Patent Publication Number: US-7595243-B1

Title: Fabrication of semiconductor structure having N-channel channel-junction field-effect transistor

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION 
   This is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/803,203, filed 17 Mar. 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,176,530 B1. 

   FIELD OF USE 
   This invention relates to semiconductor technology and, in particular, to field-effect transistors of the insulated-gate type. 
   BACKGROUND ART 
   An insulated-gate field-effect transistor (“IGFET”) is a semiconductor device in which a gate dielectric layer electrically insulates a channel zone of a semiconductor body from an overlying gate electrode. The channel zone extends between a source and a drain that adjoin a body region of the semiconductor body. The body region, often referred to as the substrate region or substrate, is of opposite conductivity type to the source and drain. Charge carriers, i.e., electrons for an n-channel IGFET and holes for a p-channel IGFET, move from the source through the channel zone to the drain when appropriate voltages are applied to the gate electrode, source, drain, and body region. By suitably controlling these voltages, the IGFET switches between on and off conditions. 
   The terms “normally off” and “normally on” are commonly used in describing an IGFET with regard to its conductive characteristics when the gate-to-source voltage is zero and the source is connected to the body region, i.e., the gate electrode, source, and body region are at the same voltage such as ground reference. In a normally off IGFET with zero gate-to-source voltage, substantially no charge carriers flow from the source to the drain when the drain is biased so as to attract charge carriers. Charge carriers flow from the source to the drain in a normally on IGFET at zero gate-to-source voltage with the drain biased to attract charge carriers. 
   The channel zone of an IGFET may be of the same conductivity type as, or of opposite conductivity type to, the source and drain. When the channel zone is of opposite conductivity type to the source and drain, the IGFET is usually a normally off device since no conduction path from the source to the drain extends through the channel zone at zero gate-to-source voltage. By applying a gate-to-source voltage suitable to place the IGFET in a conductive condition, charge carriers are attracted to the upper surface of the channel zone and cause inversion to occur in a thin surface layer of the channel zone. The inverted surface layer forms a conductive surface channel extending from the source to the drain. As a result, this type of IGFET is commonly referred to as a “surface-channel” device. 
   An IGFET that behaves generally in the way prescribed by the classical model for an IGFET is often characterized as a “long-channel” device. An IGFET is characterized as a “short-channel” device when the channel length is shortened to such an extent that the IGFET&#39;s behavior deviates significantly from that of the classical IGFET model. Both long-channel and short-channel IGFETs are variously employed in ICs. Long-channel IGFETs are particularly suitable for many types of analog circuitry. Short-channel IGFETs are prevalent in digital applications. 
     FIG. 1  illustrates a complementary-IGFET structure containing short-channel normally off n-channel surface-channel IGFET (“SCIGFET”)  20  and short-channel normally off p-channel SCIGFET  22  created from a doped monocrystalline silicon (“monosilicon”) semiconductor body as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,548,842 B1. The “SC” portion of the acronym “SCIGFET” means surface channel rather than short channel. Field region  24  of electrically insulating material extends into the semiconductor body along its upper surface to define a group of laterally separated active semiconductor regions. Item  26  in  FIG. 1  illustrates lightly doped p-type monosilicon material that remains after SCIGFETs  20  and  22  are created. 
   N-channel SCIGFET  20  has a pair of laterally separated n-type source/drain zones  30  provided in one of the active semiconductor regions along the upper semiconductor surface. Each n-type surface-adjoining source/drain zone  30  consists of very heavily doped main portion  30 M and more lightly doped lateral extension  30 E. Although more lightly doped than n++ main source/drain portions  30 M, source/drain extensions  30 E are still heavily doped n-type. P-type channel zone  32  extends between source/drain zones  30 , primarily between n+ extensions  30 E. Channel zone  32  is part of p-type device body material that forms a pn junction with each n-type source/drain zone  30 . The p-type device body material consists of (a) well portion  34  that merges junctionlessly into p− material  26 , (b) moderately doped upper portion  36 , and (c) heavily doped halo region  38  that extends around source/drain extensions  30 E to meet main source/drain portions  30 M. 
   Gate dielectric layer  40  lies on channel zone  32 . Gate electrode  42  consisting of very heavily doped n-type polycrystalline silicon (“polysilicon”) lies on gate dielectric layer  40  and extends laterally above part of each source/drain extension  30 E. A pair of electrically insulating sidewall spacers  44  are situated respectively along the opposite transverse sidewalls of n++ gate electrode  42 . A metal silicide layer  46  is situated along the top of each main source/drain portion  30 M. Further metal silicide layer  48  is situated along the top of gate electrode  42 . 
   Configured similarly to n-channel SCIGFET  20 , p-channel SCIGFET  22  has a pair of laterally separated p-type source/drain zones  50  provided in another of the active semiconductor regions along the upper semiconductor surface. Each p-type surface-adjoining source/drain zone  50  consists of very heavily doped main portion  50 M and more lightly doped, but still heavily doped, lateral extension  50 E. N-type channel zone  52  extends between source/drain zones  50 , primarily between p+ extensions  50 E. Channel zone  52  is part of n-type device body material that forms a pn junction with each p-type source/drain zone  50 . The n-type device body material consists of (a) heavily doped well portion  54  that adjoins p− material  26  to form a pn isolation junction, (b) moderately doped upper portion  56 , and (c) heavily doped halo region  58  that extends around source/drain extensions  50 E to meet main source/drain portions  50 M. 
   Gate dielectric layer  60  lies on channel zone  52 . Gate electrode  62  consisting of very heavily doped p-type polysilicon lies on gate dielectric layer  60  and extends laterally above part of each source/drain extension  50 E. A pair of electrically insulating sidewalls spacers  64  are respectively situated along the opposite transverse sidewalls of p++ gate electrode  62 . A metal silicide layer  66  is situated along the top of each main source/drain portion  50 M. Further metal silicide layer  68  is situated along the top of gate electrode  62 . 
   SCIGFETs  20  and  22  operate across the same voltage range. Their gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  are of largely the same (average) thickness. The magnitudes (absolute values) of their threshold voltages at a given channel length are also largely the same. In particular, the magnitudes of their threshold voltages are typically in the vicinity of 0.5 V for a scaled complementary-IGFET fabrication process using minimum lithography features of 0.18-0.25 μm. 
   IGFETs  20  and  22  are highly advantageous, especially for use in digital applications. The threshold voltage of a surface-channel IGFET rolls off sharply to zero as its channel length is reduced below a value typically in the vicinity of 0.4 μm. With one source/drain zone  30  or  50  operating as the source at (any particular time) while the other source/drain zone  30  or  50  operates as the drain, halo regions  38  and  58  cause threshold voltage roll-off to be shifted to lower channel length in IGFETs  20  and  22 , thereby enabling their channel lengths to be reduced without significantly increasing the threshold voltage roll-off. Inasmuch as the source/drain drive current normally increases with decreasing channel length, the reduced channel length achieved with halo regions  38  and  58  enables IGFETs  20  and  22  to have increased drive current as is important for digital applications. 
   A pair of depletion regions (not shown) extend respectively along the drain/body and source/body junctions of an IGFET. Under certain conditions, especially when the channel length is small, the drain depletion region can extend laterally to the source depletion region and merge with it below the upper semiconductor surface. This phenomenon is termed punchthrough. If the drain depletion region punches through to the source depletion region, the operation of the IGFET cannot be controlled with the gate electrode. Accordingly, punchthrough normally needs to be avoided. 
   The net dopant concentration in the device body material, specifically upper portion  36  or  56 , of each SCIGFET  20  or  22  reaches a local subsurface maximum more than 0.1 μm below the upper semiconductor surface but not more than 0.4 μm below the upper semiconductor surface. The local subsurface maximum of the net dopant concentration of the body material for IGFET  20  or  22  also occurs below a channel surface depletion region (not shown) that extends along the upper semiconductor surface into channel zone  32  or  52  during IGFET operation. The semiconductor dopant which produces the local subsurface maximum in the body material&#39;s net dopant concentration for IGFET  20  or  22  causes the thickness of the body-side portion of the depletion region along each source/drain zone  30  or  50  to be reduced at a given voltage between zones  30  or  50 . Punchthrough is thus significantly alleviated in IGFETs  20  and  22  so as to significantly improve IGFET performance. 
   When the channel zone of an IGFET is of the same conductivity type as the source/drain zones, the channel zone is of opposite conductivity type to the body region and forms a channel-zone/body pn junction with the body region. An IGFET of this type can be a normally on device or a normally off device as described in Nishiuchi et al., “A Normally-off Type Buried-Channel MOSFET for VLSI Circuits”,  IEDM Tech. Dig ., December, 1978, pp. 26-29. Referring to U.S. Pat. No. 5,952,701, current conduction in such a normally off IGFET can occur along the upper surface of the channel zone or through a subsurface layer of the channel zone. 
   An IGFET having a channel zone of the same conductivity type as the source and drain is variously referred to by persons working in the semiconductor art using the following terms: “buried-channel MOSFET”, “implanted-channel MOSFET”, and “junction MOSFET”. Unfortunately, all of these terms are unsatisfactory. For example, characterizing such an IGFET as a “buried-channel MOSFET” is misdescriptive because source-to-drain conduction can occur through either a surface channel or a subsurface (buried) channel. As to “implanted-channel MOSFET”, the channel zone is normally created by ion implantation but does not have to be ion implanted. The term “junction MOSFET” does not make it clear that the “junction” is the channel-zone/body junction. Consequently, “junction MOSFET” is confusingly similar to the term “junction field-effect transistor” applied to a field-effect transistor having no gate dielectric layer. 
   Herein, an IGFET whose channel zone is of the same conductivity type as the source and drain is generally referred to as a “channel-junction insulated-gate field-effect transistor,” where the modifier “channel-junction” refers to the pn junction formed between the channel zone and the body region. Consequently, a channel-junction insulated-gate field-effect transistor (“CJIGFET”) generally means any transistor commonly referred to as a buried-channel MOSFET, an implanted-channel MOSFET, or a junction MOSFET. In particular, a normally off CJIGFET is a normally off IGFET having a channel zone of the same conductivity type as the source and drain. 
   CJIGFETs are often used in complementary-IGFET applications in which one of the two types of opposite-polarity IGFETs is a normally off CJIGFET while the other type is a surface-channel IGFET. In Hu et al., “Design and Fabrication of P-channel FET for 1-μm CMOS Technology,”  IEDM Tech. Dig.  11-15 December 1982, pages 710-713, the p-channel device is a normally off CJIGFET while the n-channel device is an SCIGFET. The opposite occurs in Parrillo et al., “A Fine-Line CMOS Technology That Uses P +  Polysilicon/Silicide Gates for NMOS and PMOS Devices,”  IEDM Tech, Die ., December 1984, pages 418-422. 
   SCIGFETs and normally off CJIGFETs have various advantages and disadvantages. For instance, an SCIGFET is typically easier to fabricate, especially with a threshold voltage that stays within desired limits at short channel length. On the other hand, a normally off CJIGFET typically has lower noise. See Hu et al., cited above, and Nishida et al., “SoC CMOS Technology for NBTI/HCI Immune I/O and Analog Circuits Implementing Surface and Buried Channel Structures”,  IEDM Tech. Die.,  2-5 December 2001, pages. 39.4.1-39.4.4. 
   IGFETs, especially long-channel IGFETs, employed in analog circuitry commonly operate across greater voltage ranges than short-channel IGFETs utilized in digital circuitry. As a result, the thickness of the gate dielectric layer of an IGFET designed for analog circuitry is often greater than the thickness of the gate dielectric layer of an IGFET designed for digital circuitry. In mixed-signal applications having both digital and analog circuitry, semiconductor fabrication processes commonly provide complementary IGFETs at two different gate dielectric thicknesses so that complementary IGFETs at a low gate dielectric thickness are available for the digital circuitry while complementary IGFETs at a high gate dielectric thickness are available for the analog circuitry. 
     FIG. 2  generally depicts a complementary-IGFET structure having a first pair of normally off complementary IGFETs  80  and  82  at one gate dielectric thickness and a second pair of normally off complementary IGFETs  84  and  86  at another (different) gate dielectric thickness as described in Nishida et al. cited above. Recessed electrically insulating field region  88  laterally separates the source/drain zones of each IGFET  80 ,  82 ,  84 , or  86  from the source/drain zones of each other IGFET  80 ,  82 ,  84 , or  86 . Various wells (not shown) are provided in semiconductor body  90 . 
   IGFETs  80  and  82 , which are at the higher gate dielectric thickness, operate across the higher of a pair of voltage ranges. IGFET  80  is an n-channel surface-channel device. IGFET  82  is a p-channel channel-junction device. Item  92  is the p-type channel zone for CJIGFET  82 . Nishida et al. does not indicate that any special means is utilized to alleviate punchthrough in high-voltage IGFETs  80  and  82 . 
   IGFETs  84  and  86 , which are at the lower gate dielectric thickness, operate across the lower voltage range and are shown as being of lesser channel length than IGFETs  80  and  82 . IGFET  84  is a n-channel surface-channel device. IGFET  86  is a p-channel surface-channel device. Low-voltage SCIGFETs  84  and  86  are similar to SCIGFETs  20  and  22  of  FIG. 1  except that IGFETs  84  and  86  are not provided with halo regions to alleviate short-channel threshold-voltage roll-off. Nor does Nishida et al. indicate that any means is employed to alleviate punchthrough in low-voltage IGFETs  84  and  86 . 
   Low-frequency noise that occurs in an IGFET is commonly referred to as “1/f” noise because the low-frequency noise is usually roughly proportional to the inverse of the IGFET&#39;s switching frequency. Nishida et al. reports that implementing p-channel high-voltage IGFET  82  as a channel-junction device improves the noise characteristics by causing the 1/f noise to be reduced to about one third of the 1/f noise that would occur if IGFET  82  were a surface-channel device. Unfortunately, n-channel high-voltage SCIGFET  80  appears to be relatively noisy. It would be desirable to have a semiconductor technology in which complementary IGFETs are provided at two different gate dielectric thicknesses such that the complementary IGFETs at the higher gate dielectric thickness incur less 1/f noise than high-voltage IGFETs  80  and  82 . 
   GENERAL DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION 
   The present invention takes advantage of certain materials properties which are asymmetrical with respect to the n and p types of semiconductor conductivity to achieve an insulated-gate field-effect transistor technology having performance characteristics that are greatly improved over the prior art. These properties include (a) higher electron mobility than hole mobility, (b) higher electron channel-zone-to-gate-dielectric tunneling probability than hole channel-zone-to-gate-dielectric tunneling probability, and (c) differences in diffusion rates and other characteristics between n-type dopants and p-type dopants. By taking advantages of these materials properties, especially the electron-to-hole mobility difference and the electron-to-hole channel-zone-to-gate-dielectric tunneling probability difference, in accordance with the invention, the present IGFET technology enables 1/f noise to be reduced by a large factor while signal gain is increased. 
   The IGFET technology of the invention combines a normally off n-channel channel-junction IGFET (again, “CJIGFET”) with an n-channel surface-channel IGFET (again, “SCIGFET”). The n-channel CJIGFET is normally of greater gate dielectric thickness than the n-channel SCIGFET so that the n-channel CJIGFET operates across a greater voltage range than the n-channel SCIGFET. The n-channel CJIGFET can conduct current by way of a field-induced surface channel or a metallurgical subsurface channel. In either case, the n-channel CJIGFET incurs much less, typically at least 90% less, 1/f noise than an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off n-channel surface-channel IGFET, i.e., an n-channel SCIGFET that operates across the same voltage range as the n-channel CJIGFET and thus across a greater voltage range than the n-channel SCIGFET used in the present technology. 
   A p-channel SCIGFET is preferably combined with the two n-channel devices so as to achieve a complementary-IGFET technology. The n-channel and p-channel SCIGFETs are typically of approximately the same gate dielectric thickness. Hence, the n-channel CJIGFET is normally of greater dielectric thickness than both SCIGFETS. 
   In fabricating a complementary-IGFET structure containing the n-channel CJIGFET and the two SCIGFETs, channel-zone-defining n-type semiconductor dopant is introduced into a semiconductor body to define an n-type region that includes a surface-adjoining n-type channel zone for the n-channel CJIGFET. The semiconductor body is then provided with a gate dielectric layer for each IGFET. A gate electrode for each IGFET is provided over its gate dielectric layer. The provision of the gate dielectric layers and gate electrodes can be done in various ways such that the gate dielectric layer for the n-channel CJIGFET is thicker than the gate dielectric layers for the two SCIGFETs. 
   For example, a first dielectric layer can be formed along the semiconductor body at least along the lateral locations for the three gate dielectric layers. Largely all the material of the first dielectric layer is removed generally along the lateral locations for the gate dielectric layers of the two SCIGFETs. A second dielectric layer, preferably thinner than the first dielectric layer, is formed along the semiconductor body at least along the lateral locations for the gate dielectric layers of the two SCIGFETs. The gate dielectric layer of each of the two SCIGFETS then includes a portion of the second dielectric layer while the gate dielectric layer of the n-channel CJIGFET includes a portion of the remainder of the first dielectric layer. The gate electrodes are defined by depositing a semiconductor layer over the second dielectric layer and the remainder of the first dielectric layer, patterning the semiconductor layer, and doping it with suitable semiconductor dopants. 
   Alternatively, a first dielectric layer can again be formed along the semiconductor body at least along the lateral locations for the three gate dielectric layers. Instead of removing largely all the material of the first dielectric layer generally along the lateral locations for the gate dielectric layers of the two SCIGFETs, a first semiconductor layer is deposited over the first dielectric layer. Largely all the material of the first semiconductor layer and the first dielectric layer is then removed along the lateral locations for the gate dielectric layers of the two SCIGFETs. 
   The IGFET processing in the foregoing alternative continues with the formation of a second dielectric layer, again preferably thicker than the first dielectric layer, along the semiconductor body at least along the lateral locations for the gate dielectric layers of the two SCIGFETs. A second semiconductor layer is formed over the second dielectric layer. The two semiconductor layers are then patterned and doped with suitable semiconductor dopants to define the gate electrodes for the three IGFETs. The gate dielectric layer of each SCIGFET again includes a portion of the second dielectric layer while the gate dielectric layer of the n-channel CJIGFET includes a portion of the remainder of the first dielectric layer. This alternative technique for defining the gate dielectric layers and gate electrodes, although slightly more complex than the first-mentioned technique, avoids exposing the material which later becomes the gate dielectric layer for the n-channel CJIGFET to potential contaminates, such as photoresist employed in removing largely all the material of the first dielectric layer along the lateral locations for the gate dielectric layers of the two SCIGFETs, since the first semiconductor layer covers the first dielectric layer at that point in the alternative technique. 
   Regardless of how the gate dielectric layers and gate electrodes are defined for the three IGFETs, n-type semiconductor dopant is introduced into the semiconductor body to define one pair of n-type source/drain zones for the n-channel SCIGFET and another pair of n-type source/drain zones for the n-channel CJIGFET. The n-type source/drain dopant introduction operation is performed in such a way that the n-type channel zone of the n-channel CJIGFET extends between, and is more lightly doped than, its n-type source/drain zones. P-type semiconductor dopant is introduced into the semiconductor body to define a pair of p-type source/drain zones for the p-channel SCIGFET. The doping operations to define the source/drain zones for the three IGFETs can be performed in various orders and in various ways. For instance, each source/drain zone can be formed as a main portion and a more lightly doped lateral extension. 
   A further p-channel IGFET is preferably combined with the n-channel CJIGFET and the two SCIGFETs. As with the n-channel CJIGFET, the further p-channel IGFET normally has a thicker gate dielectric layer than each of the two SCIGFETs. The n-channel CJIGFET and the further p-channel IGFET are preferably of greater channel length than each of the two SCIGFETs. The present complementary-IGFET structure is then especially suitable for mixed-signal applications in which the two SCIGFETs are employed in digital circuitry while the n-channel CJIGFET and the further p-channel IGFET are employed in higher-voltage analog circuitry. 
   The further p-channel IGFET can be implemented as a surface-channel device or a channel-junction device. When implemented as an SCIGFET, the further p-channel IGFET incurs roughly the same 1/f noise as an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off p-channel CJIGFET. This is in sharp contrast to the n-channel situation in which an n-channel SCIGFET incurs at least ten times as much 1/f noise as an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off n-channel CJIGFET, and appears to arise largely from the above-mentioned asymmetries in which electrons, the charge carriers in n-channel IGFETs, have greater channel-zone-to-gate-dielectric tunneling probabilities than holes, the charge carriers in p-channel IGFETs. Since the n-channel CJIGFET in the present complementary-IGFET structure typically has at least 90% less 1/f noise than an otherwise comparable SCIGFET, the net result is that the n-channel CJIGFET and the surface-channel-implemented further p-channel IGFET in such an implementation of the complementary-IGFET structure of the invention together experience at least 90% less 1/f noise than the otherwise equivalent prior art reverse combination of an n-channel SCIGFET and a p-channel CJIGFET as occurs with the high-voltage IGFETs in Nishida et al. 
   When the further p-channel IGFET in the present complementary CJIGFET structure is implemented as a channel-junction device, channel-zone-defining p-type semiconductor dopant is introduced into the semiconductor body to define a p-type region that includes a p-type channel zone for the further p-channel IGFET. The p-type dopant introduction is performed in such a manner that the p-type channel zone of the channel-junction-implemented further p-channel IGFET extends between, and is more lightly doped than, its source/drain zones. Due to the 90% 1/f noise reduction achieved with the n-channel CJIGFET, the 1/f noise incurred by the combination of the n-channel CJIGFET and the further p-channel IGFET, whether implemented as a surface-channel or channel-junction device, in the complementary-IGFET structure of the invention is at least 90% less than that incurred by the above-mentioned prior art combination of an n-channel SCIGFET and a p-channel CJIGFET. 
   The channel and source/drain zones of the n-channel CJIGFET are preferably largely defined with arsenic, an n-type semiconductor dopant that diffuses slowly compared to boron, the typical p-type counterpart. This enables the CJIGFET&#39;s channel and source/drain zones to be made quite shallow and to remain quite shallow throughout subsequent elevated-temperature processing steps as other desirable characteristics are achieved for the n-channel CJIGFET. 
   In short, the present invention achieves a very large noise reduction. Fabrication of the complementary-IGFET structure of the invention is straightforward and does not require complicated processing steps. Accordingly, the invention provides a large advance over the prior art. 

   
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       FIGS. 1 and 2  are cross-sectional side structural views of prior art complementary-IGFET structures. 
       FIGS. 3.1  and  3 . 2  are cross-sectional side structural views of two portions of a complementary-IGFET structure configured according to the invention. 
       FIG. 4  is a cross-sectional side structural view of a variation, in accordance with the invention, of the complementary-IGFET structural portion of  FIG. 3.1 . 
       FIGS. 5-7  are cross-sectional side structural views of variations, in accordance with the invention, of the complementary-IGFET structural portion of  FIG. 3.2 . 
       FIG. 8  is a design chart for long-channel threshold voltage as a function of channel-zone junction depth for n-channel CJIGFETs at various values of uniform net channel-zone dopant concentration for operation varying from conduction by field-induced surface channel to conduction by a metallurgical subsurface channel. 
       FIG. 9  is a graph of net centerline dopant concentration for two normally off n-channel CJIGFETs, one conducting through a field-induced surface channel and the other conducting through a metallurgical subsurface channel. 
       FIG. 10  is a design chart for uniform net channel-zone dopant concentration as a function of channel-zone junction depth for n-channel IGFETs at various conditions, including the condition at the crossover location between field-induced surface-channel conduction and metallurgical subsurface-channel conduction. 
       FIG. 11  is a graph of surface electric field as a function of channel-zone junction depth for normally off field-induced-channel CJIGFETs at various values of uniform channel-zone dopant concentration. 
       FIGS. 12   a - 12   o ,  12   p . 1 - 12   x . 1 , and  12   p . 2 - 12   x . 2  are cross-sectional side structural views representing steps in manufacturing the complementary-IGFET structure of  FIGS. 3.1  and  3 . 2  in accordance with the invention.  FIGS. 12   a - 12   o  apply to the structural portions illustrated in both of  FIGS. 3.1  and  3 . 2 .  FIGS. 12   p . 1 - 12   x . 1  illustrate further steps leading to the structural portion of  FIG. 3.1 .  FIGS. 12   p . 2 - 12   x . 2  illustrate further steps leading to the structural portion of  FIG. 3.2 . 
       FIGS. 13   a - 13   f  are cross-sectional side structural views of an alternative, in accordance with the invention, to the steps of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   o  for defining the shapes of the gate dielectric layers and gate electrodes starting with the structure of  FIG. 12   k  repeated as  FIG. 13   a.    
       FIGS. 14   a - 14   f  are cross-sectional side structural views of an alternative, in accordance with the invention, for replacing a high-voltage p-channel surface-channel IGFET with a high-voltage p-channel channel-junction IGFET starting from the structure of  FIG. 12   e  repeated as  FIG. 14   a.    
   

   Like reference symbols are employed in the drawings and in the description of preferred embodiments to represent the same, or very similar, item or items. 
   DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
   Reference Notation and Other Conventions 
   The reference symbols employed below and in the drawings have the following meanings: 
   
     
       
         
             
             
           
             
                 
             
           
          
             
               C GD  ≡ 
               gate dielectric capacitance per unit area 
             
             
               DOSE NPOLY  ≡ 
               areal dosage of ions of n-type polysilicon gate-electrode 
             
             
                 
               dopant 
             
             
               DOSE PPOLY  ≡ 
               areal dosage of ions of p-type polysilicon gate-electrode 
             
             
                 
               dopant 
             
             
               E GD  ≡ 
               transversal electric field in gate dielectric layer 
             
             
               E ST  ≡ 
               transversal electric field at surface of channel zone at 
             
             
                 
               threshold condition 
             
             
               f ≡ 
               frequency 
             
             
               h ≡ 
               Planck&#39;s constant 
             
             
               L ≡ 
               channel length along upper semiconductor surface 
             
             
               m 0  ≡ 
               free electron mass 
             
             
               m* ≡ 
               density-of-states effective mass of charge carriers in gate 
             
             
                 
               dielectric layer 
             
             
               M ≡ 
               empirical parameter 
             
             
               M A  ≡ 
               number of azimuthal angles 
             
             
               n ≡ 
               non-ideality factor 
             
             
               N B  ≡ 
               uniform net dopant concentration in body material 
             
             
               N B0  ≡ 
               background dopant concentration in body material 
             
             
               N C  ≡ 
               uniform net dopant concentration in channel zone 
             
             
               N C0  ≡ 
               net dopant concentration at upper surface of channel zone 
             
             
               N N  ≡ 
               local net dopant concentration 
             
             
               N NPOLY  ≡ 
               uniform net dopant concentration in n-type polysilicon 
             
             
                 
               gate electrode material 
             
             
               N NSDMAX  ≡ 
               maximum net dopant concentration in n-type source/drain 
             
             
                 
               zones 
             
             
               N POLY  ≡ 
               uniform net dopant concentration in general polysilicon 
             
             
                 
               gate electrode 
             
             
               N PPOLY  ≡ 
               uniform net dopant concentration in p-type polysilicon 
             
             
                 
               gate electrode material 
             
             
               N PSDMAX  ≡ 
               maximum net dopant concentration in p-type source/drain 
             
             
                 
               zones 
             
             
               P t  ≡ 
               Fowler-Nordheim tunneling probability 
             
             
               q ≡ 
               electronic charge 
             
             
               S VG  ≡ 
               power spectral density of gate voltage noise 
             
             
               t GD  ≡ 
               thickness of gate dielectric layer 
             
             
               t POLY  ≡ 
               thickness of polysilicon material of gate electrode 
             
             
               V T  ≡ 
               general threshold voltage 
             
             
               V T0  ≡ 
               long-channel threshold voltage 
             
             
               W ≡ 
               channel width along upper semiconductor surface 
             
             
               y ≡ 
               depth into semiconductor body measured from upper 
             
             
                 
               semiconductor surface 
             
             
               y J  ≡ 
               junction depth of channel zone in CJIGFET 
             
             
               y JMAX  ≡ 
               maximum junction depth for metallurgical-channel 
             
             
                 
               operation 
             
             
               y JMIN  ≡ 
               minimum junction depth for normally off 
             
             
                 
               metallurgical-channel operation 
             
             
               ε GD  ≡ 
               dielectric constant of gate dielectric material 
             
             
               ε SC  ≡ 
               dielectric constant of semiconductor material 
             
             
               Φ B  ≡ 
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   No particular channel-length value generally separates the short-channel and long-channel regimes of IGFET operation or generally distinguishes a short-channel IGFET from a long-channel IGFET. A short-channel IGFET, or an IGFET operating in the short-channel regime, is simply an IGFET whose characteristics are significantly affected by short-channel effects. A long-channel IGFET, or an IGFET operating in the long-channel regime, is the converse of a short-channel IGFET. While the channel length value of approximately 0.4 mm roughly constitutes the boundary between the short-channel and long-channel regimes for the background art example of  FIG. 1 , the long-channel/short-channel boundary can occur at a higher or lower value of channel length depending on various factors such as gate dielectric thickness, minimum printable feature size, channel zone dopant concentration, and source/drain-body junction depth. 
   IGFETs in a particular integrated circuit are manufactured according to a manufacturing process which employs lithographic design rules characterized by a length parameter that constitutes the minimum printable feature size for those design rules. For instance, the minimum printable feature size for 0.18-μm design rules is approximately 0.18 μm. The channel length of a short-channel IGFET often approximately equals the minimum printable feature size for the design rules utilized in manufacturing that IGFET. 
   As the minimum feature size of the lithographic design rules is decreased, e.g., from 0.18 μm to 0.13 μm and then to 0.09 μm, certain IGFET dimensions are scaled down. The dopant concentrations in the various IGFET semiconductor regions are adjusted according to the scaled-down IGFET dimensions. 
   Basic Complementary-IGFET Structure Configured According to Invention 
   The present invention furnishes a complementary-IGFET semiconductor technology suitable for integrated circuits, such as mixed-signal devices having both analog and digital circuitry, which utilize complementary IGFETs that operate across two different voltage ranges.  FIGS. 3.1  and  3 . 2  (collectively “FIG.  3 ”) illustrate two portions of an example of a complementary-IGFET structure which employs the complementary-IGFET technology of the invention. The complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3  contains a short-channel normally off n-channel surface-channel IGFET  100 , a short-channel normally off p-channel surface-channel IGFET  102 , a long-channel normally off n-channel channel-junction IGFET  104 , and a long-channel normally off p-channel surface-channel IGFET  106 . 
   IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  are situated along a major surface of a doped monosilicon semiconductor body. This surface is, for convenience, generally referred to here as the upper surface of the semiconductor body or simply the upper semiconductor surface. A recessed field region of electrically insulating material, typically primarily silicon oxide, extends into the upper semiconductor surface to define a group of laterally separated active semiconductor regions. 
   The field-insulating region in  FIG. 3  is typically constituted the same as field-insulating region  24  in  FIG. 1  and, for convenience, is identified by reference symbol  24  even though the field-insulating regions of  FIGS. 1 and 3  are invariably of different lateral configuration. Each of IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  is specifically formed along the upper semiconductor surface at the location of a different one of the active semiconductor regions. Similar to  FIG. 1 , item  26  in  FIG. 3  indicates the lightly doped p-type monosilicon material remaining after IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  are created. 
   Subject to being laterally separated by field insulation  24 , complementary IGFETs  100  and  102  are otherwise depicted in  FIG. 3.1  as being laterally adjacent to each other. The same applies to complementary IGFETs  104  and  106  in  FIG. 3.2 . This lateral arrangement of IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  is only for convenience in illustration. Subject to being laterally separated by field insulation  24 , each IGFET  100 ,  102 ,  104 , or  106  may be laterally adjacent to any other IGFET  100 ,  102 ,  104 , or  106  or/and to a like-configured version of itself. 
   The complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3  may include circuit elements other than IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106 . For instance, the complementary-IGFET structure may include a long-channel version of n-channel SCIGFET  100 , a long-channel version of p-channel SCIGFET  102 , a short-channel version of normally off n-channel CJIGFET  104 , or/and a short-channel version of p-channel SCIGFET  106 . The complementary-IGFET structure may also include one or more normally on channel-junction IGFETs of the n-channel or/and p-channel type. Various types of resistors, capacitors, and inductors may be provided in the complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3 . 
   IGFETs  100  and  102  operate across the lower of the two operating voltage ranges and are often referred to here as low-voltage (“LV”) devices. In complementary fashion, IGFETs  104  and  106  are often referred to as high-voltage (“HV”) devices. Because HV IGFETs  104  and  106  operate across the higher voltage range, IGFETs  104  and  106  are of greater gate dielectric thickness than LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . 
   LV SCIGFETs  100  and  102  are respectively largely identical to SCIGFETs  20  and  22  shown in  FIG. 1  and described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,548,842 B1, cited above, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein. For convenience, the constituents of IGFETs  100  and  102 , including the underlying doped semiconductor regions, are respectively identified by the reference symbols employed to identify the corresponding constituents of IGFETs  20  and  22 , including the corresponding underlying doped semiconductor regions. 
   The operating voltage range for LV IGFETs  100  and  102  is typically 1.0-1.8 V. The length of channel zone  32  or  52  of IGFET  100  or  102  is 0.09-0.25 μm, typically 0.18 μm for 0.18-μm lithographic design rules. Taking note of the fact that n-channel IGFET  100  has a positive threshold voltage while p-channel IGFET  102  has a negative threshold voltage, the magnitude (again, absolute value) of the threshold voltage for each IGFET  100  or  102  is normally 0.4-0.6 V, typically 0.5 V, at a typical 0.18-μm channel length. For the long-channel version of IGFET  100  or  102 , the channel length is at least 0.25 μm, typically 0.50 μm for 0.18-μm design rules. 
   N-type source zones  30  of n-channel LV SCIGFET  100  are situated in one of the active semiconductor regions along the upper semiconductor surface. IGFET  100  also contains p-type channel zone  32 , p+ halo region  38 , gate dielectric layer  40 , n++ polysilicon gate electrode  42 , gate sidewalls spacers  44 , source/drain silicide layers  46 , and gate-electrode silicide layer  48  as described above for IGFET  20 . IGFET  100  has a p-type body region, referred to here generally as the p-type device body material, consisting of p+ well portion  34 , p upper portion  36 , and p+ halo region  38 . Channel zone  32  consists of the p-type material situated between n-type source/drain zones  30  and is thus formed with halo region  38  and part of upper body-material portion  36 . 
   P-type source/drain zones  50  of p-channel LV SCIGFET  102  are situated in another of the active semiconductor regions along the upper semiconductor surface. IGFET  102  also contains n-type channel zone  52 , n+ halo region  58 , gate dielectric layer  60 , p++ polysilicon gate electrode  62 , gate sidewalls spacers  64 , source/drain silicide layers  66 , and gate-electrode silicide layer  68  as described above for IGFET  22 . IGFET  102  has an n-type body region, referred to here generally as the n-type device body material, consisting of n+ well portion  54 , n upper portion  56 , and n+ halo region  58 . Channel zone  52  consists of the n-type material situated p-type source/drain zones  50  and is therefore formed with halo region  58  and part of upper body-material portion  56 . 
   Halo region  38  is defined in p-type channel zone  32  of LV IGFET  100  by introducing a p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type (LV) halo dopant, into at least the location for a portion of channel zone  32 . Halo region  58  is similarly defined in n-type channel zone  52  of LV IGFET  102  by introducing an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type (LV) halo dopant, into at least the location for a portion of channel zone  52 . As described below, introduction of the p-type and n-type halo dopants respectively into the locations for portions of channel zones  32  and  52  to form halo regions  38  and  58  is typically done by angled ion implantation subsequent to defining the shapes of gate electrodes  42  and  62 . 
   The presence of p+ halo region  38  in n-channel IGFET  100  causes the net dopant concentration in channel zone  32  at the upper semiconductor surface to reach a local surface minimum in the longitudinal direction, i.e., along the channel length, at a location between source/drain zones  30 . The presence of n+ halo region  58  in p-channel IGFET  102  similarly causes the net dopant concentration in channel zone  52  at the upper semiconductor surface to reach a local surface minimum in the longitudinal direction at a location between source/drain zones  50 . The local surface minimum in the net surface dopant concentration of channel zone  32  or  52  normally occurs approximately at the channel center, i.e., approximately halfway between source/drain zones  30  or  50 . The net dopant concentration in channel zone  32  or  52  at the upper semiconductor surface reaches a local surface maximum in the longitudinal direction at a location close to each source/drain zone  30  or  50 . The profile of the net surface dopant concentration in channel zone  32  or  52  along a vertical plane extending between source/drain zones  30  or  50  is thus shaped generally like a saddle in its longitudinal profile. 
   The long-channel version of each LV IGFET  100  or  102  receives the respective p-type or n-type halo dopant in the same manner as IGFET  100  or  102 . The length of the channel zone in the long-channel version of IGFET  100  or  102  is sufficiently great that halo region  38  or  58  is replaced with a pair of laterally separated halo pocket portions. One of the halo pocket portions extends around one of the source/drain extensions ( 30 E or  50 E) to meet the associated main source/drain portion ( 30 M or  50 M). The other halo pocket extends around the other source/drain extension ( 30 E or  50 E) to meet the other main source/drain portion ( 30 M or  50 M). The long-channel version of IGFET  100  or  102  is otherwise configured the same as IGFET  100  or  102 . Hence, the long-channel version of IGFET  100  or  102  appears as shown in  FIG. 3.1  except that the length of channel zone  32  or  52  is sufficiently great that halo region  38  or  58  splits into two separate halo pockets. 
   The amount of p-type or n-type halo dopant utilized, per unit width of channel zone  32  or  52 , to define halo region  38  or  58  in IGFET  100  or  102  is approximately equal to the amount of p-type or n-type halo dopant utilized, per unit channel width, to define the two p-type or n-type halo pockets in the long-channel version of IGFET  100  or  102 . The upper-surface dopant profile in channel zone  32  or  52  of IGFET  100  or  102  is thus defined by approximately the same amount of p-type or n-type halo dopant as the upper-surface dopant profile in channel zone  32  or  52  in the long-channel version of IGFET  100  or  102 . 
   The p-type halo dopant increases the average net dopant concentration in channel zone  32  of IGFET  100 . The n-type halo dopant similarly increases the average net dopant concentration in channel zone  52  of IGFET  102 . Inasmuch as IGFETs  100  and  102  are of lesser channel length than their long-channel versions, the p-type and n-type halo dopants cause the average net dopant concentration in channel zones  32  and  52  to increase as their channel lengths decrease. By suitably choosing the amount of p-type or n-type halo dopant, the increase in the average net dopant concentration in channel zone  32  or  52  with decreasing channel length causes short-channel threshold voltage roll-off to be shifted to lower channel length. 
   The source-to-drain drive current in an IGFET generally increases with decreasing channel length. Because the usage of halo regions  38  and  58  causes threshold-voltage roll-off to be reduced to lower channel length, LV IGFETs  100  and  102  can be designed to have reduced channel length while still having threshold voltages whose magnitude is relatively stable despite changes in IGFET characteristics, especially channel length, due to normal fabrication variations. For example, IGFETs  100  and  102  can readily be provided at channel length at least as little as 0.09 μm using 0.09-μm lithographic design rules. IGFETs  100  and  102  thereby have increased drive current making them especially suitable for many types of digital circuitry. 
   Upper body-material portions  36  and  56 , in respective combinations with halo regions  38  and  58 , help alleviate punchthrough in LV SCIGFETs  100  and  102 . P upper region  36  for IGFET  100  is defined by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type LV anti-punchthrough (“APT”) dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the p-type device body material for IGFET  100  to reach a primary local subsurface maximum in portion  36  at a depth typically no more than 0.4 μm below the upper semiconductor surface when the channel length of IGFET  100  is defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 μm. N upper portion  56  for IGFET  102  is similarly defined by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type LV APT dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the n-type device body material for IGFET  102  to reach a primary local subsurface maximum in portion  58  at a depth likewise typically no more than 0.4 μm below the upper semiconductor surface when the channel length of IGFET  102  is defined according to the same design rules. 
   The primary local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentrations of the body materials for IGFETs  100  and  102  normally occur more than 0.1 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, preferably 0.15-0.35 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, typically 0.2 μm below the upper semiconductor surface. The net dopant concentrations in channel zones  32  and  52  are sufficiently high that the surface depletion regions which respectively extend into zones  32  and  52  during IGFET operation are not more than 0.1 μm thick. For instance, the thickness of the channel surface depletion region in channel zone  32  or  52  is normally 0.04-0.06 μm, typically 0.05 μm. As produced by the p-type and n-type LV APT dopants, upper body-material portions  36  and  56  thereby reach maximum net dopant concentrations respectively below the channel surface depletion regions in channel zones  32  and  52  at a depth normally more than 0.1 μm below the upper semiconductor surface but typically not more than 0.4 μm below the upper semiconductor surface. 
   A depletion region (not shown) extends along the pn junction between each source/drain zone  30  or  50  and the adjoining body material of upper body-material portion  36  or  56  during IGFET operation. The p-type LV APT dopant causes the average net dopant concentration in channel zone  32  of IGFET  100  to be considerably increased. The n-type LV APT dopant similarly causes the average net dopant concentration in channel zone  52  of IGFET  102  to be considerably increased. By so elevating the net dopant concentrations in channel zones  32  and  52  and by positioning the p-type and n-type LV APT dopants in the manner described above, the thickness of the body-side portion of each of these source/drain-body junction depletion regions is reduced considerably at any given value of drain-to-source voltage. As a result, the p-type LV APT dopant inhibits source/drain zone  30  which acts as the drain (at any particular time) from punching through to the other source/drain zone  30 . The n-type LV APT dopant similarly inhibits drain-acting source/drain zone  50  from punching through to the other source/drain zone  50 . 
   P+ well portion  34  is defined for IGFET  100  by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type LV well dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the p-type device body material for IGFET  100  to reach a further local subsurface maximum in well  34  and thus below the location of the net dopant concentration&#39;s primary local subsurface maximum in upper body-material portion  36 . N+ well portion  54  is similarly defined for IGFET  102  by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as n-type LV well dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the n-type device body material for IGFET  102  to reach a further local subsurface maximum in well  54  and thus below the location of the net dopant concentration&#39;s primary local subsurface maximum in upper body-material portion  56 . The further local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration of the body materials for IGFETs  100  and  102  normally occur 0.4-0.8 μm, typically 0.6 μm, below the upper semiconductor surface, again when the channel lengths of IGFETs  100  and  102  are defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 μm. 
   HV CJIGFET  104  has a pair of laterally separated n-type source/drain zones  110  provided in a third of the active semiconductor regions along the upper semiconductor surface. Each n-type surface-adjoining source/drain zone  110  consists of a very heavily doped main portion  110 M and a more lightly doped lateral extension  110 E. Although more lightly doped than main source/drain portions  110 M, source/drain extensions  110 E are still heavily doped n-type. A moderately doped n-type channel zone  112  extends between source/drain zones  110 , specifically between n+ extensions  110 E. N channel zone  112  forms a pn junction with a p-type body region, referred to here generally as the p-type device body material, for IGFET  104 . The p-type device body material also forms a pn junction with each n-type source/drain zone  110 . The three pn junctions join together to form a composite pn junction. 
   The p-type device body material for IGFET  104  consists of a heavily doped well portion  114  and a moderately doped upper portion  116 . P+ well portion  114  merges junctionlessly into p− material  26 . P upper body-material portion  116  merges into well portion  114  and meets source/drain zones  110  and channel zone  112  to form the composite pn junction. Unlike IGFET  100 , the p-type device body material for IGFET  104  does not include any halo-type region more heavily doped p-type than upper body-material portion  116  and extending around either n+ source/drain extension  110 E. 
   A gate dielectric layer  120  lies on channel zone  112 . A gate electrode  122  consisting of very heavily doped p-type polysilicon lies on gate dielectric layer  120  above channel zone  112 . P++ gate electrode  122  extends laterally over part of each source/drain zone  110 , specifically over part of each extension  110 E. A pair of electrically insulating sidewall spacers  124  are respectively situated along the opposite transverse sidewalls of gate electrode  122 . A metal silicide layer  126  is situated along the top of each main source/drain portion  110 M. A further metal silicide layer  128  is situated along the top of gate electrode  122 . 
   HV CJIGFET  104  operates as a normally off device with either a metallurgical channel (often simply “MC”) or a field-induced channel (often simply “FIC”) depending on various factors such as the thickness (depth) of channel zone  112 , the thickness of gate dielectric layer  120 , and the net dopant concentrations in n channel zone  112 , p+ well  114 , p upper body-material portion  116 , and p++ gate electrode  122 . One of source/drain zones  110  acts as the source (at any particular time) while the other source/drain zone  110  acts as the drain. To understand the MC and FIC embodiments, assume that the drain voltage of IGFET  104  exceeds its source voltage since IGFET  104  is an n-channel device. As a normally off device, n-channel IGFET  104  has a positive threshold voltage. 
   In an MC embodiment of IGFET  104 , a surface depletion region (not shown) extends from the upper semiconductor surface into n channel zone  112  from source to drain. A junction depletion region (not shown) extends along the pn junction between channel zone  112  and p upper body-material portion  116  from source to drain. When the gate-to-source voltage of IGFET  104  is greater than or equal to its positive threshold voltage, a subsurface channel of non-depleted n-type material extends between the channel surface depletion region and the channel-side portion of the junction depletion region from source to drain. Current flows between the source and drain by way of this subsurface metallurgical channel. IGFET  104  is turned on. 
   Reducing the gate-to-source voltage of IGFET  104  to a value, e.g., zero, below its threshold voltage causes the channel surface depletion region to merge with the junction depletion region, specifically the channel-side portion, at least at a location along the drain. The subsurface metallurgical channel is broken so that current can no longer flow between the source and drain. IGFET  104  turns off. The threshold voltage for an MC embodiment of IGFET  104  is normally 0.1-1.0 V, typically 0.5 V. The thickness of channel zone  112  for the MC embodiment is normally 0.05-0.15 μm, typically 0.1 μm. 
   In an FIC embodiment of IGFET  104 , an electrically conductive channel extending from source to drain is induced in a layer of channel zone  112  along the upper semiconductor surface when the gate-to-source voltage of CJIGFET  104  is greater than or equal to its positive threshold voltage. The induced surface channel consists of electrons attracted to the upper surface of channel zone  112  by the transversal electric field that results from the gate-to-source voltage being greater than or equal to the threshold voltage. Current flows between the source and drain by way of the induced surface channel. IGFET  104  is turned on. A depletion region extending along the pn junction between n channel zone  112  and p upper body-material portion  116  occupies the remainder of channel zone  112 , i.e., from the induced surface channel to the channel-zone/body pn junction. In effect, an electron surface channel is induced at the top of the depletion region. 
   Reducing the gate-to-source voltage of IGFET  104  to a value, e.g., zero, below its positive threshold voltage during operation in an FIC embodiment causes the induced surface channel to disappear. The depletion region extending along the pn junction between channel zone  112  and upper body-material portion  116  now occupies all of channel zone  112 . IGFET  104  turns off. The threshold voltage for an FIC embodiment of IGFET  104  is normally 0.7-0.12 V, typically 0.9 V. The thickness of channel zone  112  for the FIC embodiment is normally 0.03-0.08 μm, typically 0.05 μm. 
   P upper body-material portion  116  helps alleviate punchthrough in HV CJIGFET  104 . P upper portion  116  is defined by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type HV APT dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the p-type device body material for IGFET  104  to reach a primary local subsurface maximum in portion  116  at a location below channel zone  112  but typically not more than 0.6 μm below the upper semiconductor surface when the channel length of IGFET  104  is defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 um. The primary local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of the body material for IGFET  104  normally occurs more than 0.2 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, preferably 0.25-0.4 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, typically 0.3 μm below the upper semiconductor surface. 
   A depletion region (not shown) extends along the pn junction between each n-type source/drain zone  110  and p upper body-material portion  116 . The p-type LV APT dopant causes the average net dopant concentration in the p body material situated between source/drain zones  110  below n channel zone  112  to be increased considerably. By so elevating the net dopant concentration in this part of p body material portion  116  and by positioning the p-type HV APT dopant in the foregoing manner, the thickness of the body-side portion of each of these source/drain-body depletion regions is reduced considerably at any given value of the voltage between source/drain zones  110 . As a result, the p-type HV APT dopant inhibits source/drain zone  110  acting as the drain (at any particular time) from punching through the p-type body material below channel zone  112  and reaching the other source/drain zone  110 . 
   P+ well  114  for HV CJIGFET  104  is defined by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type HV well dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the p-type device body material for IGFET  104  to reach a further local subsurface maximum in well  114  and thus below the location of the net dopant concentration&#39;s primary subsurface maximum in upper body-material portion  116 . The further local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of the body material for IGFET  104  normally occurs 0.4-1.0 μm, typically 0.7 μm, below the upper semiconductor surface, again when the channel length of IGFET  104  is defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 μm. 
   HV SCIGFET  106  has a pair of laterally separated p-type source/drain zones  130  provided in a fourth of the active semiconductor regions along the upper semiconductor surface. Each p-type surface-adjoining source/drain zone  130  consists of a very heavily doped main portion  130 M and a more lightly doped, but still heavily doped, lateral extension  130 E. An n-type channel zone  132  extends between source/drain zones  130 , primarily between n+ extensions  130 E. Channel zone  132  is part of an n-type body region, referred to here generally as the n-type device body material, for IGFET  106 . The n-type device body material forms a pn junction with each n-type source/drain zone  130 . 
   The n-type device body material for IGFET  106  consists of a heavily doped well portion  134  and an upper portion  136 . N+ well portion  134  adjoins p− material  26  to form a pn junction. N upper body-material portion  136  merges into well portion  134  and meets each p-type source/drain zone  130  to form a source/drain-body pn junction. Channel zone  132  consists of the n-type material situated between source/drain zones  130  and is thus formed by part of upper body-material portion  136 . Unlike IGFET  102 , the n-type device body material for IGFET  106  does not include any halo-type region more heavily doped n-type than upper body-material portion  136  and extending around either p+ source/drain extension  130 E. 
   A gate dielectric layer  140  lies on channel zone  132 . A gate electrode  142  consisting of very heavily doped p-type polysilicon lies on gate dielectric layer  140  above channel zone  132 . P++ gate electrode  142  extends laterally over part of each source/drain zone  130 , specifically over part of each extension  130 E. A pair of electrically insulating sidewall spacers  144  are respectively situated along the opposite transverse sidewalls of gate electrode  142 . A metal silicide layer  146  is situated along the top of each main source/drain portion  130 M. A further metal silicide layer  148  is situated along the top of gate electrode  142 . 
   N upper body-material portion  136  helps alleviate punchthrough in HV SCIGFET  106 . N upper portion  136  is defined by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV APT dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the n-type device body material for IGFET  106  to reach a primary local subsurface maximum in portion  136  at a location below a channel surface depletion region that extends into channel zone  132  along the upper semiconductor surface during IGFET operation but typically not more than 0.6 μm below the upper semiconductor surface when the channel length of IGFET  106  is defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 um. The primary local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of the body material for IGFET  106  normally occurs more than 0.2 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, preferably 0.25-0.4 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, typically 0.3 μm below the upper semiconductor surface. 
   The net dopant concentration in n channel zone  132  is sufficiently high that its channel surface depletion region is not more than 0.2 μm thick. For instance, the thickness of the channel surface depletion region in channel zone  132  is normally 0.1-0.2 μm, typically 0.15 μm. As produced by the n-type HV APT dopant, n upper body-material portion  136  thereby reaches a maximum net dopant concentration below the surface depletion region of channel zone  132  at a depth normally more than 0.2 μm below the upper semiconductor surface but typically not more than 0.6 μm below the upper semiconductor surface. 
   A depletion region (not shown) extends along the pn junction between each p-type source/drain zone  130  and n upper body-material portion  136 . The n-type HV APT dopant causes the average net dopant concentration in channel zone  132  to be increased considerably. By so elevating the net dopant concentration in channel zone  132  and by positioning the n-type HV APT dopant in the manner described above, the thickness of the body-side portion of each of these source/drain-body depletion regions is reduced considerably at any given value of the voltage between source/drain zones  130 . Consequently, the n-type HV APT dopant inhibits source/drain zone  130  acting as the drain (at any particular time) from punching through to the other source/drain zone  130 . 
   N+ well portion  134  for HV SCIGFET  106  is defined by providing the semiconductor body with an ion-implanted n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV well dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the n-type device body material for IGFET  106  to reach a further local subsurface maximum in well  134  and thus at a location below the location of the net dopant concentration&#39;s primary local subsurface maximum in n upper body-material portion  136 . The further local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of the body material of IGFET  106  normally occurs 0.4-1.0 μm, typically 0.7 μm, below the upper semiconductor surface, again when the channel length of IGFET  106  is defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 μm. 
   The operating voltage range for HV IGFETs  104  and  106  is typically 3.3-5.0 V. Subject to each HV IGFET  104  or  106  being of greater channel length than each LV IGFET  100  or  102 , the length of channel zone  112  or  132  of IGFET  104  or  106  is 0.25-2.0 μm, typically 1.0 μm, for 0.18-μm lithographic design rules. With IGFET  104  having a positive threshold voltage of 0.7-1.2 V, typically 0.9 V, as indicated above, IGFET  106  has a negative threshold voltage of −0.7-−1.2 V, typically −0.9 V. 
   The thickness of gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  of LV IGFETs  100  and  102  is normally 2-8 nm. The thickness of gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106  is normally 6-16 nm. Although the thickness range for gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  overlaps the thickness range for gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 , the values of the gate dielectric thicknesses within these ranges for any particular implementation of IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  are chosen such that gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  are thicker than, typically at least twice as thick as, gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 . The thickness of gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  is preferably 3-5 nm, typically 3.5 nm for operation across a 1.8-V voltage range. The thickness of gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  is preferably 7-13 nm, typically 12 nm for operation across a 5.0-V voltage range. 
   Gate dielectric layers  40 ,  60 ,  120 , and  140  normally contain oxygen and silicon. With no other element being present to a significant degree in layers  40 ,  60 ,  120 , and  140 , the silicon and oxygen form silicon oxide. 
   Gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  are, as described below, typically formed at the same time. When the polysilicon of gate electrode  62  of IGFET  102  is made p-type by very heavy doping with boron, nitrogen may be incorporated into gate dielectric layer  60  of IGFET  102  to inhibit boron in p++ gate electrode  62  from penetrating through gate dielectric  60  into channel zone  52  and causing undesired threshold-voltage shift in IGFET  102 . In so doing, nitrogen is also incorporated into gate dielectric layer  40  of IGFET  100 . Layers  40  and  60  then consist of silicon oxynitride. 
   Gate dielectric layers  120  and  140 , which are considerably thicker than gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 , are usually sufficiently thick that boron in gate electrodes  122  and  142  of IGFETs  104  and  106  does not penetrate significantly through layers  120  and  140  into channel zones  112  and  132  when gate electrodes  122  and  142  are made p-type by doping with boron. Although nitrogen can be incorporated into gate dielectric layers  120  and  140 , so that they consist of silicon oxynitride, nitrogen is typically not incorporated into layers  120  and  140 . 
   Metal silicide layers  46 ,  66 ,  126 ,  146 ,  48 ,  68 ,  128 , and  148 , typically consisting of cobalt silicide, facilitate making electrical contact respectively to source/drain zones  30 ,  50 ,  110 , and  130  and gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142 . Electrode  42  and silicide layer  48  form a composite gate electrode  42 / 48  for IGFET  100 . Electrode  62  and silicide layer  68  form a composite gate electrode  62 / 68  for IGFET  102 . Electrode  122  and silicide layer  128  form a composite gate electrode  122 / 128  for IGFET  104 . Electrode  142  and silicide layer  148  form a composite gate electrode  142 / 148  for IGFET  106 . 
   Complementary-IGFET Structural Variations 
   The complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3  can be modified in various ways.  FIGS. 4-7  illustrate four ways of modifying either the LV structural portion of  FIG. 3.1  or the HV structural portion of  FIG. 3.2 . The IGFET elements and other structural components in the modifications of  FIGS. 4-7  are identified with the same reference symbols used respectively for the corresponding IGFET elements and other structural components in  FIG. 3  to the extent that the elements and components in  FIGS. 4-7  are respectively the same or substantially the same as in  FIG. 3 . 
   In  FIG. 4 , n-channel. LV SCIGFET  100  is replaced with a short-channel normally off n-channel LV surface-channel IGFET  160  whose p-type device body material is provided with an ion-implanted p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type LV isolation dopant, for flattening the vertical dopant profile between the primary (APT) and further (well) local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration of the p-type body material. P-channel LV SCIGFET  102  is similarly replaced with a short-channel normally off p-channel LV surface-channel IGFET  162  whose n-type device body material is provided with an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type LV isolation dopant, for flattening the vertical dopant profile between the primary (APT) and further (well) local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration of the n-type body material. Although  FIG. 4  depicts both of SCIGFETs  160  and  162 , a modification of the complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3  may include one of IGFETs  100  and  102  and the complementary one of IGFETs  160  and  162 , i.e., n-channel IGFET  100  and p-channel IGFET  162  or p-channel IGFET  102  and n-channel IGFET  160 . 
   The p-type LV isolation dopant for IGFET  160  defines a heavily doped p-type intermediate body-material portion  164  that lies between, and merges into, p+ well portion  34  and p upper body-material portion  36 . The n-type LV isolation dopant for IGFET  162  similarly defines a heavily doped n-type intermediate body-material portion  166  that lies between, and merges into, n+ well  54  and n upper body-material portion  56 . While intermediate body-material portions  164  and  166  are described here as heavily doped, they could alternatively be described as moderately doped. P+ well portion  34  and p+ intermediate portion  164  form a composite p-type LV well  34 / 164  for IGFET  160 . N+ well portion  54  and n+ intermediate portion  166  form a composite n-type LV well  54 / 166  for IGFET  162 . 
   The p-type LV isolation dopant causes the net dopant concentration for the p-type device body material of IGFET  160  to reach, in intermediate body-material portion  164 , an additional local subsurface maximum at a location between the locations for the primary (APT) and further (well) local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration for that p-type body material. The n-type LV isolation dopant similarly causes the net dopant concentration for the n-type device body material of IGFET  162  to reach, in intermediate body-material portion  166 , an additional local subsurface maximum at a location between the locations for the primary (APT) and further (well) local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration for that n-type body material. The additional local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration for the body materials of IGFETs  160  and  162  each normally occur 0.3-0.5 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, typically 0.4 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, when the channel lengths of IGFETs  160  and  162  are defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 μm. 
   Intermediate body-material portions  164  and  166  function to eliminate weak regions where currently leakage can occur. In particular, the p-type LV isolation dopant helps isolate composite p-type LV well  34 / 164  from an adjacent n-type well so as to avoid well-to-well current leakage. The n-type LV isolation dopant helps isolate composite n-type LV well  54 / 166  from an adjacent p-type well, thereby likewise avoiding well-to-well current leakage. 
   Referring to  FIG. 5 , p-channel HV SCIGFET  106  may be modified in some implementations to form a long-channel normally off p-channel HV surface-channel IGFET  180  whose n-type device body material is extended downward to include a heavily doped well portion  182 . The present complementary-IGFET structure may thus include one or more implementations of HV SCIGFET  106  and one or more implementations of HV SCIGFET  180 . N+ deep well portion  182  ensures that IGFET  180  is pn-junction isolated from p− material  26  and from p-type wells such as p+ well  114  of IGFET  104  or p+ well  34  of IGFET  100  or  160 . 
   N+ well  134  constitutes a shallow well portion for IGFET  180 , the n-type HV well dopant employed to form well  134  then being referred to as the n-type HV shallow well dopant for IGFET  180 . Shallow well portion  134  and deep well portion  182  together form a composite heavily doped n-type well portion  134 / 182 . N+ deep well  182  is defined by providing the semiconductor body with an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV deep well dopant, that causes the net dopant concentration in the n-type device body material for IGFET  180  to reach, in deep well  182 , an additional local subsurface maximum at a location below the location of the further (shallow well) subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of that n-type body material and thus also below the location of the primary (APT) subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of that n-type body material. The additional local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of the n-type body material for IGFET  180  normally occurs 0.6-1.0 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, typically 0.8 μm below the upper semiconductor surface when the channel length of IGFET  180  is defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 μm. Introduction of the n-type HV deep well dopant is normally done by ion implantation. 
   In  FIG. 6 , a long-channel normally off p-channel HV channel-junction IGFET  184  replaces p-channel HV surface-channel IGFET  106 . The present complementary-IGFET structure may include both CJIGFET  184  and SCIGFET  106  in some applications. CJIGFET  184  is configured the same as SCIGFET  106  except that a moderately doped p-type channel zone  186  extends between n-type source/drain zones  130 , specifically between n+ extensions  130 E, in IGFET  184 . P channel zone  186  forms a pn junction with upper portion  136  of the n-type device body material for IGFET  184 . Also, IGFET  184  has a very heavily doped n-type polysilicon gate electrode  188  that replaces p++ gate electrode  142  of IGFET  106 . Electrode  188  and metal silicide layer  148  form a composite gate electrode  188 / 148  for IGFET  106 . 
   Similar to CJIGFET  104 , CJIGFET  184  operates as a normally off device with either a metallurgical channel or a field-induced channel depending on various factors including the characteristics of channel zone  186 . To understand the MC and FIC embodiments of IGFET  184 , assume that the voltage at drain-acting source/drain zone  130  is less than the voltage at source-acting source/drain zone  130  since IGFET  184  is a p-channel IGFET. As a normally off p-channel device, IGFET  184  has a negative threshold voltage. 
   In an MC embodiment of IGFET  184 , placing the gate-to-source voltage at a value less than or equal to the negative threshold voltage turns IGFET  184  on and causes it to conduct current by way of a subsurface metallurgical channel of non-depleted p-type material that extends from source-acting source/drain zone  130  through p-channel zone  186  to drain-acting source/drain zone  130 . This subsurface metallurgical channel lies between (a) a surface depletion region that extends into channel zone  186  along the upper semiconductor surface and (b) the channel-side portion of a junction depletion region that extends along the pn junction between p channel zone  186  and n upper body-material portion  136 . The channel surface depletion region merges with the junction depletion region, specifically the channel-side portion, to break the metallurgical subsurface channel and turn IGFET  184  off when the gate-to-source voltage rises to a value above the negative threshold voltage. 
   In an FIC embodiment, CJIGFET  184  conducts current through an electrically conductive channel induced in a layer of channel zone  186  extending along the upper semiconductor surface from source-acting source/drain zone  130  to drain-acting source/drain zone  130  so that IGFET  184  is turned on when the gate-to-source voltage is less than the negative threshold voltage. The induced surface channel consists of holes attracted to the upper surface of channel zone  186  by the transversal electric field that arises from having the gate-to-source voltage be less than or equal to the negative threshold voltage. The channel-side portion of the depletion region extending along the pn junction between channel zone  186  and upper body-material portion  136  occupies the remainder of channel zone  186 . Raising the gate-to-source voltage to a value above the negative threshold voltage of IGFET  184  causes the surface channel to disappear, thereby turning IGFET  184  off. The channel-side portion of the junction depletion region then occupies all of channel zone  186 . 
     FIG. 7  depicts a variation of the present complementary-IGFET structure in which another long-channel normally-off p-channel HV channel-junction IGFET  190  replaces p-channel HV surface-channel IGFET  106 . The complementary-IGFET structure of the invention may include CJIGFET  190  and CJIGFET  184  or SCIGFET  106 . SCIGFET  106  and CJIGFETs  184  and  190  can all be present in some applications. CJIGFET  190  is configured the same as CJIGFET  184  except that the n-type device body material is extended downward in IGFET  190  to include n+ deep well portion  182  of CJIGFET  180 . CJIGFET  190  operates the same as CJIGFET  184  in either the MC mode or the FIC mode. N+ well portion  182  in IGFET  190  performs the same function as in IGFET  180 . 
   CJIGFET Operational Modeling and Design 
   The term “crossover” as applied to a channel-junction IGFET refers to the regime of IGFET parameter values in which the CJIGFET transitions between a metallurgical-channel embodiment and a field-induced-channel embodiment.  FIG. 8  presents an example of the crossover characteristics for a long-channel n-channel CJIGFET that approximates normally off n-channel CJIGFET  104 . In the model used for generating  FIG. 8 , it is assumed that the n, channel zone has a uniform net dopant concentration N C , that the p-type device body material below the channel zone has a uniform net dopant concentration N B , and that a step change in net dopant concentration occurs in going across the pn junction between the n channel zone and the p-type body material. 
   The net dopant concentration in CJIGFET  104  actually varies continuously in crossing the channel-zone/body pn junction and, in fact, drops to zero at the channel-zone/body junction. This situation is indicated in  FIG. 9  for two examples of net dopant concentration N N  through the vertical centerline of a long-channel n-channel channel-junction IGFET as a function of depth y into the semiconductor body starting from its upper surface. The net dopant concentration in the n channel zone of the CJIGFET modeled in  FIG. 9  substantially reaches a maximum value N C0  at the upper semiconductor surface. The net dopant concentration in the p-type body material of the modeled CJIGFET reaches a maximum background value N B0  in the bulk of the body material, e.g., in the bulk of upper body-material portion  116  in IGFET  104 . 
   Uniform net channel-zone dopant concentration N C  and uniform net body-material dopant concentration N B  of  FIG. 8  can be reasonably approximated respectively as net channel-zone surface concentration N C0  and net body-material bulk concentration N B0  of  FIG. 9 . Alternatively, uniform net channel-zone dopant concentration N C  can be equated to the average net dopant concentration in the channel zone, e.g., channel zone  112  in IGFET  104 . Uniform net body-material dopant concentration N B  can then be equated to the average net dopant concentration in upper body-material portion  116  of IGFET  104 . 
   Returning to  FIG. 8  with the foregoing comments about uniform concentrations N C  and N B  in mind,  FIG. 8  specifically illustrates how long-channel threshold voltage V T0  varies as a function of depth y J  of the channel-zone/body pn junction at six different values of uniform net channel-zone dopant concentration N C  for a long-channel n-channel CJIGFET whose uniform net body-material dopant concentration N B , net gate-electrode polysilicon dopant concentration N POLY , and gate-dielectric thickness t GD  are suitable for n-channel CJIGFET  104 . Long-channel threshold voltage V T0  is the value of threshold voltage V T  when the channel length is sufficiently great to avoid short-channel effects. In this regard, the reverse short-channel effect in which threshold voltage V T  decreases slowly with increasing channel length in the long-channel regime is not included in the model of the IGFET for  FIG. 8 . Since the n channel zone of the modeled CJIGFET extends to the upper semiconductor surface, channel-zone junction depth y J  is also the thickness of the channel zone such as n channel zone  112  in IGFET  104 . Gate dielectric thickness t GD  in  FIG. 8  is 10 nm, slightly less than the typical 12-nm value for the thickness of gate dielectric layer  120  in IGFET  104  for 5.0-V operation. 
   For a channel-junction IGFET to operate with a metallurgical channel, channel-zone junction depth y J  must lie between a minimum junction depth y JMIN  and a maximum junction depth y JMAX . Minimum junction depth y JMIN  and maximum junction depth y JMAX  are both functions of uniform net channel-zone net dopant concentration N C  and uniform net body-material dopant concentration N B  as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,952,701, cited above, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein. If junction depth y J  is greater than or equal to y JMAX , the metallurgical (subsurface) channel through the channel zone of the n-channel CJIGFET modeled in  FIG. 8  is never pinched off at any value of the gate-to-source voltage. The CJIGFET is then an always on device. 
   The CJIGFET operates with a field-induced channel when channel-zone junction depth y J  is less than y JMIN  Consequently, minimum junction depth y JMIN  is the boundary between the MC and FIC parameter regimes for any particular value of uniform net dopant concentrations N C  and N B . Alternatively stated, uniform net channel-zone dopant concentration N C  is a function of minimum junction depth y JMIN  at any particular value of uniform net body-material dopant concentration N B  as illustrated in  FIG. 10  for the situation in which body-material concentration N B  is 3×10 16  atoms/cm 3 . The CJIGFET operates with a field-induced channel when the combination of channel-zone concentration N C  and minimum junction depth y JMIN  is below the N C (y JMIN ) curve in  FIG. 10 , and with a metallurgical channel when the combination of concentration N C  and depth y JMIN  is above the N C (y JMIN ) curve. 
   Returning again to  FIG. 8 , the upper and lower limits for operation with a metallurgical channel are respectively indicated by the dashed lines labeled V T0 (y JMIN ) and V T0 (y JMAX ). Note that the value of long-channel threshold voltage V T0  for an MC embodiment extends into the parameter regime where the MC CJIGFET is a normally on device with a negative threshold voltage. Hence, the CJIGFET modeled in  FIG. 8  operates with a metallurgical channel as a normally off device in the parameter regime between the V T0 (y JMIN ) curve and the line at which threshold voltage V T0  is zero. The CJIGFET operates with a field-induced channel as a normally off device in the parameter regime above the V T0 (y JMIN ) curve. The V T0 (y J ) curves at the various values of channel-zone concentration N C  transition seamlessly between the MC and FIC regimes. 
   An especially suitable value of uniform net channel-zone dopant concentration N C  is 1×10 17  atoms/cm 3 . It is typically desirable that the threshold voltage of n-channel CJIGFET  104  be in the vicinity of 0.6 V for normally off operation. Using the model of  FIGS. 8-10 , this threshold-voltage value can be achieved by utilizing an MC embodiment with channel-zone junction depth y J  set at 0.1 μm for the condition in which uniform net body-material dopant concentration N B  is 3×10 16  atoms/cm 3 , net polysilicon gate-electrode dopant concentration N POLY  is 1×10 20  atoms/cm 3 , and gate-dielectric thickness t GD  is 10 nm. This combination of conditions is indicated by circle A in each of  FIGS. 8 and 10 . 
   Curve A* in  FIG. 9  indicates a first order approximation to the vertical dopant profile through the center of CJIGFET  104  for the parameter conditions represented by circle A in  FIG. 8 . The multiple subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration of the p-type device body material are, for simplicity, not illustrated in curve A*. 
   The threshold voltage of n-channel CJIGFET  104  can be at a value somewhat different from 0.6 V in the simplified design model of  FIG. 8 . Based on  FIG. 8 , threshold voltage V T0  of IGFET  104  for normally off operation with a metallurgical channel is 0.2-0.8 V, typically 0.6 V. As in the actual implementation of IGFET  104 , thickness y J  of channel zone  112  is then 0.05-0.15 μm, typically 0.1 μm, provided that the combination of the V T0 , y J , t GD , N C , N B , and N POLY  values places IGFET  104  in the normally off MC regime. 
   The model of  FIG. 8  indicates that a normally off n-channel CJIGFET, such as CJIGFET  104 , cannot operate with a field-induced channel at a threshold voltage of approximately 0.6 V for the conditions in which net body-material dopant concentration N B  is 3×10 16  atoms/cm 3 , net gate-electrode polysilicon dopant concentration N POLY  is 1×10 20  atoms/cm 3 , gate-dielectric thickness t GD  is 10 nm, and channel-zone dopant concentration N C  varies from a low value as little as 1×10 16  atoms/cm 3  to a high value at least as high as 5×10 17  atoms/cm 3 . Instead, the threshold voltage must be 1.0 V or higher. 
   The parameter values for operation with a field-induced channel are preferably chosen so as to be substantially on the crossover boundary between the MC and FIC parameter regimes. For the previously indicated N B , N POLY , and t GD  values, the resultant value of threshold voltage V T0  is approximately 1.0 V for an N B  value of 1×10 17  atoms/cm 3 . Channel-zone junction depth y J , which approximately equals minimum junction depth y JMIN , is then 0.05 μm. Circle B in each of  FIGS. 8 and 10  indicates this situation. 
   A first order approximation to the vertical dopant profile through the center of CJIGFET  104  for the conditions represented by circle B in  FIGS. 8 and 10  is indicated by curve B* in  FIG. 9 . As with curve A* corresponding to circle A in  FIG. 8 , the multiple subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration of the p-type device body material are, for simplicity, not illustrated in curve B*. 
   Choosing parameter values for operation with a field-induced channel so as to be on the crossover boundary between the MC and FIC regimes is advantageous because the threshold voltage is at the minimum value for any given set of N C , N B , N POLY , and t GD  values. This allows the gate voltage overdrive to be maximized so as to yield maximum drive (drain saturation) current. Due to manufacturing variations, the parameters values achieved in an actual implementation of CJIGFET  104  whose parameter values are intended to be at the crossover boundary between the MC and FIC regimes may place IGFET  104  slightly in the MC regime. However, IGFET  104  still operates very similar to a normally off n-channel IGFET in the FIC regime. 
   The parameter values for CJIGFET  104  can be chosen so as to operate clearly within the FIC regime rather than on the boundary between the FIC and MC parameter regimes. Based on  FIG. 8 , threshold voltage V T0  of IGFET  104  for (normally off) FIC operation is 1.0-1.2 V. As with threshold voltage V T0  for the MC embodiment, this V T0  range for the modeled FIC embodiment of IGFET  104  differs slightly from the V T  range prescribed above for IGFET  104  due to the V T0  reduction caused by the reverse short-channel effect. Corresponding thickness y J  of channel zone  112  for the FIC embodiment is 0.02-0.10 μm, typically 0.05 μm, provided that the combination of V T0 , y J , t GD , N C , N B , and N POLY  values places IGFET  104  in the FIC regime or along the MC/FIC boundary. 
   Subject to reversing the voltage polarities, all of the previous comments about n-channel CJIGFET  104  operating in the MC and FIC regimes substantially apply to p-channel CJIGFET  184  operating in the MC and FIC parameter regimes. The differences in mobilities and channel-zone-to-gate-dielectric tunneling probabilities between electrons and holes do not significantly affect the conditions that determine MC and FIC operation, including the boundary between the MC and FIC regimes. Consistent with the various parameter values given above for CJIGFET  104 , the preceding V T0 , y J , t GD , N C , N B , and N POLY  values for IGFET  104  in the FIC and normally off MC regimes carry largely over to CJIGFET  184  in the FIC and normally off MC regimes with the threshold-voltage values reversed in sign so as to be negative. 
   Noise Reduction and Signal Gain 
   Various types of noise occur in integrated circuits. A major type of noise that arises with IGFETs, especially IGFETs operating at low frequency such as those often used in analog circuitry, is low-frequency flicker noise often referred to as “1/f” noise because its spectral density is roughly proportional to 1/f where f is the signal frequency. During noise measurement, f is the measuring frequency. 
   Noise in integrated circuits is typically characterized in terms of the noise spectral density. For 1/f noise, the noise spectral density for an IGFET can be referred to its gate electrode or its drain. The input-referred spectral noise density S VG  for 1/f noise at the gate electrode of an IGFET is given generally as:
 
 S   VG   =M /( WLC   GD   2   f   n )  (1)
 
where M is an empirical parameter, W is the width of the channel zone along the upper semiconductor surface, L is the length of the channel zone, C GD  is the gate dielectric capacitance per unit area, and n is a non-ideality factor typically in a range of 0.7-1.3.
 
   Eq. 1 applies to the frequency range below a corner frequency of roughly 1 kHz. 1/f noise is essentially constant above the corner frequency. Eq. 1 does not apply to DC operation, i.e., at zero frequency, or when the frequency is extremely low. The lowest frequency for most 1/f noise measurement is typically around 1 Hz. 
   Various models have been presented to account for 1/f noise in an IGFET. These models include a carrier mobility model and a trapping/detrapping model. 
   In the carrier mobility model, 1/f noise is caused by fluctuations in the mobility of the charge carriers in the conducting channel as a result of collisions with atoms of semiconductor material, with dopant atoms, and with themselves. The mobility fluctuations of the charge carriers depend on the transversal electric field in the conducting channel where the transversal electric field means the vertical component of the overall electric field. The transversal electric field is higher in a surface-channel IGFET than in an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off channel-junction IGFET regardless of whether the CJIGFET operates with a metallurgical or field-induced channel. 
   More particularly, the transversal electric field in the conducting channel of a normally off metallurgical-channel CJIGFET is essentially zero because the channel consists of undepleted doped semiconductor material lying between the channel surface depletion region and the channel-zone/body junction depletion region below the upper semiconductor surface. Inasmuch as a surface-channel IGFET conducts current by way of an inversion layer at the upper semiconductor surface, the transversal electric field in the conducting channel of an SCIGFET is a surface field determined by the electrical charge in the body region. The body-region charge is necessarily of some finite value. Consequently, an SCIGFET has a higher transversal electric field in the conducting channel than does a normally off MC CJIGFET. 
   Similar to what occurs in a surface-channel IGFET, the transversal electric field in a field-induced-channel channel-junction IGFET is a surface field because its conducting channel occurs in a layer along the upper semiconductor surface. However, the transversal surface field in an FIC CJIGFET is determined by the difference between the charge in the body region and the opposite-sign charge in the channel zone. The conducting channel of an SCIGFET thus has a higher transversal electric field than an otherwise substantially equivalent FIC CJIGFET. 
     FIG. 11  illustrates how transversal electric field E ST  at the upper semiconductor surface of an FIC CJIGFET varies with channel-zone junction depth y J  for the six N C  values respectively utilized for the six V T0 (y J ) curves in  FIG. 8 . Although circle B in  FIG. 11  corresponds to circle B in  FIGS. 8 and 10 ,  FIG. 11  applies to both n-channel and p-channel CJIGFETs. The E ST (y J ) curves in  FIG. 11  are all generated at same N B , N POLY , and t GD  values as in  FIG. 8 . As  FIG. 11  indicates, the magnitude of transversal surface field E ST  in the modeled FIC CJIGFET is less than 8×10 4  V/cm for all the E ST (y J ) curves down to the lower modeling-limit y J  value of slightly less than 0.01 μm. 
   The doped polysilicon in the gate electrode of the FIC CJIGFET employed as the model in generating  FIG. 11  is of opposite conductivity type to the doped polysilicon in the gate electrode of an otherwise substantially equivalent surface-channel SCIGFET of the same polarity (channel-type) as the modeled FIC CJIGFET. Uniform net body-material dopant concentration N B  is 3×10 16  atoms/cm 3  for the modeled FIC CJIGFET. Dopant concentration N B  in an otherwise substantially equivalent SCIGFET is typically in the vicinity of 1.5×10 17  atoms/cm 3  in order to achieve a typical value of 0.5 V for the magnitude of long-channel threshold voltage V T0 . The magnitude of surface field E ST  for such a SCIGFET is typically in the vicinity of 20×10 4  V/cm and thus is typically more than double the E ST  value for the modeled CJIGFET. 
   The mobility fluctuations of the charge carriers in the conducting channel of an IGFET generally increase as the transversal electric field increases. Since the transversal electric field is higher in the conducting channel of a surface-channel IGFET than in the conducting channel of an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off channel-junction IGFET, an SCIGFET is expected to incur more 1/f noise than an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off CJIGFET under the carrier mobility model. 
   In the trapping/detrapping model, 1/f noise in an IGFET is caused by fluctuations in the number of charge carriers in the conducting channel as the charge carriers are randomly trapped by, and detrapped (released) from, trapping sites in the IGFET&#39;s gate dielectric layer. The trapping/detrapping of a particular type of charge carriers, i.e., electrons or holes, depends on the probability that those charge carriers tunnel into the gate dielectric layer. The amount of charge-carrier trapping/detrapping increases as the tunneling probability increases, thereby causing the 1/f noise to increase, and vice versa. 
   For an IGFET whose conducting channel adjoins (meets) its gate dielectric layer, the Fowler-Nordheim probability P t  of charge carriers tunneling from the conducting channel into the gate dielectric layer is:
 
 P   t =exp[−8π(2 m*q ) 1/2 Φ B   3/2 /3 h|E   GD |]  (2)
 
where m* is the density-of-states effective mass of the charge carriers in the gate dielectric layer, q is the electronic charge, Φ B  is the energy barrier for the injection of charge carriers from the semiconductor material into the gate dielectric layer, h is Planck&#39;s constant, and E GD  is the transversal electric field in the gate dielectric layer. Eq. 2 applies to both a surface-channel IGFET and an FIC channel-junction IGFET since the conducting channel of each of these IGFETs adjoin its gate dielectric layer.
 
   Transversal gate-dielectric field E GD  is determined from surface field E ST  as:
 
 E   GD =(∈ SC /∈ GD ) E   ST   (3)
 
where ∈ SC  is the dielectric constant of the semiconductor material, and ∈ GD  is the dielectric constant of the gate dielectric material. Combining Eqs. 2 and 3 leads to:
 
 P   t =exp[−8π∈ GD (2 m*q ) 1/2 Φ B   3/2 /3 h∈   SC   |E   ST |]  (4)
 
Dielectric constant ratio ∈ SC /∈ GD  substantially equals 3 (11.7/3.9) for the typical situation in which the semiconductor and gate dielectric materials respectively consist of silicon and silicon oxide.
 
   The value of transversal surface electrical field E ST  for a surface-channel IGFET is, as mentioned above, typically more than twice the E ST  value for an otherwise substantially equivalent FIC channel-junction IGFET (of the same polarity, i.e., channel type). Using Eq. 4, charge-carrier tunneling probability P t  for an SCIGFET is greater than probability P t  for an otherwise substantially equivalent FIC CJIGFET. Since 1/f noise increases as gate dielectric charge-carrier trapping/detrapping increases and since the amount of trapping/detrapping increases with increasing charge-carrier tunneling probability, an SCIGFET is expected to incur more 1/f noise under the trapping/detrapping model than an otherwise substantially equivalent FIC CJIGFET. 
   Eqs. 2 and 4 do not directly apply to a normally off MC channel-junction IGFET because its conducting channel is separated from its gate dielectric layer by an intermediate region of undepleted semiconductor material. The intermediate semiconductor region absorbs (or collects) some of the charge carriers so as to reduce the amount of charge-carrier trapping/detrapping in the gate dielectric layer of the MC CJIGFET. In this case, the probability of charge carriers tunneling into the gate dielectric layer can be represented as the product of probability P t  of Eq. 2 or 4 and a less-than-unity transmission factor that accounts for the charge carriers collected in the intermediate semiconductor region. 
   Based on the foregoing, an SCIGFET has an overall higher charge-carrier tunneling probability than an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off MC CJIGFET. Accordingly, an SCIGFET is expected to incur more 1/f noise under the charge-carrier trapping/detrapping model than an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off MC CJIGFET. The trapping/detrapping model thus leads to the same conclusion as the carrier mobility model with respect to 1/f noise in IGFETs of a particular polarity, namely that an SCIGFET is expected to incur more 1/f noise than an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off CJIGFET regardless of whether it is implemented to operate with a metallurgical channel or a field-induced channel. 
   Next consider two normally off surface-channel IGFETs configured substantially the same except that one of the SCIGFETs is an n-channel device with an n-type polysilicon gate electrode while the other SCIGFET is p-channel device with a p-type polysilicon gate electrode. Density-of-states effective mass m* for electrons is 0.5 m 0  where m 0  is the free electron mass. Density-of-states effective mass m* for holes is 5-10 m 0 . Energy barrier Φ B  for electrons is 3.1 eV while energy barrier Φ B  for holes is approximately 4.3 eV. Consequently, holes which tunnel from the channel zone of the p-channel SCIGFET into its gate dielectric layer are of 10-20 times higher m* and of somewhat greater Φ B  than electrons which tunnel from the channel zone of the n-channel SCIGFET into its gate dielectric layer. 
   The magnitudes of transversal surface electric field E ST  (for Eq. 4 or transversal gate-dielectric electric field E GD  for Eq. 2) for the two complementary SCIGFETs are largely the same. Insertion of the previous m* and Φ B  data into Eq. 4 thereby leads to the conclusion that probability P t  of electrons tunneling into the gate dielectric layer of the n-channel SCIGFET is much greater than probability P t  of holes tunneling into the gate dielectric layer of the p-channel SCIGFET. Under the trapping/detrapping model, the n-channel SCIGFET is thus expected to incur much more 1/f noise than the otherwise substantially equivalent p-channel SCIGFET. 
   The net result of the carrier mobility and trapping/detrapping models is that an n-channel surface-channel IGFET incurs considerably more 1/f noise than each of (a) an otherwise equivalent p-channel surface-channel IGFET, (b) an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off n-channel channel-junction IGFET, and (c) an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off p-channel channel-junction IGFET. By not implementing n-channel IGFET  104  as an n-channel surface-channel device, the high-voltage portion of the complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3  avoids the high-voltage IGFET that appears to incur the most 1/f noise in the high-voltage IGFETs of prior art high-voltage/low-voltage complementary-IGFET structures in which the high-voltage n-channel IGFET is, as in Nishida et al., implemented as an n-channel surface-channel device. 
   The 1/f noise that occurs in high-voltage IGFETs  104  and  106  of the high-voltage/low-voltage complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3  is typically at least an order of magnitude lower than the 1/f noise that occurs in the high-voltage IGFETs of prior art high-voltage/low-voltage complementary-IGFET structures, such as that of Nishida et al., in which the high-voltage n-channel IGFET is a surface-channel device and in which the high-voltage p-channel IGFET is a channel-junction device. This 1/f noise reduction in high-voltage IGFETs  104  and  106  of the present complementary-IGFET structure occurs largely because n-channel IGFET  104  is a normally off channel-junction device rather than a much noisier surface-channel device. Although implementing p-channel IGFET  106  as a surface-channel device instead of a normally off channel-junction device may increase the 1/f noise produced in high-voltage IGFETs  104  and  106 , the increase in the 1/f noise of FETs  104  and  106  is much less than what would occur if, as in prior art such as Nishida et al., a high-voltage n-channel IGFET were implemented as a surface-channel device instead of a normally off channel-junction device. 
   In fact, p-channel surface-channel IGFET  106  is not greatly noisier than an otherwise equivalent normally off p-channel channel-junction IGFET. As occurs in the variations of  FIGS. 6 and 7 , SCIGFET  106  can be replaced with normally off p-channel channel-junction IGFET  184  or  190  to help further reduce the high-voltage 1/f noise. By implementing n-channel IGFET  104  as a normally off channel-junction device, the complementary-IGFET structure of the present invention achieves a large reduction in the high-voltage 1/f noise. 
   The maximum signal gain of an IGFET is proportional to its transconductance which, in turn, is proportional to the mobility of the charge carriers in the IGFET&#39;s conducting channel. The mobilities of charge carriers in semiconductor material depend on the material&#39;s net dopant concentration. However, electrons are always more mobile than, normally at least twice as mobile as, holes at the same net dopant concentration. 
   The charge carriers in the conducting channel of an n-channel IGFET are electrons while the charge carriers in the conducting channel of a p-channel IGFET are holes. Accordingly, a normally off n-channel channel-junction IGFET has higher signal gain than an otherwise substantially equivalent normally off p-channel channel-junction IGFET. In addition to providing a reduction in 1/f noise, implementing IGFET  104  as an n-channel CJIGFET in the present high-voltage/low-voltage complementary-IGFET structure enables high-voltages IGFETs  104  and  106  to achieve a higher maximum signal gain that what occurs in prior art high-voltage/low-voltage complementary-IGFET structures, such as that of Nishida et al., in which the high-voltage channel-junction IGFET is a p-channel device rather than an n-channel device. 
   Fabrication of Complementary-IGFET Structure According to Invention 
     FIGS. 12   a - 12   o ,  12   p . 1 - 12   x . 1 , and  12   p . 2 - 12   x . 2  (collectively “FIG.  12 ”) illustrate a semiconductor process in accordance with the invention for manufacturing a complementary-IGFET structure containing IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  as shown in  FIG. 3 . The steps involved in the fabrication of all of IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  up through the definition of the lateral shapes for their gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142  are shown in  FIGS. 12   a - 12   o .  FIGS. 12   p . 1 - 12   x . 1  present later steps involved in the fabrication of LV IGFETs  100  and  102  as shown in  FIG. 3.1 .  FIGS. 12   p . 2 - 12   x . 2  present later steps involved in the fabrication of HV IGFETs  104  and  106  as shown in  FIG. 3.2 . 
   Long-channel versions of LV IGFETs  100  and  102  may be manufactured according to the same fabrication steps utilized in fabricating short-channel LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . The long-channel IGFETs  100  and  102  are of greater channel length than IGFETs  100  and  102  but otherwise have the same intermediate IGFET appearances as depicted in  FIG. 12 . Although not indicated in  FIG. 12 , the steps needed to create n-channel LV IGFET  160  as a replacement for n-channel LV IGFET  100  and/or to create p-channel LV IGFET  162  as a replacement for p-channel LV IGFET  102  are described below as options to the fabrication process of  FIG. 12 . Similarly, the steps needed to create one or more of p-channel HV IGFETs  180 ,  184 , and  190  as a replacement for, or in addition to, p-channel HV IGFET  106  are described below as options to the present fabrication process but are not indicated in  FIG. 12 . 
   One or two of IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106 , including LV SCIGFETs  160  and  162  as replacements for LV SCIGFETs  100  and  102  and including p-channel HV CJIGFET  180 ,  184 , or  188  as a replacement for p-channel HV SCIGFET  106 , may not be included in a particular implementation of the present multiple-IGFET structure. The additional steps needed to fabricate each such non-included IGFET may be deleted from the fabrication process. Any such non-included IGFET is normally created in one or more other multiple-IGFETs structures fabricated according to below-described steps. 
   Aside from the halo ion implantation steps and the HV source/drain extension ion implantation steps, all of the ion implantation steps in the present fabrication process are performed roughly perpendicular to the lower semiconductor surface and thus roughly perpendicular to the upper semiconductor surface. More particularly, all of the implantation steps except the halo and HV source/drain extension ion implantation steps are performed at a small angle, typically 7°, to the vertical. This small deviation from perpendicularity is used to avoid undesirable ion channeling effects. For simplicity, the small deviation from perpendicularity is not indicated in  FIG. 12 . 
   Unless otherwise indicated, the species of n-type dopant utilized in each of the n-type ion implantations in the fabrication process of  FIG. 12  consists of the specified n-type dopant in elemental form. That is, each n-type ion implantation is performed with ions of the specified n-type dopant element rather than with ions of a chemical compound that contains the n-type dopant. The species of p-type dopant employed in each of the p-type ion implantations variously consists of the p-type dopant, normally boron, in elemental or compound form. Hence, each p-type ion implantation is normally performed with boron ions or with ions of a boron-containing compound. 
   In some of the fabrication steps in  FIG. 12 , openings extend (substantially) through a photoresist mask above the active semiconductor regions for two IGFETs. When the two IGFETs are formed laterally adjacent to each other in the exemplary cross sections of  FIG. 12 , the two photoresist openings are illustrated as a single opening in  FIG. 12  even through they are described below as separate openings. 
   The starting point for the fabrication process of  FIG. 12  is typically a monosilicon semiconductor body consisting of a heavily doped p-type substrate  200  and an overlying lightly doped p-type epitaxial layer  26 P. See  FIG. 12   a . P+ substrate  200  is a semiconductor wafer formed with &lt;100&gt; monosilicon doped with boron to achieve a typical resistivity of 0.015 ohm-cm. For simplicity, substrate  200  is not shown in the remainder of  FIG. 12 . Alternatively, the starting point can simply be a lightly doped p-type substrate. 
   P-epitaxial layer  26 P consists of epitaxially grown &lt;100&gt; monosilicon doped with boron to achieve a typical resistivity of 30 ohm-cm. Epitaxial layer  26 P is a precursor to p-type material  26 . The letter “P” at the end of a reference symbol is utilized here to indicate a precursor to a region identified by the portion of the reference symbol preceding the letter “P”. The thickness of epitaxial layer  26 P is typically 5.5 mm. When the starting point for the fabrication process of  FIG. 12  is a lightly doped p-type substrate, item  26 P is the p− substrate. 
   Field-insulating region  24  is provided along the upper surface of p− epitaxial layer (or p− substrate)  26 P as shown in  FIG. 12   b  so as to define the active regions for IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106  going from left to right in  FIG. 12   b . Field insulation  24  is preferably created according to a trench-oxide technique. In that case, field insulation  24  typically extends 0.35 μm into epitaxial layer  26 P. Field insulation  24  may also be created according to a local-oxidation technique. In providing field insulation  24 , a thin screen insulating layer  202  of silicon oxide is thermally grown along the upper surface of epitaxial layer  26 P. Screen-oxide layer  202  is typically 15 nm in thickness. 
   A photoresist mask  204  is formed on screen-oxide layer  202  as shown in  FIG. 12   c . Mask  204  has an opening above the active region for p-channel LV SCIGFET  102 . N+ well  54  is defined by ion implanting a species of the n-type LV well dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the n-type LV well dopant is 5×10 12 -4×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The n-type LV well dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which phosphorus constitutes the n-type LV well dopant, the implantation energy is 400-600 keV, typically 500 keV. 
   A moderately doped n-type precursor upper body-material portion  56 P for IGFET  102  is defined by ion implanting a species of the n-type LV APT dopant at a moderate dosage through the uncovered section of screen-oxide layer  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the n-type LV APT dopant is 1×10 12 -1×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 3×10 12  ions/cm 2 . The n-type LV APT dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which phosphorus constitutes the n-type LV APT dopant, the implantation energy is 110-130 keV, typically 120 keV. 
   If p-channel SCIGFET  162  of  FIG. 4  is to replace p-channel SCIGFET  102 , a heavily doped n-type precursor to intermediate body-material portion  166  for SCIGFET  162  is defined by ion implanting a species of the n-type LV isolation dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P while photoresist  204  is in place. The dosage of the n-type LV isolation dopant is typically 1×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The n-type LV isolation dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. When phosphorus constitutes the n-type isolation dopant, the implantation energy is typically 230 keV. 
   The n-type LV APT dopant, the n-type LV well dopant, and (when present) the n-type LV isolation dopant respectively reach maximum dopant concentrations below the upper semiconductor surface substantially at the respective locations of the primary (APT), further (well), and additional (isolation) local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration for respective portions  56 ,  54 , and  166  of the n-type device body material for p-channel SCIGFET  102  or  162 . The implantations of the two or three n-type LV dopants can be done in any order. Photoresist  204  is removed after performing these two or three n-type LV implantations. 
   A photoresist mask  206  is formed on screen oxide  202  as depicted in  FIG. 12   d . Mask  206  has an opening above the active region for n-channel LV SCIGFET  100 . P+ well  34  is defined by ion implanting a species of the p-type LV well dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the p-type LV well dopant is 1×10 13 -3×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The p-type LV well dopant may consist of boron in elemental form or in the form of boron difluoride. For the typical case in which the p-type LV well dopant consists of elemental boron, the implantation energy is 200-220 keV, typically 210 keV. 
   A moderately doped p-type precursor upper body-material portion  36 P for IGFET  100  is defined by ion implanting a species of the p-type LV APT dopant at a moderate dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into the epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the p-type LV APT dopant is 2×10 12 -1×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 5×10 12  ions/cm 2 . The p-type LV APT dopant may consist of boron in elemental form or in the form of boron difluoride. For the typical case in which the p-type LV APT dopant consists elemental boron, the implantation energy is 40-70 keV, typically 50 keV. 
   If n-channel SCIGFET  160  of  FIG. 4  is to replace n-channel SCIGFET  100 , a heavily doped p-type precursor to intermediate body-material portion  164  for SCIGFET  160  is defined by ion implanting a species of the p-type LV isolation dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P while photoresist  206  is in place. The dosage of the p-type LV isolation dopant is typically 1×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The p-type LV isolation dopant typically consists of elemental boron implanted at an energy of 110 keV. 
   The p-type LV APT dopant, the p-type LV well dopant, and (when present) the p-type LV isolation dopant respectively reach maximum dopant concentrations below the upper semiconductor surface substantially at the respective locations for the primary (APT), further (well), and additional (isolation) local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration for respective portions  36 ,  34 , and  164  of the device body material for n-channel SCIGFET  100  or  160 . The implantations of the two or three p-type LV dopants can be done in any order. Photoresist  206  is removed after performing these two or three p-type LV implantations. 
   A photoresist mask  208  is formed on screen oxide  202  as shown in  FIG. 12   e . Mask  208  has an opening above the active region for p-channel IGFET  106 . N+ well  134  for IGFET  106  is defined by ion implanting a species of the n-type HV well dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the n-type HV well dopant is 1×10 13 -3×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The n-type HV well dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which phosphorus constitutes the n-type HV well dopant, the implantation energy is 400-600 keV, typically 500 keV. 
   A moderately doped n-type precursor upper body-material portion  136 P for IGFET  106  is defined by ion implanting a species of the n-type HV APT dopant at a moderate dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the n-type HV APT dopant is 4×10 12 -8×10 12  ions/cm 2 , typically 6×10 12  ions/cm 2 . The n-type HV APT dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which phosphorus constitutes the HV APT dopant, the implantation energy is 80-160 keV, typically 120 keV. 
   A species of a further n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV threshold-adjust dopant, is introduced through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P at the intended location for n channel zone  132  of IGFET  106  in order to adjust its negative threshold voltage downward, i.e., to increase the magnitude of its threshold voltage. The n-type HV threshold-adjust dopant is normally introduced by ion implantation at a moderate dosage of 1×10 12 -3×10 12  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 12  ions/cm 2 . The n-type HV threshold-adjust dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which the n-type HV threshold-adjust dopant is phosphorus, the implantation energy is 20-30 keV, typically 25 keV. 
   As mentioned above, each of one or more, but not all, implementations of p-channel HV IGFET  106  is replaced with an implementation of p-channel HV IGFET  180  or  190 , each having n+ deep well portion  182 , in some variations of the present complementary-IGFET structure. Every implementation of IGFET  106  can, however, be replaced with an implementation of IGFET  180  or  190 . In that case, deep well portion  182  is defined at this point for each IGFET  180  or  190  by ion implanting a species of the n-type HV deep well dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The species, dosage, and implantation energy for this operation are the same as described below for the situation in which one or more, but not all, implementations of IGFET  106  is replaced with an implementation of IGFET  180  or  190 . 
   P-channel SCIGFET  106  is, as also mentioned above, replaced with p-channel CJIGFET  184  or  190 , each having p channel zone  186  and n++ gate electrode  188 , in some variations of the complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3 . In such a case with photoresist mask  208  still in place, a precursor to p channel zone  186  is defined by introducing a species of a p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type HV channel dopant, through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. This doping operation is described further below in connection with  FIGS. 14   a - 14   f.    
   The n-type HV APT dopant, the n-type HV (shallow) well dopant, and (when present) the n-type HV deep well dopant respectively reach maximum dopant concentrations below the upper semiconductor surface at the respective locations for the primary (APT), further (well), and additional (deep well) local subsurface maxima for portions  136 ,  134 , and  182  of the n-type device body material for IGFET  106 ,  180 ,  184 , or  190 . The implantations of these two or three n-type HV dopants along with the implantation of the n-type HV threshold-adjust dopant and (when performed) the implantation of the p-type HV channel dopant can be done in any order. Photoresist  208  is removed after performing these three, four, or five HV doping operations. 
   A photoresist mask  210  is formed on screen oxide  202  as depicted in  FIG. 12   f . Mask  210  has an opening above the active region for n-channel HV IGFET  104 . P+ well  114  for IGFET  104  is defined by ion implanting a species of the p-type HV well dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the p-type HV well dopant is 1×10 13 -3×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The p-type HV well dopant may consist of boron in elemental form or in the form of boron difluoride. For the typical case in which the p-type HV well dopant consists of elemental boron, the implantation energy is 150-250 keV, typically 200 keV. 
   A moderately doped precursor upper body-material portion  116 P for IGFET  104  is defined by ion implanting a species of the p-type HV APT dopant, at a moderate dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the p-type HV APT dopant is 2×10 12 -6×10 12  ions/cm 2 , typically 4×10 12  ions/cm 2 . The p-type HV APT dopant may consist of boron in elemental form or in the form of boron difluoride. For the typical case in which elemental boron constitutes the p-type HV APT dopant, the implantation energy is 40-60 keV, typically 50 keV. The lightly doped remainder of epitaxial layer  26 P is p− material  26  after completion of the p-type HV well and APT doping operations. 
   With photoresist mask  210  still in place, a moderately doped n-type precursor  112 P to n channel zone  112  for IGFET  104  is defined by introducing an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV channel dopant, at a moderate dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into p upper-body material portion  116 P (or epitaxial layer  26 P if upper body-material portion  116 P is not yet defined). See  FIG. 12   g . The n-type HV channel dopant is normally introduced by ion implanting a species of the dopant at a dosage of 1×10 12 -3×10 12  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 12  ions/cm 2 . 
   The n-type HV channel dopant preferably consists of a slow-diffusing species (large atoms) such as arsenic to facilitate making channel zone  112  as a thin (or shallowy region whose thickness is typically in the vicinity of 0.1 μm. Arsenic diffuses slowly compared to boron, the typical p-type counterpart. When the n-type HV channel dopant consists of arsenic, the implantation energy is 20-40 keV, typically 30 keV. Phosphorus can also be used as the n-type HV channel dopant. 
   The p-type HV APT dopant and the p-type HV well dopant respectively reach maximum dopant concentrations below the upper semiconductor surface at the respective locations for the primary (APT) and further (well) local subsurface maxima in the net dopant concentration for respective portions  116  and  114  of the device body material for IGFET  104 . The implantation of these two p-type HV dopants along with the implantation of the n-type HV channel dopant can be done in any order. Photoresist  210  is removed after performing these three HV implantations. 
   In variations where each of one or more, but not all, implementations of p-channel HV IGFET  106  is replaced with an implementation of p-channel HV IGFET  180  or  190  having n+ deep well portion  182 , a photoresist mask (not shown) is formed on screen oxide  202 . This photoresist mask, referred to here as the selective HV deep well photoresist mask, has an opening above each location where an implementation of p-channel IGFET  106  is to be replaced with an implementation of p-channel IGFET  180  or  190 . N+ deep well  182  is defined for each implementation of IGFET  180  or  190  by ion implanting the n-type HV deep well dopant at a heavy dosage through the uncovered section of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The dosage of the n-type HV deep well dopant is 5×10 12 -2×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 1×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The n-type HV deep well dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which phosphorus constitutes the n-type HV deep well dopant, the implantation energy is 500-700 keV, typically 600 keV. The selective HV deep well photoresist mask is removed after performing the n-type HV deep well implantation. 
   Photoresist masks  204 ,  206 ,  208 , and  210  and, when used, the selective HV deep well photoresist mask can be formed on screen oxide  202  in any order. In other words, the doping step(s) performed with each of these four or five masks can be performed in any order with respect to the doping step(s) performed with each other of these masks. 
   A thermal anneal is optionally now performed on the resultant semiconductor structure to repair lattice damage and place the implanted n-type and p-type dopants in energetically more stable sites so as to minimize further diffusion of these dopants during subsequent thermal operations, especially the final anneal described below. This optional intermediate anneal is preferably a rapid thermal anneal (“RTA”) at 900-1100° C., typically 1000° C., for 5-20 sec., typically 10 sec. The RTA is normally done in a non-reactive environment, typically nitrogen, but can be done in a reactive, e.g., oxidizing, environment. By using the RTA, the implanted dopants are activated without significant dopant movement (redistribution). Although the above-mentioned implantation steps define precursor channel-zone portion  112 P, precursor upper body-material portions  38 P,  56 P,  116 P, and  136 P, well portions  34 ,  54 ,  114 , and  134  and, in variations of the complementary-IGFET structure of  FIG. 3 , deep well portion  182  for HV IGFET  180  or  190 , the precursor to channel zone  186  for HV IGFET  184  or  190 , and intermediate body-material portions  164  and  166  respectively for LV IGFETs  160  and  162 , the intermediate anneal completes the formation of these regions. 
   In the remainder of the process description, all references to LV IGFETs  100  and  102  with respect to particular components of IGFETs  100  and  102  respectively encompass, i.e., respectively implicitly include, references to LV IGFETs  160  and  162  insofar as they have the same respective components. All references to p-channel IGFET  106  with respect to particular components of IGFET  106  encompass references to p-channel HV IGFET  180 ,  184 , or  190  insofar as it has the same components as IGFET  106 . 
   Subsequent to the intermediate anneal, screen-oxide layer  202  is removed to expose the upper semiconductor surface as shown in  FIG. 12   h . The upper semiconductor surface is also cleaned, typically by a wet chemical process utilizing various combinations of strong acid, hydrogen peroxide, deionized water, and possibly ammonium hydroxide. The acid is typically sulfuric or/and hydrochloric acid. In one embodiment, the cleaning step is performed with 98% sulfuric acid and 2% hydrogen peroxide at 120° C. for 10 min. The cleaning step removes surface contaminants along with a few atomic layers of the exposed silicon to provide a clean upper semiconductor surface in order to help reduce noise. 
   A sacrificial layer  212  of silicon oxide is thermally grown along the upper semiconductor surface to prepare the upper semiconductor surface for formation of gate dielectric layers  40 ,  60 ,  120 , and  140 . See  FIG. 12   i . The thickness of sacrificial oxide layer  212  is typically at least 10 nm. Sacrificial oxide layer  212  is subsequently removed as indicated in  FIG. 12   j.    
   The formation and removal of sacrificial oxide layer  112  removes defects and/or contamination along the upper semiconductor surface to produce a high-quality upper semiconductor surface. This reduces the 1/f noise that occurs in LV SCIGFETs  100  and  102  and in HV SCIGFET  106  or  180  as charge carriers move through the inversion-layer channels in their respective channel zones  32 ,  52 , and  132 . The 1/f noise that occurs in n-channel HV CJIGFET  104  when it utilizes a field-induced channel with electrons moving through the induced surface channel in channel zone  112  is also reduced. The same applies to p-channel HV CJIGFET  184  or  190  when it employs a field-induced channel with holes moving through the induced surface channel in channel zone  186 . 
   A (comparatively) thick gate-dielectric-containing dielectric layer  214  is provided along the upper semiconductor surface as depicted in  FIG. 12   k . Portions of thick dielectric layer  214  are at the lateral locations for, and later constitute portions of, gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . To allow for subsequent increase in the thickness of the sections of dielectric layer  214  at the lateral locations for gate dielectric layers  120  and  140 , the thickness of layer  214  is slightly less than the intended thickness for dielectric layers  120  and  140 . For instance, the thickness of dielectric layer  214  is normally 7-15 nm, typically 11 nm. 
   Thick dielectric layer  214  is normally thermally grown. To inhibit redistribution of the various dopants introduced into epitaxial layer  36 P, the thermal growth of dielectric layer  214  is usually done in a wet oxidizing environment according to a thermal profile in which the maximum thermal-oxidation temperature is relatively low, typically 700-900° C. Layer  214  normally consists of substantially pure silicon oxide for which the wet oxidizing environment is formed with oxygen and hydrogen. 
   The thermal schedule for growing thick dielectric layer  214  to a target thickness of approximately 11 nm typically consists of a ramp-up from 700° C. to 875° C. at 15° C./min. in nitrogen with 1% oxygen, a stabilization at 875° C. for 10 min. in nitrogen with 1% oxygen, a thermal oxidation at 875° C. for 20-30 min., typically 25 min., in hydrogen and oxygen diluted 90% in argon, a stabilization at 875° C. for 10 min. in nitrogen, a ramp-up from 875° C. to 900° C. at 10° C./min. in argon, an anneal at 900° C. for 10-15 min., typically 10 min., in argon, and a ramp-down from 900° C. to 600° C. in argon. Based on suitable experimentation, other thicknesses for dielectric layer  214  are obtained by modifying certain portions of the thermal schedule, e.g., the thermal oxidation at 875° C. 
   A photoresist mask  216  is formed on thick dielectric layer  214 . See  FIG. 12   l . An opening extends through mask  216  above the active region for each of LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . The uncovered material of dielectric layer  214  is removed as indicated in  FIG. 12   l . Item  214 R is the remainder of layer  214 . 
   A thin layer (not shown) of silicon along the upper surface of the active region for each of LV IGFETs  100  and  102  is also removed in order to compensate for the non-ideal silicon-oxide-to-silicon selectivity of the etching process. This ensures complete removal of the gate dielectric material at the removal locations. Additional defects and/or contamination, e.g., contamination caused by photoresist  216 , present along the upper surface of the active regions for IGFETs  100  and  102 , are removed in the course of removing the thin silicon layers. This further improves the upper surfaces of the active regions for IGFETs  100  and  102  in preparation for creating their gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  and thereby further reduces the 1/f noise in IGFETs  100  and  102 . The removal of the thin silicon layers and the uncovered portions of dielectric layer  214  is typically done with a hydrofluoric-acid-based wet chemical etchant. Photoresist  216  is removed after the thin silicon layers are removed. 
   A (comparatively) thin gate-dielectric-containing dielectric layer  218  is provided along the upper semiconductor surface above the active regions for LV IGFETs  100  and  102  and thus at the respective lateral locations for their gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 . See  FIG. 12   m . Portions of thin dielectric layer  218  later respectively constitute gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 . The thickness of dielectric layer  218  substantially equals the thickness of gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 , i.e., normally 2-8 nm, preferably 3-5 nm, typically 3.5 nm for 1.8-V operation. 
   Thin dielectric layer  218  is normally thermally grown. As with thick dielectric layer  218 , the thermal growth of thin dielectric layer  218  is usually done in a wet oxidizing environment according to a thermal profile in which the maximum thermal-oxidation temperature is typically 700-900° C. so as to inhibit redistribution of the various dopants introduced into epitaxial layer  26 P. Dielectric layer  218  may consist of substantially pure silicon oxide formed in a wet oxidizing environment of oxygen and hydrogen. Alternatively, nitrogen may be incorporated into layer  218  during the thermal growth by providing oxygen from a gas, such as nitric oxide or nitrous oxide, containing nitrogen in reactive form for preventing boron in p++ gate electrode  62  of p-channel LV IGFET  102  from diffusing into channel zone  52 . Layer  218  then consists of silicon oxynitride. 
   The thickness of thick dielectric-layer remainder  214 R increases slightly by thermal growth during the thermal growth of thin dielectric layer  218 . Due to reduced oxygen penetration to the upper surfaces of the active regions for HV IGFET  104  and  106 , the increase in the thickness of dielectric remainder  214 R is less than the thickness of thin dielectric layer  218 . At the end of the thermal growth of dielectric layer  218 , the thickness of dielectric remainder  214 R substantially equals the thickness of gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of IGFETs  104  and  106 , i.e., normally 8-16 nm, preferably 7-13 nm, typically 12 nm for 5.0-V operation. Portions of dielectric remainder  214 R at the increased thickness later form gate dielectric layers  120  and  140 . 
   A typical thermal schedule for growing thin dielectric layer  218  to a target thickness of approximately 4 nm and increasing the thickness of thick dielectric remainder  214 R consists of a ramp-up from 700° C. to 750° C. at 15° C./min. in nitrogen with 1% oxygen, a stabilization at 750° C. for 10 min. in nitrogen with 1% oxygen, a thermal oxidation at 750° C. for 20-30 min., typically 25 min., in hydrogen and oxygen diluted 90% in argon, a stabilization at 750° C. for 10 min. in nitrogen, a ramp-up from 750° C. to 900° C. at 10° C./min. in argon, an anneal at 900° C. for 10-15 min., typically 10 min., in argon, and a ramp-down from 900° C. to 600° C. in argon. Based on suitable experimentation, other target thicknesses for dielectric layer  218  are achieved by adjusting certain portions of the thermal schedule, e.g., the length of the thermal oxidation at 750° C. For instance, reducing the duration of the 750° C. thermal oxidation by 10-15% leads to a target thin dielectric thickness of approximately 3.5 nm, the typical thickness value of gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  for operating IGFETs  100  and  102  at 1.8 V. 
   The anneal at 900° C. for growing thin dielectric layer  218  and increasing the thickness of thick dielectric remainder  218 R can alternatively be done in nitrogen or nitrous oxide. The ramp-up to, and the ramp-down from, the 900° C. anneal are then typically done in nitrogen. The 900° C. anneal in argon, nitrogen, or nitrous oxide determines whether dielectric layer  218  consists of silicon oxide or silicon oxynitride. When the 900° C. anneal is done in argon or nitrogen, layer  218  consists substantially of silicon oxide. Layer  218  consists of silicon oxynitride when the 900° C. anneal is done in nitrous oxide. This occurs because nitrous oxide is much more reactive than argon and nitrogen and results in nitrogen being introduced into layer  218 . The increased-thickness portions of dielectric remainder  214 R are constituted the same as dielectric layer  218 . 
   The 900° C. anneal can be replaced with an anneal at  10001 C. The ramp-up rate, annealing time, and ramp-down rate for the 1000° C. anneal are typically respectively the same as for the 900° C. anneal. 
   Referring to  FIG. 12   m , a layer  220  of largely undoped (intrinsic) polysilicon is deposited on thick dielectric remainder  214 R and thin dielectric layer  218  to a thickness of 200-300 nm, typically 250 nm. A photoresist mask  222  is formed on polysilicon layer  220 . See  FIG. 12   n . An opening extends through mask  222  above the active region for each of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . 
   A p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type HV gate dopant, is introduced at a very heavy dosage into uncovered material  220 D of polysilicon layer  220  to make uncovered polysilicon material  220 D very heavily doped p-type. The p-type HV gate doping operation is normally performed by ion implantation as indicated in  FIG. 12   m . Portions of p++polysilicon material  220 D later become gate electrodes  122  and  142  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . Item  220 R indicates the remaining largely undoped material of polysilicon layer  220 . Portions of polysilicon remainder  220 R later become gate electrodes  42  and  62  of LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . Photoresist  222  is removed after the p-type HV gate implantation is performed. 
   The dosage DOSE PPOLY  of the p-type HV gate dopant is sufficiently high that the p-type polysilicon portions (of p++ polysilicon material  220 D) which later become p++ gate electrodes  122  and  142  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106  remain very heavily doped p-type during subsequent doping operations. That is, neither of these two p-type polysilicon portions is fully counterdoped (converted to n-type conductivity) as a result of one or more subsequent n-type doping operations to which these polysilicon portions are subjected. As indicated below, the p-type polysilicon portion that becomes gate electrode  142  of IGFET  106  is not significantly subjected to n-type dopant during any later doping operation. 
   The p-type polysilicon portion that becomes gate electrode  122  of HV IGFET  104  is subjected to n-type doping during the formation of its source/drain regions  110 . Main portions  110 M of source/drain regions  110  are provided with a much greater dosage of n-type dopant than extensions  110 E. When the p-type HV gate dopant is a fast-diffusing dopant, such as boron, introduced into uncovered polysilicon material  220 D by ion implanting a suitable species of the fast-diffusing p-type dopant and when main source/drain portions  110 M are very heavily doped n-type by ion implanting a suitable species of a relatively slow-diffusing n-type dopant such as arsenic or antimony, full counterdoping in the polysilicon portion that becomes gate electrode  122  is avoided by meeting the condition:
 
DOSEP POLY &gt;N NSDMAX t POLY   (5)
 
where N NSDMAX  is the maximum net dopant concentration in n++ main source/drain portions  110 M, and t POLY  is the thickness of polysilicon layer  220  and thus largely the thickness of the polysilicon portion that becomes gate electrode  122 .
 
   Maximum net dopant concentration N NSDMAX  for main source/drain portions  110 M of HV IGFET  104  is normally close to the maximum solid solubility limit of n-type dopant in the silicon of main portions  110 M. Inequality 5 can be readily satisfied because the fast diffusion of the p-type HV gate dopant into polysilicon material  220 D leads to a relatively uniform vertical dopant profile in material  220 D. In contrast, the relatively slow diffusion of the n-type dopant into the regions for main source/drain portions  110 M produces an abrupt vertical dopant profile with a relatively high net dopant concentration at the upper semiconductor surface. The same arises with the relatively slow-diffusing n-type HV channel dopant, likewise preferably arsenic or antimony, typically arsenic, used in defining precursor channel zone  112 P for IGFET  104 . 
   Subject to meeting Inequality 5, the dosage of the p-type HV gate dopant is 1×10 16 -3×10 16  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 16  ions/cm 2 . The p-type HV gate dopant may consist of boron in elemental form or in the form of boron difluoride. For the typical case in which elemental boron constitutes the p-type HV gate dopant, the elemental boron is ion implanted at an energy of 25-45 keV, typically 35 keV. 
   When p-channel HV SCIGFET  106  is replaced with p-channel HV CJIGFET  184  or  190  having p channel zone  186  and n++ polysilicon gate electrode  188 , photoresist mask  222  is replaced with a pair of photoresist masks. One of the replacement masks is utilized in introducing the p-type HV gate dopant into the portion of polysilicon layer  220  overlying the active region for n-channel HV CJIGFET  104  without introducing the p-type HV gate dopant into the portion of layer  220  overlying the active region for IGFET  184  or  190 . The other replacement mask is, in a complementary manner, utilized in introducing an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV gate dopant, into the portion of layer  220  overlying the active region for IGFET  184  or  190  without introducing the n-type HV gate dopant into the portion of layer  220  overlying the active region for IGFET  104 . The doping operations involving the two replacement masks are discussed further below in connection with  FIGS. 14   a - 14   f.    
   Returning to  FIG. 12 , a patterning operation is performed on p++material  220 D and remainder  220 R of polysilicon layer  220  to define the lateral shapes for gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142 . In particular, a photoresist mask  224  is formed on polysilicon material  220 D and polysilicon remainder  220 R. See  FIG. 12   o . Mask  224  covers the portions of material  220 D and remainder  220 R at the intended locations for gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142 . The uncovered material of material  220 D and remainder  220 R is removed. The remaining portions  42 P and  62 P of polysilicon remainder  220 R are respective largely undoped precursors to gate electrodes  42  and  62  of LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . Remaining portions  122 P and  142 P of material  220 D are respective p++ precursors to gate electrodes  122  and  142  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . 
   Switching temporarily to  FIGS. 13   a - 13   f  (collectively “FIG.  13 ”), they illustrate an alternative procedure in accordance with the invention for defining the shapes of gate dielectric layers  40 ,  60 ,  120 , and  140  and polysilicon gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142  starting at the stage of  FIG. 12   k  repeated here as  FIG. 13   a . In contrast to the procedure described above and illustrated in  FIGS. 12   k - 12   o  for defining the gate-dielectric and gate-electrode shapes, the thickness of the sections of thick dielectric layer  214  at the lateral locations for gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106  does not increase significantly during processing in the alternative procedure of  FIG. 13 . The thickness of dielectric layer  214  as formed at the stage of  FIG. 13   a / 12   k  in the alternative procedure of  FIG. 13  is thus substantially equal to the thickness of gate dielectric layers  120  and  140 , i.e., normally 6-16 nm, preferably 7-13 nm, typically 12 nm for 5.0-V operation. 
   A first layer  226  of largely undoped polysilicon is deposited on thick dielectric layer  214  to a thickness of 200-300 nm, typically 250 nm. See  FIG. 13   b . Referring to  FIG. 13   c , a photoresist mask  228  is formed on first polysilicon layer  226 . Mask  228  is of substantially the same lateral shape as photoresist mask  216  utilized to pattern dielectric layer  214  at the stage of  FIG. 12   l  in the procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   o . Mask  228  thus has an opening above the active region for each of LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . 
   The uncovered material of first polysilicon layer  226  and the underlying material of thick dielectric layer  214  are removed as indicated in  FIG. 13   c . Item  226 R is the remainder of polysilicon layer  226 . Item  214 R is again the remainder of dielectric layer  214 . Portions of dielectric remainder  214 R later form gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . 
   Importantly, polysilicon remainder  226 R covers dielectric remainder  214 R during the removal of the material of thick dielectric layer  214  above the active regions for LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . Consequently, dielectric remainder  214 R is not significantly exposed to contaminants such as photoresist  228  or chemicals later used in removing photoresist  228 . Since portions of dielectric remainder  214 R later form gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 , the quality of gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  is improved. This leads to an improvement in the performance of IGFETs  104  and  106 . 
   As in the procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   o , a thin layer (again not shown) of silicon along the upper surface of the active region for each of LV IGFETs  100  and  102  is removed in the manner described above in connection with  FIG. 12   l . Additional silicon surface defects and/or surface contamination, such as contamination by photoresist  228 , are removed in the course of removing the thin silicon layers. Removal of the thin silicon layers ensures complete removal of the gate dielectric material at the removal locations. The upper surfaces of the active regions for IGFETs  100  and  102  are thereby improved in preparation for creation of their gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 . This again further reduces the 1/f noise in IGFETs  100  and  102 . Photoresist  228  is removed after the thin silicon layers are removed. 
   Again as in the procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   o , thin gate-dielectric-containing dielectric layer  218  is provided along the upper semiconductor surface above the active regions for LV IGFETs  100  and  102  and thus at the respective lateral locations for gate dielectric layers  40  and  60 . See  FIG. 13   d . Thin dielectric layer  218  is of substantially the same thickness as described above and is formed in the same thermal growth manner. Hence, dielectric layer  218  may consist of largely pure silicon oxide or may consist of silicon oxynitride that includes nitrogen for preventing boron in p++ gate electrode  62  of IGFET  102  from diffusing into its channel zone  52 . 
   During the formation of thin dielectric layer  218  in the process of  FIG. 13 , a barrier dielectric layer  230  forms along the exposed surface of first polysilicon remainder  220 R, i.e., along its top surface and side edges. Barrier dielectric layer  230  is constituted substantially the same as thin layer  218 . Because barrier layer  230  is created from the polysilicon of remainder  226 R and because polysilicon oxidizes several times faster than monosilicon, barrier layer  230  is several times thicker than thin layer  218 . 
   A second layer  232  of largely undoped polysilicon is deposited on thin dielectric layer  218  and barrier dielectric layer  230  as shown in  FIG. 13   d . The thickness of second polysilicon layer  232  is 200-300 nm, typically 250 nm. A photoresist mask  234  is formed on second polysilicon layer  232 . See  FIG. 13   e . Mask  234  is of largely the same lateral shape as photoresist mask  222  utilized in ion implanting the p-type HV gate dopant at the stage of  FIG. 12   n  in the procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   o . Accordingly, mask  234  has an opening above the active region for each of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . 
   The uncovered material of second polysilicon layer  232  is removed as indicated in  FIG. 13   e . Item  232 R is the remainder of polysilicon layer  232 . Barrier dielectric layer  230  acts as a barrier (etch stop) to prevent first polysilicon remainder  226 R from being attacked (and substantially removed) by the etchant utilized to remove the uncovered material of polysilicon layer  232 . In the course of etching polysilicon layer  232 , a parasitic polysilicon spacer may remain along the side edge of barrier layer  230 . If formed, this polysilicon spacer can readily be removed, e.g., by extending the etch time for etching polysilicon layer  232  beyond the point at which the upper surface of barrier layer  230  is fully exposed. Accordingly, the polysilicon spacer is not shown in the drawings. 
   Barrier dielectric layer  230  is subsequently removed with etchant that does not significantly attack first polysilicon remainder  226 R. Because barrier layer  230  covered the side edges of first polysilicon remainder  226 R, polysilicon remainders  232 R and  226 R are laterally separated from each other by space above field insulation  24 . 
   With photoresist mask  234  in place, the p-type HV gate dopant is introduced at a very heavy dosage into first polysilicon remainder  226 R to make it very heavily doped p-type as shown in  FIG. 13   f . Portions of p++ polysilicon remainder  226 R later become gate electrodes  122  and  142  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . Photoresist  234  largely prevents the p-type HV gate dopant from entering second polysilicon remainder  232 R, specifically the portions of polysilicon remainder  232 R that later become gate electrodes  42  and  62  of LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . Photoresist  234  is removed after performing the p-type HV gate implantation. 
   At this point, polysilicon remainders  226 R and  232 R are respectively shaped and doped largely the same as polysilicon remainder  220 R and polysilicon material  220 D in the procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   o  directly after the removal of photoresist mask  222  except that polysilicon remainders  226 R and  232 R are laterally separated from each other in the procedure of  FIG. 13 . However, the lateral separation between polysilicon remainders  226 R and  232 R occurs above field insulation  24  and is not significant insofar as gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142  are created from polysilicon remainders  226 R and  232 R. Polysilicon remainders  226 R and  232 R are thus suitable for being patterned to define the lateral shapes of electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142 . 
   The patterning operation is initiated by forming photoresist mask  224  on polysilicon remainders  226 R and  232 R. Mask  224  covers the portions of second polysilicon remainder  232 R at the intended locations for gate electrodes  42  and  62  and the portions of first polysilicon remainder  226 R at the intended locations for gate electrodes  122  and  142 . The uncovered material of polysilicon portions  226 R and  232 R is removed. The remaining largely undoped portions of second polysilicon remainder  232 R are then precursor gate electrodes  42 P and  62 P of LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . The remaining p++ portions of first polysilicon remainder  226 R are precursor gate electrodes  122 P and  142 P of HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . The structure processed according to the alternative of  FIG. 13  now appears substantially as shown in  FIG. 12   o.    
   Regardless of which of the foregoing procedures is utilized to create thick dielectric remainder  214 R, thin dielectric layer  218 , and precursor gate electrodes  42 P,  62 P,  122 P, and  142 P, the portions of dielectric layer  218  below gate electrodes  42 P and  62 P respectively constitute dielectric layers  40  and  60  for LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . See  FIG. 12   o . The portions of dielectric remainder  214 R below gate electrodes  122 P and  142 P respectively constitute gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  for HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . Surface-adjoining parts of precursor upper body-material portions  36 P,  56 P,  116 P, and  136 P situated generally below gate electrodes  42 P,  62 P,  122 P, and  142 P respectively constitute intended locations for channel zones  32 ,  52 ,  112 , and  132  of respective IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106 . 
   In the remainder of the process of  FIG. 12 , the complementary-IGFET structure at each processing stage is illustrated with a pair of FIGS. “ 12   z . 1 ” and “ 12   z . 2 ” where “z” is a letter varying from “p” to “x”. Each  FIG. 12   z . 1  illustrates the processing (if any) done to create LV IGFETs  100  and  102  while each  FIG. 12   z . 2 , illustrates the processing (if any) simultaneously done to create HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . Each pair of  FIGS. 12   z . 1  and  12   z . 2  is, for convenience, collectively referred to below as “ FIG. 12   z ”. For instance,  FIGS. 12   p . 1  and  12   p . 2  are collectively referred to as “ FIG. 12   p”.    
   A dielectric layer  236  of silicon oxide is thermally grown along the exposed surface of precursor polysilicon gate electrodes  42 P,  62 P,  122 P, and  142 P to seal them. See  FIG. 12   p . Seal-oxide layer  236  is typically 8 nm in thickness. During the polysilicon sealing step, the thickness of the portions of dielectric layers  214 R and  218  not covered by gate electrodes  42 P,  62 P,  122 P, and  142 P increases slightly. This composite surface dielectric layer, which has segments at two different thicknesses, is indicated by reference symbol  238 . 
   A photoresist mask  240  is formed on dielectric layers  236  and  238  as shown in  FIG. 12   p . An opening extends through mask  240  above the active region for p-channel LV IGFET  102 . A pair of laterally separated heavily doped p-type precursor source/drain extensions  50 EP for p-channel IGFET  102  are defined in n upper body-material portion  56 P along the upper semiconductor surface by implanting ions of a species of a p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type LV source/drain extension dopant, at a heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of body-material portion  56 P. The material consisting of photoresist mask  240 , field insulation  24 , gate electrode  62 P, and the portion of seal oxide  236  situated along electrode  62 P forms a shield that largely blocks the p-type LV source/drain extension dopant from simultaneously passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly underlying the shield. 
   The dosage of the p-type LV source/drain extension dopant is 3×10 13 -2×10 14  ions/cm 2 , typically 6×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The p-type source/drain extension dopant may consist of boron in the form of boron difluoride or in elemental form. For the typical case in which the p-type source/drain extension dopant consists of boron in the form of boron difluoride, the implantation energy is 5-20 keV, typically 15 keV. 
   With photoresist mask  240  in place, an n-type halo doping operation is performed by angled ion implantation to define a heavily doped n-type precursor halo region  58 P for p-channel LV IGFET  102 . See  FIG. 12   q . Ions of a species of the n-type halo dopant are implanted at a heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a surface-adjoining segment of n upper body-material portion  36 P at an average tilt angle of at least 15°, normally at least 25°, to a direction (perpendicular to the lower semiconductor surface and thus) generally perpendicular to the upper semiconductor surface. 
   For the long-channel version of p-channel LV IGFET  102 , ions of the species of the n-type halo dopant are implanted through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of n upper body-material portion  56 P to define a pair of laterally separated heavily doped n-type precursor halo pocket portions. In either case, the material consisting of photoresist mask  240 , field insulation  24 , gate electrode  62 P, and the portion of seal oxide  236  situated along electrode  62 P forms a shield which largely blocks the n-type halo dopant from simultaneously passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly underlying the shield. 
   The halo tilt angle is determined in a plane extending generally perpendicular to the upper semiconductor surface at a selected azimuthal (rotational) angle measured from a reference line in a plane extending generally parallel to the upper semiconductor surface. It is typically desirable that p-channel IGFET  102  be of generally symmetrical shape about a vertical line extending through the center of n channel zone  52  so that p-channel IGFET  102  performs largely the same regardless of which source/drain zone  50  acts as a source. Such a generally symmetrical shape is achieved by performing the n-type halo implantation at an even number M A  of azimuthal angles at typical angular spacings of approximately 360°/M A . This is indicated in  FIG. 12   q  by the pairs of crossing arrows. The arrows extending from upper right to lower left represent ions of one part of the species of n-type halo dopant moving generally parallel to a first impingement axis at one of the azimuthal angles. The arrows extending from upper left to lower right represent ions of another part of the species of the n-type halo dopant moving generally parallel to a second impingement axis at another of the azimuthal angles that differs by approximately 180° from the first-mentioned azimuthal angle. 
   When the reference line for measuring the azimuthal angles runs parallel to the channel length of p-channel IGFET  102  from a specified one of source/drain regions  50  to the other source/drain region  50 , two of the M A  azimuthal angles can be 0° and 180°. However, to alleviate ion channeling, one of these two azimuthal angles typically differs by a significant non-zero amount from 0° while the other azimuthal angle typically differs by approximately the same non-zero amount from 180°. For example, one of the two azimuthal angles can be 30-35° (or −35-−30°) while the other azimuthal angle is 210-215° (or 145-150°). 
   The tilt angles for the two azimuthal angles are usually close to each other, normally within 10° of each other, preferably within 5° of each other, and typically approximately equal to each other. Each tilt angle is typically 45°. Further information on the angle aspects of the n-type halo implantation is presented in U.S. Pat. No. 6,548,842 B1, cited above. 
   Due to the tilted implantation of the n-type halo dopant at two largely opposite azimuthal angles, ions of the n-type halo-dopant species penetrate below precursor gate electrode  62 P of IGFET  102  into a pair of portions of the intended location for channel zone  32  along both transverse sides of gate electrode  62 P. The ions that penetrate into the intended channel-zone location along one of the transverse sides of electrode  62 P accumulate in one precursor halo pocket portion that extends below electrode  62 P along that transverse gate-electrode side. The ions that penetrate into the intended channel-zone location along the other transverse side of electrode  62 P accumulate in another precursor halo pocket portion that extends below electrode  62 P along that other transverse gate-electrode side. IGFET  102  is of sufficiently small channel length that the two precursor halo pocket portions merge together below electrode  62 P to define n+ precursor halo region  58 P. The channel length in the long-channel version of IGFET  102  is sufficiently great that the two precursor halo pocket portions are spaced laterally apart from each other. 
   Substantially the same results occur in IGFET  102  and in its long-channel version when the number M A  of azimuthal angles is an even number greater than 2. In that case, there are M A /2 pairs of largely opposite azimuthal angles. The halo implantations a one of each of the pairs of azimuthal angles produce one of the precursor halo pocket portions. The halo implantations at the other of each of the pairs azimuthal angles produce the other precursor halo pocket portion. 
   The total dosage of the n-type halo dopant species is 8×10 12 -3×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 1.6×10 13  ions/cm 2 , regardless of the number M A  of azimuthal angles. When M A  is 2, half of the n-type halo dosage is preferably furnished at each of the two azimuthal angles. M A  is often 4 whereby each consecutive pair of the four azimuthal angles differ by approximately 90°. One fourth of the n-type halo dosage is then preferably furnished at each azimuthal angle. The n-type halo dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which phosphorus constitutes the n-type halo dopant, the implantation energy is 125-175 keV, typically 150 keV. Photoresist  240  is removed after completing the n-type halo implantation. 
   A photoresist mask  242  is formed on dielectric layers  236  and  238  as depicted in  FIG. 12   r . An opening extends through mask  242  above the active region for n-channel LV IGFET  100 . A pair of laterally separated heavily doped n-type precursor source/drain extensions  30 EP for IGFET  100  are defined in p upper body-material portion  36 P along the upper semiconductor surface by implanting ions of a species of an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as n-type LV source/drain extension dopant, at a heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of body-material portion  36 P. The material consisting of photoresist mask  242 , field insulation  24 , gate electrode  42 P, and the portion of seal oxide  236  situated along electrode  42 P forms a shield that largely blocks the n-type source/drain extension dopant from simultaneously passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly underlying the shield. 
   The dosage of the n-type LV source/drain extension dopant is 3×10 14 -1×10 15  ions/cm 2 , typically 5×10 14  ions/cm 2 . The n-type source/drain extension dopant may consist of arsenic or phosphorus. For the typical case in which arsenic constitutes the n-type source/drain extension dopant, the implantation energy is 5-30 keV, typically 20 keV. 
   With photoresist mask  242  in place, a p-type halo doping operation is performed by angled ion implantation to define a heavily doped p-type halo precursor region  38 P for n-channel LV IGFET  100 . See  FIG. 12   s . Ions of a species of the p-type halo dopant are implanted at a heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a surface-adjoining segment of p upper body-material portion  36 P at an average tilt angle of at least 15°, normally at least 25°, to a direction generally perpendicular to the upper semiconductor surface. 
   For the long-channel version of IGFET  100 , ions of the species of the n-channel halo dopant are implanted through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of p upper body-material portion  36 P to define a pair of laterally separated heavily doped n-type precursor halo pocket portions. In both cases, the material consisting of photoresist mask  242 , field insulation  24 , precursor gate electrode  42 P, and the portion of seal oxide  236  situated along electrode  42 P forms a shield which largely blocks the p-type halo dopant from simultaneously passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly underlying the shield. 
   The p-type angled halo implantation for n-channel IGFET  100  is performed at M A  azimuthal angles in the same way as the n-type angled halo implantation for p-channel IGFET  102  where M A  is again an even number. The tilt angles at each of the azimuthal angles for the p-type angled implantation are typically 40°. 
   Similar to what occurs in the n-type angled halo implantation for p-channel IGFET  102 , the tilted implantation of the p-type halo dopant at two largely opposite azimuthal angles causes ions of the p-type halo-dopant species to penetrate below precursor gate electrode  42 P of n-channel IGFET  100  into a pair of portions of the intended location of channel zone  32  along both transverse sides of gate electrode  42 P. The ions passing along one of the transverse sides of gate electrode  42 P accumulate in one precursor halo pocket portion that extends below electrode  42 P along that transverse gate-electrode side. The ions passing along the other transverse side of electrode  42 P accumulate in another precursor halo pocket portion that extends below electrode  42 P along the other transverse gate-electrode side. The channel length of IGFET  100  is sufficiently small that these two precursor halo pocket portions merge together under gate electrode  42 P to form p+ precursor halo region  38 P. The long-channel version of IGFET  100  is of sufficiently great channel length that these two precursor halo pocket portions are spaced apart from each other. Also similar to what occurs in the n-type angled halo implantation for IGFET  102 , substantially the same results arise when the number M A  of azimuthal angles for the p-type angled halo implantation is an even number greater than 2. 
   The total dosage of the p-type halo dopant species is 8×10 12 -2×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 1×10 13  ions/cm 2 , regardless of the number M A  of azimuthal angles. When M A  is 2, half of the p-type halo dosage is preferably furnished at each of the two azimuthal angles. For the case in which M A  is 4, one fourth of the p-type halo dosage is preferably furnished at each of the four azimuthal angles. The p-type halo dopant may consist of boron in the form of boron difluoride or in elemental form. For the typical case in which the p-type halo dopant consists of boron in the form of boron difluoride, the implantation energy is 50-100 keV, typically 75 keV. Photoresist  242  is removed after completing the p-type halo implantation. 
   A photoresist mask  244  is formed on dielectric layers  236  and  238  as shown in  FIG. 12   t . An opening extends through mask  244  above the active region for p-channel HV IGFET  106 . A pair of heavily doped p-type precursor source/drain extensions  130 EP for IGFET  106  are defined in n upper body-material portion  136 P along the upper semiconductor surface by implanting of a species of a p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type HV source/drain extension dopant, at a heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of body-material portion  136 P. The material consisting of photoresist mask  244 , field insulation  24 , precursor gate electrode  142 P, and the portion of seal oxide  236  along electrode  142 P form a shield that largely blocks the p-type HV source/drain extension dopant from simultaneously passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly underlying the shield. 
   The implantation of the p-type HV source/drain extension dopant for p-channel IGFET  106  is normally performed in the angled manner described above for the n-type halo dopant provided to p-channel IGFET  102 . Although the number M A  of azimuthal angles can be 2, four azimuthal angles are preferably used to improve uniformity. The tilt angles at each of the azimuthal angles for the p-type HV source/drain extension dopant are typically 40°. As a result of forming p+ source/drain extensions  130 EP by angled implantation, precursor gate electrode  142 P of IGFET  106  extends slightly over each extension  130 EP. 
   The total dose of the p-type HV source/drain extension dopant is 1×10 13 -4×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 13  ions/cm 2 , regardless of the number M A  of azimuthal angles. One fourth of the p-type HV source/drain extension dosage is preferably furnished at each azimuthal angle in the preferred case where M A  is 4. The p-type HV source/drain extension dopant may consist of boron in the form of boron difluoride or in elemental form. For the typical case in which boron difluoride constitutes the p-type HV source/drain extension dopant, the implantation energy is 20-50 keV, typically 30 keV. Photoresist  244  is removed subsequent to the p-type HV source/drain extension implantation. 
   A photoresist mask  246  is formed on dielectric layers  236  and  238  as depicted in  FIG. 12   u . An opening extends through mask  246  above the active region for n-channel LV IGFET  104 . A pair of heavily doped n-type precursor source/drain extensions  110 EP for IGFET  104  are defined in p upper body-material portion  116 P along the upper semiconductor surface by implanting ions of a species of an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV source/drain extension dopant, at a heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  238  and into a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of body-material portion  116 P. The material consisting of photoresist mask  246 , field insulation  24 , precursor gate electrode  122 P, and the portion of seal oxide  236  along electrode  122 P forms a shield that largely blocks the n-type HV source/drain extension dopant from passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly below the shield. 
   The implantation of the n-type HV source/drain extension dopant for n-channel IGFET  104  is normally performed in the angled manner described above for the n-type halo dopant furnished to p-channel IGFET  102 . Again, the number of M A  of azimuthal angles is preferably 4 even though only two azimuthal angles can be used. The tilt angle at each of the azimuthal angles for the n-type HV source/drain extension dopant is typically 45°. Because n+ source/drain extensions  110 EP are formed by angled halo implantation, precursor gate electrode  122 P of IGFET  104  extends slightly over each extension  110 EP. 
   The total dose of the n-type HV source/drain extension dopant is 1×10 13 -3×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 13  ions/cm 2 , regardless of the number M A  of azimuthal angles. One fourth of the n-type HV source/drain extension dopant is preferably furnished at each azimuthal angle in the preferred case where M A  is 4. The n-type HV source/drain extension dopant may consist of phosphorus or arsenic. For the typical case in which phosphorus constitutes the n-type HV source/drain extension dopant, the implantation energy is 40-80 keV, typically 60 keV. Photoresist  246  is removed subsequent to the n-type HV source/drain extension implantation. 
   For IGFET  102 , the n-type halo implantation through photoresist mask  240  can be done prior to the p-type source/drain extension implantation through photoresist  240 . For IGFET  100 , the p-type halo implantation through photoresist mask  242  can be done prior to the n-type source/drain extension implantation through photoresist  242 . Also, photoresist masks  240 ,  242 ,  244 , and  246  can be formed on dielectric layers  236  and  238  in any order. In other words, the doping step(s) done with each of these four masks can be performed in any order with respect to the doping step(s) done with each other of these masks. 
   An extended-time low-temperature furnace anneal, referred to here as the source/drain extension anneal, may be performed at this point to remove defects caused by the heavy dosages of the source/drain extension implants. When performed, the source/drain extension anneal is done at 540-560° C., typically 550° C., for 60-120 min., typically 90 min., in a non-reactive environment or in a reactive oxygen-containing environment. When the source/drain extension anneal is done in a reactive oxygen-containing environment, the thicknesses of dielectric layers  236  and  238  increases slightly. 
   Next, gate sidewall spacer pairs  44 ,  64 ,  124 , and  144  are provided respectively along the transverse sidewalls of precursor gate electrodes  42 P,  62 P,  122 P, and  142 P for respective IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106 . See  FIG. 12   v.    
   In particular, a thin layer of tetraethyl orthosilicate (“TEOS”) is deposited on top of the structure, typically to a thickness of 30 nm. A considerably thicker layer of silicon nitride is deposited on the TEOS layer, typically to a thickness of 100 nm. An anisotropic etch is performed generally perpendicular to the upper semiconductor surface to remove largely all the silicon nitride, except for portions situated on the TEOS layer to the sides of gate electrodes  42 P,  62 P,  122 P, and  142 P. Each gate sidewall spacer  44 ,  64 ,  124 , or  144  thereby consists of a main silicon nitride portion situated on a TEOS footer which overlies portions of dielectric layers  236  and  238 . 
   The portions of the TEOS layer not covered by the silicon nitride portions of gate sidewall spacers  44 ,  64 ,  124 , or  144  are removed. The underlying portions of dielectric layers  236  and  238  are partially, but not totally, removed. Items  248  and  250  in  FIG. 12   v  respectively indicate the respective remainders of dielectric layers  238  and  236  not covered by sidewall spacers  44 ,  64 ,  124 , or  144 . 
   A photoresist mask  252  is formed on dielectric layers  248  and  250  and on sidewalls spacers  64  and  144  as shown in  FIG. 12   w . An opening extends through mask  252  above the active region for each of n-channel IGFETs  100  and  104 . A species of an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type main source/drain dopant, is ion implanted at a very heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  248  to define n++ main source/drain portions  30 M for IGFET  100  and n++ main source/drain portions  110 M for IGFET  104 . The n-type main source/drain dopant enters (a) a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of p precursor upper body-material portion  36 P to define main source/drain portions  30 M in portion  36 P and (b) a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of p precursor upper body-material portion  116 P to define main source/drain portions  110 M in portion  116 P. 
   The material consisting of photoresist mask  252 , field insulation  24 , precursor gate electrode  42 P, and sidewall spacers  44  forms, for IGFET  100 , a shield that largely blocks the n-type main source/drain dopant from passing through the upper semiconductor surface sections directly below the shield. The material consisting of mask  252 , field insulation  24 , precursor gate  122 P, and sidewall spacers  124  similarly forms, for IGFET  104 , a further shield that largely blocks the main source/drain dopant from passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly below the further shield. 
   Subject to satisfying Inequality 5, the dosage of the n-type main source/drain dopant is 5×10 15 -1×10 16  ions/cm 2 , typically 7×10 15  ions/cm 2 . The n-type main source/drain dopant preferably consists of a slow-diffusing species such as arsenic or antimony. For the typical case in which arsenic constitutes the n-type main source/drain dopant, the implantation energy is 40-60 keV, typically 50 keV. Phosphorus can also be used as the n-type main source/drain dopant. Photoresist  252  is removed subsequent to the n-type main source/drain implantation. 
   Due to the presence of sidewall spacers  44 , n++ main source/drain portions  30 M for IGFET  100  respectively partially overlap n+ source/drain extensions  30 EP. The presence of sidewall spacers  124  similarly results in n++ main source/drain portions  110 M for IGFET  104  respectively partially overlapping n+ source/drain extensions  110 EP. Main source/drain portions  30 M and  110 M are doped much heavier n-type than, and respectively extend deeper into upper body-material portions  36 P and  116 P than, precursor drain extensions  30 EP and  110 EP. Hence, the heavily doped n-type remainders of precursor extensions  30 EP and  110 EP respectively constitute n+ source/drain extensions  30 E and  110 E. The moderately doped p-type remainders of upper body-material portions  36 P and  116 P now respectively constitute p upper body-material portions  36  and  116 . The p+ remainder of precursor halo region  38 P now constitutes p+ halo region  38 . The moderately doped n-type remainder of precursor channel zone  112 P is now n channel zone  112 . 
   Some p-type and n-type dopant was introduced into precursor gate electrode  42 P of SCIGFET  100  during the p-type and n-type doping operations performed prior to the n-type main source/drain doping operations. However, the total amount of p-type dopant introduced into gate electrode  42 P is insignificant compared to the amount of n-type dopant introduced into electrode  42 P during the n-type main source/drain doping. Accordingly, precursor gate electrode  42 P is now n++ gate electrode  42  of IGFET  100 . Also, gate electrode  42  is of the same conductivity type, i.e., n-type, as source/drain zones  30 . 
   Precursor gate electrode  122 P of CJIGFET  104  received the very heavy dosage of the n-type main source/drain implantation. Some p-type and n-type dopant was also introduced into gate electrode  122 P during the p-type and n-type doping operations conducted prior to the n-type main source/drain implantation but subsequent to the p-type HV gate implantation. The amount of n-type dopant introduced into electrode  122 P during the doping operations performed between the p-type HV gate implantation and the n-type main source/drain implantation is insignificant compared to the amount of n-type dopant that electrode  122 P received during the n-type main source/drain implantation. By satisfying Inequality 5, the amount of p-type dopant that electrode  122 P received during the p-type HV gate implantation is considerably greater than the amount of all other n-type dopant, including the very heavy dosage of the n-type main source/drain implantation, received by electrode  122 P. Accordingly, precursor electrode  122 P remains very heavily doped p-type and is now p++ gate electrode  122  of IGFET  104 . Importantly, gate electrode  122  is of opposite conductivity type to n-type source/drain regions  110  and n channel zone  112  as is typically desirable for a channel-junction IGFET. 
   A photoresist mask  254  is formed on dielectric layers  248  and  250  and on sidewall spacers  44  and  124  as depicted in  FIG. 12   x . An opening extends through mask  254  above the active region for each of p-channel IGFETs  102  and  106 . A species of a p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type main source/drain dopant, is ion implanted at a very heavy dosage through uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  248  to define p++ main source/drain portions for IGFET  102  and p++ main source/drain portions  130 M for IGFET  106 . The p-type main source/drain dopant enters (a) a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of n upper body-material portion  56 P to define main source/drain portions  50 M in portion  56 P and (b) a pair of laterally separated surface-adjoining segments of p upper body-material portion  136 P to define main source/drain portions  130 M in portion  136 P. 
   The material consisting of photoresist mask  254 , field insulation  24 , precursor gate electrode  62 P, and sidewall spacers  64  forms, for IGFET  102 , a shield that largely blocks the p-type main source/drain dopant from passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly below the shield. The material consisting of mask  254 , field insulation  24 , precursor gate electrode  142 P, and sidewall spacers  144  similarly forms, for IGFET  106 , a further shield that largely blocks the p-type main source/drain dopant from passing through the upper semiconductor surface section directly below the further shield. 
   The dosage of the p-type main source/drain dopant is 2.5×10 15 -1×10 16  ions/cm 2 , typically 5×10 15  ions/cm 2 . The p-type main source/drain dopant may consist of boron in the form of boron difluoride or in elemental form. For the typical case in which the p-type main source/drain dopant consists of boron in the form of boron difluoride, the implantation energy is 20-30 keV, typically 25 keV. Photoresist  254  is removed subsequent to the p-type main source/drain implantation. 
   Due to the presence of sidewall spacers  64 , p++ main source/drain portions of IGFET  102  respectively partially overlap p+ source/drain extensions  50 EP. The presence of sidewall spacers  144  similarly results in p++ main source/drain portions  130 M of IGFET  106  respectively partially overlapping p+ source/drain extensions  130 EP. Main source/drain portions  50 M and  130 M are doped much heavier p type than, and respectively extend deeper into upper body-material portions  56 P and  136 P than, precursor source/drain extensions  50 EP and  130 EP. Accordingly, the heavily doped p-type remainders of precursor extensions  50 EP and  130 EP now respectively constitute p+ source/drain extensions  50 E and  130 E. Similarly, the moderately doped n-type remainders of precursor upper body-material portions  56 P and  136 P now respectively constitute n upper body-material portions  56  and  136 . The n+ remainder of precursor halo region  58 P now constitutes n+ halo region  58 . 
   Some n-type and p-type dopant was introduced into precursor gate electrode  62 P of SCIGFET  102  during the n-type and p-type doping operations prior to the p-type main source/drain doping operation. However, the total amount of n-type dopant introduced into gate electrode  62 P is insignificant compared to the amount of p-type dopant introduced into electrode  62 P during the p-type main source/drain doping. Accordingly, gate electrode  62 P is now p++ gate electrode  62  of IGFET  102 . Also, gate electrode  62  is of the same conductivity type (p-type) as source/drain zones  50 . 
   Precursor gate electrode  142 P of SCIGFET  106  received only p-type dopant during the various doping operations. Very heavy dosages of p-type dopant were supplied to gate electrode  142 P during the p-type HV gate implantation and the p-type main source/drain implantation. Accordingly, precursor electrode  142 P is now p++ gate electrode  142  of IGFET  106 . Additionally, p++ electrode  142 P is of the same conductivity type (p-type) as source/drain regions  130 . 
   The p-type main source/drain implantation can be performed before, rather than after, the n-type main source/drain implantation. 
   A capping layer (not shown) of dielectric material is formed on top of the structure. The capping dielectric layer typically consists of TEOS deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition to a typical thickness of 20 nm. 
   The semiconductor structure is now thermally annealed to repair lattice damage and activate the implanted source/drain and halo dopants. The anneal, referred to as the source/drain-halo anneal, is of such a nature that, at the end of the anneal, gate electrode  42  of IGFET  100  extends slightly over source/drain extensions  30 E, and gate electrode  62  of IGFET  102  extends slightly over source/drain extensions  50 E. Due to the use of angled ion implantation to define precursors  110 EP and  130 EP to source/drain extensions  110 E and  130 E, gate electrode  122  of IGFET  104  already extends slightly over extensions  110 E, and gate electrode  142  of IGFET  106  likewise already extends slightly over extensions  130 E. 
   The source/drain-halo anneal is typically an RTA at 1000-1100°, typically 1075° C., for 5-20 sec., preferably 10-15 sec., typically 12 sec. The RTA typically includes a ramp-up from 525° C. to the anneal temperature at 60-90° C./sec., typically 75° C./sec. The RTA also typically includes a ramp-down from the anneal temperature to 700° C. at −40-−60° C./sec., typically −50° C./sec. The RTA is preferably done in an non-reactive environment, typically nitrogen. Alternatively, the RTA can be done in a reactive oxygen-containing environment. In this case, silicon oxide grows along the upper silicon (both monosilicon and polysilicon) surfaces. The so-grown oxide can replace the capping dielectric layer. 
   The source/drain-halo anneal may include an extended-time furnace anneal performed before the source/drain-halo RTA at temperature considerably below the RTA annealing temperature. When performed, the furnace anneal is done at 540-560° C., typically 550° C., for 60-120 min., typically 90 min., in a non-reactive environment, or in a reactive oxygen-containing environment. The source/drain anneal is typically performed in an environment containing nitrogen and oxygen. When so done, the thicknesses of the dielectric layers along the upper silicon surfaces increase slightly. Although the above-mentioned source/drain and halo implantation steps define source/drain zones  30 ,  50 ,  110 , and  130 , channel zone  112 , and halo regions  38  and  58 , the source/drain-halo anneal consisting of the RTA and the optional furnace anneal completes the formation of these regions. 
   The thin layers of dielectric material, including dielectric layers  248  and  250 , are removed along the upper semiconductor surface and along the top surfaces of gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142 . Field insulation  24  and spacers  44 ,  64 ,  124 , and  144  remain substantially in place. 
   Metal silicide layers  46 ,  48 ,  66 ,  68 ,  126 ,  128 ,  146 , and  148  are respectively formed along the upper surfaces of components  30 M,  42 ,  50 M,  62 ,  110 M,  122 ,  130 M, and  142 . This typically entails depositing a thin layer of a suitable metal, typically cobalt, on the upper surface of the structure and then causing the metal to react with the underlying silicon to form silicide layers  46 ,  48 ,  66 ,  68 ,  126 ,  128 ,  146 , and  148 . The unreacted metal is subsequently removed. The metal silicide thickness is normally 25-35 nm, typically 30 nm. The metal silicide formation completes the basic fabrication of IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 , and  106 . The resultant complementary-IGFET structure appears as shown in  FIG. 3 . 
   In subsequent process operations (not illustrated in the drawings), a layer of dielectric material is deposited on the upper surface of the structure of  FIG. 3 . Using a suitable photoresist mask, contact openings are etched through the dielectric material down to metal silicide layers  46 ,  48 ,  66 ,  68 ,  126 ,  128 ,  146 , and  148 . Alternatively, a self-aligned contact technique can be utilized to form contact openings through the dielectric material provided over the structure. 
   A layer of interconnect metal typically consisting principally of aluminum is deposited on the upper surface of the resulting structure. Using a suitable photoresist mask, the interconnect metal is patterned into a desired shape. The metallization process may include the formation of tungsten plugs. As desired, one or more further patterned metal interconnect layers can be provided over the structure. 
     FIGS. 14   a - 14   f  (collectively “FIG.  14 ”) illustrate a procedure, starting at the stage of  FIG. 12   e  repeated here as  FIG. 14   a , for modifying the process of  FIG. 12  to replace p-channel HV surface-channel IGFET  106  with p-channel HV channel-junction IGFET  184 . As an initial process modification, the n-type HV threshold-adjust dopant that was introduced into the intended location for channel zone  132  of IGFET  106  is not introduced into the intended channel zone location for IGFET  184 . 
   Instead, using photoresist mask  208  as shown in  FIG. 14   b , the above-mentioned p-type HV channel dopant is introduced at a moderate dosage through the uncovered section of surface dielectric layer  202  into n upper body-material portion  136 P to define a moderately doped p-type precursor  186 P to p channel zone  186  of IGFET  184 . The p-type HV channel dopant is normally introduced by ion implantation at a dosage of 8×10 12 -1.5×10 13  ions/cm 2 , typically 1×10 13  ions/cm 2 . The p-type HV channel dopant may consist of boron in elemental form or in the form of boron difluoride. For the typical case in which the p-type HV channel dopant consists of boron, the implantation energy is 5-15 keV, typically 10 keV. 
   The n-type HV well implantation, the n-type HV APT implantation, and the p-type HV channel implantation are all performed using photoresist mask  208  and, as indicated above, can be done in any order. Photoresist  208  is removed after these three implantations are completed. 
   Subsequent processing in the modification of  FIG. 14  is the same as in the process of  FIG. 12  up through the deposition of largely undoped polysilicon layer  220  at the stage of  FIG. 12   m . With precursor channel zone  186  now present,  FIG. 14   c  illustrates how the structure appears at the stage equivalent to that of  FIG. 12   m.    
   A photoresist mask  260  is formed on polysilicon layer  220 . See  FIG. 14   d . An opening extends through mask  260  above the active region for n-channel HV CJIGFET  104 . Mask  260  covers the active region for p-channel HV CJIGFET  184  as well as the active regions for LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . 
   The p-type HV gate dopant is introduced into uncovered portion  220 DP of polysilicon layer  220  in the same way that the p-type HV gate dopant is introduced into uncovered portion  220 D of layer  220  in the process of  FIG. 12 . Uncovered polysilicon portion  220 DP, which overlies the active region for IGFET  104 , thereby becomes very heavily doped p-type as indicated in  FIG. 14   d . Part of p++ polysilicon portion  220 D later becomes p++ gate electrode  122  for IGFET  104 . Inequality 5 is again preferably met to avoid full counterdoping later in precursor gate electrode  122 P. Since photoresist  260  covers the active region for IGFET  184 , the portion of polysilicon layer  220  overlying the active region for IGFET  184  remains largely undoped. Photoresist  260  is removed after performing the p-type HV gate implantation. 
   A photoresist mask  262  is formed on polysilicon layer  220  as depicted in  FIG. 14   e . An opening extends through mask  260  above the active region for p-channel HV CJIGFET  184 . Mask  262  covers the active region for n-channel HV CJIGFET  104  as well as the active regions for LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . The above-mentioned n-type HV gate dopant is introduced at a very heavy dosage into uncovered portion  220 DN of polysilicon layer  220  to make uncovered portion  220 DN very heavily doped n-type. The n-type HV gate doping operation is normally performed by ion implantation. Part of n++ polysilicon portion  220 DN later becomes n++ gate electrode  188  for IGFET  184 . Photoresist  262  is removed after performing the n-type HV gate implantation. 
   The dosage DOSE NPOLY  of the n-type HV gate dopant is sufficiently high that the n-type polysilicon portion (of n++ polysilicon portion  220 DN) which later becomes gate electrode  188  of IGFET  184  remains very heavily n-type doped during subsequent doping operations. In particular, the n-type polysilicon portion which later becomes gate electrode  188  is not fully counterdoped (converted to p-type conductivity) during the p-type doping operations which are utilized to form source/drain zones  130  of IGFET  184  (and source/drain zones  50  of IGFET  102 ) and to which that n-type polysilicon portion is subjected. 
   Main portions  130 M of source/drain zones  130  of IGFET  184  are provided with a much greater dosage of n-type dopant than extensions  130 E. Accordingly, full counterdoping in the n-type polysilicon portion which later becomes gate electrode  188  is avoided by meeting the condition:
 
DOSE NPOLY &gt;N PSDMAX t POLY   (6)
 
where N PSDMAX  is the maximum net dopant concentration in main source/drain portions  130 M.
 
   Subject to meeting Inequality 6, the dosage of the n-type HV gate dopant is 1×10 16 -3×10 16  ions/cm 2 , typically 2×10 16  ions/cm 2 . The n-type HV gate dopant preferably consists of a relatively fast-diffusing species such as phosphorus. In that case, the implantation energy is 20-40 keV, typically 30 keV. Arsenic may also be used as the n-type HV gate dopant. 
   The n-type HV gate implantation can be performed before, rather than after, the p-type HV gate implantation. In either case, item  220 R indicates the remaining undoped material of polysilicon layer  220  after both the p-type and n-type HV gate implantations are completed. 
   Further processing in the modification of  FIG. 14  is conducted the same as described above for the process of  FIG. 12  starting with the gate-electrode patterning step of  FIG. 12   o .  FIG. 14   f  illustrates how the complementary-IGFET structure processed according to the modification of  FIG. 14  appears at the stage equivalent to that of  FIG. 12   o . Remaining portions  42 P and  62 P of undoped polysilicon remainder  220 R are again respective precursors to gate electrodes  42  and  62  of IGFETs  100  and  102 . Item  122 P, now the remaining portion of p++polysilicon portion  220 DP, is the p++ precursor to gate electrode  122  of IGFET  104 . 
   Remaining portion  188 P of n++ polysilicon portion  220 DN is an n++ precursor to gate electrode  188  of CJIGFET  184 . After completion of the p-type main source/drain implantation at a stage equivalent to that of  FIG. 12   x , precursor electrode  188 P is n++ gate electrode  188  of IGFET  184 , and the moderately doped p-type remainder of precursor channel zone  186 P is p channel zone  186  of IGFET  184 . Importantly, n++ gate electrode  188  is of opposite conductivity type to source/drain zones  130  and channel zone  186  as is typically desirable for a channel-junction IGFET. The source/drain-halo anneal subsequent to the n-type and p-type main source/drain implantations complete the formations of n upper body-material portion  136  and p channel zone  186 . 
   Photoresist masks  260  and  262  in the process modification of  FIG. 14  essentially replace photoresist mask  222  in the process of  FIG. 12 . When the gate-dielectric and polysilicon gate-electrode materials are handled according to the alternative procedure of  FIG. 13 , photoresist mask  234  in the procedure of  FIG. 13  is similarly replaced with a pair of photoresist masks (not shown) for enabling p-channel HV surface-channel IGFET  106  to be replaced with p-channel HV channel-junction IGFET  184 . 
   Analogous to photoresist mask  260  in the alternative of  FIG. 14 , one of these two photoresist masks has an opening above the active region for CJIGFET  104 , thereby exposing the portion of second polysilicon layer  232  above the active region for IGFET  104 . Using this mask, the uncovered portion of polysilicon layer  232  is removed. With barrier dielectric layer  230  largely intact, the p-type HV gate implantation is then performed to introduce the p-type HV gate dopant through the resultant uncovered portion of barrier layer  230  and into the underlying portion of polysilicon remainder  220 R at a very heavy dosage. This p++ portion of polysilicon remainder  226 R overlies the active region of IGFET  104 . Part of the p++ portion of polysilicon remainder  226 R later constitutes precursor gate electrode  122 P. The first photoresist is removed. 
   The second photoresist mask is analogous to photoresist mask  262  in the alternative of  FIG. 14  and has an opening above the active region for CJIGFET  184 . The portion of second polysilicon layer  232  above the active region for IGFET  184  is thus exposed. Using the second mask, the further uncovered portion of polysilicon layer  232  is removed. With barrier layer  230  still largely intact, the n-type HV gate implantation is subsequently performed to introduce the n-type HV gate dopant through the further resultant uncovered portion of barrier layer  230  and into the underlying portion of first polysilicon remainder  226 R at a very heavy dosage. This further n++ portion of polysilicon remainder  226 R overlies the active region for IGFET  184 . Part of the n++ portion of polysilicon remainder  226 R later constitutes precursor gate electrode  188 P. The second photoresist is removed after which barrier layer  230  is removed. 
   The operations performed with either photoresist mask can be done first. The first-formed mask lies only on second polysilicon layer  232 . Because part of polysilicon layer  232  is removed during the operations done with the first-formed mask so as to temporarily expose the underlying portion of barrier dielectric layer  230 , the second-formed mask lies on the remainder of polysilicon layer  232  and the temporarily exposed part of barrier layer  230 . 
   Variations 
   While the invention has been described with reference to particular embodiments, this description is solely for the purpose of illustration and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention claimed below. For example, the p-type device body material of n-channel HV CJIGFET  104  may be extended downward in certain implementations of IGFET  104  to include a heavily doped (p-type) deep well portion analogous to n+ deep well portion  182  of p-channel HV IGFET  180  or  190 . P+ well portion  114  then constitutes a shallow well portion for each so-modified version of IGFET  104 . The p+ shallow and deep well portions form a composite p+ well portion. The p+ deep well ensures that the modified version of IGFET  104  is pn-junction isolated from n-type wells. 
   A p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type HV deep well dopant, is ion implanted at a heavy dosage into the semiconductor body to define the p+ deep well portion for each modified version of IGFET  104 . If each implementation of IGFET  104  is to be modified to include a p+ deep well portion, the ion implantation is performed at the stage of FIG.  12   f  when photoresist mask  202  is present. The p-type HV deep well dopant passes through the uncovered section of screen oxide and into epitaxial layer  26 P. In variations where each of one or more, but not all, implementations of IGFET  104 , is to be modified to have a p+ deep well, the ion implantation is performed through a separate photoresist mask (not shown) provided over screen oxide  202  and having an opening above each location where an implementation of IGFET  104  is to be so modified. 
   The p-type HV deep well dopant causes the net dopant concentration in the p-type body material for each so-modified version of IGFET  104  to reach, in the p+ deep well, an additional local subsurface maximum below the location of the further (shallow well) subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of that p-type body material. The depth of the additional (deep well) local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration for the p-type body material of the modified version of IGFET  104  is typically roughly the same as the depth of the additional (deep well) local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration for the n-type body material of IGFET  180  or  190 , i.e., normally 0.6-1.0 μm below the upper semiconductor surface, typically 0.8 μm below the upper semiconductor surface when the channel length is defined according to lithographic design rules whose minimum printable feature size is 0.25 μm or less, e.g., 0.18 μm. 
   Using high energy ion-implantation equipment, the p+ deep well portion of the modified version of n-channel HV CJIGFET  104  can be extended even deeper below the upper semiconductor and, in particular, to a depth sufficient to ensure that the modified version of IGFET  104  substantially avoids latchup. N+ deep well portion  182  of p-channel HV IGFET  180  or  190  can be modified in the same way so as to substantially ensure that latchup does not occur in the so-modified version of IGFET  180  or  190 . The depths of the additional (deep well) local subsurface maximum in the net dopant concentration of the device body material for the modified version of IGFET  104 ,  180 , or  190  is then typically greater than 1.0 μm, the top end of the normal depth range for ensuring pn-junction isolation. 
   N-channel LV SCIGFET  100  or  160  can be modified to have an n-type deep well that meets and extends around the bottom of p+ well portion  34  so as to separate p+ well  34  from underlying p− material  26 . N-channel HV CJIGFET  104  can similarly be modified to have an n-type deep well that meets and extends around the bottom of p+ well portion  114  so as to separate p+ well  114  from p− material  26 . When the p-type body material of IGFET  104  has been extended downward to include a p+ deep well portion, the n-type deep well for the modified version of IGFET  104  meets and extends around the bottom of the p+ deep well in such a manner that the composite p+ well (formed with the p+ shallow and deep well portions) is separated from p− material  26 . 
   By separating p− material  26  from the lowest p+ well portions of the modified versions of n-channel IGFETs  100 ,  160 , and  104 , these n-type deep wells electrically isolate p-material  26  from the p-type device body material of the modified versions of IGFETS  100 ,  160 , and  104 . Consequently, the p-type body material for each so-modified version of IGFET  100 ,  160 , or  104  can be electrically controlled independently of p− material  26 . 
   The n-type deep well for the modified version of LV IGFET  100  or  160  is defined by ion implanting a species of an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type LV opposite-conductivity-type deep well dopant, at the stage of  FIG. 12   d  when photoresist mask  206  is present. The n-type LV opposite-conductivity-type deep well dopant passes through the uncovered portion of screen oxide  202  and into epitaxial layer  26 P. The n-type deep well for the modified version of HV IGFET  104  is similarly defined by ion implanting a species of an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type HV opposite-conductivity-type deep well dopant, at the stage of  FIG. 12   f  when photoresist mask  210  is present. The n-type HV opposite-conductivity-type deep well dopant passes through the uncovered portion of oxide  202  and into layer  26 P. 
   Thick dielectric layer  214 R and thin dielectric layer  218 , whether created according to the steps of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   m  or the steps of  FIGS. 13   a - 13   d , together form a multiple-thickness gate-dielectric-containing dielectric layer ( 214 R/ 218 ) whose thickness is (a) comparatively low at the lateral locations for gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  of LV IGFETs  100  and  102  and their respective LV variations  160  and  162  and (b) comparatively high at the lateral locations for gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106  and HV variations  180 ,  184 , and  190  of IGFET  106 . Instead of creating this multiple-thickness dielectric layer according to the dual dielectric-growth procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   m  or the dual dielectric-growth procedure of  FIGS. 13   a - 13   d , the multiple-thickness dielectric layer can be created by substantially a single dielectric-growth procedure in which the thermal growth of the multiple-thickness dielectric layer is suitably retarded at the locations for gate dielectric layers  40  and  60  or/and suitably enhanced at the locations for dielectric layers  120  and  140 . 
   For instance, the thermal oxidation of a layer of silicon is retarded when the layer is initially provided with nitrogen. With this in mind, a thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity such as nitrogen can be selectively introduced to a relatively small average depth into precursor upper body-material portions  36 P and  56 P for respective LV IGFETs  100  (or  160 ) and  102  (or  162 ) at the stage of  FIG. 12   j  using a suitable photoresist mask (not shown) having openings above the active regions for IGFETs  100  and  102 . The thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity is then present in a thin surface layer of each upper body-material portion  36 P or  56 P. The introduction of the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity can be performed by diffusing the impurity from a suitable impurity source or by shallow ion implantation typically accompanied by a thermal anneal in a non-oxidizing environment to appropriately distribute the impurity. The conditions of impurity introduction are controlled in such a way as to substantially avoid having the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity spread in a manner that later impairs IGFET operation. 
   The photoresist mask for the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity is removed. A thermal oxidation is subsequently performed to grow the multiple-thickness gate-dielectric-containing dielectric layer. Due to the presence of the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity in the thin surface layers of upper body-material portions  36 P and  56 P, the growth of the multiple-thickness dielectric layer is retarded along the upper surfaces of body-material portions  36 P and  56 P for LV IGFETs  100  and  102 . Consequently, the multiple-thickness dielectric layer is thicker at the locations for gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106  than at the locations for dielectric layers  40  and  60  of IGFETs  100  and  102 . 
   Alternatively or/and additionally, a thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity can be selectively introduced to a relatively small average depth into precursor upper body-material portions  116 P and  136 P for respective HV IGFETs  104  and  106  (or  180 ,  184 , and  190 ) at the stage of  FIG. 12   j  using a suitable photoresist mask (not shown) having openings above the active regions for IGFETs  104  and  106  so that the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity is present in a thin surface layer of each upper body-material portion  116 P or  136 P. Similar to how the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity is introduced, the introduction of the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity can be performed by diffusing the impurity from a suitable dopant source or by shallow ion implantation typically accompanied by a thermal anneal in a non-oxidizing environment to appropriately distribute the impurity. The conditions for introducing the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity are controlled in such a way as to substantially avoid having the impurity spread in a manner that later impairs IGFET operation. 
   The photoresist mask for the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity is removed. If the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity is also introduced into thin surface layers of upper body-material portions  36 P and  56 P for respective LV IGFETs  100  and  102 , introduction of the thermal oxidation retarding impurity can be performed before or after introduction of the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity. Regardless of whether the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity is, or is not, introduced into body-material portions  36 P and  56 P, a thermal oxidation is performed to grow the multiple-thickness gate-dielectric-containing dielectric layer. Due at least to the presence of the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity in the thin surface layers of upper body-material portions  116 P and  136 P, the growth of the multiple-thickness dielectric layer is enhanced along the upper surfaces of body-material portions  116 P and  136 P for HV IGFETs  104  and  106 . Hence, the multiple-thickness dielectric layer is again thicker at the locations for dielectric layers  120  and  140  of IGFETs  104  and  106  than at the locations for dielectric layers  40  and  60  of IGFETs  100  and  102 . 
   The thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity can be oxygen or another non-dopant impurity that enhances the oxidation of semiconductor material such as monosilicon. In the case of oxygen, introduction of oxygen into upper body-material portions  116 P and  136 P of respective IGFETs  104  and  106  simply makes more oxygen available for reaction with silicon near the upper surfaces of body-material portions  116 P and  136 P to form the silicon oxide later patterned into gate dielectric layers  120  and  140 . 
   With the multiple-thickness dielectric layer ( 214 R/ 218 ) having been formed by using a thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity or/and a thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity in the preceding manner, polysilicon layer  220  is deposited on the multiple-thickness dielectric layer in the manner generally shown in  FIG. 12   m . Reference symbols  214 R and  218  in  FIG. 12   m  can now respectively represent the thin and thick portions of the multiple-thickness dielectric layer. The remainder of the complementary-IGFET fabrication process proceeds as described above in connection with  FIGS. 12   n - 12   x.    
   Photoresist mask  216  is utilized in the dual dielectric-growth procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   m  to form the composite gate-dielectric-containing dielectric layer consisting of (a) dielectric remainder  214 R at a (comparatively) small thickness and (b) dielectric layer  218  at a (comparatively) large thickness. One photoresist mask, which can be substantially the same as mask  216 , is employed in creating the multiple-thickness dielectric layer according to the single dielectric-growth procedure that uses the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity. One photoresist mask is similarly utilized in forming the multiple-thickness dielectric layer according to the single dielectric-growth procedure that uses the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity. Hence, employing either the thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity or the thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity in creating the multiple-thickness dielectric layer does not require any more photoresist masking than is needed to form multiple-thickness dielectric layer  214 R/ 218  according to the procedure of  FIGS. 12   k - 12   m.    
   Notably, no photoresist mask is formed on the multiple-thickness dielectric layer when it is created using a thermal-oxidation-retarding impurity or/and a thermal-oxidation-enhancing impurity in the foregoing manner. Similar to what occurs in the procedure of  FIG. 13 , the multiple-thickness dielectric layer is thus not significantly exposed to contaminants such as photoresist or chemicals used in removing photoresist. Since gate dielectric layers  120  and  140  of HV IGFETs  104  and  106  are created from the thicker material of the multiple-thickness dielectric layer, the quality of dielectric layers  120  and  140  is improved. 
   All of IGFETs  100 ,  102 ,  104 ,  106 ,  160 ,  162 ,  180 ,  184 , and  190  and the long-channel versions of IGFETs  100  and  102  are largely symmetrical devices. However, when one of the source/drain zones of an IGFET serves permanently as the source while the other source/drain zone serves permanently as the drain, a source/drain extension zone in an IGFET of the invention may only be provided as part of the drain so that the IGFET is an asymmetrical device. If an IGFET is a low-voltage device that receives a halo implantation, a halo pocket portion may be provided only along the source. 
   The present semiconductor structure may include like-polarity IGFETs whose channel lengths extend approximately perpendicular to each other. In that case, performing each of the angled halo ion implantations at four azimuthal angles helps assure that all of the LV IGFETs appropriately receive n-type or p-type halo dopant. The same applies to the angled ion implantations of the source/drain extension dopants for the HV IGFETs. 
   The source/drain zones of both the LV and HV IGFETs can be provided with vertically “graded” junction characteristics. That is, in moving upward from the pn junction between a source/drain zone and the adjoining body material, the net dopant concentration in a vertical cross section through the source/drain zone rises less sharply, on the average, to the maximum value of the net dopant concentration in that vertical cross section than what would occur if the semiconductor dopant which defines the source/drain zone across that vertical cross section were ion implanted at largely a single energy. The graded-junction characteristic reduces the junction capacitance, thereby leading to an increase in the IGFET switching speed. 
   The graded-junction characteristic is achieved by providing each source/drain zone  30 ,  50 ,  110 , or  130  with a lower portion which underlies, is vertically continuous with, and is more lightly doped than main source/drain portion  30 M,  50 M,  110 M, or  130 M but is still heavily doped. The lower heavily doped n-type source/drain portions for n-channel IGFETs  100  and  104  are created using photoresist mask  252  (see  FIG. 12   w ) by ion implanting a species of an n-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the n-type lower source/drain dopant through the uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  248  into p upper-body material portions  36  and  116  (or  36 P and  136 P). The n-type lower source/drain dopant is ion implanted to a greater average depth (below the upper semiconductor surface) than, but at a lower dosage than, the n-type main source/drain dopant. 
   The lower heavily doped p-type source/drain portions for p-channel IGFETs  102  and  106  are similarly created using photoresist mask  254  (see  FIG. 12   x ) by ion implanting a species of a p-type semiconductor dopant, referred to here as the p-type lower source/drain dopant, through the uncovered portions of surface dielectric layer  248  into n upper body-material portions  56  and  136  (or  56 P and  136 P). The p-type lower source/drain dopant is ion implanted to a greater average depth than, but at a lower dosage than, the p-type main source/drain dopant. The portions of the n-type and p-type dopants underlying main source/drain portions  30 M,  50 M,  110 M, and  130 M constitute the lower source/drain portions to achieve the graded-junction characteristic. 
   The term “polysilicon” as used above in describing the principal constituent of gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142  means conventional polysilicon, a form of non-monocrystalline silicon semiconductor material in which atoms of silicon are organized in single-crystal grains consisting of multiple atoms having significant long-range order. Layer  216  from which gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142  are created in the process of  FIG. 12  can sometimes be deposited as amorphous polysilicon, a form of non-monocrystalline silicon semiconductor material in which the silicon atoms have short-range, near-atomic order. The amorphous polysilicon converts to conventional polysilicon during the heat treatments that occur during the process of  FIG. 12  subsequent to the deposition of layer  216 . The same applies to layers  226  and  232  from which gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142  are created in the alternative of  FIG. 13 . Semiconductor materials, such as germanium or a silicon-germanium alloy, can replace silicon in the semiconductor body or/and in gate electrodes  42 ,  62 ,  122 , and  142 . 
   Composite gate electrodes  42 / 48 ,  62 / 68 ,  122 / 128 , and  142 / 148  can be respectively replaced with gate electrodes consisting substantially fully of metal silicide, e.g., cobalt silicide or nickel silicide, except for dopant provided in the silicide gate electrodes to control their work functions. The dopant is typically introduced by ion implantation. 
   The mobilities of electrons and holes can be increased by replacing p− material  26 P with a lightly doped p-type strained monosilicon layer formed on a relaxed p-type silicon-germanium layer provided on a monosilicon semiconductor substrate. Various modifications and applications may thus be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the true scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.