摘要:
A process for forming dual gate oxides of improved oxide thickness uniformity for use in high performance DRAM systems or logic circuits, comprising: a) growing a sacrificial oxide layer on a substrate; b) implanting a dopant through the sacrificial oxide layer; c) implanting a first dosage of nitrogen ions in the absence of a photoresist to form a nitrided silicon layer; d) subjecting the substrate to a rapid thermal anneal for a sufficient time and at a sufficient temperature to allow nitrogen to diffuse to the silicon/oxide interface; e) masking the substrate with a photoresist to define the locations of the thin oxides of the dual gate oxide; f) implanting a second dosage of nitrogen ions through the photoresist; g) stripping the photoresist and the sacrificial oxide layers; and h) growing by oxidation gate oxide layers characterized by improved oxide thickness uniformity in the nitrogen ion implanted areas in the thin and thick oxides.
摘要:
A method for forming an oxide of substantially uniform thickness on at least two crystallographic planes of silicon, in accordance with the present invention, includes providing a substrate where silicon surfaces have at least two different crystallographic orientations of the silicon crystal. Atomic oxygen (O) is formed for oxidizing the surfaces. An oxide is formed on the surfaces by reacting the atomic oxygen with the surfaces to simultaneously form a substantially uniform thickness of the oxide on the surfaces.
摘要:
In the course of forming a trench capacitor or similar structure, the sidewalls of an aperture in a substrate are lined with a film stack containing a diffusion barrier; an upper portion of the outer layer is stripped, so that the upper and lower portions have different materials exposed; the lower portion of the film stack is stripped while the upper portion is protected by a hardmask layer; a diffusion step is performed in the lower portion while the upper portion is protected; and a selected material such as hemispherical grained silicon is deposited selectively on the lower portion while the exposed surface of the upper portion is a material on which the selected material forms poorly, so that the diffusing material penetrates and the selected material is formed only on the lower portion.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of processing a semiconductor gate structure on a semiconductor wafer, the method comprising providing a semiconductor structure with an active device area capped with a pad oxide layer bounded by one or more isolation trenches, providing a sacrificial oxide layer by thickening said pad oxide layer to a desired oxide thickness, in using said thickened pad oxide layer as said sacrificial oxide layer for device implantation, stripping said sacrificial pad oxide layer after use, and capping said semiconductor gate with a final gate oxide layer.
摘要:
Deformation of a substrate due to one or more processing steps is determined by measuring substrate alignment data at lithographic processing steps before and after the one or more processing steps. Any abnormal pattern in the alignment data differential is identified by comparing the calculated alignment data differential with previous data accumulated in a database. By comparing the abnormal pattern with previously identified tool-specific patterns for alignment data differential, a processing step that introduces the abnormal pattern and/or the nature of the abnormal processing can be identified, and appropriate process control measures can be taken to rectify any anomaly in the identified processing step.
摘要:
A wafer probing system includes a probe card assembly having a plurality of individual probe structures configured make contact with a semiconductor wafer mounted on a motor driven wafer chuck, with each probe structure configured with a pressure sensing unit integrated therewith; and a controller configured to drive the probe card assembly with one or more piezoelectric driver units response to feedback from the pressure sensing units of the individual probe structures.
摘要:
While embedded silicon germanium alloy and silicon carbon alloy provide many useful applications, especially for enhancing the mobility of MOSFETs through stress engineering, formation of alloyed silicide on these surfaces degrades device performance. The present invention provides structures and methods for providing unalloyed silicide on such silicon alloy surfaces placed on semiconductor substrates. This enables the formation of low resistance contacts for both mobility enhanced PFETs with embedded SiGe and mobility enhanced NFETs with embedded Si:C on the same semiconductor substrate. Furthermore, this invention provides methods for thick epitaxial silicon alloy, especially thick epitaxial Si:C alloy, above the level of the gate dielectric to increase the stress on the channel on the transistor devices.
摘要:
A set of first substrate and second substrate are manufactured with a built-in N-fold rotational symmetry around the center axis of each substrate, wherein N is an integer greater than 1. A set of N different interposers is provided such that an i-th interposer provides electrical connection between the first substrate and the second substrate with a rotational angle of (i−1)/N×2π. The first and second substrates are tested with each of the N different interposers therebetween. Once the rotational angle that provides the highest stacked chip yield is determined, the first and the second substrates can be bonded with an azimuthal rotation that provides the highest stacked chip yield.
摘要:
A system and method for failure analysis of devices on a semiconductor wafer is disclosed. The present invention comprises the use of an inline focused ion beam milling tool to perform milling and image capturing of cross sections of a desired inspection point. The inspection points are located by identifying at least one fiducial that corresponds to an X-Y offset from the desired inspection point. The fiducials are recognized by a computer vision system. By automating the inspection process, the time required to perform the inspections is greatly reduced.
摘要:
In a field effect transistor (FET), halo features may be formed by etching into the surface of a silicon layer followed by a step of growing a first epitaxial silicon (epi-Si) layer on the etched silicon layer. Source (S) and drain (D), as well as S/D extension features may similarly be formed by etching an epitaxial silicon layer, then filling with another epitaxial layer. Source and Drain, and extensions, and halo, which are normally formed by diffusion, may be formed as discrete elements by etching and filling (epi-Si). This may provide a shallow, highly activated, abrupt S/D extension, an optimally formed halo and deep S/D diffusion doping, and maximized improvement of channel mobility from the compressive or tensile stress from e-SiGe or e-SiC.