摘要:
The present invention provides a method for forming a semiconductor device, as well as a semiconductor device. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, among others, includes providing a gate structure (240) over a substrate (210), the gate structure (240) including a gate electrode (248) located over a nitrided gate dielectric (243), and forming a nitrided region (310) over a sidewall of the nitrided gate dielectric (243).
摘要:
The present invention provides a method for forming a semiconductor device, as well as a semiconductor device. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, among others, includes providing a gate structure (240) over a substrate (210), the gate structure (240) including a gate electrode (248) located over a nitrided gate dielectric (243), and forming a nitrided region (310) over a sidewall of the nitrided gate dielectric (243).
摘要:
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having multiple gate dielectric thickness layers. The method, in one embodiment, includes forming a first layer of gate dielectric material over a semiconductor substrate in a first active region and a second active region of a semiconductor device, and patterning a masking layer to expose the first layer of gate dielectric material located in the first active region. The method further includes subjecting exposed portions of the first layer of gate dielectric material to a nitrogen containing plasma, thereby forming a second layer of gate dielectric material over the first layer of gate dielectric material located in the first active region, incorporating oxygen into the second layer of gate dielectric material located in the first active region, and removing the, patterned masking layer, thereby resulting in a first greater thickness gate dielectric in the first active region and a second lesser thickness gate dielectric in the second active region.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method, in one embodiment, includes forming a silicon oxide masking layer over a substrate in a first active region and a second active region of a semiconductor device, patterning the silicon oxide masking layer to expose the substrate in the first active region. The method further includes forming a layer of dielectric material over the substrate in the first active region, the patterned silicon oxide masking layer protecting the substrate from the layer of dielectric material in the second active region.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having multiple gate dielectric thickness layers. The method, in one embodiment, includes forming a masking layer over a semiconductor substrate in a first active region and a second active region of a semiconductor device, patterning the masking layer to expose the semiconductor substrate in the first active region, and subjecting exposed portions of the semiconductor substrate to a nitrogen containing plasma, thereby forming a first layer of gate dielectric material over the semiconductor substrate in the first active region. The method, in that embodiment, may further include incorporating oxygen into the first layer of gate dielectric material located in the first active region, and then removing the patterned masking layer, and forming a second layer of gate dielectric material over the first layer of gate dielectric material in the first active region and over the semiconductor substrate in the second active region, thereby resulting in a first greater thickness gate dielectric in the first active region and a second lesser thickness gate dielectric in the second active region.
摘要:
A process is disclosed of forming metal replacement gates for NMOS and PMOS transistors with oxygen in the PMOS metal gates and metal atom enrichment in the NMOS gates such that the PMOS gates have effective work functions above 4.85 eV and the NMOS gates have effective work functions below 4.25 eV. Metal work function layers in both the NMOS and PMOS gates are oxidized to increase their effective work functions to the desired PMOS range. An oxygen diffusion blocking layer is formed over the PMOS gate and an oxygen getter is formed over the NMOS gates. A getter anneal extracts the oxygen from the NMOS work function layers and adds metal atom enrichment to the NMOS work function layers, reducing their effective work functions to the desired NMOS range. Processes and materials for the metal work function layers, the oxidation process and oxygen gettering are disclosed.
摘要:
The likelihood of forming silicon germanium abnormal growths, which can be undesirably formed on the gate electrode of a strained-channel PMOS transistor at the same time that silicon germanium source and drain regions are formed, is substantially reduced by using protection materials that reduce the likelihood that the gate electrode is exposed during the formation of the silicon germanium source and drain regions.
摘要:
An integrated circuit having a gate dielectric layer (414, 614, 814) having an improved nitrogen profile and a method of fabrication. The gate dielectric layer is a graded layer with a significantly higher nitrogen concentration at the electrode surface than near the substrate surface. An amorphous silicon layer (406) may be deposited prior to nitridation to retain the nitrogen concentration at the top surface (416). Alternatively, a thin silicon nitride layer (610) may be deposited after anneal or a wet nitridation process may be performed.
摘要:
Oxide growth of a gate dielectric layer that occurs between processes used in the fabrication of a gate dielectric structure can be reduced. The reduction in oxide growth can be achieved by maintaining the gate dielectric layer in an ambient effective to mitigate oxide growth of the gate dielectric layer between at least two sequential process steps used in the fabrication the gate dielectric structure. Maintaining the gate dielectric layer in an ambient effective to mitigate oxide growth also improves the uniformity of nitrogen implanted in the gate dielectric.
摘要:
A process is disclosed of forming metal replacement gates for NMOS and PMOS transistors with oxygen in the PMOS metal gates and metal atom enrichment in the NMOS gates such that the PMOS gates have effective work functions above 4.85 eV and the NMOS gates have effective work functions below 4.25 eV. Metal work function layers in both the NMOS and PMOS gates are oxidized to increase their effective work functions to the desired PMOS range. An oxygen diffusion blocking layer is formed over the PMOS gate and an oxygen getter is formed over the NMOS gates. A getter anneal extracts the oxygen from the NMOS work function layers and adds metal atom enrichment to the NMOS work function layers, reducing their effective work functions to the desired NMOS range. Processes and materials for the metal work function layers, the oxidation process and oxygen gettering are disclosed.