SIDEWALL SPACERS FOR CMOS CIRCUIT STRESS RELIEF/ISOLATION AND METHOD FOR MAKING

    公开(公告)号:CA1245373A

    公开(公告)日:1988-11-22

    申请号:CA529768

    申请日:1987-02-16

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Sidewall Spacers For CMOS Circuit Stress Relief Isolation And Method For Making A method for forming fully recessed (planar) isolation regions on a semiconductor for the manufacture of CMOS integrated circuits, and the resulting semiconductor structure, comprising in a P doped silicon substrate with mesas formed therein, forming low viscosity sidewall spacers of borosilicate glass in contact with the sidewalls of those mesas designated to have N-channel devices formed therein; then filling the trenches in the substrate adjacent to the mesas with TEOS; and heating the structure until the boron in the sidewall spacers diffuses into the sidewalls of the designated mesas to form channel stops. These sidewall spacers reduce the occurrence of cracks in the TEOS by relieving internal mechanical stress therein and permit the formation of channel stops via diffusion, thereby permitting mesa walls to be substantially vertical.

    PROCESS FOR FORMING PLANAR CHIP-LEVEL WIRING

    公开(公告)号:CA1244145A

    公开(公告)日:1988-11-01

    申请号:CA529470

    申请日:1987-02-11

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Disclosed is a process of forming high density, planar, single- or multi-level wiring for an semiconductor integrated circuit chip. On the chip surface is provided a dual layer of an insulator and hardened photoresist having various sized openings (grooves for wiring and openings for contacts) therein in a pattern of the desired wiring. A conductive (e.g., metal) layer of a thickness equal to that o. the insulator is deposited filling the grooves and contact openings. A sacrificial dual (lower and upper component) layer of (hardened) photoresist is formed filling the metal valleys and obtaining a substantially planar surface. The lower component layer is thin and conformal and has a higher etch rate than the upper component layer which is thick and nonconformal. By reactive ion etching the sacrificial layer is removed leaving resist plugs in the metal valleys. Using the plug as etch masks, the exposed metal is removed followed by removal of the remaining hardened photoresist layer and the plugs leaving a metal pattern coplanar with the insulator layer. This sequence of steps is repeated for multilevel wiring. When only narrow wiring is desired, a single photoresist layer is substituted for the dual photoresist sacrificial layer.

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