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Expitaxial substitutional solid solutions of silicon carbon (101 ) can be obtained by an ultra-fast anneal of an amorphous carbon-containing silicon material. The anneal is performed at a temperature above the recrystallization point, but below the melting point of the material and preferably lasts for less than 100 milliseconds in this temperature regime. The anneal is preferably a flash anneal or laser anneal. This approach is able to produce epitaxial silicon and carbon-containing materials (101 ) with a substantial portion of the carbon atoms at substitutional lattice positions. The approach is especially useful in CMOS processes and other electronic device manufacture where the presence of epitaxial Si1-yCy, y
Abstract:
The present invention provides a strained-Si structure, in which the nFET regions of the structure are strained in tension and the pFET regions of the structure are strained in compression. Broadly the strained-Si structure comprises a substrate; a first layered stack atop the substrate, the first layered stack comprising a compressive dielectric layer atop the substrate and a first semiconducting layer atop the compressive dielectric layer, wherein the compressive dielectric layer transfers tensile stresses to the first semiconducting layer, and a second layered stack atop the substrate, the second layered stack comprising an tensile dielectric layer atop the substrate and a second semiconducting layer atop the tensile dielectric layer, wherein the tensile dielectric layer transfers compressive stresses to the second semiconducting layer. The tensile dielectric layer and the compressive dielectric layer preferably comprise nitride, such as Si 3 N 4 .
Abstract translation:本发明提供一种应变Si结构,其中该结构的nFET区域被拉紧并且该结构的pFET区域被压缩而变形。 广义上,应变Si结构包括基底; 所述第一层叠堆叠包括位于所述衬底顶部的压缩介电层和位于所述压缩介电层顶部的第一半导体层,其中所述压缩介电层将拉伸应力传递到所述第一半导体层,以及第二层叠堆叠 所述第二层叠堆叠包括位于所述衬底顶部的拉伸电介质层和位于所述拉伸介电层顶部的第二半导体层,其中所述拉伸介电层将压缩应力传递到所述第二半导体层。 拉伸介电层和压电介电层优选包括氮化物,例如Si 3 N 4 N 4。
Abstract:
A method for forming an oxide of substantially uniform thickness on at least two crystallographic planes of silicon, in accordance with the present invention, includes providing a substrate (step 100) where surfaces have at least two different crystallographic orientations of the silicon crystal (step 102). Atomic oxygen (O) is formed for oxidizing the surfaces (step 106). An oxide is formed (step 108) on the surfaces by reacting the atomic oxygen with the surfaces to simultaneously form a substantially uniform thickness of the oxide on the surfaces.
Abstract:
A low-GIRL current MOSFET device (90) structure and a method of fabrication thereof which provides a low-GIRL current. The MOSFET device structure contains a central gate conductor (10) whose edges may slightly overlap the source/drain diffusions (88, 88), and left and right side wing gate conductors (70,70) which are separated from the central gate conductor by a thin insulating and diffusion barrier layer (50, 52).
Abstract:
While embedded silicon germanium alloy and silicon carbon alloy provide many useful applications, especially for enhancing the mobility of MOSFETs through stress engineering, formation of alloyed suicide on these surfaces degrades device performance. The present invention provides structures and methods for providing unalloyed suicide on such silicon alloy surfaces placed on semiconductor substrates. This enables the formation of low resistance contacts for both mobility enhanced PFETs with embedded SiGe and mobility enhanced NFETs with embedded Si:C on the same semiconductor substrate. Furthermore, this invention provides methods for thick epitaxial silicon alloy, especially thick epitaxial Si:C alloy, above the level of the gate dielectric to increase the stress on the channel on the transistor devices.
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A process for forming dual gate oxides of improved oxide thickness uniformity for use in high performance DRAM systems or logic circuits, comprising:a) growing a sacrificial oxide layer on a substrate;b) implanting a dopant through the sacrificial oxide layer;c) implanting a first dosage of nitrogen ions in the absence of a photoresist to form a nitrided silicon layer; d) subjecting the substrate to a rapid thermal anneal for a sufficient time and at a sufficient temperature to allow nitrogen to diffuse to the silicon/oxide interface;e) masking the substrate with a photoresist to define the locations of the thin oxides of the dual gate oxide;f) implanting a second dosage of nitrogen ions through the photoresist;g) stripping the photoresist and the sacrificial oxide layers; and h) growing by oxidation gate oxide layers characterized by improved oxide thickness uniformity in the nitrogen ion implanted areas in the thin and thick oxides.
Abstract:
Semiconductor device designs having a buried power rail (602) with a sloped epitaxy buried contact (1702) are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor FET device includes: at least one gate disposed on a substrate (202); source and drains (906) on opposite sides of the at least one gate, wherein at least one of the source and drains (906) has a sloped surface (1402); a buried power rail (602) embedded in the substrate (202); and a buried contact (1702) that connects the buried power rail (602) to the sloped surface (1402) of the at least one source and drain (906). Sidewall spacers (502) separate the buried power rail (602) from the substrate (202). A top of the sloped surface (1402) of the at least one source and drain (906) is above a top surface of the buried contact (1702).Methods of forming a semiconductor FET device are also provided.
Abstract:
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEM EMPLOYING DIFFUSED SOURCE/DRAIN EXTENSIONSAn integrated circuit system that includes: providing a Pl-ET device including a doped epitaxial layer; and forming a source/drain extension by employing an energy source to diffuse a dopant from the doped epitaxial layer.Fig. 8
Abstract:
The present invention provides a strained-Si structure, in which the nFET regions of the structure are strained in tension and the pFET regions of the structure are strained in compression. Broadly the strained-Si structure comprises a substrate; a first layered stack atop the substrate, the first layered stack comprising a compressive dielectric layer atop the substrate and a first semiconducting layer atop the compressive dielectric layer, wherein the compressive dielectric layer transfers tensile stresses to the first semiconducting layer; and a second layered stack atop the substrate, the second layered stack comprising an tensile dielectric layer atop the substrate and a second semiconducting layer atop the tensile dielectric layer, wherein the tensile dielectric layer transfers compressive stresses to the second semiconducting layer. The tensile dielectric layer and the compressive dielectric layer preferably comprise nitride, such as Si 3 N 4 .
Abstract:
Forming a vertical MOS transistor or making another three-dimensional integrated circuit structure in a silicon wafer exposes planes having at least two different crystallographic orientations. Growing oxide on different crystal planes is inherently at different growth rates because the inter-atomic spacing is different in the different planes. Heating the silicon in a nitrogen-containing ambient to form a thin layer of nitride and then growing the oxide through the thin nitrided layer reduces the difference in oxide thickness to less than 1%.