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公开(公告)号:US20250140649A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-01
申请号:US18498340
申请日:2023-10-31
Applicant: Intel corporation
Inventor: Feng Zhang , Tao Chu , Minwoo Jang , Yanbin Luo , Guowei Xu , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Chiao-Ti Huang , Robin Chao , Chia-Ching Lin , Yang Zhang , Kan Zhang
IPC: H01L23/48 , H01L27/092 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/778 , H01L29/786
Abstract: An IC device may include a semiconductor structure and a backside semiconductor structure over the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure and backside semiconductor structure may constitute the source or drain region of a transistor. The backside semiconductor structure may be closer to the backside of a substrate of the IC device than the semiconductor structure. The backside semiconductor structure may be formed at a lower temperature than the semiconductor structure. The backside semiconductor structure may have one or more different materials from the semiconductor structure. For instance, a semiconductor material in the backside semiconductor structure may have a different crystal direction from a semiconductor material in the semiconductor structure. As another example, the backside semiconductor structure may have one or more different chemical compounds from the semiconductor structure. The backside semiconductor structure may be over a backside via that can couple the backside semiconductor structure to a backside metal layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20250087530A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-13
申请号:US18463436
申请日:2023-09-08
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Chiao-Ti Huang , Tao Chu , Guowei Xu , Robin Chao , Feng Zhang , Yang Zhang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Anand Murthy
IPC: H01L21/762 , H01L21/768 , H01L23/48 , H01L27/088 , H01L27/12
Abstract: Techniques are provided to form semiconductor devices where portions of the gate structure (e.g., foot structures) adjacent to the subfins have been removed. A semiconductor device includes a gate structure around or otherwise on a semiconductor region. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric and a gate electrode. The gate structure may be interrupted, for example, between two transistors with a gate cut that extends through an entire thickness of the gate structure and includes dielectric material to electrically isolate the portions of the gate structure on either side of the gate cut. The gate cut includes dielectric lobe structures that extend outwards from the sidewalls of the gate cut. The lobe structures effectively replace foot structures of the gate structure between the gate cut and subfin portions of the semiconductor fins. Removing the gate foot structures contributes to the reduction of the parasitic capacitance in the semiconductor device.
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公开(公告)号:US20240222484A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-04
申请号:US18092152
申请日:2022-12-30
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Chia-Ching Lin , Kevin P. O'Brien , Ashish Verma Penumatcha , Chelsey Dorow , Kirby Maxey , Carl H. Naylor , Tao Chu , Guowei Xu , Uygar Avci , Feng Zhang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Ande Kitamura , Mahmut Sami Kavrik
IPC: H01L29/76 , H01L21/02 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/24 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/775
CPC classification number: H01L29/7606 , H01L21/02568 , H01L21/02603 , H01L29/0673 , H01L29/24 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/66969 , H01L29/775
Abstract: Transistors and integrated circuitry including a 2D channel material layer within a stack of material layers further including one or more insulator (e.g., dielectric) materials above and/or below the 2D channel material layer. These supporting insulator layers may be non-sacrificial while other material layers within a starting material stack may be sacrificial, replaced, for example, with gate insulator and/or gate material. In some exemplary embodiments, the 2D channel material is a metal chalcogenide and the supporting insulator layer is advantageously a dielectric material composition having a low dielectric constant.
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公开(公告)号:US20240088217A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US17940195
申请日:2022-09-08
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Tao Chu , Minwoo Jang , Chia-Ching Lin , Yanbin Luo , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Feng Zhang , Guowei Xu
IPC: H01L29/06 , H01L21/762 , H01L29/78
CPC classification number: H01L29/0649 , H01L21/76224 , H01L29/7856
Abstract: Techniques are provided herein to form semiconductor devices that include a layer across an upper surface of a dielectric fill between devices and configured to prevent or otherwise reduce recessing of the dielectric fill. In this manner, the layer may be referred to as a barrier layer or recess-inhibiting layer. The semiconductor regions of the devices extend above a subfin region that may be native to the substrate. These subfin regions are separated from one another using a dielectric fill that acts as a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure to electrically isolate devices from one another. A barrier layer is formed over the dielectric fill early in the fabrication process to prevent or otherwise reduce the dielectric fill from recessing during subsequent processing. The layer may include oxygen and a metal, such as aluminum.
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公开(公告)号:US20250169130A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-22
申请号:US18515626
申请日:2023-11-21
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Tao Chu , Minwoo Jang , Yanbin Luo , Paul Packan , Guowei Xu , Chiao-Ti Huang , Robin Chao , Feng Zhang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Chia-Ching Lin , Yang Zhang , Kan Zhang , Chung-Hsun Lin , Anand S. Murthy
IPC: H01L29/06 , H01L21/8234 , H01L27/088 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/66
Abstract: Fabrication methods for integrated circuit (IC) structures and devices with different nanoribbon thicknesses are disclosed. In one example, an IC structure includes a stack of nanoribbons stacked above one another over the support, including a first nanoribbon with a first channel region and a second nanoribbon with a second channel region, where the first channel region has a first thickness and the second channel region has a second thickness, and where the first thickness of the first channel region is different (e.g., greater) than the second thickness of the second channel region.
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公开(公告)号:US20250142948A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-01
申请号:US18498318
申请日:2023-10-31
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Robin Chao , Chiao-Ti Huang , Guowei Xu , Yang Zhang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Tao Chu , Feng Zhang , Chia-Ching Lin , Anand S. Murthy , Conor P. Puls , Kan Zhang
IPC: H01L27/088 , H01L23/498 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/78
Abstract: An IC device with one or more transistors may also include one or more vias and jumpers for delivering power to the transistors. For instance, a via may be coupled to a power plane. A jumper may be connected to the via and an electrode of a transistor. With the via and jumper, an electrical connection is built between the power plane and the electrode. The via may be self-aligned. The IC device may include a dielectric structure at a first side of the via. A portion of the jumper may be at a second side of the via. The second side opposes the first side. The dielectric structure and the portion of the jumper may be over another dielectric structure that has a different dielectric material from the dielectric structure. The via may be insulated from another electrode of the transistor, which may be coupled to a ground plane.
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公开(公告)号:US20250107212A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-27
申请号:US18471705
申请日:2023-09-21
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Yang Zhang , Guowei Xu , Tao Chu , Robin Chao , Chiao-Ti Huang , Feng Zhang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Chia-Ching Lin , Anand Murthy
IPC: H01L29/49 , H01L21/28 , H01L21/78 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/417 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/775
Abstract: Techniques are provided to form an integrated circuit having an airgap spacer between at least a transistor gate structure and an adjacent source or drain contact. In one such example, a FET (field effect transistor) includes a gate structure that extends around a fin or any number of nanowires (or nanoribbons or nanosheets, as the case may be) of semiconductor material. The semiconductor material may extend in a first direction between source and drain regions while the gate structure extends over the semiconductor material in a second direction. Airgaps are provided in the regions between the gate structures and the adjacent source/drain contacts. The airgaps have a low dielectric constant (e.g., around 1.0) to reduce the parasitic capacitance between the conductive structures.
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公开(公告)号:US20240321887A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-26
申请号:US18187801
申请日:2023-03-22
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Tao Chu , Yanbin Luo , Yusung Kim , Minwoo Jang , Paul Packan , Guowei Xu , Chiao-Ti Huang , Robin Chao , Feng Zhang , Yang Zhang , Zheng Guo
IPC: H01L27/092 , H01L29/49
CPC classification number: H01L27/0922 , H01L29/4966
Abstract: An IC device may have layout with reduced N-P boundary effect. The IC device may include two rows of transistors. The first row may include one or more P-type transistors. The second row may include N-type transistors. The gate electrode of a P-type transistor may include different conductive materials from the gate electrode of a N-type transistor. Each P-type transistor in the first row may be over a N-type transistor in the second row and contact the N-type transistor in the second row. For instance, the gate of the P-type transistor may contact the gate of the N-type transistor. Vacancy diffusion may occur at the boundary of the P-type transistor and the N-type transistor, causing N-P boundary effect. At least one or more other N-type transistors in the second row do not contact any P-type transistor, which can mitigate the N-P boundary effect in the IC device.
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公开(公告)号:US20240321859A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-26
申请号:US18187782
申请日:2023-03-22
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Tao Chu , Minwoo Jang , Yanbin Luo , Paul Packan , Guowei Xu , Chiao-Ti Huang , Robin Chao , Feng Zhang , Anand S. Murthy , Tahir Ghani
IPC: H01L27/02 , H01L27/088
CPC classification number: H01L27/0207 , H01L27/088
Abstract: An IC device may include an array of transistors. The transistors may have separate gate electrodes. A gate electrode may include polysilicon. The gate electrodes may be separated from each other by one or more electrical insulators. The separated gate electrodes have shorter lengths, compared with connected gate electrodes, which can optimize the performance of the IC device due to local layout effect. Also, the IC device may include conductive structures crossing the support structures of multiple transistors. Such conductive structures may cause strain in the IC device, which can boost the local layout effect. The conductive structures may be insulated from a power plane. Alternatively or additionally, the IC device may include dielectric structures, which may be formed by removing gate electrodes in some of the transistors and providing a dielectric material into the openings. The presence of the dielectric structures can further boost the local layout effect.
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公开(公告)号:US20240304621A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-12
申请号:US18181598
申请日:2023-03-10
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Chiao-Ti Huang , Tao Chu , Robin Chao , Guowei Xu , Feng Zhang , Biswajeet Guha , Stephen M. Cea
IPC: H01L27/092 , H01L21/8238 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/66 , H01L29/775
CPC classification number: H01L27/092 , H01L21/823807 , H01L29/0673 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/66439 , H01L29/775
Abstract: Fabrication method for nanoribbon-based transistors and associated transistor arrangements, IC structures, and devices are disclosed. An example fabrication method is based on patterning a foundation over which a superlattice is provided so that a single superlattice may be used to form both PMOS and NMOS stacks of nanoribbons. An example IC structure includes a support, an NMOS stack of nanoribbons stacked vertically above one another over the support, and a PMOS stack of nanoribbons stacked vertically above one another over the support, wherein at least one of the nanoribbons of the NMOS stack is vertically offset with respect to at least one of the nanoribbons of the PMOS stack.
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