摘要:
A grooved planar DRAM transfer device having a grooved gate formed in a groove in a substrate located between source and drain regions. The grooved gate has sidewall portions and a bottom portion which defines a channel therealong. The bottom portion includes a doped pocket such that the threshold voltage Vt on the bottom portion is substantially less than Vt on the sidewall portions, such that the sidewall portions predominantly control electric current through the device.
摘要:
A process for fabricating a semiconductor device. In an exemplary embodiment, the process includes the following steps. The process initially defines a first registration mark associated with a first mask level of the semiconductor device and a second registration mark associated with a second mask level of the semiconductor device. The process then defines a third registration mark associated with a third mask level of the semiconductor device based on the first and second registration marks. Finally, the process aligns the third mask level along a first axis with respect to the first registration mark, and aligns the third mask level along a second axis with respect to the second registration mark. According to various aspects of the invention, the semiconductor fabrication process is used to fabricate DRAM trench cells, or any other type of semiconductor device whose fabrication requires tight overlay alignment between the various levels of the device.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for providing patterned recess formation in a previously recessed area of a semiconductor structure, i.e. DRAM trench capacitor, using acid diffusion to selectively activate some, but not all of the acid sensitive material that is filled within the recessed areas of such structures. By employing the method of the present invention, it is possible to recess all the previously recessed areas at the same time providing the same level of recessed acid sensitive material within the previous recessed areas, recess some of the previously recessed areas to a desired level leaving other portions of the structure unrecessed, or recessing the previously recessed areas to contain different levels of the acid sensitive material.
摘要:
A bottle-shaped trench capacitor with a buried plate is formed in a controlled etch process. The bottle-shape is fabricated by etching deep trenches from a layered substrate, using the layers as a mask, and covering the side walls of the substrate with protective oxide and nitride layers. With the side walls covered, deep trench etching is then resumed, and a lower trench portion, below the protective layers of the side wall are formed. By diffusing a first dopant in the lower portion of the deep trench region, using the side wall protective layers as a mask, an etch stop is established for a wet etch process at the p/n junction established by the first dopant. The width of the lower trench portion is regulated by the time and temperature of the diffusion. Removing the doped material and applying a second dopant to the lower trench portion establishes a continuous buried plate region between trenches. A capacitor is formed by applying an insulating layer to the trench and filling with a conductor.
摘要:
A grooved planar DRAM transfer device having a grooved gate formed in a groove in a substrate located between source and drain regions. The grooved gate has sidewall portions and a bottom portion which defines a channel therealong. The bottom portion includes a doped pocket such that the threshold voltage Vt on the bottom portion is substantially less than Vt on the sidewall portions, such that the sidewall portions predominantly control electric current through the device.
摘要:
A semiconductor on insulator substrate and a method of fabricating the substrate. The substrate including: a first crystalline semiconductor layer and a second crystalline semiconductor layer; and an insulating layer bonding a bottom surface of the first crystalline semiconductor layer to a top surface of the second crystalline semiconductor layer, a first crystal direction of the first crystalline semiconductor layer aligned relative to a second crystal direction of the second crystalline semiconductor layer, the first crystal direction different from the second crystal direction.
摘要:
A finFET structure includes a semiconductor fin located over a substrate. A gate electrode is located traversing the semiconductor fin. The gate electrode has a spacer layer located adjoining a sidewall thereof. The spacer layer does not cover completely a sidewall of the semiconductor fin. The gate electrode and the spacer layer may be formed using a vapor deposition method that provides for selective deposition upon a sidewall of a mandrel layer but not upon an adjoining surface of the substrate, so that the spacer layer does not cover completely the sidewall of the semiconductor fin. Other microelectronic structures may be fabricated using the lateral growth methodology.
摘要:
Semiconductor structures and methods for suppressing latch-up in bulk CMOS devices. The semiconductor structure comprises a shaped-modified isolation region that is formed in a trench generally between two doped wells of the substrate in which the bulk CMOS devices are fabricated. The shaped-modified isolation region may comprise a widened dielectric-filled portion of the trench, which may optionally include a nearby damage region, or a narrowed dielectric-filled portion of the trench that partitions a damage region between the two doped wells. Latch-up may also be suppressed by providing a lattice-mismatched layer between the trench base and the dielectric filler in the trench.
摘要:
A well isolation trenches for a CMOS device and the method for forming the same. The CMOS device includes (a) a semiconductor substrate, (b) a P well and an N well in the semiconductor substrate, (c) a well isolation region sandwiched between and in direct physical contact with the P well and the N well. The P well comprises a first shallow trench isolation (STI) region, and the N well comprises a second STI region. A bottom surface of the well isolation region is at a lower level than bottom surfaces of the first and second STI regions. When going from top to bottom of the well isolation region, an area of a horizontal cross section of the well isolation region is an essentially continuous function.
摘要:
An integrated circuit and method for fabrication includes first and second structures, each including a set of sub-lithographic lines, and contact landing segments connected to at least one of the sub-lithographic lines at an end portion. The first and second structures are nested such that the sub-lithographic lines are disposed in a parallel manner within a width, and the contact landing segments of the first structure are disposed on an opposite side of a length of the sub-lithographic lines relative to the contact landing segments of the second structure. The contact landing segments for the first and second structures are included within the width dimension, wherein the width includes a dimension four times a minimum feature size achievable by lithography.