Abstract:
A high fT and fmax bipolar transistor (100) includes an emitter (104), a base (120), and a collector (116). The emitter has a lower portion (108) and an upper portion (1.12) that extends beyond the lower portion. The base includes an intrinsic base (140) and an extrinsic base (144). The intrinsic base is located between the lower portion of the emitter and the collector. The extrinsic base extends from the lower portion of the emitter beyond the upper portion of the emitter and includes a continuous conductor (148) that extends from underneath the upper portion of the emitter and out from underneath the upper portion of the emitter. The continuous conductor provides a low electrical resistance path from a base contact (not shown) to the intrinsic base. The transistor may include a second conductor (152) that does not extend underneath the upper portion of the emitter, but which further reduces the electrical resistance through the extrinsic base.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a backside contact structure and a method of fabricating the structure.SOLUTION: The method includes: forming a first dielectric layer 105 on a frontside of a substrate 100 having the frontside and an opposing backside; forming an electrically conductive first stud contact 140B in the first dielectric layer, the first stud contact extending through the first dielectric layer to the frontside of the substrate; thinning the substrate from the backside of the substrate to form a new backside of the substrate; forming a trench 165 in the substrate, the trench extending from the new backside of the substrate to the first dielectric layer, to expose a bottom surface of the first stud contact in the trench; and forming a conformal electrically conductive layer 170, 175 on the new backside of the substrate, sidewalls of the trench, exposed surfaces of the first dielectric layer and exposed surfaces of the first stud contacts, where the conductive layer is not thick enough to completely fill the trench.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a hetero-junction bipolar transistor having a raised base of which the base resistance is decreased by forming silicide extending to an emitter region in a self-aligning manner on a raised base. SOLUTION: This silicide formation is incorporated in a BiCMOS process flow after forming a raised and extrinsic base. The bipolar transistor has the raised and extrinsic base, and the hetero-junction bipolar transistor has silicide positioned on the raised and extrinsic base. The silicide on the extrinsic base extends to an emitter in a self-aligning manner. The emitter is isolated from the silicide by a spacer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A heterobipolar transistor (HBT) for high-speed BiCMOS applications is provided in which the collector resistance, Rc, is lowered by providing a buried refractory metal silicide layer underneath the shallow trench isolation region on the subcollector of the device. Specifically, the HBT of the present invention includes a substrate (12) including at least a subcollector (13); a buried refractory metal silicide layer (28) located on the subcollector; and a shallow trench isolation region (30) located on a surface of the buried refractory metal silicide layer. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating such a HBT. The method includes forming a buried refractory metal silicide underneath the shallow trench isolation region on the subcollector of the device.
Abstract:
Methods for fabricating bipolar junction transistors, bipolar junction transistors made by the methods, and design structures for a bipolar junction transistor. The bipolar junction transistor (80) includes a dielectric layer (32) on an intrinsic base (84) and an extrinsic base (82) at least partially separated from the intrinsic base by the dielectric layer. An emitter opening (52) extends through the extrinsic base and the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is recessed laterally relative to the emitter opening to define a cavity (60a, 60b) between the intrinsic base and the extrinsic base. The cavity is filled with a semiconductor layer (64) that physically links the extrinsic base and the intrinsic base together.
Abstract:
A backside contact structure and method of fabricating the structure. The method includes: forming a dielectric isolation (250) in a substrate (100), the substrate (100) having a frontside and an opposing backside; forming a first dielectric layer (105) on the frontside of the substrate (100); forming a trench (265C) in the first dielectric layer (105), the trench (265C) aligned over and within a perimeter of the dielectric isolation (250) and extending to the dielectric isolation (250); extending the trench (265C) formed in the first dielectric layer (1 05) through the dielectric isolation (250) and into the substrate (1 00)to a depth (Dl ) less than a thickness of the substrate (1 00); filling the trench (265C) and co-planarizing a top surface of the trench (265C) with a top surface of the first dielectric layer (1 05) to form an electrically conductive through via (270C); and thinning the substrate (100) from a backside of the substrate (100) to expose the through via (270C).