Abstract:
A double gate metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a fin, a first gate and a second gate. The first gate is formed on top of the fin. The second gate surrounds the fin and the first gate. In another implementation, a triple gate MOSFET includes a fin, a first gate, a second gate, and a third gate. The first gate is formed on top of the fin. The second gate is formed adjacent the fin. The third gate is formed adjacent the fin and opposite the second gate.
Abstract:
A method for doping fin structures in FinFET devices includes forming a first glass layer on the fin structure of a first area and a second area. The method further includes removing the first glass layer from the second area, forming a second glass layer on the fin structure of the first area and the second area, and annealing the first area and the second area to dope the fin structures.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and an insulating layer on the substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a fin structure formed on the insulating layer, where the fin structure includes first and second side surfaces, a dielectric layer formed on the first and second side surfaces of the fin structure, a first gate electrode formed adjacent the dielectric layer on the first side surface of the fin structure, a second gate electrode formed adjacent the dielectric layer on the second side surface of the fin structure, and a doped structure formed on an upper surface of the fin structure in the channel region of the semiconductor device.
Abstract:
A method of forming fins for a double-gate fin field effect transistor (FinFET) includes forming a second layer of semi-conducting material over a first layer of semi-conducting material and forming double caps in the second layer of semi-conducting material. The method further includes forming spacers adjacent sides of each of the double caps and forming double fins in the first layer of semi-conducting material beneath the double caps. The method also includes thinning the double fins to produce narrow double fins.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first gate stack and a second gate stack, each gate stack corresponding to a gate of a FET formed on the semiconductor device. The first gate stack includes a gate material formed from one of poly-silicon, poly-SiGe, and amorphous silicon. The gate material is implanted with a dopant of a first conductivity type at a first concentration. A metal silicide layer is formed over the doped gate material. The second gate stack includes a gate material formed from one of poly-silicon, poly-Si—Ge, and amorphous silicon. The gate material of the second gate stack is implanted with a dopant of a second conductivity type at a second concentration.
Abstract:
A field effect transistor (FET) is formed on a silicon substrate, with a nitride gate insulator layer being deposited on the substrate and an oxide gate insulator layer being deposited on the nitride layer to insulate a gate electrode from source and drain regions in the substrate. The gate material is then removed to establish a gate void, and spacers are deposited on the sides of the void such that only a portion of the oxide layer is covered by the spacers. Then, the unshielded portion of the oxide layer is removed, thus establishing a step between the oxide and nitride layers that overlays the source and drain extensions under the gate void to reduce subsequent capacitive coupling and charge carrier tunneling between the gate and the extensions. The spacers are removed and the gate void is refilled with gate electrode material.
Abstract:
A method of performing tilted implantation for pocket, halo and source/drain extensions in ULSI dense structures. The method overcomes the process limit, due to shadowing effects, in dense structures, of using large angle tilted implant techniques in ULSI circuits. A gate opening in an oxide layer is defined and partially filled by insertion of nitride spacers to define an actual gate window opening. The small angle tilted implant technique has the equivalent doping effect of large angle tilted implants, and circumvents the maximum angle limit (&thgr;MAX) that occurs in the large angle implant method. The small angle tilted implant technique also automatically provides self alignment of the pocket/halo/extension implant to the gate of the device.
Abstract:
A method for forming fin structures for a semiconductor device that includes a substrate and a dielectric layer formed on the substrate is provided. The method includes etching the dielectric layer to form a first structure, depositing an amorphous silicon layer over the first structure, and etching the amorphous silicon layer to form second and third fin structures adjacent first and second side surfaces of the first structure. The second and third fin structures may include amorphous silicon material. The method further includes depositing a metal layer on upper surfaces of the second and third fin structures, performing a metal-induced crystallization operation to convert the amorphous silicon material of the second and third fin structures to a crystalline silicon material, and removing the first structure.
Abstract:
A non-volatile memory device includes a substrate, an insulating layer, a fin, an oxide layer, spacers and one or more control gates. The insulating layer is formed on the substrate and the fin is formed on the insulating layer. The oxide layer is formed on the fin and acts as a tunnel oxide for the memory device. The spacers are formed adjacent the side surfaces of the fin and the control gates are formed adjacent the spacers. The spacers act as floating gate electrodes for the non-volatile memory device.
Abstract:
A MOS transistor having a source and drain extension that are less than 40 nanometers in thickness to minimize the short channel effect. A gate includes a high-K dielectric spacer layer to create depletion regions in the substrate which form the drain and source extensions.