Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a trench capacitor in a semiconductor body. SOLUTION: A trench capacitor 10 and a MOS transistor 9 are provided in a substrate 16 to form a cell 8 of the DRAM, and the cell 8 is separated from adjacent cells by an STI region 28. The capacitor 10 is composed of an insulator 14 enveloping the trench and a first electrode 24 filled with polysilicon 12, is connected to the drain portion 72 through a buried electrode 22, and is insulated from a gate electrode 20 by a dielectric 23. A second electrode 25 is formed in its bottom portion through an insulator 14. A transistor 9 has N-type drain 72 and source 71 in an upper active region 11 of the substrate 16 and operates with a p well as channel.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a buried layer self-aligned with a gate and a channel by solving the problem when introducing a buried layer, which is heavily-doped with impurities, having an opposite conductivity which is opposite to the conductivity of the source and the drain, along the width of a channel. SOLUTION: This transistor has a dielectric layer, a gate conductor, and a buried region, and the dielectric layer is arranged to be fit for use as the gate dielectric above the semiconductor body 10 between a first region and a second region, and the gate conductor is so arranged above the dielectric layer as to be used as the gate 18, and the buried region is of first conductivity and moreover has impurity concentration higher than the semiconductor body 10, and it is arranged basically apart from the surface of the semiconductor body 10, between the first region and the second region, and the buried region is aligned with the gate conductor.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, a method for employing and removing inorganic anti-reflection coatings, includes the steps of providing a first dielectric layer (122) on a semiconductor device (110) structure to be processed, the first dielectric layer being selectively removable relative to the semiconductor device structure, and forming an inorganic dielectric anti-reflection coating (DARC) (124) on the first dielectric layer, the DARC being selectively removable relative to the first dielectric layer. A resist layer (130) is patterned on the DARC. The resist is selectively removable relative to the DARC. The semiconductor device structure is etched, and the resist layer, the DARC and the first dielectric layer are selectively removed.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the thickness of an insulation layer at a trench by growing an oxide deposition layer selectively at high rate above a conductive material and then removing the oxide deposition layer selectively except a part touching the conductive material in order to form an insulation layer on the conductive material in the trench. SOLUTION: A pad stack 16 is formed by laminating a pad oxide layer 18 and a pad nitride layer 20 sequentially on a substrate 12 and a deep trench 14 is made through the stack 16. After the trench 14 is filled with a conductive filler 24 to leave a recess 26, a nitride liner 36 is deposited on the inside of the recess to cover the pad stack 16. Subsequently, the nitride liner 36 is removed from the entire surface except for the side-wall of the trench 14 and an oxide deposition layer 40 is grown selectively at high rate. Thereafter, the oxide deposition layer 40 is removed except a part touching the conductive filler 24 in order to form an insulation layer 44 on the conductive filler 24.
Abstract:
A method for forming an oxide collar in a trench, in accordance with the present invention, includes forming a trench (104) in a silicon substrate (102), and depositing and recessing a nitride liner (112) in the trench to expose a portion of the silicon substrate on sidewalls of the trench. An oxide (116) is deposited selective to the nitride liner on the portion of the silicon substrate. Residue oxide is removed from surfaces of the nitride liner to form a collar (116) in the trench.
Abstract:
An Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor (IGFET), fabricated using Shallow Trench Isolation (STI), has an edge of a channel region of the IGFET which has a curved shape with a controlled radius of curvature so as to reduce the electric field at the edge of the channel region. A method of controlling the shape of the edge of the channel region is to limit the supply of oxygen to the region at the edge of the channel region during the oxidation process when the side walls of the silicon island, in which the transistor will be formed, are initially covered with a layer of silicon oxide.
Abstract:
A method of using a selective etch to provide a desired crystal plane orientation on the sidewalls of a deep trench located in a semiconductor substrate, and the device formed therefrom. Preferably, a crystal plane sidewall (212) is used for the channel region, and crystal planes (216) are used in the corner regions of the trench. Gate oxidation may then be performed such that the oxide is thicker in the corner regions (222) than on the oxide (218, 220) on the primary sides of the trench, resulting in self isolation of the corner areas from the transistor channel/active area (224). In addition, the structure is relatively insensitive to active area/deep trench misalignment.
Abstract:
A method, structure and alignment procedure, for forming a finFET. The method including, defining a first fin of the finFET with a first mask and defining a second fin of the finFET with a second mask. The structure including integral first and second fins of single-crystal semiconductor material and longitudinal axes of the first and second fins aligned in the same crystal direction but offset from each other. The alignment procedure including simultaneously aligning alignment marks on a gate mask to alignment targets formed separately by a first masked used to define the first fin and a second mask used to define the second fin.