Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a high performance processor by achieving device width control in a FinFET device so as to provide a field effect device which performs high current drive in a given layout area. SOLUTION: A field effect device, which has a body made of a crystalline semiconductor material and comprises at least one vertically oriented unit 11 and at least one horizontally oriented unit 12, is produced in an SOI layer through several etching steps. By providing a gate electrode 50, the segmented (unit type) field effect device can combine a FinFET type device, or a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator FET type device, and a fully depleted planar device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device, realizing a strained Si film with reduced number of defects. SOLUTION: The strained Si film is formed by selectively growing a fin arranged in a perpendicular direction to the surface of a non-conductive substrate or Si on the side face of a relaxed SiGe block. Next, a dielectric gate comprising an oxide or a high k material or a combination thereof, for example, can be formed on the surface of the strained Si film. Further, by removing the relaxed SiGe block without substantially influencing the stress of the strained Si film, a second gate oxide can be formed on the surface previously occupied by the relaxed SiGe block. Thus, a MOSFET and a finFET of a single gate, double gate, or more gates can be formed, with the semiconductor device having the strained Si fin arranged in the perpendicular direction on the non-conductive substrate, with a channel having reduced number of defects or reduced dimension or both. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the depletion of the gate polysilicon of a CMOS by a gate electrode structure composed of a metal dielectric stack containing a large volume of potassium. SOLUTION: A semiconductor structure is provided by including an n-FET device and a p-FET device. At least either of the devices includes a gate electrode stack having a thin film of a silicon-containing electrode, i.e., polysilicon electrode and a first metal on the silicon-containing electrode. The other of the devices includes a gate electrode stack not having a thin film of a silicon-containing electrode but at least having a first metal gate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a self-aligned silicide process applicable to contacting silicon, sidewall, source, and drain. SOLUTION: A method (and a structure formed by using this method) to form a metal silicide contact on a non-planar silicon-containing area which limits the silicon consumption at a silicon-containing area includes: forming a blanket metal layer over the silicon-containing area, forming a silicon layer over the metal layer, performing an selective and anisotropical etching of the silicon layer against the metal, forming a metal silicon alloy by reacting the metal and silicon at a first temperature, etching away any unreacted metal layer, forming a metal-Si2 alloy by annealing at a second temperature, and selectively etching away any unreacted silicon layer.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a device including an n-type device and a p-type device. In an aspect of the invention, the method involves doping a portion of a semiconductor substrate (200) and forming a gap (219) in the semiconductor substrate (200) by removing at least a portion of the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate (200). The method further involves growing a strain layer (227) in at least a portion of the gap (219) in the semiconductor substrate (200). For the n-type device, the strain layer (227) is grown on at least a portion which is substantially directly under a channel of the n-type device. For the p-type device, the strain layer is grown on at least a portion which is substantially directly under a source region or drain region of the p-type device and not substantially under a channel of the p-type device.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a device including an n-type device and a p-type device. In an aspect of the invention, the method involves doping a portion of a semiconductor substrate (200) and forming a gap (219) in the semiconductor substrate (200) by removing at least a portion of the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate (200). The method further involves growing a strain layer (227) in at least a portion of the gap (219) in the semiconductor substrate (200). For the n-type device, the strain layer (227) is grown on at least a portion which is substantially directly under a channel of the n-type device. For the p-type device, the strain layer is grown on at least a portion which is substantially directly under a source region or drain region of the p-type device and not substantially under a channel of the p-type device.
Abstract:
A patterned buried insulator is formed beneath the source and drain by forming a mask over the body area and implanting a dose of n or p type ions in the areas where the source and drains will be formed, then etching the STI and etching out the implanted area. A light oxidation is followed by a conformal oxide deposition in the STI and also in the etched area, thereby forming the buried oxide only where desired.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a device including an n-type device and a p-type device. In an aspect of the invention, the method involves doping a portion of a semiconductor substrate and forming a gap in the semiconductor substrate by removing at least a portion of the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate. The method further involves growing a strain layer in at least a portion of the gap in the semiconductor substrate. For the n-type device, the strain layer is grown on at least a portion which is substantially directly under a channel of the n-type device. For the p-type device, the strain layer is grown on at least a portion which is substantially directly under a source region or drain region of the p-type device and not substantially under a channel of the p-type device.
Abstract:
A hafnium oxide hard mask layer is used to define an opening for removing sacrificial silicon oxide material surrounding the electromechanical actuator 38A. The hafnium oxide hard mask layer is compatible with the use of HF vapour for removing the sacrificial oxide and releasing the electromechanical actuating member 38A with reduced stiction. The hafnium oxide hard mask is also formed over adjacent CMOS transistor circuitry during the release etching of the MEMS or NEMS switches