Abstract:
Various circuit devices (14, 16 and 18) incorporating junction-traversing dislocation regions (60, 64 or 66) and methods of making the same are provided. In one aspect, a method of processing is provided that includes forming an impurity region (42) in a device region (20) of a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate (12). The impurity region (42) defines a junction (56). A dislocation region (64) is formed in the device region (20) that traverses the junction, (56). The dislocation region (64) provides a pathway to neutralize charge lingering in a floating body of a device.
Abstract:
Methods are provided for fabricating a stressed MOS device [30]. The method comprises the steps of forming a plurality of parallel MOS transistors in and on a semiconductor substrate [36]. The parallel MOS transistors having a common source [92] region, a common drain [94] region, and a common gate electrode [66]. A first trench [82] is etched into the substrate in the common source [92] region and a second trench [84] is etched into the substrate in the common drain [94] region. A stress inducing semiconductor material [90] that has a crystal lattice mismatched with the semiconductor substrate is selectively grown in the first [82] and second [84] trenches. The growth of the stress inducing material [90] creates both compressive longitudinal and tensile transverse stresses in the MOS device channel [50] that enhance the drive current of P-channel MOS transistors. The decrease in drive current of N-channel MOS transistors caused by the compressive stress component is offset by the tensile stress component.
Abstract:
A method of reducing an effective channel length of a lightly doped drain transistor (50), includes the steps of forming a gate electrode (52) and a gate oxide (54) over a semiconductor substrate (56) and implanting a drain region (58) of the substrate (56) with a sub-amorphous large tilt angle implant to thereby supply interstitials (62) at a location under the gate oxide (54). The method also includes forming a lightly doped drain extension region (66) in the drain region (58) of the substrate (56) and forming a drain (70) in the drain region (58) and forming a source extension region (67) and a source (72) in a source region (60) of the substrate (56). Lastly, the method includes thermally treating the substrate (56), wherein the interstitials (62) enhance a lateral diffusion (84) under the gate oxide (54) without substantially impacting a vertical diffusion (86) of the extension regions (66, 67), thereby reducing the effective channel length without an increase in a junction depth of the drain (70) and the drain extension region (66) or the source (72) and the source extension region (67).