摘要:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, and, in particular, a technique of electrically isolating a semiconductor element formed on a semiconductor substrate. The method comprises the steps of depositing a silicon oxide layer on the surface of a silicon substrate, for its protection; forming a silicon nitride layer on the silicon oxide layer; selectively eliminating the silicon nitride layer; oxidizing the silicon substrate, with the retained silicon nitride layer being used as a mask, thereby providing an oxide layer; depositing a polycrystalline silicon layer on the oxide layer and the retained acid-resisting layer; oxidizing the polycrystalline silicon layer to provide an insulation layer; eliminating the insulation layer until the silicon nitride layer is exposed; and removing all the silicon nitride layer. The method is capable of enabling the formation of a thick semiconductor element-isolating oxide layer, with a high precision, in a narrow region from which the semiconductor element is to be isolated.
摘要:
A silicon substrate having a silicon dioxide bird's head is provided. A thermal oxide layer is grown on the exposed silicon surface. A layer, e.g., 4000 A.degree., of phosphogermanosilicate glass is deposited on the thermal oxide and on the silicon dioxide bird's head. The structure is heated to 950.degree. C., causing a reflow of the glass which results in a planar surface. The thermal oxide and the phosphogermanosilicate glass are then wet etched at the same rate with a solution of hydrofluoric acid, ammonium fluoride, and deionized water. The wet etch is terminated when the exposed silicon surface is reached, resulting in a smooth surface as defined by the planar reflow surface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
摘要:
A method for trench isolation of a silicon island for device fabrication using only conventional very large scale integration (VLSI) techniques is provided. The combination of the sidewall isolation achieved with the trench isolation and the underlying oxide film create a totally dielectrically isolated structure without the possibility of latch-up between adjacent devices.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device including vertical static induction transistors (SIT) having a first recess between the gate region and the drain (or source) region to reduce the capacitance between both regions and a second recess on an outer surface of the SIT gate to reduce the gate capacitance and a minority carrier storage. The method includes the steps of removing a masking film on the SIT channel region while leaving the masking film at the portions of the gate region and the drain region; forming the first and the second recesses in the channel region; locally oxidizing the exposed channel region; and forming the gate region and the drain region by removing the masking film.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device of the bipolar type of the MOS type or an integration of the two types having high integration and high performance, in which the circuit includes a first device region of which the side surface and entire region of the lower portion of the active region are made of silicon oxide and a second device region of which the side surface and a part of the lower portion of the active region are made of silicon oxide. According to the present invention, a transistor whose bottom portion is opened and a transistor whose bottom portion is not opened can be freely provided on a substrate, thereby dividing the transistors into a transistor to which a voltage can be supplied from the substrate and a transistor to which the voltage can not be supplied from the substrate, so that the wiring which has been conventionally needed can be reduced. In addition, in such transistors which are completely separated, the parasitic effect with the circumference is completely prevented so that excellent characteristics can be provided.
摘要:
A void-free isolated semiconductor substrate is described which contains a pattern of substantially vertically sided trenches within a semiconductor body. The pattern of isolation trenches isolate regions of monocrystalline semiconductor material which may contain active and passive semiconductor devices. A first insulating layer is located upon the sidewalls of the trenches. The base or bottom of the trenches is open to the monocrystalline semiconductor body. An epitaxial layer extending from the base of the trenches fills the pattern of trenches up to a level from the upper surface of the trenches as specified approximately by the equation:y=0.34xwhere y is the distance between the epitaxial layer and the top surface and x is the trench width. The preferred range for the trench width x is about 10 micrometers or less. A polycrystalline silicon layer fills the additional portion of the pattern of trenches above the upper surfaces of the epitaxial layer. A second insulating layer is located on the polycrystalline silicon layer within the trenches for isolation of the pattern of trenches from the ambient. It is the dense epitaxial monocrystalline semiconductor which prevents the formation of voids within the pattern of trenches. The polycrystalline silicon layer above the epitaxial layer completely covers the undesirable sharp faceted structure at the top of the epitaxial semiconductor growth structure.
摘要:
The bird's heads of a local oxidation process are minimized by performing a polishing or grinding step to reduce the height of the bird's head down to a plane using the oxide inhibiting mask of the local oxidation process as a polishing stop.
摘要:
An integrated circuit 14 having an active circuit 19 is formed on a circuit wafer 10. A moat 18 in the field oxide 20 surrounds the active circuit 19. Metallic conductor 30 passes from a location on the active circuit 19 over the moat 18 to a contact area 22. The wafer 10 is covered with a photoshaped silicon nitride layer 18, and a support wafer 40 is secured with adhesive 46 to the circuit side of the circuit wafer 10. The circuit wafer 10 is photoshaped to expose the metallic conductor 30 at the contact area 22, and the contact area 22 is prepared with multiple metal layers 62, 66, 70 for connection to external wiring.
摘要:
This process consists of producing patterns (17) of an insulating material on a monocrystalline silicon substrate (12), depositing on the complete structure an amorphous or polycrystalline silicon film (26), covering the latter with a layer (28) of an encapsulating material, carrying out a heat treatment on the structure obtained serving to vertically embed in substrate (12) the insulating material patterns (17) and forming above the latter a monocrystalline silicon layer (33), eliminating the encapsulating material layer (28) and etching the monocrystalline silicon layer obtained (33), so as to form said islands (34).
摘要:
A method for forming a field isolation structure for a semiconductor device, in which a groove is formed in a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer is formed on the substrate at least in the groove, a glass layer or a silicon layer is formed thereon, and thereafter a high energy beam such as a laser beam is irradiated onto the glass or silicon layer to selectively heat the same thereby to melt or fluidify the layer and let the same flow into the groove is disclosed. A smooth and flat surface is obtained through the above melting process, which also prevents electrical breaks in wiring layers formed thereon. The method is particularly suited to producing small field isolation structures thus improving the integration density of the device.