Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a fin structure. The method includes: forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer sequentially on a substrate; patterning the second and first semiconductor layers to form an initial fin; selectively etching the first semiconductor layer of the initial fin so that the first semiconductor layer has a lateral recess; forming an isolation layer having a portion that fills the lateral recess, wherein the isolation layer, except the portion that fills the lateral recess, has a top surface lower than a top surface of the first semiconductor layer but higher than a bottom surface of the first semiconductor layer, and thus defines a fin above the isolation layer; and forming a gate stack intersecting the fin on the isolation layer.
Abstract:
A FinFET and a method for manufacturing the same. The method of manufacturing a FinFET includes: forming a punch-through stopper layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first semiconductor layer on the punch-through stopper layer; forming source and drain regions in the first semiconductor layer; forming a semiconductor fin from the first semiconductor layer, wherein the source and drain regions are in contact with the semiconductor fin at opposite ends of the semiconductor fin, respectively; and forming a gate stack intersecting the semiconductor fin and including a gate conductor and a gate dielectric interposed between the gate conductor and the semiconductor fin.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The method comprises: providing an SOI substrate (200) comprising, from bottom to top, a base layer (201), a buried insulator layer (202), and a surface active layer (203); forming a gate stack on the substrate; removing the surface active layer (203) on both sides of the gate stack and removing a part of the buried insulator layer (202) to form an opening (240); filling the opening (240) with semiconductor materials so as to form source/drain regions (250). Correspondingly, a semiconductor structure is also disclosed. In the present disclosure, by extending the source/drain region to the buried insulator layer of the substrate, the source/drain series resistance is reduced while not increasing parasitic capacitance between the gate and the source/drain regions.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The method comprises: providing an SOI substrate, which comprises, from top to bottom, an SOI layer (100), a BOX layer (110) and a base layer (130); forming a dummy gate stack on the SOI substrate and an implantation barrier layer on both sides of the dummy gate stack; removing the dummy gate stack to form a gate recess (220); and performing, via the gate recess (220), implantation of stress inducing ions to the semiconductor structure and annealing to form, right below the gate recess (220), a stress inducing region (150) under the BOX layer (110) of the SOI substrate. Accordingly, the present invention further provides a semiconductor structure manufactured according to the above method.
Abstract:
A planarization process is disclosed. The method includes forming a trench in an area of a material layer which has a relatively high loading condition for sputtering. The method further includes sputtering the material layer to make the material layer flat.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a MOSFET, including: performing ion implantation, via a shallow trench surrounding an active region in a semiconductor substrate, into a first sidewall of the active region and into a second sidewall of the active region opposite to the first sidewall to form a first heavily doped region in the first sidewall and a second heavily doped region in the second sidewall; filling the shallow trench with an insulating material, to form a shallow trench isolation; forming a gate stack and an insulating layer on the substrate, wherein the insulating layer surrounds and caps the gate stack; forming openings in the substrate using the shallow trench isolation, the first and second heavily doped regions, and the insulating layer as a hard mask; and epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer with a bottom surface and sidewalls of each of the openings as a seed layer.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a semiconductor fin on a semiconductor substrate. The method further includes forming an interfacial oxide layer on a top surface and sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The method further includes forming a high K gate dielectric layer on the interfacial oxide layer. The method further includes forming a first metal gate layer on the high K gate dielectric layer. The method further includes implanting dopant to the first metal gate layer through conformal doping. The method further includes performing annealing so that the dopants are diffused and accumulated at an upper interface between the high K gate dielectric layer and the first metal gate layer, as well as at a lower interface between the high K gate dielectric layer and the interfacial oxide layer, generating electrical dipoles at the lower interface through interfacial reaction.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a dummy gate in a gate-last process and a dummy gate in a gate-last process are provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate; growing a gate oxide layer on the semiconductor substrate; depositing bottom-layer amorphous silicon on the gate oxide layer; depositing an ONO structured hard mask on the bottom-layer amorphous silicon; depositing top-layer amorphous silicon on the ONO structured hard mask; depositing a hard mask layer on the top-layer amorphous silicon, and trimming the hard mask layer so that the trimmed hard mask layer has a width less than or equal to 22 nm; and etching the top-layer amorphous silicon, the ONO structured hard mask and the bottom-layer amorphous silicon in accordance with the trimmed hard mask layer, and removing the hard mask layer and the top-layer amorphous silicon.
Abstract:
Methods of manufacturing stacked nanowires MOS transistors are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes forming a plurality of fins along a first direction on a substrate. The method also includes forming stack of nanowires constituted of a plurality of nanowires in each of the fins. The method also includes forming a gate stack along a second direction in the stack of nanowires, the gate stack surrounding the stack of nanowires. The method also includes forming source/drain regions at both sides of the gate stack, the nanowires between the respective source/drain regions constituting a channel region. A stack of nanowires may be formed by a plurality of etching back, laterally etching a trench and filling the trench. The laterally etching process includes isotropic dry etching having an internally tangent and lateral etching, and a wet etching which selectively etches along respective crystallographic directions.
Abstract:
A FinFET with reduced leakage between source and drain regions, and a method for manufacturing the FinFET are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes forming, on a semiconductor substrate, at least two openings to define a semiconductor fin. The method also includes forming a gate dielectric layer that conformally covers the fin and the openings. The method also includes forming, within the openings, a first gate conductor adjacent to the bottom of the fin. The method also includes forming, within the openings, an insulating isolation layer on the first gate conductor. The method also includes forming a second gate conductor on the fin and on the insulating isolation layer adjacent to the top of the fin. The method also includes forming spacers on sidewalls of the second gate conductor. The method also includes forming a source region and a drain region in the fin.