Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Faceted finFET
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Application No.: US15173995Application Date: 2016-06-06
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Publication No.: US09601629B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Mark van Dal , Georgios Vellianitis
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: H01L21/336
- IPC: H01L21/336 ; H01L29/78 ; H01L29/66 ; H01L21/324 ; H01L21/762

Abstract:
Among other things, a semiconductor device comprising one or more faceted surfaces and techniques for forming the semiconductor device are provided. A semiconductor device, such as a finFET, comprises a fin formed on a semiconductor substrate. The fin comprises a source region, a channel, and a drain region. A gate is formed around the channel. A top fin portion of the fin is annealed, such as by a hydrogen annealing process, to create one or more faceted surfaces. For example the top fin portion comprises a first faceted surface formed adjacent to a second faceted surface at an angle greater than 90 degrees relative to the second faceted surface, which results in a reduced sharpness of a corner between the first faceted surface and the second faceted surface. In this way, an electrical field near the corner is substantially uniform to electrical fields induced elsewhere within the fin.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160284850A1 FACETED FINFET Public/Granted day:2016-09-29
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