Abstract:
A process of forming a hybrid memory cell which is scalable to a minimum feature size, F, of about 60 nm at an operating voltage of Vblh of about 1.5 V and substantially free of floating-well effects.
Abstract:
A process for producing very high-density embedded DRAM/very high-performance logic structures comprising fabricating vertical MOSFET DRAM cells with salicided source/drain and gate conductor dual workfunction MOSFETs in the supports, comprising: Forming a french capacitor in a silicon substrate having a gate oxide layer, a polysilicon layer, and a top dialectric nitride layer deposited thereon; Applying a patterned mask over the array and support areas and forming recesses in the nitride layer, the polysilicon layer, and shallow trench isolation region; Forming a silicide and oxide cap in the recesses in the nitride layer, the polysilicon layer, and shallow trench isolation region; Applying a block mask to protect the supports while stripping the nitride layer from the array and etching the exposed polysilicon layer to the top of the gate oxide layer; Striping the nitride layer from the support region and depositing a polysilicon layer over the array and support areas; Applying a mask to pattern and form a bitline diffusion stud landing pad in the array and gate conductors for the support transistors; Saliciding the tops of the landing pad and the gate conductors; Applying an interlevel oxide layer and then opening vias in the interlevel oxide layer for establishing conductive wiring channels.
Abstract:
Two different gate conductor dielectric caps are used in the array and support device regions so that the bitline contact can be fabricated in the array region, but a thinner hard mask can be used for better linewidth control in the support device region. The thinner dielectric cap is made into dielectric spacers in the array device regions during support mask etching. These dielectric spacers allow for the array gate conductor resist line to be made smaller than the final gate conductor linewidth. This widens the array gate conductor processing window. The second dielectric cap layer improves linewidth control for the support devices and the array devices. Two separate gate conductor lithography steps and gate conductor dielectric etches are carried out in the present invention to optimize the gate conductor linewidth control in the array and support device regions. The gate conductors in the array and support devices regions are etched simultaneously to reduce production cost. In additional embodiments of the invention, dual workfunction support device transistors with or without salicide can be fabricated with an array including borderless contacts.
Abstract:
There is disclosed the process of forming a gate conductor for a semiconductor device. The process begins with the step of providing a semiconductor substrate having a gate stack formed thereon, the gate stack including a sidewall. Dielectric spacers are formed on the gate conductor sidewalls, the dielectric spacers comprising an inner spacer (36) and an outer spacer (38), the outer spacer being of a doped glass material. Ions are implanted into the semiconductor substrate outwardly of the dielectric spacers. The outer spacers are then removed.
Abstract:
A method for clearing an isolation collar (5) from a first interior surface of a deep trench at a location above a storage capacitor while leaving the isolation collar at other surfaces of the deep trench. A insulating material is deposited above a node conductor (3) of the storage capacitor. A layer of silicon (9) is deposited over the barrier material. Dopant ions are implanted at an angle (11) into the layer of deposited silicon within the deep trench, thereby leaving the deposited silicon unimplanted along one side of the deep trench. The unimplanted silicon is etched. The isolation collar is removed in locations previously covered by the unimplanted silicon, leaving the isolation collar in locations covered by the implanted silicon.
Abstract:
A process for producing very high-density embedded DRAM/very high-performance logic structures comprising fabricating vertical MOSFET DRAM cells with salicided source/drain and gate conductor dual workfunction MOSFETs in the supports.
Abstract:
The vertical MOSFET structure used in forming dynamic random access memory comprises a gate stack structure comprising one or more silicon nitride spacers; a vertical gate polysilicon region disposed in an array trench, wherein the vertical gate polysilicon region comprises one or more silicon nitride spacers; a bitline diffusion region; a shallow trench isolation region bordering the array trench; and wherein the gate stack structure is disposed on the vertical gate polysilicon region such that the silicon nitride spacers of the gate stack structure and vertical gate polysilicon region form a borderless contact with both the bitline diffusion region and shallow trench isolation region. The vertical gate polysilicon is isolated from both the bitline diffusion and shallow trench isolation region by the nitride spacer, which provides reduced bitline capacitance and reduced incidence of bitline diffusion to vertical gate shorts.
Abstract:
Two different gate conductor dielectric caps are used in the array and support device regions so that the bitline contact can be fabricated in the array region, but a thinner hard mask can be used for better linewidth control in the support device region. The thinner dielectric cap is made into dielectric spacers in the array device regions during support mask etching. These dielectric spacers allow for the array gate conductor resist line to be made smaller than the final gate conductor linewidth. This widens the array gate conductor processing window. The second dielectric cap layer improves linewidth control for the support devices and the array devices. Two separate gate conductor lithography steps and gate conductor dielectric etches are carried out in the present invention to optimize the gate conductor linewidth control in the array and support device regions. The gate conductors in the array and support devices regions are etched simultaneously to reduce production cost. In additional embodiments of the invention, dual workfunction support device transistors with or without salicide can be fabricated with an array including borderless contacts.
Abstract:
A integrated circuit device and method for manufacturing an integrated circuit device includes forming a patterned gate stack, adjacent a storage device, to include a storage node diffusion region adjacent the storage device and a bitline contact diffusion region opposite the storage node diffusion region, implanting an impurity in the storage node diffusion region and the bitline contact diffusion region, forming an insulator layer over the patterned gate stack, removing a portion of the insulator layer from the bitline contact diffusion region to form sidewall spacers along a portion of the patterned gate stack adjacent the bitline contact diffusion region, implanting a halo implant into the bitline contact diffusion region, wherein the insulator layer is free from blocking the halo implant from the second diffusion region and annealing the integrated circuit device to drive the halo implant ahead of the impurity.