摘要:
This process consists of producing patterns (17) of an insulating material on a monocrystalline silicon substrate (12), depositing on the complete structure an amorphous or polycrystalline silicon film (26), covering the latter with a layer (28) of an encapsulating material, carrying out a heat treatment on the structure obtained serving to vertically embed in substrate (12) the insulating material patterns (17) and forming above the latter a monocrystalline silicon layer (33), eliminating the encapsulating material layer (28) and etching the monocrystalline silicon layer obtained (33), so as to form said islands (34).
摘要:
Process for the production of an oriented monocrystalline silicon film with localized defects on an insulating support.This process consists of covering a monocrystalline silicon support of orientation (100) with a SiO.sub.2 layer, producing in the latter a configuration having in the form of oriented (100) parallel insulating strips, an alternation of overhanging parts and recessed parts carrying out the etching of the SiO.sub.2 layer in order to locally form at the ends of said layer at least one opening, said etching being continued until the substrate is exposed, depositing on the etched SiO.sub.2 layer a silicon film, covering the silicon film with an encapsulating layer, carrying out a heat treatment of the structure obtained in order to recrystallize the silicon film in monocrystalline form with the same orientation as the substrate and eliminating the encapsulating layer.
摘要:
Processes are provided for fabricating a substrate having a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) or silicon-on-nothing (SON) architecture, which are applicable to the manufacture of semiconductor devices, especially transistors such as those of the MOS, CMOS, BICMOS, and HCMOS types. In the fabrication processes, a multilayer stack is grown on a substrate by non-selective full-wafer epitaxy. The multilayer stack includes a silicon layer on a Ge or SiGe layer. Active regions are defined and masked, and insulating pads are formed so as to be located around the perimeter of each of the active regions at predetermined intervals and placed against the sidewalls of the active regions. The insulating trenches are etched, and the SiGe or Ge layer is laterally etched so as to form an empty tunnel under the silicon layer. The trenches are filled with a dielectric. In the case of an SOI archiutecture, the tunnel is filled with a dielectric.
摘要:
Method for cleaning, with plasma, the surface of a substrate before another treatment, consisting:in a first cleaning step, in negatively polarizing the substrate and in subjecting it to an argon plasma, andin a second cleaning step, in subjecting the pretreated substrate to a hydrogen plasma, in order to ensure an efficient cleaning of the surface of the substrate.Application to the prior cleaning of a silicon substrate intended to receive an epitaxy.
摘要:
A transistor including a germanium-rich channel. The germanium-rich channel is produced by oxidation of the silicon contained in the silicon-germanium intermediate layer starting from the lower surface of the said intermediate layer. The germanium atoms are therefore caused to migrate towards the upper surface of the silicon-germanium intermediate layer, and are stopped by the gate insulating layer. The migration of the atoms during the oxidation step is thus less prejudicial to the performance of the transistor, since the gate insulator of the transistor has already been produced and is not modified during this step. The migration of the germanium atoms towards the gate insulator, which is immobile, leads to a limitation of the surface defects between the channel and the insulator.
摘要:
A method for forming a single-crystal semiconductor layer portion above a hollowed area, including growing by selective epitaxy on an active single-crystal semiconductor region a sacrificial single-crystal semiconductor layer and a single-crystal semiconductor layer, and removing the sacrificial layer. The epitaxial growth is performed while the active region is surrounded with a raised insulating layer and the removal of the sacrificial single-crystal semiconductor layer is performed through an access resulting from an at least partial removal of the raised insulating layer.
摘要:
A non-volatile memory includes a floating gate extending in a substrate between source and drain regions. A channel region may be confined by two insulating layers. The invention is particularly applicable to EPROM, EEPROM, Flash and single-electron memories using CMOS technology.
摘要:
A capacitor integrated on a silicon substrate includes a first electrode made of highly doped polysilicon, a thin silicon oxide layer, a second electrode made of polysilicon and a silicide layer covering the second electrode. The second electrode has a high dopant concentration at its interface with the silicon oxide layer and a low or medium dopant concentration at its interface with the silicide layer.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of formation of an Si.sub.1-x Ge.sub.x MOS transistor gate where x is higher than 50%, on an silicon oxide gate insulator layer, consisting of depositing an Si.sub.1-y Ge.sub.y layer of thickness lower than 10 nm, where 0 50%. The desired thickness ranges, for example, between 20 nm and 200 nm. x and z range, for example, between 80% and 90%.
摘要:
Silicon-based single-crystal portions are produced on a surface of a substrate, selectively in zones where a single-crystal material is initially exposed. To do this, a layer is firstly formed over the entire surface of the substrate, using a silicon precursor of the non-chlorinated hydride type, and under suitable conditions so that the layer is a single-crystal layer in the zones of the substrate where a single-crystal material is initially exposed and amorphous outside these zones. The amorphous portions of the layer are then selectively etched so that only the single-crystal portions of the layer remain on the substrate.