Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080242041 | Selective Deposition of Germanium Spacers on Nitride - A method of selectively forming a germanium structure within semiconductor manufacturing processes removes the native oxide from a nitride surface in a chemical oxide removal (COR) process and then exposes the heated nitride and oxide surface to a heated germanium containing gas to selectively form germanium only on the nitride surface but not the oxide surface. | 10-02-2008 |
20090001430 | ELIMINATE NOTCHING IN SI POST SI-RECESS RIE TO IMPROVE EMBEDDED DOPED AND INSTRINSIC SI EPITAZIAL PROCESS - A dielectric element, and method of manufacturing the same, is disclosed for a semiconductor structure which comprises a substrate having a gate formed on a top surface of the substrate. The substrate and gate define a gap in a region between the gate and the substrate. A specified amount of dielectric on the substrate, at least a portion of which is in the gap, forms the dielectric element which substantially prevents unwanted electrical connectivity between the gate and the substrate. | 01-01-2009 |
20090155969 | PROTECTION OF SIGE DURING ETCH AND CLEAN OPERATIONS - A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a transistor structure having one of an embedded epitaxial stressed material in a source and drain region and a stressed channel and well, subjecting the transistor structure to plasma oxidation, and removing spacer material from the transistor structure. | 06-18-2009 |
20090173941 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES AND STRUCTURES THEREOF - Methods of fabricating a semiconductor structure with a non-epitaxial thin film disposed on a surface of a substrate of the semiconductor structure; and semiconductor structures formed thereof are disclosed. The methods provide selective non-epitaxial growth (SNEG) or deposition of amorphous and/or polycrystalline materials to form a thin film on the surface thereof. The surface may be a non-crystalline dielectric material or a crystalline material. The SNEG on non-crystalline dielectric further provides selective growth of amorphous/polycrystalline materials on nitride over oxide through careful selection of precursors-carrier-etchant ratio. The non-epitaxial thin film forms resultant and/or intermediate semiconductor structures that may be incorporated into any front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) fabrication process. Such resultant/intermediate structures may be used, for example, but are not limited to: source-drain fabrication; hardmask strengthening; spacer widening; high-aspect-ratio (HAR) vias filling; micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) fabrication; FEOL resistor fabrication; lining of shallow trench isolations (STI) and deep trenches; critical dimension (CD) tailoring and claddings. | 07-09-2009 |
20090267118 | METHOD FOR FORMING CARBON SILICON ALLOY (CSA) AND STRUCTURES THEREOF - Methods for forming carbon silicon alloy (CSA) and structures thereof are disclosed. The method provides improvement in substitutionality and deposition rate of carbon in epitaxially grown carbon silicon alloy layers (i.e., substituted carbon in Si lattice). In one embodiment of the disclosed method, a carbon silicon alloy layer is epitaxially grown on a substrate at an intermediate temperature with a silicon precursor, a carbon (C) precursor in the presence of an etchant and a trace amount of germanium material (e.g., germane (GeH | 10-29-2009 |
20090269926 | POLYGRAIN ENGINEERING BY ADDING IMPURITIES IN THE GAS PHASE DURING CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF POLYSILICON - A method of forming at least one gate conductor of a complementary metal oxide semiconductor performs a chemical vapor deposition process of polysilicon over a surface where a polysilicon gate is to be located. This deposition can be performed through a mask to form gate structures directly, or a later patterning process can pattern the polysilicon into gate structures. During the chemical vapor deposition process, the method adds impurities in the chemical vapor deposition process to optimize the grain size of the polysilicon according to a number of different methods. | 10-29-2009 |
20100009524 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES - A semiconductor fabrication method. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a semiconductor material. Next, a top portion of the semiconductor substrate is removed. Next, a first semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate, wherein a first atom percent of the semiconductor material in the first semiconductor layer is equal to a certain atom percent of the semiconductor material in the semiconductor substrate. | 01-14-2010 |
20100035419 | PATTERN INDEPENDENT Si:C SELECTIVE EPITAXY - Trenches are formed in a silicon substrate by etching exposed portions of the silicon substrate. After covering areas on which deposition of Si:C containing material is to be prevented, selective epitaxy is performed in a single wafer chamber at a temperature from about 550° C. to about 600° C. employing a limited carrier gas flow, i.e., at a flow rate less than 12 standard liters per minute to deposit Si:C containing regions at a pattern-independent uniform deposition rate. The inventive selective epitaxy process for Si:C deposition provides a relatively high net deposition rate a high quality Si:C crystal in which the carbon atoms are incorporated into substitutional sites as verified by X-ray diffraction. | 02-11-2010 |
20100112762 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES - Methods of fabricating a semiconductor structure with a non- epitaxial thin film disposed on a surface of a substrate of the semiconductor structure are disclosed. The methods provide selective non-epitaxial growth (SNEG) or deposition of amorphous and/or polycrystalline materials to form a thin film on the surface thereof. The surface may be a non-crystalline dielectric material or a crystalline material. The SNEG on non-crystalline dielectric further provides selective growth of amorphous/polycrystalline materials on nitride over oxide through careful selection of precursors-carrier-etchant ratio. The non-epitaxial thin film forms resultant and/or intermediate semiconductor structures that may be incorporated into any front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) fabrication process. Such resultant/intermediate structures may be used, for example, but are not limited to: source-drain fabrication; hardmask strengthening; spacer widening; high-aspect-ratio (HAR) vias filling; micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) fabrication; FEOL resistor fabrication; lining of shallow trench isolations (STI) and deep trenches; critical dimension (CD) tailoring and claddings. | 05-06-2010 |
20100200937 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR PMOS DEVICES WITH HIGH K METAL GATE INTEGRATION AND SiGe CHANNEL ENGINEERING - Various techniques for changing the workfunction of the substrate by using a SiGe channel which, in turn, changes the bandgap favorably for a p-type metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (pMOSFETs) are disclosed. In the various techniques, a SiGe film that includes a low doped SiGe region above a more highly doped SiGe region to allow the appropriate threshold voltage (Vt) for pMOSFET devices while preventing pitting, roughness and thinning of the SiGe film during subsequent cleans and processing is provided. | 08-12-2010 |
20110034000 | SELECTIVE DEPOSITION OF GERMANIUM SPACERS ON NITRIDE - A method of selectively forming a germanium structure within semiconductor manufacturing processes removes the native oxide from a nitride surface in a chemical oxide removal (COR) process and then exposes the heated nitride and oxide surface to a heated germanium containing gas to selectively form germanium only on the nitride surface but not the oxide surface. | 02-10-2011 |
20120043556 | EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF SILICON DOPED WITH CARBON AND PHOSPHORUS USING HYDROGEN CARRIER GAS - A method for depositing epitaxial films of silicon carbon (Si:C). In one embodiment, the method includes depositing an n-type doped silicon carbon (Si:C) semiconductor material on a semiconductor deposition surface using a deposition gas precursor composed of a silane containing gas precursor, a carbon containing gas precursor, and an n-type gas dopant source. The deposition gas precursor is introduced to the semiconductor deposition surface with a hydrogen (H | 02-23-2012 |
20120086103 | TECHNIQUE TO CREATE A BURIED PLATE IN EMBEDDED DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE - A method for forming a trench structure is provided for a semiconductor and/or memory device, such as an DRAM device. In one embodiment, the method for forming a trench structure includes forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate, and exposing the sidewalls of the trench to an arsenic-containing gas to adsorb an arsenic containing layer on the sidewalls of the trench. A material layer is then deposited on the sidewalls of the trench to encapsulate the arsenic-containing layer between the material layer and sidewalls of the trench. | 04-12-2012 |
20120181631 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR PMOS DEVICES WITH HIGH K METAL GATE INTEGRATION AND SiGe CHANNEL ENGINEERING - Various techniques for changing the workfunction of the substrate by using a SiGe channel which, in turn, changes the bandgap favorably for a p-type metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (pMOSFETs) are disclosed. In the various techniques, a SiGe film that includes a low doped SiGe region above a more highly doped SiGe region to allow the appropriate threshold voltage (Vt) for pMOSFET devices while preventing pitting, roughness and thinning of the SiGe film during subsequent cleans and processing is provided. | 07-19-2012 |
20120205749 | SILICON GERMANIUM FILM FORMATION METHOD AND STRUCTURE - Epitaxial deposition of silicon germanium in a semiconductor device is achieved without using masks. Nucleation delays induced by interactions with dopants present before deposition of the silicon germanium are used to determine a period over which an exposed substrate surface may be subjected to epitaxial deposition to form a layer of SiGe on desired parts with substantially no deposition on other parts. Dopant concentration may be changed to achieve desired thicknesses within preferred deposition times. Resulting deposited SiGe is substantially devoid of growth edge effects. | 08-16-2012 |
20120228736 | TECHNIQUE TO CREATE A BURIED PLATE IN EMBEDDED DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE - A method for forming a trench structure is provided for a semiconductor and/or memory device, such as an DRAM device. In one embodiment, the method for forming a trench structure includes forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate, and exposing the sidewalls of the trench to an arsenic-containing gas to adsorb an arsenic containing layer on the sidewalls of the trench. A material layer is then deposited on the sidewalls of the trench to encapsulate the arsenic-containing layer between the material layer and sidewalls of the trench. | 09-13-2012 |
20130009211 | SILICON GERMANIUM FILM FORMATION METHOD AND STRUCTURE - Epitaxial deposition of silicon germanium in a semiconductor device is achieved without using masks. Nucleation delays induced by interactions with dopants present before deposition of the silicon germanium are used to determine a period over which an exposed substrate surface may be subjected to epitaxial deposition to form a layer of SiGe on desired parts with substantially no deposition on other parts. Dopant concentration may be changed to achieve desired thicknesses within preferred deposition times. Resulting deposited SiGe is substantially devoid of growth edge effects. | 01-10-2013 |