Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A hard mask is produced from spacer structures. The spacer structures are formed from a conformal deposition on elevated structures produced lithographically in a projection process. The conformal deposition is etched back laterally on the elevated structures resulting in the spacer structures. The elevated structures between the spacer structures are subsequently etched away, so that the spacer structures remain in an isolated fashion as sublithographic structures of a hard mask with a doubled structure density compared with that originally produced in lithographic projection. In a regularly disposed two-dimensional array of structures in the hard mask for forming trenches—for instance for trench capacitors—the method achieves a doubling of the structure density in the array. A further iteration step is formed by forming further spacer structures on the first and second spacer structures, thereby achieving an even higher increase in structure density in the hard mask.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit including a gate electrode is disclosed. One embodiment provides a transistor including a first source/drain electrode and a second source/drain electrode. A channel is arranged between the first and the second source/drain electrode in a semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is arranged adjacent the channel layer and is electrically insulated from the channel layer. A semiconductor substrate electrode is provided on a rear side. The gate electrode encloses the channel layer at least two opposite sides.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of fabricating an integrated circuit, including the steps of providing at least one layer; performing a first implantation step, wherein particles are implanted into the layer under a first direction of incidence; performing a second implantation step, wherein particles are implanted into the layer under a second direction of incidence which is different from the first direction of incidence; performing a removal step, wherein the layer is partially removed depending on the local implant dose generated by the first and the second implantation step.
Abstract:
In one aspect, a method of forming a structure on a substrate is disclosed. For example, the method includes forming a first mask layer and a second mask layer, modifying a material property in regions of the first and second mask layers, and forming the structure based on the modified regions.
Abstract:
Memory cells having a cell capacitor and a cell transistor, which are arranged in a vertical cell structure, are provided in the cell array of a DRAM. By means of a deep implantation or a shallow implantation with subsequent epitaxial growth of silicon, a buried source/drain layer is formed, from which lower source/drain regions of the cell transistors emerge. The upper edge of the buried source/drain layer can be aligned with respect to a lower edge of a gate electrode of the cell transistor, which consequently results in a reduction of a gate/drain capacitance and also a leakage current between the gate electrode and the lower source/drain region. A gate conductor layer structure is applied and there are formed, from the gate conductor layer structure, in a controlled transistor array, gate electrode structures of control transistors and, in the cell array, a body connection structure for the connection of body regions of the cell transistors.
Abstract:
A hard mask layer stack for patterning a layer to be patterned includes a carbon layer disposed on top of the layer to be patterned, a first layer of a material selected from the group of SiO2 and SiON disposed on top of the carbon layer and a silicon layer disposed on top of the first layer. A method of patterning a layer to be patterned includes providing the above described hard mask layer stack on the layer to be patterned and patterning the silicon hard mask layer in accordance with a pattern to be formed in the layer that has to be patterned.
Abstract:
A DRAM memory cell is provided with a selection transistor, which is arranged horizontally at a semiconductor substrate surface and has a first source/drain electrode, a second source/drain electrode, a channel layer arranged between the first and the second source/drain electrode in the semiconductor substrate, and a gate electrode, which is arranged along the channel layer and is electrically insulated from the channel layer, a storage capacitor, which has a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode, insulated from the first capacitor electrode, one of the capacitor electrodes of the storage capacitor being electrically conductively connected to one of the source/drain electrodes of the selection transistor, and a semiconductor substrate electrode on the rear side, the gate electrode enclosing the channel layer at at least two opposite sides.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit including a gate electrode is disclosed. One embodiment provides a transistor including a first source/drain electrode and a second source/drain electrode. A channel is arranged between the first and the second source/drain electrode in a semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is arranged adjacent the channel layer and is electrically insulated from the channel layer. A semiconductor substrate electrode is provided on a rear side. The gate electrode encloses the channel layer at at least two opposite sides.