摘要:
A method of etching semiconductor structures is disclosed. The method may include etching an SRAM portion of a semiconductor device, the method comprising: providing a silicon substrate layer, a nitride layer thereover, an optical dispersive layer over the nitride layer, and a silicon anti-reflective coating layer thereover; etching the silicon anti-reflective coating layer using an image layer; removing the image layer; etching the optical dispersive layer while removing the silicon anti-reflective coating layer; etching the optical dispersive layer and the nitride layer simultaneously; and etching the optical dispersive layer, the nitride layer, and the silicon substrate simultaneously.
摘要:
A method for forming lines for semiconductor devices including, depositing a shallow trench isolation (STI) film stack on a silicon substrate, depositing a layer of polysilicon on the STI film stack, depositing a layer of antireflective coating on the layer of polysilicon, developing a phototoresist on the antireflective coating, wherein the photoresist defines a line, etching the layer of antireflective coating and the layer of polysilicon using RIE with a low bias power, removing the photoresist, removing the layer of antireflective coating, etching the STI film stack to form the line, wherein the layer of polysilicon further defines the line.
摘要:
A method for forming shallow trench isolation (STI) for semiconductor devices. A first hard mask is deposited over a semiconductor wafer, and a second hard mask is deposited over the first hard mask. The semiconductor wafer includes a first etching zone and at least a second etching zone disposed beneath the first etching zone. The etch process for the first etching zone and the etch process for the at least one second etching zone are selected such that smooth sidewall surface structures are formed within the semiconductor device. The etch processes for each subsequent etching zone may alternate between non-selective and selective etch processes to preserve at least the first hard mask material.
摘要:
Methods for forming or etching silicon trench isolation (STI) in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) region and a bulk silicon region, and a semiconductor device so formed, are disclosed. The STI can be etched simultaneously in the SOI and bulk silicon regions by etching to an uppermost silicon layer using an STI mask, conducting a timed etch that etches to a desired depth in the bulk silicon region and stops on a buried insulator of the SOI region, and etching through the buried insulator of the SOI region. The buried insulator etch for this process can be done with little complexity as part of a hardmask removal step. Further, by choosing the same depth for both the bulk and SOI regions, problems with a subsequent CMP process are avoided. The invention also cleans up the boundary between the SOI and bulk regions where silicon nitride residuals may exist.
摘要:
Methods for forming or etching silicon trench isolation (STI) in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) region and a bulk silicon region, and a semiconductor device so formed, are disclosed. The STI can be etched simultaneously in the SOI and bulk silicon regions by etching to an uppermost silicon layer using an STI mask, conducting a timed etch that etches to a desired depth in the bulk silicon region and stops on a buried insulator of the SOI region, and etching through the buried insulator of the SOI region. The buried insulator etch for this process can be done with little complexity as part of a hardmask removal step. Further, by choosing the same depth for both the bulk and SOI regions, problems with a subsequent CMP process are avoided. The invention also cleans up the boundary between the SOI and bulk regions where silicon nitride residuals may exist.
摘要:
A trench capacitor and related methods are disclosed including a trench having lateral extensions extending in only one direction from the trench filled with a capacitor material. In one embodiment, the trench capacitor includes a trench within a substrate, and at least one lateral extension extending from the trench in only one direction, wherein the trench and each lateral extension are filled with a capacitor material. The lateral extensions increase surface area for the trench capacitor, but do not take up as much space as conventional structures.
摘要:
A FinFET having spacers with a substantially uniform profile along the length of a gate stack which covers a portion of a fin of semiconductor material formed on a substrate is provided by depositing spacer material conformally on both the fins and gate stack and performing an angled ion impurity implant approximately parallel to the gate stack to selectively cause damage to only spacer material deposited on the fin. Due to the damage caused by the angled implant, the spacer material on the fins can be etched with high selectivity to the spacer material on the gate stack.
摘要:
A method and structure are disclosed for a defect free Si:C source/drain in an NFET device. A wafer is accepted with a primary surface of {100} crystallographic orientation. A recess is formed in the wafer in such manner that the bottom surface and the four sidewall surfaces of the recess are all having {100} crystallographic orientations. A Si:C material is eptaxially grown in the recess, and due to the crystallographic orientations the defect density next to each of the four sidewall surfaces is essentially the same as next to the bottom surface. The epitaxially filled recess is used in the source/drain fabrication of an NFET device. The NFET device is oriented along the crystallographic direction, and has the device channel under a tensile strain due to the defect free Si:C in the source/drain.
摘要:
Stress enhanced transistor devices and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a transistor device comprises: a gate conductor spaced above a semiconductor substrate by a gate dielectric, wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises a channel region underneath the gate conductor and recessed regions on opposite sides of the channel region, wherein the channel region comprises undercut areas under the gate conductor; a stressed material embedded in the undercut areas of the channel region under the gate conductor; and epitaxially grown source and drain regions disposed in the recessed regions of the semiconductor substrate laterally adjacent to the stressed material.
摘要:
By controlling buried plate doping level and bias condition, different capacitances can be obtained from capacitors on the same chip with the same layout and deep trench process. The capacitors may be storage capacitors of DRAM/eDRAM cells. The doping concentration may be less than 3E19cm−3, a voltage difference between the biases of the buried electrodes may be at least 0.5V, and a capacitance of one capacitor may be at least 1.2 times, such as 2.0 times the capacitance of another capacitor.