Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods of forming non-volatile storage. An opening may be etched through a stack of two alternating materials to a semiconductor substrate. A silicon nitride film may be formed on a vertical sidewall of the opening. The semiconductor substrate may be cleaned to remove oxide from the semiconductor substrate. The silicon nitride film protects the materials in the stack while cleaning the semiconductor substrate. The silicon nitride film may be converted to an oxide after cleaning the semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor region may be formed in contact with the cleaned semiconductor substrate. A memory cell film may be formed over the oxide in the opening. Control gates may be formed by replacing one of the materials in the stack with a conductive material. The oxide may serve as a blocking layer between the control gates and charge storage regions in the memory cell film.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for fabricating nanowire transistors using directional selective etching. Generally, a selective wet etch employing a given etchant can be used to remove at least one "select material" while not removing other material exposed to the etch (or removing that other material at a relatively slower rate). The techniques described herein expand upon such selective etch processing by including a directional component. A directional selective etch may include a selective etch that only (or primarily) removes the select material in a targeted direction and/or that discriminates against removal of material in a non-targeted direction. For instance, one or more SiGe nanowires can be formed from a stack of alternating sacrificial Si and non-sacrificial SiGe layers, where a directional selective etch removes the sacrificial Si layer(s) in a horizontal direction without adversely affecting exposed sub-channel/sub-fin Si (by using an etchant that discriminates against removing Si in a vertical direction).
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for forming group III-V material transistors employing nitride-based dopant diffusion barrier layers. The techniques can include growing the dilute nitride-based barrier layer as a relatively thin layer of III-V material in the sub-channel (or sub-fin) region of a transistor, near the substrate/III-V material interface, for example. Such a nitride-based barrier layer can be used to trap atoms from the substrate at vacancy sites within the III-V material. Therefore, the barrier layer can arrest substrate atoms from diffusing in an undesired manner by protecting the sub-channel layer from being unintentionally doped due to subsequent processing in the transistor fabrication. In addition, by forming the barrier layer pseudomorphically, the lattice mismatch of the barrier layer with the sub-channel layer in the heterojunction stack becomes insignificant. In some embodiments, the group III-V alloyed with nitrogen (N) material may include an N concentration of less than 5, 2, or 1.5 percent.
Abstract:
An embodiment includes a device comprising: first and second fins adjacent one another and each including channel and subfin layers, the channel layers having bottom surfaces directly contacting upper surfaces of the subfin layers; wherein (a) the bottom surfaces are generally coplanar with one another and are generally flat; (b) the upper surfaces are generally coplanar with one another and are generally flat; and (c) the channel layers include an upper III-V material and the subfin layers include a lower III-V material different from the upper III-V material. Other embodiments are described herein.
Abstract:
A method includes forming a first gate oxide in a first region and in a second region of a wafer. The method further includes performing first processing to form a second gate oxide in the second region. The second gate oxide has a different thickness than the first gate oxide. The method also includes forming first gate material of a first device in the first region and forming second gate material of a second device in the second region. The first device corresponds to a first radio frequency (RF) band and the second device corresponds to a second RF band that is different from the first RF band.
Abstract:
High voltage three-dimensional devices having dielectric liners and methods of forming high voltage three-dimensional devices having dielectric liners are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a first fin active region and a second fin active region disposed above a substrate. A first gate structure is disposed above a top surface of, and along sidewalls of, the first fin active region. The first gate structure includes a first gate dielectric, a first gate electrode, and first spacers. The first gate dielectric is composed of a first dielectric layer disposed on the first fin active region and along sidewalls of the first spacers, and a second, different, dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer and along sidewalls of the first spacers. The semiconductor structure also includes a second gate structure disposed above a top surface of, and along sidewalls of, the second fin active region. The second gate structure includes a second gate dielectric, a second gate electrode, and second spacers. The second gate dielectric is composed of the second dielectric layer disposed on the second fin active region and along sidewalls of the second spacers.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure comprises: a substrate (1100); a plurality of convex structures (1200) formed on the substrate (1100), in which every two adjacent convex structures (1200) are separated by a cavity in a predetermined pattern, and the cavity between every two adjacent convex structures (1200) is less than 50nm in width; a plurality of floated films (1300), in which the floated films (1300) are partitioned into a plurality of sets, a channel layer is formed on a convex structure (1200) between the floated films (1300) in each set, a source region and a drain region are formed on two sides of the channel layer respectively, and the cavity between the every two adjacent convex structures (1200) is filled with an insulating material (2000); and a gate stack (1400) formed on each channel layer.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit containing an extended drain MOS transistor (100) may be formed by forming a drift region implant mask (114) with mask fingers (116) abutting a channel region (108) and extending to the source/channel active area (112), but not extending to a drain contact active area (112). Dopants implanted through the exposed fingers form lateral doping striations in the substrate under the mask fingers. An average doping density of the drift region under the gate is at least 25 percent less than an average doping density of the drift region at the drain contact active area. In one embodiment, the dopants diffuse laterally to form a continuous drift region. In another embodiment, substrate material between lateral doping striations remains an opposite conductivity type from the lateral doping striations.