摘要:
A stressed liner for improving carrier mobility in a transistor and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed. The stressed liner includes an intrinsically stressed conductive film encapsulated between two insulating layers such as silicon nitride, silicon oxide, or oxynitride. The stressed liner may be compressively-stressed or tensile-stressed depending on whether an n-FET or p-FET is required.
摘要:
A first dielectric layer is formed over a PFET gate and an NFET gate, and lithographically patterned to expose a PFET area, while covering an NFET area. Exposed PFET active area is etched and refilled with a SiGe alloy, which applies a uniaxial compressive stress to a PFET channel. A second dielectric layer is formed over the PFET gate and the NFET gate, and lithographically patterned to expose the NFET area, while covering the PFET area. Exposed NFET active area is etched and refilled with a silicon-carbon alloy, which applies a uniaxial tensile stress to an NFET channel. Dopants may be introduced into the SiGe and silicon-carbon regions by in-situ doping or by ion implantation.
摘要:
Source and drain extension regions are selectively removed by a dopant concentration dependent etch or a doping type dependent etch, and an embedded stress-generating material such as SiGe alloy or a Si:C alloy in the source and drain extension regions is grown on a semiconductor substrate. The embedded stress-generating material may be grown only in the source and drain extension regions, or in the source and drain extension regions and in deep source and drain regions. In one embodiment, an etch process that removes doped semiconductor regions of one conductivity type selective to doped semiconductor regions of another conductivity type may be employed. In another embodiment, a dopant concentration dependent etch process that removes doped semiconductor regions irrespective of the conductivity type selective to undoped semiconductor regions may be employed.
摘要:
A first dielectric layer is formed over a PFET gate and an NFET gate, and lithographically patterned to expose a PFET area, while covering an NFET area. Exposed PFET active area is etched and refilled with a SiGe alloy, which applies a uniaxial compressive stress to a PFET channel. A second dielectric layer is formed over the PFET gate and the NFET gate, and lithographically patterned to expose the NFET area, while covering the PFET area. Exposed NFET active area is etched and refilled with a silicon-carbon alloy, which applies a uniaxial tensile stress to an NFET channel. Dopants may be introduced into the SiGe and silicon-carbon regions by in-situ doping or by ion implantation.
摘要:
A method of forming crystalline Si:C in source and drain regions is provided. After formation of shallow trench isolation and gate electrodes of field effect transistors, gate spacers are formed on gate electrodes. Preamorphization implantation is performed in the source and drain regions, followed by carbon implantation. The upper portion of the source and drain regions comprises an amorphous mixture of silicon, germanium, and/or carbon. An anti-reflective layer is deposited to enhance the absorption of a laser beam into the silicon substrate. The laser beam is scanned over the silicon substrate including the upper source and drain region with the amorphous mixture. The energy of the laser beam is controlled so that the temperature of the semiconductor substrate is above the melting temperature of the amorphous mixture but below the glass transition temperature of silicon oxide so that structural integrity of the semiconductor structure is preserved.
摘要:
A method of forming crystalline Si:C in source and drain regions is provided. After formation of shallow trench isolation and gate electrodes of field effect transistors, gate spacers are formed on gate electrodes. Preamorphization implantation is performed in the source and drain regions, followed by carbon implantation. The upper portion of the source and drain regions comprises an amorphous mixture of silicon, germanium, and/or carbon. An anti-reflective layer is deposited to enhance the absorption of a laser beam into the silicon substrate. The laser beam is scanned over the silicon substrate including the upper source and drain region with the amorphous mixture. The energy of the laser beam is controlled so that the temperature of the semiconductor substrate is above the melting temperature of the amorphous mixture but below the glass transition temperature of silicon oxide so that structural integrity of the semiconductor structure is preserved.
摘要:
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of fabricating a semiconducting device that includes providing a substrate including at least one semiconducting region and at least one oxygen source region; forming an oxygen barrier material atop portions of an upper surface of the at least one oxygen region; forming a high-k gate dielectric on the substrate including the at least one semiconducting region, wherein oxygen barrier material separates the high-k gate dielectric from the at least one oxygen source material; and forming a gate conductor atop the high-k gate dielectric.
摘要:
Disclosed is a design structure for an improved semiconductor structure (e.g., a silicon germanium (SiGe) hetero-junction bipolar transistor) having a narrow essentially interstitial-free SIC pedestal with minimal overlap of the extrinsic base. Also, disclosed is a method of forming the transistor which uses laser annealing, as opposed to rapid thermal annealing, of the SIC pedestal to produce both a narrow SIC pedestal and an essentially interstitial-free collector. Thus, the resulting SiGe HBT transistor can be produced with narrower base and collector space-charge regions than can be achieved with conventional technology.
摘要:
A disposable spacer is formed directly on or in close proximity to the sidewalls of a gate electrode and a gate dielectric. The disposable spacer comprises a material that scavenges oxygen such as a metal, a metal nitride, or a semiconductor material having high reactivity with oxygen. The disposable gate spacer absorbs any oxygen during subsequent high temperature processing such as a stress memorization anneal. A metal is deposited over, and reacted with, the gate electrode and source and drain regions to form metal semiconductor alloy regions. The disposable gate spacer is subsequently removed selective to the metal semiconductor alloy regions. A porous or non-porous low-k dielectric material is deposited to provide a low parasitic capacitance between the gate electrode and the source and drain regions. The gate dielectric maintains the original dielectric constant since the disposable gate spacer prevents absorption of additional oxygen during high temperature processes.
摘要:
Disclosed is a design structure for an improved semiconductor structure (e.g., a silicon germanium (SiGe) hetero-junction bipolar transistor) having a narrow essentially interstitial-free SIC pedestal with minimal overlap of the extrinsic base. Also, disclosed is a method of forming the transistor which uses laser annealing, as opposed to rapid thermal annealing, of the SIC pedestal to produce both a narrow SIC pedestal and an essentially interstitial-free collector. Thus, the resulting SiGe HBT transistor can be produced with narrower base and collector space-charge regions than can be achieved with conventional technology.