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公开(公告)号:US20240018647A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-18
申请号:US18209257
申请日:2023-06-13
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Yi-Chiau HUANG , Jesus AVILA AVENDANO
IPC: C23C16/02 , H01L21/768 , H01L23/532
CPC classification number: C23C16/0245 , H01L21/76897 , H01L21/76879 , H01L23/53266 , H01L21/76849
Abstract: A method of forming an oxidation barrier layer in a semiconductor structure includes forming a contact layer on an exposed surface of a semiconductor region of a semiconductor structure in a first processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor region comprises silicon germanium doped with p-type dopants and the contact layer comprises silicon germanium (SiGe) with a ratio of germanium (Ge) ranging between 60% and 100%, and forming an oxidation barrier layer comprising gallium (Ga) on the contact layer, by applying gallium (Ga)-containing liquid precursor to a surface of the contact layer in the first processing chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US20220336469A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-20
申请号:US17688602
申请日:2022-03-07
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Fredrick FISHBURN , Byeong Chan LEE
IPC: H01L27/108
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices and to semiconductor fabrication for DRAM devices. Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide an integrated processing system and methods for forming CMOS contact, DRAM array bit line contact (BLC), and storage node structures. The integrated processing system and methods enable deposition of contact and storage node layers with reduced contamination and improved quality, thus reducing leakage current and resistance for the final contact and storage node structures.
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公开(公告)号:US20240203742A1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-20
申请号:US18387732
申请日:2023-11-07
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Wolfgang R. ADERHOLD , Shashank SHARMA , Nilay Anil PRADHAN
IPC: H01L21/285 , H01J37/32 , H01L21/02
CPC classification number: H01L21/28562 , H01J37/32357 , H01L21/02068 , H01J37/321 , H01J2237/335
Abstract: A method of forming an electrical contact in semiconductor structure includes performing a selective deposition process on a semiconductor structure having a semiconductor region and a dielectric layer having a trench therewithin, the selective deposition process comprising epitaxially forming a contact layer on the semiconductor region within the trench of the dielectric layer, and performing a microwave anneal process to activate dopants in the epitaxially formed contact layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20220384258A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-01
申请号:US17728871
申请日:2022-04-25
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Byeong Chan LEE , Benjamin COLOMBEAU
IPC: H01L21/768 , H01L29/40 , H01L29/66 , H01L21/285 , H01L29/417 , H01L23/522
Abstract: A method of forming a contact trench structure in a semiconductor device, the method includes performing a first selective deposition process to form a contact on sidewalls of a trench, each of the sidewalls of the trench comprising a first cross section of a first material and a second cross section of a second material, performing a second selective deposition process to form a metal silicide layer on the contact, performing a first metal fill process to form a contact plug within the trench, the first metal fill process including depositing a contact plug metal material within the trench, performing an etch process to form an opening within the trench, comprising partially etching the contact plug metal material within the trench, and performing a second metal fill process, the second metal fill process comprising depositing the contact plug metal material within the opening.
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公开(公告)号:US20250149381A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-08
申请号:US18910704
申请日:2024-10-09
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL
IPC: H01L21/768
Abstract: A method of forming an electrical contact in a semiconductor structure includes performing a contact trench forming process to form a contact trench in a dielectric layer formed over a semiconductor region, performing a dopant implanting process to implant dopants in a region of the semiconductor region in proximity to an exposed surface of the semiconductor region within the contact trench, subsequent to the dopant implanting process, performing a cavity shaping process to form a cavity in the exposed surface of the semiconductor region within the contact trench, performing a silicide forming process to form a cavity contact within the contact trench, and performing a metal filling process to form a contact plug in the contact trench.
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公开(公告)号:US20250081569A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-06
申请号:US18817419
申请日:2024-08-28
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Avgerinos V. GELATOS
IPC: H01L29/40 , H01L21/768 , H01L29/49
Abstract: A method of forming an electrical contact in a semiconductor structure includes performing a cavity shaping process on a semiconductor structure having a p-type semiconductor region for a p-type metal oxide semiconductor (p-MOS) device, the cavity shaping process comprising forming a first cavity in an exposed surface of the p-type semiconductor region, performing a first selective deposition process to form a first cavity contact, selectively in the first cavity, and performing a metal treatment process on the formed first cavity contact, to remove oxides at interfaces of the first cavity contact with the first cavity.
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公开(公告)号:US20240014075A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-11
申请号:US18206042
申请日:2023-06-05
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Lisa MCGILL , Amritha RAMMOHAN , Shashank SHARMA
IPC: H01L21/8238 , H01L21/02 , H01L21/285 , H01L21/768
CPC classification number: H01L21/823871 , H01L21/02063 , H01L21/28518 , H01L21/76805 , H01L21/76814 , H01L21/76843 , H01L21/76889 , H01L21/76895
Abstract: A method of forming an electrical contact in a semiconductor structure includes performing a patterning process to form a mask on a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure comprising a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a dielectric layer having a first opening over the first semiconductor region and a second opening over the second semiconductor region, wherein the mask covers an exposed surface of the second semiconductor region within the second opening, performing an amorphization ion implant process to amorphize an exposed surface of the first semiconductor region within the first opening, performing a removal process to remove the mask, performing a selective epitaxial deposition process, to epitaxially form a contact layer on the exposed surface of the second semiconductor region, and performing a recrystallization anneal process to recrystallize the amorphized surface of the first semiconductor region.
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公开(公告)号:US20230377997A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-23
申请号:US18123783
申请日:2023-03-20
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Balasubramanian PRANATHARTHIHARAN , Benjamin COLOMBEAU , Anchuan WANG
IPC: H01L21/8238 , H01L21/02 , H01L21/768
CPC classification number: H01L21/823871 , H01L21/02063 , H01L21/76843 , H01L21/76895
Abstract: A method of forming a contact layer in a semiconductor structure includes performing a pre-clean process on exposed surfaces of a plurality of first semiconductor regions and a plurality of second semiconductor regions formed on a substrate, wherein the exposed surfaces of the plurality of first and second semiconductor regions are each disposed within openings formed in a dielectric layer disposed over the substrate, performing a first selective epitaxial deposition process to form a first contact layer on the exposed surfaces of the first semiconductor regions and a second contact layer on the exposed surface of the second semiconductor regions, performing a patterning process to form a patterned stack, wherein the patterned stack comprises a patterned layer that comprises openings formed over the first contact layer disposed within each opening in the dielectric layer and a portion of the patterned layer that is disposed over each second contact layer disposed within each opening in the dielectric layer, and performing a selective removal process to remove the first contact layer selectively to the plurality of first semiconductor regions, the dielectric layer, and the patterned layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20250151374A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-08
申请号:US18887821
申请日:2024-09-17
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Lisa MCGILL , Manoj VELLAIKAL , Bocheng CAO , Pei LIU , Avgerinos V. GELATOS
IPC: H01L21/8238 , H01L23/66 , H01L27/092 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/66
Abstract: A method of forming an electrical contact in a semiconductor structure includes performing a cavity shaping process on a semiconductor structures having an n-type metal oxide semiconductor (n-MOS) region and/or a p-type MOS (p-MOS) region, the cavity shaping process comprising forming an n-MOS cavity in an exposed surface of the n-MOS region and/or a p-MOS cavity in an exposed surface of the p-MOS region, wherein the cavity shaping process is configured to increase the surface area of the exposed surface of the n-MOS region or the p-MOS region. In some embodiments, the method includes performing a first selective deposition process to form a p-MOS cavity contact, selectively in the p-MOS cavity.
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公开(公告)号:US20240304671A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-12
申请号:US18371113
申请日:2023-09-21
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Nicolas Louis BREIL , Balasubramanian PRANATHARTHIHARAN
IPC: H01L29/10 , H01L21/02 , H01L21/8234 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/786
CPC classification number: H01L29/1054 , H01L21/02532 , H01L21/823412 , H01L21/823437 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/0673 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/66439 , H01L29/66545 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/78696
Abstract: A method for forming a gate structure uses epitaxial growth to form the layers of the gate structure. The method includes epitaxially growing a first silicon germanium layer with a first germanium percentage on a silicon substrate, growing a first silicon layer on the first silicon germanium layer, growing a second silicon germanium layer with a second germanium percentage greater than the first germanium percentage, growing a second silicon layer on the second silicon germanium layer, selectively etching a portion of the first silicon germanium layer to form a recess; selectively depositing a low-k dielectric material to fill the recess, and selectively oxidizing the second silicon germanium layer throughout to form a silicon germanium oxide layer.
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