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公开(公告)号:US10833169B1
公开(公告)日:2020-11-10
申请号:US16390473
申请日:2019-04-22
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Tao Chu , Rongtao Lu , Ayse M. Ozbek , Wei Ma , Haiting Wang
IPC: H01L29/66 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/78 , H01L29/40 , H01L21/311 , H01L21/32 , H01L21/3105 , H01L21/3205 , H01L21/3213 , H01L21/321
Abstract: Disclosed is a metal gate (e.g., a replacement metal gate (RMG) for a field effect transistor (FET) and a method of forming the metal gate. The method includes depositing a conformal dielectric layer to line a gate opening and performing a series of unclustered and clustered conformal metal deposition and chamfer processes to selectively adjust the heights of conformal metal layers within the gate opening. By selectively controlling the heights of the conformal metal layers, the method provides improved overall gate height control and gate quality particularly when the metal gate has a small critical dimension (CD) and/or a high aspect ratio (AR). The method can also include using different etch techniques during the different chamfer processes and, particularly, when different materials and/or different material interfaces are exposed to an etchant in order to ensure an essentially uniform etch rate of the conformal metal layer(s) at issue in a direction that is essentially vertical.
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公开(公告)号:US10446550B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-15
申请号:US15783549
申请日:2017-10-13
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Balaji Kannan , Ayse M. Ozbek , Tao Chu , Bala Haran , Vishal Chhabra , Katsunori Onishi , Guowei Xu
IPC: H01L27/092 , H01L29/06 , H01L27/02 , H01L21/311 , H01L29/66 , H01L21/8234 , H01L21/027 , H01L21/8238 , H01L29/51 , H01L27/11
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a cut inside a replacement metal gate trench to mitigate n-p proximity effects and methods of manufacture. The structure described herein includes: a first device; a second device, adjacent to the first device; a dielectric material, of the first device and the second device, including a cut within a trench between the first device and the second device; and a common gate electrode shared with the first device and the second device, the common gate electrode provided over the dielectric material and contacting underlying material within the cut.
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公开(公告)号:US20200335602A1
公开(公告)日:2020-10-22
申请号:US16390473
申请日:2019-04-22
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Tao Chu , Rongtao Lu , Ayse M. Ozbek , Wei Ma , Haiting Wang
IPC: H01L29/66 , H01L29/40 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/78 , H01L21/3105 , H01L21/311 , H01L21/3205 , H01L21/3213
Abstract: Disclosed is a metal gate (e.g., a replacement metal gate (RMG) for a field effect transistor (FET) and a method of forming the metal gate. The method includes depositing a conformal dielectric layer to line a gate opening and performing a series of unclustered and clustered conformal metal deposition and chamfer processes to selectively adjust the heights of conformal metal layers within the gate opening. By selectively controlling the heights of the conformal metal layers, the method provides improved overall gate height control and gate quality particularly when the metal gate has a small critical dimension (CD) and/or a high aspect ratio (AR). The method can also include using different etch techniques during the different chamfer processes and, particularly, when different materials and/or different material interfaces are exposed to an etchant in order to ensure an essentially uniform etch rate of the conformal metal layer(s) at issue in a direction that is essentially vertical.
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公开(公告)号:US20200273953A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-27
申请号:US16287365
申请日:2019-02-27
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
Inventor: Tao Chu , Wei Ma , Jae Gon Lee , Hong Yu , Zhenyu Hu , Srikanth Balaji Samavedam
IPC: H01L29/10 , H01L29/417 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/78 , H01L27/092
Abstract: One illustrative integrated circuit product disclosed herein includes a short-channel transistor device and a long-channel transistor device formed above a semiconductor substrate, wherein a first gate structure for the short-channel transistor device includes a short-channel WFM layer with a first upper surface that is positioned at a first distance above an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, and wherein a second gate structure for the long-channel transistor device includes a long-channel WFM layer with a second upper surface that is positioned at a second distance above the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first distance is greater than the second distance.
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公开(公告)号:US20210020515A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US16515638
申请日:2019-07-18
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
Inventor: Bingwu Liu , Tao Chu , Man Gu
IPC: H01L21/8234 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/78 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/10
Abstract: One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming at least one fin, forming a first recessed layer of insulating material adjacent the at least one fin and forming epi semiconductor material on the at least one fin. In this example, the method also includes forming a second recessed layer of insulating material above the first recessed layer of insulating material, wherein at least a portion of the epi semiconductor material is positioned above a level of the upper surface of the second recessed layer of insulating material, and forming a source/drain contact structure above the second recessed layer of insulating material, wherein the source/drain contact structure is conductively coupled to the epi semiconductor material.
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公开(公告)号:US20200286790A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-10
申请号:US16296469
申请日:2019-03-08
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
Inventor: Wei Hong , Hong Yu , Tao Chu , Bingwu Liu
IPC: H01L21/8234 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/78 , H01L21/308
Abstract: One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming a conformal SMCM layer above a conformal high-k gate insulation layer within each of first and second replacement gate cavities (RGC), removing the SMCM layer from the first RGC while leaving the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, forming a first conformal metal-containing material (MCM) layer above the gate insulation layer within the first RGC and above the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, removing the first conformal MCM layer and the conformal SMCM layer positioned within the second RGC while leaving the first conformal MCM layer within the first RGC, and forming a second conformal MCM layer above the first conformal MCM layer positioned within the first RGC and above the gate insulation layer positioned within the second RGC.
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公开(公告)号:US10658363B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-19
申请号:US16562481
申请日:2019-09-06
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Inventor: Balaji Kannan , Ayse M. Ozbek , Tao Chu , Bala Haran , Vishal Chhabra , Katsunori Onishi , Guowei Xu
IPC: H01L27/092 , H01L29/06 , H01L27/02 , H01L21/311 , H01L29/66 , H01L21/8234 , H01L21/027 , H01L21/8238 , H01L29/51 , H01L27/11
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a cut inside a replacement metal gate trench to mitigate n-p proximity effects and methods of manufacture. The structure described herein includes: a first device; a second device, adjacent to the first device; a dielectric material, of the first device and the second device, including a cut within a trench between the first device and the second device; and a common gate electrode shared with the first device and the second device, the common gate electrode provided over the dielectric material and contacting underlying material within the cut.
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