摘要:
A method for making a semiconductor device, includes forming an oxide layer on a silicon substrate, forming a nitride layer over the oxide layer; depositing one of a doped oxide layer and an undoped porous oxide layer on the nitride layer, etching trenches through the one of the doped layer and the undoped porous oxide layer, the nitride layer, and the oxide layer, depositing an undoped oxide layer to fill the trenches, and patterning the undoped oxide by chemical mechanical polishing (CMP).
摘要:
A method of fabricating a vertical field effect transistor (“FET”) is provided which includes a transistor body region and source and drain regions disposed in a single-crystal semiconductor-on-insulator (“SOI”) region of a substrate adjacent a sidewall of a trench. The substrate includes a buried insulator layer underlying the SOI region and a bulk region underlying the buried insulator layer. A buried strap conductively connects the SOI region to a lower node disposed below the SOI region and a body contact extends from the transistor body region to the bulk region of the substrate, the body contact being insulated from the buried strap.
摘要:
Structures including a self-aligned strap for embedded trench memory (e.g., trench capacitor) on hybrid orientation technology (HOT) substrate, and related method, are disclosed. One structure includes a hybrid orientation substrate including a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) section and a bulk semiconductor section; a transistor over the SOI section; a trench capacitor in the bulk semiconductor section; and a self-aligned strap extending from a source/drain region of the transistor to an electrode of the trench capacitor. The method does not require additional masks to generate the strap, results in a self-aligned strap and improved device performance. In one embodiment, the strap is a silicide strap.
摘要:
A method is provided for fabricating a multi-port memory in which a plurality of parallel connected capacitors are in a cell. A plurality of trench capacitors are formed which have capacitor dielectric layers extending along walls of the plurality of trenches, the plurality of trench capacitors having first capacitor plates and second capacitor plates opposite the capacitor dielectric layers from the first capacitor plates. The first capacitor plates are conductively tied together and the second capacitor plates are conductively tied together. In this way, the first capacitor plates are adapted to receive a same variable voltage and the second capacitor plates are adapted to receive a same fixed voltage.
摘要:
A method of forming a memory cell having a trench capacitor and a vertical transistor in a semiconductor substrate includes a step of providing a bonded semiconductor wafer having a lower substrate with an [010] axis parallel to a first wafer axis and an upper semiconductor layer having an [010] axis oriented at forty-five degrees with respect to the wafer axis, the two being connected by a layer of bonding insulator; etching a trench through the upper layer and lower substrate; enlarging the lower portion of the trench and converting the cross section of the upper portion of the trench from octagonal to rectangular, so that sensitivity to alignment errors between the trench lithography and the active area lithography is reduced. An alternative version employs a bonded semiconductor wafer having a lower substrate formed from a (111) crystal structure and the same upper portion. Applications include a vertical transistor that becomes insensitive to misalignment between the trench and the lithographic pattern for the active area, in particular a DRAM cell with a vertical transistor.
摘要:
Structures including a self-aligned strap for embedded trench memory (e.g., trench capacitor) on hybrid orientation technology (HOT) substrate, and related method, are disclosed. One structure includes a hybrid orientation substrate including a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) section and a bulk semiconductor section; a transistor over the SOI section; a trench capacitor in the bulk semiconductor section; and a self-aligned strap extending from a source/drain region of the transistor to an electrode of the trench capacitor. The method does not require additional masks to generate the strap, results in a self-aligned strap and improved device performance. In one embodiment, the strap is a silicide strap.
摘要:
An ultra-thin, scaleable MOSFET transistor and fabrication method are described. The transistor features fully self-aligned, raised source/drain junctions on a thin SOI wafer and exhibits low contact resistance, low gate resistance and good device isolation characteristic. No extra lithographic mask steps are required beyond those required by conventional processes. The transistor is completely “bracketed” or surrounded by STI (shallow trench isolation), providing inherent isolation between it and any other devices on the SOI wafer. Gate sidewall spacers are formed outside of the gate area so that the scalability is limited solely by lithography resolution.
摘要:
A method for forming, and a structure for a semiconductor device having vertically-oriented transistors connected to stacked capacitor cells, wherein a contact area for the capacitors enables a compact cell. A vertically-oriented transistor is formed in a trough in a substrate above a buried bit line. The gate conductor may be formed in the trough above the buried bit line, with source and drain diffusions spaced along a sidewall of the trough. Isolation regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate to isolate the transistors. Word lines are formed above the surface of the semiconductor substrate in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the buried bit lines. A capacitor contact is formed above the surface of the semiconductor substrate at a contact area of an active region between adjacent word lines. The active region is rhomboid in shape, enabling a low capacitor contact resistance, a small bit line and word line pitch, and consequently, a compact capacitor cell.
摘要:
A process of forming a hybrid memory cell which is scalable to a minimum feature size, F, of about 60 nm at an operating voltage of Vblh of about 1.5 V and substantially free of floating-well effects.
摘要:
An improved process for making a vertical MOSFET structure comprising: A method of forming a semiconductor memory cell array structure comprising: providing a vertical MOSFET DRAM cell structure having a deposited gate conductor layer planarized to a top surface of a trench top oxide on the overlying silicon substrate; forming a recess in the gate conductor layer below the top surface of the silicon substrate; implanting N-type dopant species through the recess at an angle to form doping pockets in the array P-well; depositing an oxide layer into the recess and etching said oxide layer to form spacers on sidewalls of the recess; depositing a gate conductor material into said recess and planarizing said gate conductor to said top surface of the trench top oxide.