Method for producing a shallow trench isolation filled with thermal oxide
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    Method for producing a shallow trench isolation filled with thermal oxide 有权
    用于生产填充有热氧化物的浅沟槽隔离体的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06444539B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-09-03

    申请号:US09784892

    申请日:2001-02-15

    IPC分类号: H01L2176

    摘要: A semiconductor apparatus and method for producing shallow trench isolation. The method includes the steps providing a semiconductor substrate member fabricated having a thin barrier oxide layer on which are fabricated a plurality of spaced apart silicon nitride pads. The regions between the spaced apart nitride pads delineate U-shaped regions for forming shallow isolation trenches and are layered with silicon oxide and polysilicon. The U-shaped regions provide a buffer region of oxide and polysilicon material adjacent opposing silicon nitride pads that prevent erosion of the nitride during etch formation of the isolation trench. The polysilicon is further etched to form a wider, second U-shaped region having sloped sidewalls that provide opposing spacer-forming buffer material that facilitates forming a V-shaped isolation trench region into the semiconductor substrate member a predetermined depth without eroding the silicon nitride pads. The V-shaped trench is subsequently filled with silicon dioxide that is grown by a hot thermal oxide process. The upper portion of the V-shaped isolation trench may be further filled with deposited silicon dioxide followed by a chemical mechanical polishing process.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于产生浅沟槽隔离的半导体装置和方法。 该方法包括提供制造具有薄的阻挡氧化物层的半导体衬底构件的步骤,在其上制造多个间隔开的氮化硅衬垫。 间隔开的氮化物衬垫之间的区域划定用于形成浅隔离沟槽的U形区域并且与氧化硅和多晶硅层叠。 U形区域提供邻近相对的氮化硅焊盘的氧化物和多晶硅材料的缓冲区,其在隔离沟槽的蚀刻形成期间防止氮化物的侵蚀。 多晶硅被进一步蚀刻以形成更宽的第二U形区域,其具有倾斜的侧壁,其提供相对的间隔物形成缓冲材料,其有利于在不侵蚀氮化硅焊盘的情况下在半导体衬底构件中形成预定深度的V形隔离沟槽区域 。 随后,V形沟槽填充二氧化硅,二氧化硅通过热的热氧化工艺生长。 V形隔离沟槽的上部可以进一步填充沉积的二氧化硅,随后进行化学机械抛光工艺。