摘要:
A method for contacting an FET device is disclosed. The method includes vertically recessing the device isolation, which exposes a sidewall surface on both the source and the drain. Next, silicidation is performed, resulting in a silicide layer covering both the top surface and the sidewall surface of the source and the drain. Next, metallic contacts are applied in such manner that they engage the silicide layer on both its top and on its sidewall surface. A device characterized as being an FET device structure with enlarged contact areas is also disclosed. The device has a vertically recessed isolation, thereby having an exposed sidewall surface on both the source and the drain. A silicide layer is covering both the top surface and the sidewall surface of both the source and the drain. Metallic contacts to the device engage the silicide on its top surface and on its sidewall surface.
摘要:
Semiconductor substrate with a deformed gate region and a method for the fabrication thereof. The semiconductor substrate has improved device performance compared to devices without a deformed gate region and decreased dopant loss compared to devices with deformed source/drain regions.
摘要:
Strained Si and strained SiGe on insulator devices, methods of manufacture and design structures is provided. The method includes growing an SiGe layer on a silicon on insulator wafer. The method further includes patterning the SiGe layer into PFET and NFET regions such that a strain in the SiGe layer in the PFET and NFET regions is relaxed. The method further includes amorphizing by ion implantation at least a portion of an Si layer directly underneath the SiGe layer. The method further includes performing a thermal anneal to recrystallize the Si layer such that a lattice constant is matched to that of the relaxed SiGe, thereby creating a tensile strain on the NFET region. The method further includes removing the SiGe layer from the NFET region. The method further includes performing a Ge process to convert the Si layer in the PFET region into compressively strained SiGe.
摘要:
A circuit structure is disclosed which contains least one each of three different kinds of devices in a silicon layer on insulator (SOI): a planar NFET device, a planar PFET device, and a FinFET device. A trench isolation surrounds the planar NFET device and the planar PFET device penetrating through the SOI and abutting the insulator. Each of the three different kinds of devices contain a high-k gate dielectric layer and a mid-gap gate metal layer, each containing an identical high-k material and an identical mid-gap metal. Each of the three different kinds of devices have an individually optimized threshold value. A method for fabricating a circuit structure is also disclosed, which method involves defining portions in SOI respectively for three different kinds of devices: for a planar NFET device, for a planar PFET device, and for a FinFET device. The method also includes depositing in common a high-k gate dielectric layer and a mid-gap gate metal layer, and using workfunction modifying layers to individually adjust thresholds for the various kinds of devices.
摘要:
A MOSFET device is formed on top of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate having a semiconductor layer with a thickness ranging from 3 nm to 20 nm. A stair-shape raised extension, a raised source region and a raised drain region (S/D) are formed on top of the SOI substrate. The thinner raised extension region abuts at a thin gate sidewall spacer, lowering the extension resistance without significantly increasing the parasitic resistance. A single epitaxial growth forms the thinner raised extension and the thicker raised S/D preferably simultaneously, reducing the fabrication cost as well as the contact resistance between the raised S/D and the extension. A method of forming the aforementioned MOSFET device is also provided.
摘要:
In one exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate with a top semiconductor layer overlying an insulation layer and the insulation layer overlies a bottom substrate layer; at least one first device at least partially overlying and disposed upon a first portion of the top semiconductor layer, where the first portion has a first thickness, a first width and a first depth; and at least one second device at least partially overlying and disposed upon a second portion of the top semiconductor layer, where the second portion has a second thickness, a second width and a second depth, where at least one of the following holds: the first thickness is greater than the second thickness, the first width is greater than the second width and the first depth is greater than the second depth.
摘要:
A method of forming a strained, semiconductor-on-insulator substrate includes forming a second semiconductor layer on a first semiconductor substrate. The second semiconductor is lattice matched to the first semiconductor substrate such that the second semiconductor layer is subjected to a first directional stress. An active device semiconductor layer is formed over the second semiconductor layer such that the active device semiconductor layer is initially in a relaxed state. One or more trench isolation structures are formed through the active device layer and through the second semiconductor layer so as to relax the second semiconductor layer below the active device layer and impart a second directional stress on the active device layer opposite the first directional stress.
摘要:
A semiconductor device is provided that includes a gate structure present on a substrate. The gate structure includes a gate conductor with an undercut region in sidewalls of a first portion of the gate conductor, wherein a second portion of the gate conductor is present over the first portion of the gate conductor and includes a protruding portion over the undercut region. A spacer is adjacent to sidewalls of the gate structure, wherein the spacer includes an extending portion filling the undercut region. A raised source region and a raised drain region is present adjacent to the spacers. The raised source region and the raised drain region are separated from the gate conductor by the extending portion of the spacers.
摘要:
In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; and a plurality of devices at least partially overlying the substrate, where the plurality of devices include a first device coupled to a second device via a first raised source/drain having a first length, where the first device is further coupled to a second raised source/drain having a second length, where the first device comprises a transistor, where the first raised source/drain and the second raised source/drain at least partially overly the substrate, where the second raised source/drain comprises a terminal electrical contact, where the second length is greater than the first length.
摘要:
A method of fabricating an electronic structure is provided that includes forming a first conductivity doped first semiconductor material on the SOI semiconductor layer of a substrate. The SOI semiconductor layer has a thickness of less than 10 nm. The first conductivity in-situ doped first semiconductor material is removed from a first portion of the SOI semiconductor layer, wherein a remaining portion of the first conductivity in-situ doped first semiconductor material is present on a second portion of SOI semiconductor layer. A second conductivity in-situ doped second semiconductor material is formed on the first portion of the SOI semiconductor layer, wherein a mask prohibits the second conductivity in-situ doped semiconductor material from being formed on the second portion of the SOI semiconductor layer. The dopants from the first and second conductivity in-situ doped semiconductor materials are diffused into the first semiconductor layer to form dopant regions.