Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of forming a semiconductor device with multiple tensile stressor layers
- Patent Title (中): 用多个拉伸应力层形成半导体器件的方法
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Application No.: US11744581Application Date: 2007-05-04
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Publication No.: US07678698B2Publication Date: 2010-03-16
- Inventor: Xiangzheng Bo , Tien Ying Luo , Kurt H. Junker , Paul A. Grudowski , Venkat R. Kolagunta
- Applicant: Xiangzheng Bo , Tien Ying Luo , Kurt H. Junker , Paul A. Grudowski , Venkat R. Kolagunta
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agent Robert L. King; David G. Dolezal
- Main IPC: H01L21/44
- IPC: H01L21/44

Abstract:
A semiconductor device has at least two tensile stressor layers that are cured with UV radiation. A second tensile stressor layer is formed after a first stressor layer. In some examples, the tensile stressor layers include silicon nitride and hydrogen. In some examples, the second tensile stressor layer has a greater shrinkage percentage due to the curing than the first tensile stressor layer. In one form, the second tensile stressor layer after the curing exerts a greater tensile stress than the first tensile stressor layer. The tensile stressors layers are utilized to improve carrier mobility in an N-channel transistor and thus enhance transistor performance. In one form a single group of overlying tensile stressor layers is provided with each layer being increasingly thicker and having increasingly more hydrogen prior to being cured. In other embodiments multiple overlying groups are formed, each group having a similar repeating depth and hydrogen profile.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080272411A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE TENSILE STRESSOR LAYERS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2008-11-06
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