3813 results about "Shallow trench isolation" patented technology

A method for depositing silicon oxide layers having a low dielectric constant by reaction of an organosilicon compound and a hydroxyl forming compound at a substrate temperature less than about 400° C. The low dielectric constant films contain residual carbon and are useful for gap fill layers, pre-metal dielectric layers, inter-metal dielectric layers, and shallow trench isolation dielectric layers in sub-micron devices. The hydroxyl compound can be prepared prior to deposition from water or an organic compound. The silicon oxide layers are preferably deposited at a substrate temperature less than about 40° C. onto a liner layer produced from the organosilicon compound to provide gap fill layers having a dielectric constant less than about 3.0.

Semiconductor structures, devices, and methods of forming the structures and device are disclosed. Exemplary structures include multi-gate or FinFET structures that can include both n-channel MOS (NMOS) and p-channel MOS (PMOS) devices to form CMOS structures and devices on a substrate. The devices can be formed using selective epitaxy and shallow trench isolation techniques.

Semiconductor structures, devices, and methods of forming the structures and device are disclosed. Exemplary structures include multi-gate or FinFET structures that can include both re-channel MOS (NMOS) and p-channel MOS (PMOS) devices to form CMOS structures and devices on a substrate. The devices can be formed using selective epitaxy and shallow trench isolation techniques.

A silicon on insulator (SOI) dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell and array and method of manufacture. The memory cell includes a trench storage capacitor connected by a self aligned buried strap to a vertical access transistor. A buried oxide layer isolates an SOI layer from a silicon substrate. The trench capacitor is formed in the substrate and the access transistor is formed on a sidewall of the SOI layer. A polysilicon strap connected to the polysilicon plate of the storage capacitor provides a self-aligned contact to the source of the access transistor. Initially, the buried oxide layer is formed in the wafer. Deep trenches are etched, initially just through the SOI layer and the BOX layer. Protective sidewalls are formed in the trenches. Then, the deep trenches are etched into the substrate. The volume in the substrate is expanded to form a bottle shaped trench. A polysilicon capacitor plate is formed in the deep trenches and conductive polysilicon straps are formed in the trenches between the capacitor plates and the SOI sidewalls. Device regions are defined in the wafer and a sidewall gate is formed in the deep trenches. Shallow trenches isolation (STI) is used to isolate and define cells. Bitlines and wordlines are formed on the wafer.

An SRAM device has STI regions separated by mesas and doped regions including source / drain regions, active areas, wordline conductors and contacts in a semiconductor substrate is made with a source region has 90 DEG transitions in critical locations. Form a dielectric layer above the active areas. Form the wordline conductors above the active areas transverse to the active areas. The source and drain regions of a pass gate transistor are on the opposite sides of a wordline conductor. Form the sidewalls along the <100> crystal plane. Form the contacts extending down through to the dielectric layer to the mesas. Substrate stress is reduced because the large active area region formed in the substrate assures that the contacts are formed on the <100> surfaces of the mesas are in contact with the mesas formed on the substrate and that the <110> surfaces of the silicon of the mesas are shielded from the contacts.

A structure including a transistor and a trench structure, with the trench structure inducing only a portion of the strain in a channel region of the transistor.

A double gated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFET is fabricated by using a mandrel shallow trench isolation formation process, followed by a damascene gate. The double gated MOSFET features narrow diffusion lines defined sublithographically or lithographically and shrunk, damascene process defined by an STI-like mandrel process. The double gated SOI MOSFET increases current drive per layout width and provides low out conductance.

Doped semiconductor back gate regions self-aligned to active regions are formed by first patterning a top semiconductor layer and a buried insulator layer to form stacks of a buried insulator portion and a semiconductor portion. Oxygen is implanted into an underlying semiconductor layer at an angle so that oxygen-implanted regions are formed in areas that are not shaded by the stack or masking structures thereupon. The oxygen implanted portions are converted into deep trench isolation structures that are self-aligned to sidewalls of the active regions, which are the semiconductor portions in the stacks. Dopant ions are implanted into the portions of the underlying semiconductor layer between the deep trench isolation structures to form doped semiconductor back gate regions. A shallow trench isolation structure is formed on the deep trench isolation structures and between the stacks.

The present invention provides structures and methods for a transistor formed on a V-shaped groove. The V-shaped groove contains two crystallographic facets joined by a ridge. The facets have different crystallographic orientations than what a semiconductor substrate normally provides such as the substrate orientation or orientations orthogonal to the substrate orientation. Unlike the prior art, the V-shaped groove is formed self-aligned to the shallow trench isolation, eliminating the need to precisely align the V-shaped grooves with lithographic means. The electrical properties of the new facets, specifically, the enhanced carrier mobility, are utilized to enhance the performance of transistors. In a transistor with a channel on the facets that are joined to form a V-shaped profile, the current flows in the direction of the ridge joining the facets avoiding any inflection in the direction of the current.

A transistor includes a notched fin covered under a shallow trench isolation layer. One or more notch may be used, the size of which may vary along a lateral direction of the fin. In some embodiments, The notch is formed using anisotropic wet etching that is selective according to silicon orientation. Example wet etchants are tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) or potassium hydroxide (KOH).

A nonvolatile memory cell comprising a pair of spaced apart shallow trench isolation regions formed in a substrate and defining a substrate active region. A tunnel dielectric is formed on the substrate active region. A floating gate is formed on the tunnel dielectric and is self aligned between the spaced apart shallow trench isolation regions. A dielectric layer is formed on the floating gate and a control gate formed on the dielectric layer. A source region and a drain region are formed in the substrate active region on opposite sides of the floating gate.

Disclosed is a semiconductor fin construction useful in FinFET devices that incorporates an upper region and a lower region with wherein the upper region is formed with substantially vertical sidewalls and the lower region is formed with inclined sidewalls to produce a wider base portion. The disclosed semiconductor fin construction will also typically include a horizontal step region at the interface between the upper region and the lower region. Also disclosed are a series of methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices incorporating semiconductor fins having this dual construction and incorporating various combinations of insulating materials such as silicon dioxide and / or silicon nitride for forming shallow trench isolation (STI) structures between adjacent semiconductor fins.

A method and apparatus for conditioning an oxide surface during a semiconductor device formation process is provided herein. One or more plasma processing operations are performed on a substrate having a fin structure and shallow trench isolation structure (STI) formed thereon. An oxygen containing plasma process may modify surfaces of the STI structure in preparation for an argon containing plasma process. The argon containing plasma process may form a first layer on the fin structure and STI structure and an ammonia fluoride containing plasma process may form a second layer on the first layer. The first and second layers may be removed from the substrate during a subsequent heating process to provide a cleaned fin structure suitable for subsequent processing operations.

A semiconductor integrated circuit device contains a CMOS circuit that includes a plurality of N-channel transistors and a plurality of P-channel transistors. The plurality of N-channel transistors is provided with device isolation by one of a gate isolation structure and a shallow trench isolation structure. The plurality of P-channel transistors are provided with device isolation by the other of the gate isolation structure and the shallow trench isolation structure.

A shallow trench isolation (STI) structure and method of forming the same with reduced stress to improve charge mobility the method including providing a semiconductor substrate comprising at least one patterned hardmask layer overlying the semiconductor substrate; dry etching a trench in the semiconductor substrate according to the at least one patterned hardmask layer; forming one or more liner layers to line the trench selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, and silicon oxynitride; forming one or more layers of trench filling material comprising silicon dioxide to backfill the trench; carrying out at least one thermal annealing step to relax accumulated stress in the trench filling material; carrying out at least one of a CMP and dry etch process to remove excess trench filling material above the trench level; and, removing the at least one patterned hardmask layer.

A planarization composition is set forth for chemical mechanical planarization of dielectric layers for semiconductor manufacture. The composition comprises spherical silica particles having an average diameter of from 30 nm to about 400 nm, and a narrow range of particle sizes, wherein about 90% of the particles is within 20% of the average particle diameter. The composition includes a liquid carrier comprising up to about 9% alcohol and an amine hydroxide in the amount of about 0.2 to about 9% by weight. The pH of the composition is in the range of about 9 to about 11.5, and the remainder of the solution is water. The composition has low amounts of metal ions, and the composition is used for thinning, polishing and planarizing interlayer dielectric thin films, shallow trench isolation structures, and isolation of gate structures. The invention also comprises methods for using the planarization composition in the manufacture of semiconductor devices.

Source and drain regions of an FET are etched by a crystallographic anisotropic etch to form a cavity surrounded by crystallographic facets. The exposure of the sidewalls of shallow trench isolation (STI) is avoided or reduced compared to the prior art. The crystallographic anisotropic etch may be combined with an isotropic etch or a recess etch to create undercuts beneath gate spacers and / or a pegging line beneath a top surface of the STI. The at least one cavity is then filled with a lattice-mismatched embedded material so that stress is applied to the channel of the FET. The resulting structure has increased containment of the embedded semiconductor region by shallow trench isolation. A reduction in stress due to the unconstrained sidewall area and an increase in the junction current due to the recessing of the pegging line are eliminated or alleviated.

Silicon on insulator (SOI) field effect transistors (FET) with a shared body contact, a SRAM cell and array including the SOI FETs and the method of forming the SOI FETs. The SRAM cell has a hybrid SOI / bulk structure wherein the source / drain diffusions do not penetrate to the underlying insulator layer, resulting in a FET in the surface of an SOI layer with a body or substrate contact formed at a shared contact. FETs are formed on SOI silicon islands located on a BOX layer and isolated by shallow trench isolation (STI). NFET islands in the SRAM cells include a body contact to a P-type diffusion in the NFET island. Each NFET in the SRAM cells include at least one shallow source / drain diffusion that is shallower than the island thickness. A path remains under the shallow diffusions between NFET channels and the body contact. The P-type body contact diffusion is a deep diffusion, the full thickness of the island. Bit line diffusions shared by SRAM cells on adjacent wordlines may be deep diffusions.

Gate electrodes with selectively tuned channel thicknesses are formed by selective epitaxial growth. Embodiments include forming shallow trench isolation regions in an SOI substrate, selectively removing the nitride stop layer and pad oxide layer in an exposed particular active region, and implementing selective epitaxial growth to increase the thickness of the semiconductor layer in the particular active region. Subsequently, the remaining nitride stop and pad oxide layers in other active regions are removed, gate dielectric layers formed, as by thermal oxidation, and the transistors completed.

Disclosed is a semiconductor fin construction useful in FinFET devices that incorporates an upper region and a lower region with wherein the upper region is formed with substantially vertical sidewalls and the lower region is formed with inclined sidewalls to produce a wider base portion. The disclosed semiconductor fin construction will also typically include a horizontal step region at the interface between the upper region and the lower region. Also disclosed are a series of methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices incorporating semiconductor fins having this dual construction and incorporating various combinations of insulating materials such as silicon dioxide and / or silicon nitride for forming shallow trench isolation (STI) structures between adjacent semiconductor fins.

A semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing is provided. The method of manufacturing includes forming shallow trench isolation (STI) in a substrate and providing a first material and a second material on the substrate. The first material and the second material are mixed into the substrate by a thermal anneal process to form a first island and second island at an nFET region and a pFET region, respectively. A layer of different material is formed on the first island and the second island. The STI relaxes and facilitates the relaxation of the first island and the second island. The first material may be deposited or grown Ge material and the second material may deposited or grown Si:C or C. A strained Si layer is formed on at least one of the first island and the second island.