximum temperature, a liner is deposited on the collar region and the boundary surface. The liner is removed from the boundary surface, thereby exposing the filler. The filler is then removed from a lower region of the trench.
摘要:
A method for fabricating trench capacitors having trenches with mesopores, the trench capacitors being suitable both for discrete capacitors and for integrated semiconductor memories, significantly increases the surface area for electrodes of the capacitors and, hence, the capacitance thereof. The mesopores, which are small woodworm-hole-like channels having diameters from approximately 2 to 50 nm, are fabricated electrochemically. It is, thus, possible to produce capacitances with a large capacitance-to-volume ratio. Growth of the mesopores stops, at the latest, when the mesopores reach a minimum distance from another mesopore or adjacent trench (self-passivation). As such, the formation of “short circuits” between two adjacent mesopores can be avoided in a self-regulated manner. Furthermore, a semiconductor device is provided including at least one trench capacitor on the front side of a semiconductor substrate fabricated by the method according to the invention.
摘要:
The present invention refers to a method of forming a silicon dioxide layer by thermally oxidizing at least one monocrystalline silicon surface region on a semiconductor substrate. The silicon surface region has a curved surface. The method can include providing a semiconductor substrate having at least one monocrystalline silicon surface region having a curved surface, roughening the surface of the at least one monocrystalline silicon surface region to produce a layer of porous silicon, and thermally oxidizing the at least one roughened monocrystalline silicon surface.
摘要:
A trench storage capacitor includes a buried plate that is lengthened by a doped silicon layer to right over the collar insulating layer. The conductor layer of the trench storage capacitor is preferably applied to a “buried” collar insulating layer and masked with the aid of a protective layer fabricated by ALD. In an exemplary embodiment, the conductor layer is composed of amorphous silicon, which is used as an HSG layer in a lower trench region.
摘要:
A base body is provided, on which a first sealing ring and a second sealing ring are disposed. A substrate is disposed on the sealing rings in such a way that a cavity is formed between the first sealing ring, the second sealing ring, the base body and the substrate. An etching substance can be introduced into the cavity in order to etch clear a conductive layer that has been applied to the substrate. When a conductive layer that has been applied to the substrate back surface has been uncovered, an electrolyte can be introduced into the cavity, making contact with the conductive layer and therefore the substrate back surface.