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| 20090047791 | SEMICONDUCTOR ETCHING METHODS - A method of etching semiconductor structures is disclosed. The method may include etching an SRAM portion of a semiconductor device, the method comprising: providing a silicon substrate layer, a nitride layer thereover, an optical dispersive layer over the nitride layer, and a silicon anti-reflective coating layer thereover; etching the silicon anti-reflective coating layer using an image layer; removing the image layer; etching the optical dispersive layer while removing the silicon anti-reflective coating layer; etching the optical dispersive layer and the nitride layer simultaneously; and etching the optical dispersive layer, the nitride layer, and the silicon substrate simultaneously. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090104776 | METHODS FOR FORMING NESTED AND ISOLATED LINES IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A method for forming lines for semiconductor devices including, depositing a shallow trench isolation (STI) film stack on a silicon substrate, depositing a layer of polysilicon on the STI film stack, depositing a layer of antireflective coating on the layer of polysilicon, developing a phototoresist on the antireflective coating, wherein the photoresist defines a line, etching the layer of antireflective coating and the layer of polysilicon using RIE with a low bias power, removing the photoresist, removing the layer of antireflective coating, etching the STI film stack to form the line, wherein the layer of polysilicon further defines the line. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090170331 | METHOD OF FORMING A BOTTLE-SHAPED TRENCH BY ION IMPLANTATION - Disclosed is a method of forming a bottle shaped trench in a substrate which includes forming at least one trench having an upper portion and a lower portion into a semiconductor substrate, the at least one trench having vertical sidewalls that extend to a common bottom wall; implanting ions into the semiconductor substrate abutting the upper portion of the at least one trench to form an amorphous region in the semiconductor substrate abutting the upper portion of the at least one trench; and etching the lower portion of the at least one trench selective to the amorphous region to provide an elongated bottom portion which extends laterally beyond the upper portion. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090173980 | PROVIDING ISOLATION FOR WORDLINE PASSING OVER DEEP TRENCH CAPACITOR - A memory cell has an access transistor and a capacitor with an electrode disposed within a deep trench. STI oxide covers at least a portion of the electrode, and a liner covers a remaining portion of the electrode. The liner may be a layer of nitride over a layer of oxide. Some of the STI may cover a portion of the liner. In a memory array a pass wordline may be isolated from the electrode by the STI oxide and the liner. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090174031 | DRAM HAVING DEEP TRENCH CAPACITORS WITH LIGHTLY DOPED BURIED PLATES - By controlling buried plate doping level and bias condition, different capacitances can be obtained from capacitors on the same chip with the same layout and deep trench process. The capacitors may be storage capacitors of DRAM/eDRAM cells. The doping concentration may be less than 3E19cm−3, a voltage difference between the biases of the buried electrodes may be at least 0.5V, and a capacitance of one capacitor may be at least 1.2 times, such as 2.0 times the capacitance of another capacitor. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090267149 | SOURCE/DRAIN JUNCTION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MOSFET FORMED BY SELECTIVE EPI PROCESS - In a field effect transistor (FET), halo features may be formed by etching into the surface of a silicon layer followed by a step of growing a first epitaxial silicon (epi-Si) layer on the etched silicon layer. Source (S) and drain (D), as well as S/D extension features may similarly be formed by etching an epitaxial silicon layer, then filling with another epitaxial layer. Source and Drain, and extensions, and halo, which are normally formed by diffusion, may be formed as discrete elements by etching and filling (epi-Si). This may provide a shallow, highly activated, abrupt S/D extension, an optimally formed halo and deep S/D diffusion doping, and maximized improvement of channel mobility from the compressive or tensile stress from e-SiGe or e-SiC. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100048027 | Smooth and vertical semiconductor fin structure - A method for processing a semiconductor fin structure is disclosed. The method includes thermal annealing a fin structure in an ambient containing an isotope of hydrogen. Following the thermal annealing step, the fin structure is etched in a crystal-orientation dependent, self-limiting, manner. The crystal-orientation dependent etch may be selected to be an aqueous solution containing ammonium hydroxide (NH | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100187578 | STRESS ENHANCED TRANSISTOR DEVICES AND METHODS OF MAKING - Stress enhanced transistor devices and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a transistor device comprises: a gate conductor spaced above a semiconductor substrate by a gate dielectric, wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises a channel region underneath the gate conductor and recessed regions on opposite sides of the channel region, wherein the channel region comprises undercut areas under the gate conductor; a stressed material embedded in the undercut areas of the channel region under the gate conductor; and epitaxially grown source and drain regions disposed in the recessed regions of the semiconductor substrate laterally adjacent to the stressed material. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100210098 | SELF-ALIGNED CONTACT - A method of forming contacts for semiconductor devices, the method including depositing an inter-level dielectric (ILD) over a plurality of gate stacks, in which the divots within the inter-level dielectric layer are defined by the spaces between the gate stacks, filling the divots with an initial fill material, depositing a masking material on the dielectric over the gate stacks, and selectively etching the fill material to form contact vias. The fill material may be a self-assembly material such as a multi-block copolymer in which the blocks self organize vertically within the divots, so that a selective etch of the block material will remove the vertically organized blocks from the divot, but leave at least one block over the gate regions. In another embodiment, the fill material may be a metal, and the masking material may be a parylene based polymer. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100295127 | METHOD OF FORMING A PLANAR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR WITH EMBEDDED AND FACETED SOURCE/DRAIN STRESSORS ON A SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) WAFER, A PLANAR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE AND A DESIGN STRUCTURE FOR THE PLANAR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - Disclosed are embodiments of a method of forming, on an SOI wafer, a planar FET with embedded and faceted source/drain stressors. The method incorporates a directional ion implant process to create amorphous regions at the bottom surfaces of source/drain recesses in a single crystalline semiconductor layer of an SOI wafer. Then, an etch process selective to different crystalline planes over others and further selective to single crystalline semiconductor material over amorphous semiconductor material can be performed in order to selectively adjust the shape (i.e., the profile) of the recess sidewalls without increasing the depth of the recesses. Subsequently, an anneal process can be performed to re-crystallize the amorphous regions and an epitaxial deposition process can be used to fill the recesses with source/drain stressor material. Also disclosed are embodiments of a planar FET structure and a design structure for the planar FET. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110031503 | DEVICE WITH STRESSED CHANNEL - An FET device is disclosed which contains a source and a drain that are each provided with an extension. The source and the drain, and their extensions, are composed of epitaxial materials containing Ge or C. The epitaxial materials and the Si substrate have differing lattice constants, consequently the source and the drain and their extensions are imparting a state of stress onto the channel. For a PFET device the epitaxial material may be SiGe, or Ge, and the channel may be in a compressive state of stress. For an NFET device the epitaxial material may be SiC and the channel may be in a tensile state of stress. A method for fabricating an FET device is also disclosed. One may form a first recession in the Si substrate to a first depth on opposing sides of the gate. The first recession is filled epitaxially with a first epitaxial material. Then, a second recession may be formed in the Si substrate to a second depth, which is greater than the first depth. Next, one may fill the second recession with a second epitaxial material, which is the same kind of material as the first epitaxial material. The epitaxial materials are selected to have a different lattice constant than the Si substrate, and consequently a state of stress is being imparted onto the channel. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110101455 | FINFET SPACER FORMATION BY ORIENTED IMPLANTATION - A FinFET having spacers with a substantially uniform profile along the length of a gate stack which covers a portion of a fin of semiconductor material formed on a substrate is provided by depositing spacer material conformally on both the fins and gate stack and performing an angled ion impurity implant approximately parallel to the gate stack to selectively cause damage to only spacer material deposited on the fin. Due to the damage caused by the angled implant, the spacer material on the fins can be etched with high selectivity to the spacer material on the gate stack. | 05-05-2011 |
