Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a FinFET including a gate electrode formed so as to cover a channel region of a semiconductor fin, and to provide a method of manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: This semiconductor fin has a crystallographic orientation and a piezoresistance coefficient intrinsic to an axial direction. The gate electrode is formed with an intrinsic stress determined to influence, and preferably optimize, charge carrier mobility within the channel region. For this purpose, the intrinsic stress preferably provides induced axial stresses within the gate electrode and semiconductor fin channel region which complement the piezoresistance coefficient intrinsic to the axial direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor structure using a semiconductor substrate having a channel region, and to provide a manufacturing method thereof. SOLUTION: A gate electrode is arranged on the semiconductor substrate. A spacer is arranged adjacently to a sidewall of the gate electrode. This spacer is formed of a material having a modulus of about 10-50 GPa. The modulus provides enhanced stress within the channel region. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a field-effect transistor whose charge carrier mobility increases by the stress of an electric current channel 22. SOLUTION: The direction of the stress is that in which a current flows (vertical direction). For a PFET device, the stress is compressive stress, while the stress is tensile stress in an NFET device. The stress is produced by a compressive film 34 located in an area 32 under the channel. The compressive film pushes up the channel 22 which bends the channel. In the PFET device, the compressive film is arranged under the edge 31 of the channel (e.g., under a source or drain) which compresses the upper part 22A of the channel. In the NFET device, the compressive film is arranged under the center 40 of the channel (e.g., under the gate) which pulls the upper part 22A of the channel. Therefore, both the NFET device and the PFET device can be strengthened. A method for manufacturing these devices is included. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
An integrated circuit of embodiments of the invention comprises a hybrid orientation substrate (600), comprising first areas having a first crystalline orientation and second areas having a second crystalline orientation. The first crystalline orientation of the first areas is not parallel or perpendicular to the second crystalline orientation of the second areas. The integrated circuit further comprises first type devices (620) on the first areas and second type devices (630) on the second areas, wherein the first type devices (620) are parallel or perpendicular to the second type devices (630), and the first type devices (620) comprise a first current flow (621) and a second current flow (622) orthogonal to each other, wherein the carrier mobilities of the first (621) and second (622) current flows are equal to each other. Specifically, the first type devices comprise p-type field effect transistors (PFETs) and the second type devices comprise n-type field effect transistors (NFETs).
Abstract:
A structure and method are provided in which an n-type field effect transistor (NFET) and a p-type field effect transistor (PFET) each have a channel region disposed in a single-crystal layer of a first semiconductor and a stress is applied at a first magnitude to a channel region of the PFET but not at that magnitude to the channel region of the NFET. The stress is applied by a layer of a second semiconductor which is lattice-mismatched to the first semiconductor. The layer of second semiconductor is formed over the source and drain regions and extensions of the PFET at a first distance from the channel region of the PFET and is formed over the source and drain regions of the NFET at a second, greater distance from the channel region of the NFET, or not formed at all in the NFET.
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 semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes channels for a pFET (40) and an nFET (45). An SiGe layer (45a) is grown in the channel of the nFET channel and a Si:C layer (40a) is grown in the pFET channel. The SiGe and Si:C match lattice network of the underlying Si layer (15) to create a stress component in an overlying grown epitaxial layer (60). In one implementation, this causes a compressive component in the pFET channel and a tensile component in the nFET channel. In further implementation, the SiGe layer grown in both the nFET and pFET channels. In this implementation, the stress level in the pFET channel should be greater than approximately 3 GPa.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the formation of misfit dislocation that may reduce the charge mobility and device performance. SOLUTION: There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor device, more specifically, an N-type FET device. The device includes a stress receiving layer provided on a stress inducing layer via a material at an interface between the layers, which reduces the occurrence and propagation of misfit dislocation in the structure. The stress receiving layer includes silicon (Si), the stress inducing layer includes silicon-germanium (SiGe), and the material includes carbon given by doping both layers during the period of the formation of the device. The carbon can be doped over the entire SiGe layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming a transistor device with a dopant depth which is extended and increased so as to have no effect on a channel region of a transistor. SOLUTION: The method comprises: (a) a step of providing a substrate comprising a semiconductor-on-insulator structure ("SOI") layer separated from a bulk region in the substrate by an embedded dielectric layer; (b) a step of performing a first implantation to the SOI layer in order to attain a predetermined concentration of dopant in an interface of the SOI layer to the embedded dielectric layer; and (c) a step of performing a second implantation to the SOI layer in order to attain a predetermined concentration of dopant in a polycrystalline semiconductor gate conductor ("poly gate") as well as in a source region and a drain region which are arranged to be adjacent to the poly gate. The maximum depth of the first implantation is deeper than the maximum depth of the second implantation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transistor having a stress-producing dielectric element which underlies the entire undersurface of an active semiconductor region. SOLUTION: A compressive stress is applied to a channel region of a PFET by a structure including an independent stress-producing dielectric element that entirely underlies the bottom surface of an active semiconductor region in which a source, a drain and a channel region of the PFET are disposed. Specifically, the stress-producing dielectric element includes a region of a collapsed oxide which contacts the entire bottom surface of the active semiconductor region so that it has an area of the same spread as an area of the bottom surface. Bird beak-like oxide regions at the edges of the stress-producing dielectric element apply an upward force to the edges of the stress-producing dielectric element to provide a compressive stress to the channel region of the PFET. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT