公开(公告)号：US20230369509A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-16

申请号：US17742638

申请日：2022-05-12

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Jisoo Kim ,  Xiaoye Qin ,  Timothy Jen ,  Harish Ganapathy ,  Van H. Le ,  Huiying Liu ,  Prem Chanani ,  Cheng Tan ,  Shailesh Kumar Madisetti ,  Abhishek Anil Sharma ,  Brian Wadsworth ,  Vishak Venkatraman ,  Andre Baran

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L27/108

CPC classification number: H01L29/7869 ,  H01L23/5283 ,  H01L27/10814

Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for forming thin film transistor (TFT) structures having one or more doped contact regions. The addition of certain dopants can be used to increase conductivity and provide higher thermal stability in the contact regions of the TFT. Memory structures having TFT structures are arranged in a two-dimensional array within one or more interconnect layers and stacked in a vertical direction such that multiple tiers of memory structure arrays are formed within the interconnect region. Any of the TFT structures within the memory structures may include one or more contacts that are doped with additional elements. The doping profile of the contacts can be tuned to optimize performance, stability, and reliability of the TFT structure. Furthermore, additional doping may be performed within the area beneath the contacts and extending into the semiconductor region.

公开(公告)号：US20230290812A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-14

申请号：US17654530

申请日：2022-03-11

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Travis Lajoie ,  Andre Baran ,  Alexandra De Denko ,  Christine Radlinger ,  Yu-Che Chiu ,  Yixiong Zheng

IPC: H01L49/02 ,  H01L27/108

CPC classification number: H01L28/60 ,  H01L27/10808

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a transistor, and a first layer including electrically conductive material. In an example, the first layer is conductively coupled to the transistor. The IC further includes a second layer including electrically conductive material above the first layer. The IC further includes one or more intervening layers between the first and second layers. In an example, the one or more intervening layers include at least a third layer, wherein the third layer includes (i) a first metal, (ii) oxygen, and (iii) one or both of a second metal or an oxide thereof within the third layer. In an example, the first layer, the second layer, and the one or more intervening layers form a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor. In an example, the MIM capacitor and the transistor, in combination, form a memory cell of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) array.

公开(公告)号：US20220359759A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17308856

申请日：2021-05-05

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Chieh-Jen Ku ,  Andre Baran ,  Bernhard Sell ,  David Goldstein ,  Timothy Jen

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L29/51 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L21/02

Abstract: Transistors with metal oxide channel material that is in-situ doped for desired charge carrier concentrations. The metal oxide channel material may be deposited by atomic layering of multiple constituent metals with an oxidation of each layer. Such an ALD process may be performed by cyclically depositing a precursor of one of the metals upon a substrate during a deposition phase, and oxidizing the absorbed precursor during an oxidation phase. For a quinary metal oxide, each of three metal precursors may be introduced and oxidized during the ALD process, and charge carrier concentrations may be modulated by further introducing a fourth metal precursor during the ALD process in a manner that disperses this dopant metal within the film at a significantly lower chemical concentration than the other metals.

公开(公告)号：US20230369508A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-16

申请号：US17742644

申请日：2022-05-12

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Timothy Jen ,  Prem Chanani ,  Cheng Tan ,  Brian Wadsworth ,  Andre Baran ,  James Pellegren ,  Christopher J. Wiegand ,  Van H. Le ,  Abhishek Anil Sharma ,  Shailesh Kumar Madisetti ,  Xiaojun Weng

IPC: H01L29/786 ,  H01L23/528 ,  H01L27/108

CPC classification number: H01L29/78687 ,  H01L23/5283 ,  H01L29/7869 ,  H01L27/10814

Abstract: Techniques for forming thin film transistors (TFTs) having multilayer and/or concentration gradient semiconductor regions. An example integrated circuit includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric on the gate electrode, and a semiconductor region on the gate dielectric. In some cases, the semiconductor region includes a plurality of compositionally different material layers, at least two layers of the different material layers each being a semiconductor layer. In some other cases, the semiconductor region includes a single layer having a material concentration gradient extending from a bottom surface of the single layer (adjacent to the gate dielectric) to a top surface of the single layer. The integrated circuit further includes first and second conductive contacts that each contact a respective portion of the semiconductor region. One example application of the techniques is with respect to forming backend (within the interconnect region) memory structures configured with multilayer and/or concentration gradient TFTs.

公开(公告)号：US20220181460A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17114034

申请日：2020-12-07

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Chieh-Jen Ku ,  Kendra Souther ,  Andre Baran ,  Pei-hua Wang ,  Bernhard Sell

IPC: H01L29/45 ,  H01L21/443 ,  H01L29/786

Abstract: Disclosed herein are transistor source/drain contacts, and related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, a transistor may include a channel and a source/drain contact, wherein the source/drain contact includes an interface material and a bulk material, the bulk material has a different material composition than the interface material, the interface material is between the bulk material and the channel, the interface material includes indium and an element different from indium, and the element is aluminum, vanadium, zirconium, magnesium, gallium, hafnium, silicon, lanthanum, tungsten, or cadmium.