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公开(公告)号:US11948832B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-02
申请号:US17480482
申请日:2021-09-21
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer , Naushad K. Variam
IPC: H01L21/764 , H01L21/8238 , H01L27/092
CPC classification number: H01L21/764 , H01L21/823878 , H01L27/092
Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing process and semiconductor device having an airgap to isolate bottom implant portions of a substrate from upper source and drain device structure to reduce bottom current leakage and parasitic capacitance with an improved scalability on n-to-p spacing scaling. The disclosed device can be implanted to fabricate nanosheet FET and other such semiconductor device. The airgap is formed by etching into the substrate, below a trench in a vertical and horizontal direction. The trench is then filled with dielectric and upper device structure formed on either side of the dielectric filler trench.
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公开(公告)号:US20240049443A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-08
申请号:US17881969
申请日:2022-08-05
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Armin Saeedi Vahdat , John Hautala , Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer
IPC: H01L27/108
CPC classification number: H01L27/10876 , H01L27/10823
Abstract: Approaches for reducing GIDL are disclosed. In one example, a method of forming a DRAM device may include forming a trench in a substrate layer, providing a first gate oxide layer along a sidewall and a bottom surface of the trench, and forming a first gate material within the trench. The method may further include removing the first gate oxide layer along an upper portion of the sidewall of the trench by delivering ions into the upper portion of the trench at a non-zero angle relative to a perpendicular extending from an upper surface of the substrate layer, and forming a second gate oxide layer along the upper portion of the sidewall of the trench, wherein a first dielectric constant of the first gate oxide layer is greater than a second dielectric constant of the second gate oxide layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20230369453A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-16
申请号:US17744238
申请日:2022-05-13
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer , Sankuei Lin , Baonian Guo , Naushad K. Variam
IPC: H01L29/66 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/786 , H01L29/40
CPC classification number: H01L29/66545 , H01L29/66553 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/0665 , H01L29/78696 , H01L29/401
Abstract: A method for forming a nanosheet device. The method may include providing a heterostructure device stack above a semiconductor substrate. The method may include patterning the heterostructure device stack to define a dummy gate region, and before forming a source drain recess adjacent the dummy gate region, selectively removing a first set of sacrificial layers of the heterostructure device stack within the dummy gate region.
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公开(公告)号:US20230089482A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-23
申请号:US17480482
申请日:2021-09-21
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer , Naushad K. Variam
IPC: H01L21/764 , H01L27/092 , H01L21/8238
Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing process and semiconductor device having an airgap to isolate bottom implant portions of a substrate from upper source and drain device structure to reduce bottom current leakage and parasitic capacitance with an improved scalability on n-to-p spacing scaling. The disclosed device can be implanted to fabricate nanosheet FET and other such semiconductor device. The airgap is formed by etching into the substrate, below a trench in a vertical and horizontal direction. The trench is then filled with dielectric and upper device structure formed on either side of the dielectric filler trench.
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公开(公告)号:US12300494B2
公开(公告)日:2025-05-13
申请号:US17548002
申请日:2021-12-10
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer , Naushad K. Variam
IPC: H01L21/265 , H10D64/01
Abstract: Approaches herein provide devices and methods for forming optimized gate-all-around transistors. One method may include forming a well by directing a first ion species into a substrate of a device, forming a plurality of alternating first and second layers over the well, and forming a dummy gate and a spacer over the plurality of alternating first and second layers. The method may further include removing a portion of the plurality of alternating first and second layers to expose an upper surface of the well, forming a punch through stopper in the well by directing a second ion species into the exposed upper surface of the well, etching the plurality of nanosheets to laterally recess the second layers relative to the first layers, and forming an inner spacer along the first and second layers.
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公开(公告)号:US12230691B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-18
申请号:US17744238
申请日:2022-05-13
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer , Sankuei Lin , Baonian Guo , Naushad K. Variam
IPC: H01L29/66 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/40 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/786
Abstract: A method for forming a nanosheet device. The method may include providing a heterostructure device stack above a semiconductor substrate. The method may include patterning the heterostructure device stack to define a dummy gate region, and before forming a source drain recess adjacent the dummy gate region, selectively removing a first set of sacrificial layers of the heterostructure device stack within the dummy gate region.
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公开(公告)号:US20230257872A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-17
申请号:US17673667
申请日:2022-02-16
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Armin Saeedi Vahdat , Yan Zhang , John Hautala
IPC: C23C16/30 , C23C16/40 , H01L21/306 , C23C28/04
CPC classification number: C23C16/303 , C23C16/40 , H01L21/30621 , C23C28/04
Abstract: Disclosed are approaches for forming semiconductor device cavities. One method may include providing a set of semiconductor structures defining an opening, wherein the opening has a first opening width along an upper portion of the opening and a second opening width along a lower portion of the opening, the first opening width being greater than the second opening width. The method may further include forming a blocking layer along the set of semiconductor structures by delivering a material at a non-zero angle of inclination relative to a normal extending perpendicular from a top surface of the set of semiconductor structures. The blocking layer may be formed along the upper portion of the opening without being formed along the lower portion of the opening, and wherein an opening through the blocking layer is present above the opening.
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公开(公告)号:US20240266175A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-08
申请号:US18105302
申请日:2023-02-03
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer , Jae Young Lee , Naushad Variam
IPC: H01L21/265 , H01L21/306 , H01L21/768
CPC classification number: H01L21/26506 , H01L21/30625 , H01L21/76898
Abstract: A method of processing a workpiece that will include a backside power delivery network is disclosed. The method includes forming a CMP marker layer in the workpiece at the depth to which the workpiece is to be thinned. This CMP marker layer, which may be a boron-rich layer, serves to slow the chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) process. To minimize the diffusion of boron in this boron-rich layer, the boron-rich layer is sandwiched by implants of a first species of ions, where this first species of ions serves to slow the diffusion of the boron. In certain embodiments, carbon is used as the first species of ions.
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公开(公告)号:US11987879B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-21
申请号:US17673667
申请日:2022-02-16
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Armin Saeedi Vahdat , Yan Zhang , John Hautala
IPC: H01L21/306 , C23C14/48 , C23C16/30 , C23C16/40 , C23C16/513 , C23C28/04 , H01L21/3065
CPC classification number: C23C16/303 , C23C14/48 , C23C16/40 , C23C16/513 , C23C28/04 , H01L21/30604 , H01L21/30621 , H01L21/3065
Abstract: Disclosed are approaches for forming semiconductor device cavities. One method may include providing a set of semiconductor structures defining an opening, wherein the opening has a first opening width along an upper portion of the opening and a second opening width along a lower portion of the opening, the first opening width being greater than the second opening width. The method may further include forming a blocking layer along the set of semiconductor structures by delivering a material at a non-zero angle of inclination relative to a normal extending perpendicular from a top surface of the set of semiconductor structures. The blocking layer may be formed along the upper portion of the opening without being formed along the lower portion of the opening, and wherein an opening through the blocking layer is present above the opening.
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公开(公告)号:US20230187210A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-15
申请号:US17548002
申请日:2021-12-10
Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
Inventor: Yan Zhang , Johannes M. van Meer , Naushad K. Variam
IPC: H01L21/265 , H01L29/66
CPC classification number: H01L21/265 , H01L29/66545 , H01L29/66553
Abstract: Approaches herein provide devices and methods for forming optimized gate-all-around transistors. One method may include forming a well by directing a first ion species into a substrate of a device, forming a plurality of alternating first and second layers over the well, and forming a dummy gate and a spacer over the plurality of alternating first and second layers. The method may further include removing a portion of the plurality of alternating first and second layers to expose an upper surface of the well, forming a punch through stopper in the well by directing a second ion species into the exposed upper surface of the well, etching the plurality of nanosheets to laterally recess the second layers relative to the first layers, and forming an inner spacer along the first and second layers.
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