摘要:
As disclosed herein, a structure and method is provided for forming an integrated circuit including a reduced programming voltage antifuse on a semiconductor substrate. The method includes doping a portion of a semiconductor substrate with nitrogen and a charge carrier dopant source, and forming a thin dielectric over the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the thin dielectric is subject to breakdown upon application of a breakdown voltage. The method further includes forming a first conductor separated from the semiconductor substrate by the thin dielectric, and forming a second conductor conductively coupled to the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate.
摘要:
The speed of CMOS circuits is improved by imposing a longitudinal tensile stress on the NFETs and a longitudinal compressive stress on the PFETs, by implanting in the sources and drains of the NFETs ions from the eighth column of the periodic table and hydrogen and implanting in the sources and drains of the PFETs ions from the fourth and sixth columns of the periodic table.
摘要:
A structure and method is disclosed herein for a vertical transistor DRAM cell having a low leakage buried strap outdiffusion conductively connecting a storage capacitor in a lower portion of a trench to a vertical transistor thereabove. In the disclosed structure and method, the buried strap outdiffusion (BSOD) extends along a portion of the isolation collar having reduced thickness, the reduced thickness being substantially less than the thickness of the isolation collar otherwise. In a particular embodiment, a self-aligned lightly doped drain (LDD) extension is formed, extending between the BSOD and the vertical transistor above the LDD.
摘要:
An integrated circuit such as a memory chip with embedded logic or a logic array or processor with imbedded large cache memory in which all significant sources of incompatibility between array transistors and high performance logic transistors are resolved. The integrated circuit includes memory cells having array transistors separated by minimum lithographic feature size, F, and memory cell areas or 8-12 F2 and unsilicided metal bit lines encapsulated by a diffusion barrier while high performance logic transistors may be formed on the same chip without compromise of performance including an effective channel length of 0.7F or less, silicided contacts for low source/drain contact resistance, extension and halo implants for control of short channel effects and a dual work function semiconductor gate having a high impurity concentration and correspondingly thin depletion layer thickness commensurate with state of the art gate dielectric thickness. This structure is achieved by development of thick/tall structures of differing materials using a mask or anti-spacer, preferably of an easily planarized material, and using a similar mask planarized to the height of the structures of differing materials to decouple substrate and gate implantations in the logic transistors.
摘要:
Body effects in vertical MOSFET transistors are considerably reduced and other device parameters are unaffected in a vertical transistor having a threshold implant with a peak at the gate and an implant concentration distribution that declines rapidly away from the gate to a plateau having a low p-well concentration value. A preferred embodiment employs two body implantsnullan angled implant having a peak at the gate that sets the Vt and a laterally uniform low dose implant that sets the well dopant concentration.
摘要:
A Deep Trench (DT) capacitor in a semiconductor substrate has an isolation collar formed on trench sidewalls above the DT bottom. An outer plate is formed below the collar. Capacitor dielectric is formed on DT walls below the collar. An node electrode is formed in the DT, recessed below the DT top. The collar is recessed in the DT. A combined poly/counter-recrystallizing species cap is formed over the node electrode with a peripheral strap. The cap may be formed after formed a peripheral divot of a recessed collar, followed by forming an intrinsic poly strap in the divot and doping with a counter-recrystallization species, e.g. Ge, into the node electrode and the strap. Alternatively, the node electrode is recessed followed by codeposition of poly and Ge or another counter-recrystallization species to form the cap and strap.
摘要:
A substrate under tension and/or compression improves performance of devices fabricated therein. Tension and/or compression can be imposed on a substrate through selection of appropriate STI fill material. The STI regions are formed in the substrate layer and impose forces on adjacent substrate areas. The substrate areas under compression or tension exhibit charge mobility characteristics different from those of a non-stressed substrate. By controllably varying these stresses within NFET and PFET devices formed on a substrate, improvements in IC performance are achieved.
摘要:
A 6F2 memory cell structure and a method of fabricating the same. The memory cell structure includes a plurality of memory cells located in a Si-containing substrate which are arranged in rows and columns. Each memory cell includes a double-gated vertical MOSFET having exposed gate conductor regions and two gates formed on opposing sidewalls of the MOSFETs. The memory cell structure also includes a plurality of wordlines overlaying the double-gated vertical MOSFETs and in contact with the exposed gate conductor regions, and a plurality of bitlines that are orthogonal to the wordlines. Trench isolation regions are located adjacent to the rows of memory cells. The memory cell structure also includes a plurality of punch through stop regions located in the Si-containing substrate and self-aligned to the wordlines and bitlines. A portion of the punch through stop regions overlap each other under the bitlines and each region serves to electrically isolate adjacent buried-strap regions from each other.
摘要:
A semiconductor device structure includes at least two field effect transistors formed on same substrate, the first field effect transistor includes a spacer having a first width, the second field effect transistor includes a compressive spacer having a second width, the first width being different than said second width. Preferably, the first width is narrower than the second width. A tensile stress dielectric film forms a barrier etch stop layer over the transistors.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory structure having a feature size of less than about 90 nm which exhibits little or no dynamic charge loss and little or no trap assisted junction leakage is provided. Specifically, the semiconductor structure includes at least one back-to-back pair of trench storage memory cells present in a Si-containing substrate. Each memory cell includes a vertical transistor overlaying a trench capacitor. Strap outdiffusions are present on each vertical sidewall of the trench storage memory cells so as to interconnect the vertical transistor and the trench capacitor of each memory cell to the Si-containing substrate. A punchthrough stop doping pocket is located between each back-to-back pair of trench storage memory cells and it is centered between the strap outdiffusions of adjacent storage trenches, and self-aligned to the adjacent storage trenches.