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公开(公告)号:US20250096114A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-20
申请号:US18469810
申请日:2023-09-19
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Robin Chao , Chiao-Ti Huang , Guowei Xu , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Tao Chu , Feng Zhang , Chia-Ching Lin , Yang Zhang , Anand Murthy , Conor P. Puls
IPC: H01L23/522 , H01L23/528
Abstract: Techniques to form semiconductor devices can include one or more via structures having substrate taps. A semiconductor device includes a gate structure around or otherwise on a semiconductor region (or channel region). The gate structure may extend over the semiconductor regions of any number of devices along a given direction. The gate structure may be interrupted, for example, between two transistors with a via structure that extends through an entire thickness of the gate structure and includes a conductive core. The via structure has a conductive foot portion beneath the gate structure and a conductive arm portion extending from the conductive foot portion along a height of the gate structure. The conductive foot portion has a greater width along the given direction than any part of the conductive arm portion. The via structure may further include one or more dielectric layers between the conductive arm portion and the gate structure.
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公开(公告)号:US20250006734A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-02
申请号:US18216493
申请日:2023-06-29
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 , Chung-Hsun Lin
IPC: H01L27/092 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/10 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/78
Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a stripe of material perpendicular to, and spanning between, semiconductor structures with multiple widths, and the stripe is between transistors with channel regions of differing widths in the semiconductor structures. The material stripes cover transition portions between different widths of the semiconductor structures. The semiconductor structures may be channel structures of different types, including groups of fins or nanoribbons. Channel regions of differing widths may include more or fewer fins or narrower or wider nanoribbons. The channel regions may have alternating conductivity types, n- and p-type.
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公开(公告)号:US20240088265A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US17940194
申请日:2022-09-08
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Tao Chu , Guowei Xu , Feng Zhang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Chia-Ching Lin
IPC: H01L29/66 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/786
CPC classification number: H01L29/6656 , H01L29/0669 , H01L29/78618
Abstract: Techniques are provided herein to form semiconductor devices having epitaxial growth laterally extending between inner spacer structures to mitigate issues caused by the inner spacer structures either being too thick or too thin. A directional etch is performed along the side of a multilayer fin to create a relatively narrow opening for a source or drain region to increase the usable fin space for forming the inner spacer structures. After the inner spacer structures are formed around ends of the semiconductor layers within the fin, the exposed ends of the semiconductor layers are laterally recessed inwards from the outermost sidewalls of the inner spacer structures. Accordingly, the epitaxial source or drain region is grown from the recessed semiconductor ends and thus fills in the recessed regions between the spacer structures.
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公开(公告)号:US20250107156A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-27
申请号:US18471710
申请日:2023-09-21
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Chiao-Ti Huang , Robin Chao , Jaladhi Mehta , Tao Chu , Guowei Xu , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Feng Zhang , Yang Zhang , Chia-Ching Lin , Chung-Hsun Lin , Anand Murthy
IPC: H01L29/786 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/417 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/51 , H01L29/66
Abstract: Techniques are provided herein to form an integrated circuit having dielectric material formed in cavities beneath source or drain regions. The cavities may be formed within subfin portions of semiconductor devices. In one such example, a FET (field effect transistor) includes a gate structure extending around a fin or any number of nanowires 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 substantially orthogonal to the first direction. A dielectric fill may be formed in a recess beneath the source or drain regions, or a dielectric liner may be formed on sidewalls of the recess, to prevent epitaxial growth of the source or drain regions from the subfins. Removal of the semiconductor subfin from the backside may then be performed without causing damage to the source or drain regions.
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公开(公告)号:US20250089310A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-13
申请号:US18466246
申请日:2023-09-13
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Ting-Hsiang Hung , Yang Zhang , Robin Chao , Guowei Xu , Tao Chu , Chiao-Ti Huang , Feng Zhang , Chia-Ching Lin , Anand Murthy
IPC: H01L29/06 , H01L27/092 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/778 , H01L29/786
Abstract: Techniques are provided to form semiconductor devices that include through-gate structures (e.g., gate cut structures or conductive via structures) that have an airgap spacer between the structure and the adjacent gate electrode. In an example, a semiconductor device includes a gate structure around or otherwise on a semiconductor region (or channel region) that extends from a first source or drain region to a second source or drain region. A through-gate structure may extend in a third direction through an entire thickness of the gate structure and adjacent to the semiconductor region along the second direction. The through-gate structure may be a dielectric structure (e.g., a gate cut) or a conductive structure (e.g., a via). In either case, an airgap spacer exists between the through-gate structure and the gate structure.
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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: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:US20240105718A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-28
申请号:US17934251
申请日:2022-09-22
Applicant: Intel Corporation
Inventor: Tao Chu , Guowei Xu , Minwoo Jang , Yanbin Luo , Feng Zhang , Ting-Hsiang Hung , Chia-Ching Lin
IPC: H01L27/088 , H01L21/8234 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/778 , H01L29/786
CPC classification number: H01L27/0886 , H01L21/823412 , H01L21/823418 , H01L29/0673 , H01L29/0847 , H01L29/778 , H01L29/78696
Abstract: Methods for fabricating an integrated circuit (IC) device with a protection liner between doped semiconductor regions are provided. An example IC device includes a channel material having a first face and a second face opposite the first face, a first doped region and a second doped region in the channel material, extending from the second face towards the first face by a first distance; and an insulator structure in a portion of the channel material between the first and second doped regions, the insulator structure extending from the second face towards the first face by a second distance greater than the first distance. The insulator structure includes a first portion between the second face and the first distance and a second portion between first distance and the second distance. The insulator structure includes a liner material on sidewalls of the first portion but absent on sidewalls of the second portion.
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