摘要:
Disclosed are methods for reducing the degree of underetching and particulate contamination occurring during dry non-isotropic etching of a polycide layer on the surface of a silicon wafer maintained in a wafer holder wherein the backside of the holder is cooled with a stream of helium gas. Specifically, in the disclosed methods, dry non-isotropic etching of the polycide layer is conducted either in the absence of backside cooling or the helium gas flow utilized in backside cooling is maintained at a pressure of no more than 3 torr.
摘要:
A fine pattern formation using an electron beam induced resist, and use of the resist in making semiconductor devices are disclosed. Collimated electron beam is irradiated and scanned along a desired pattern on a layer on which a resist layer of a desired pattern is deposited under an atmosphere containing a starting material layer for the resist. The resist thus deposited is partially removed by reactive ion etching to remove the skirt like portion of the resist layer, or totally removed by reactive ion etching during or after processing by using the resist layer as a processing mask. Since the resist layer width is determined by a diameter of the collimated electron beam, line width of less than hundred .ANG. can be directly drawn. There are also disclosed processes using the resist layer in manufacturing semiconductor devices.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a portion of a monocrystalline silicon layer protruded from a surface of an insulating member is polished up to the surface by a chemical-mechanical polishing is disclosed. A polycrystalline silicon layer and a leveling material are formed in sequence on the protruded portion of the monocrystalline silicon layer and on an exposed part of the surface of the insulating member, and a reactive ion etching and the chemical-mechanical polishing are carried out.
摘要:
Methods for reducing linewidths of Field Effect Transistors (FETs) and making FETs with 0.5 to 0.15 .mu.m effective gate lengths are used separately or in a combined process sequence, that combines enhancement/depletion mode and microwave Metal-Semiconductors FETs (MESFETs) on the same GaAs chip. Photoresist linewidths are used to form dummy or substitutional gates using optical lithography with no deliberate overexposures. The dummy gate may be used as a mask for N+ implantation. The photoresist linewidth is then reduced in its lateral basewidth while preserving its height to basewidth aspect ratio in an isotropic oxygen plasma etch. A nonconformal dielectric film of silicon monoxide is deposited over the photoresist linewidth patterns. Dielectric reverse liftoff of the SiO pattern transfer dielectric provides a self-aligned stencil mask with respect to the N+/N- interfaces. The SiO stencil is also a dielectric spacer with respect to the N+/N- interfaces. The implantation profile's spatial variation with respect to the dielectric spacer dimension can be engineered to fabricate a lightly doped drain (LDD) MESFET. Finally, a Microwave Enhancement Depletion Integrated Circuit (MEDIC) process sequence mixes low threshold voltage digital MESFETs with higher threshold voltage microwave MESFETs.
摘要:
A process for manufacturing GaAs FET's having refractory metal gates provides for reducing the size of the gate relative to a mask by an etch sequence which results in precisely controlled and repeatable self-limited undercutting of the mask. A reactive ion etch of the refractory metal in a CF.sub.4 O.sub.2 plasma containing an inert gas provides the self-limiting undercut at a pressure in the range of 175-250 mTorr when the power is less than 0.15 W/cm.sup.2. Preceeding the undercut, an anisotropic RIE in a CF.sub.4 plasma can be employed to clear unmasked areas of the refractory metal and an initial sputter cleaning in argon improves the quality of the initial etch.
摘要翻译:用于制造具有难熔金属栅极的GaAs FET的工艺提供了通过蚀刻序列来减小栅极相对于掩模的尺寸,这导致了掩模的精确控制和可重复的自限制底切。 含有惰性气体的CF4O2等离子体中的难熔金属的反应离子蚀刻在功率小于0.15W / cm 2时在175-250mTorr的压力下提供自限制底切。 在底切之前,可以使用CF4等离子体中的各向异性RIE来清除难熔金属的未掩蔽区域,并且在氩气中的初始溅射清洗改善了初始蚀刻的质量。
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of producing a compound semiconductor device comprising an enhancement-mode transistor and a depletion-mode transistor, each of which has a heterojunction and utilizes a two-dimensional electron gas. The method of producing the device comprises the steps of: forming an undoped GaAs channel layer on a semi-insulating GaAs substrate; forming an N-type AlGaAs electron-supply layer so as to form the heterojunction; forming an N-type GaAs layer; forming an AlGaAs layer; selectively etching the AlGaAs layer to form a recess; performing an etching treatment using an etchant which can etch rapidly GaAs and etch slowly AlGaAs to form simultaneously grooves for gate electrodes of the enhancement-mode transistor and the depletion-mode transistor, the bottoms of the grooves being in the N-type AlGaAs layer and the distance between the bottoms being equal to the thickness of the AlGaAs layer; and forming simultaneously the gate electrodes in the grooves.
摘要:
An MOS structure and a method for making same, including the formation of el-shaped shielding members used to form one or more lightly doped drain regions to avoid short channel and punch-through problems is disclosed which comprises forming a shielding layer of an insulating material over a gate electrode on a substrate; forming another layer of a dissimilar material over the shielding layer; anisotropically etching the layer of dissimilar material to form spacer portions adjacent the sidewalls of the gate electrode; removing the portions of the shielding layer not masked by the spacer portions, leaving one or more el-shaped shielding members; removing the spacer portions; N+ or P+ implanting the substrate at a sufficiently low energy to prevent penetration of the dopant through the el-shaped shielding member to form a highly doped source/drain region in the substrate not shielded by the el-shaped shielding member or the gate electrode; N- or P- implanting the substrate at a sufficiently high energy to penetrate through the el-shaped shielding member to form a lightly doped source/drain region in the portion of the substrate adjacent the P+ or N+ source/drain regions and separating the channel region of the substrate beneath the gate electrode from the P+ or N+ source/drain region.
摘要:
The gate electrode in an inverted field effect transistor (FET) is fabricated with titanium to provide an FET which is particularly suitable for use as the switching element in a matrix addressed liquid crystal display. More particularly, the resist employed in gate electrode patterning is plasma ashed in an oxygen atmosphere to toughen the titanium gate material and render it more amenable to subsequent processing steps.
摘要:
An improved bipolar transistor structure formed in a very small area of a thin epitaxial layer on a planar surface of a silicon substrate of first conductivity type, said very small area of the thin epitaxial layer having vertical sidewalls extending to the planar surface of said substrate, said area of thin epitaxial layers containing in the order recited a shallow depth emitter region of a second conductivity type having an exposed planar surface, a shallow depth base region of said first conductivity type, and a shallow depth active collector region of said second conductivity type, an elongated region of said first conductivity type surrounding said emitter, base and active collector regions, said elongated region being contained within and coextensive with said vertical sidewalls of said small area of said thin epitaxial layer, whereby the base collector capacitance is materially reduced due to the very small area of the base-collector junction. Also disclosed is a process and alternative process, for fabricating an improved bipolar transistor structure.
摘要:
A method for forming a narrow dimensioned, for example, submicron, region on a silicon body that involves forming on the silicon body regions having substantially horizontal surfaces and substantially vertical surfaces. A layer of a very narrow dimension is formed both on the substantially horizontal and substantially vertical surfaces. Reactive ion etching is applied to the layer to substantially remove the horizontal layer while leaving the vertical layer substantially intact. The vertical layer dimension is adjusted depending upon the original thickness of the layer applied.