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Patent US7902014 - CMOS devices with a single work function gate electrode and method of ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign in<nobr>Advanced Patent Search</nobr>PatentsDescribed herein are a device utilizing a gate electrode material with a single work function for both the pMOS and nMOS transistors where the magnitude of the transistor threshold voltages is modified by semiconductor band engineering and article made thereby. Further described herein are methods of...http://www.google.com/patents/US7902014?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7902014 - CMOS devices with a single work function gate electrode and method of fabricationAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS7902014 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 11/649,545Publication dateMar 8, 2011Filing dateJan 3, 2007Priority dateSep 28, 2005Also published asUS8294180, US20070090416, US20070111419, US20110180851Publication number11649545, 649545, US 7902014 B2, US 7902014B2, US-B2-7902014, US7902014 B2, US7902014B2InventorsBrian S. Doyle, Been-Yih Jin, Jack T. Kavalieros, Suman Datta, Justin K. Brask, Robert S. ChauOriginal AssigneeIntel CorporationExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (100), Non-Patent Citations (136), Referenced by (4), Classifications (16) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetCMOS devices with a single work function gate electrode and method of fabricationUS 7902014 B2Abstract Described herein are a device utilizing a gate electrode material with a single work function for both the pMOS and nMOS transistors where the magnitude of the transistor threshold voltages is modified by semiconductor band engineering and article made thereby. Further described herein are methods of fabricating a device formed of complementary (pMOS and nMOS) transistors having semiconductor channel regions which have been band gap engineered to achieve a low threshold voltage.
1. A method of forming a pair of pMOS transistors, comprising:
forming a first SiGe channel region on a first pMOS region of a silicon substrate, the first SiGe channel region having a first concentration of Ge;
forming a second SiGe channel region on a second pMOS region of the silicon substrate, the second SiGe channel region having a second concentration of Ge, different than the first concentration of Ge;
forming a gate insulator on the first and second SiGe channel regions;
forming a first gate electrode on the gate insulator over the first SiGe channel region;
forming a second gate electrode on the gate insulator over the second SiGe channel region, wherein the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode have a same mid-gap work function; and
forming a p-type doped source and drain on opposite sides of both the first and second gate electrodes to form a first and second pMOS transistor.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second SiGe channel regions are substantially free of dopant species.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein forming the first SiGe channel region further comprises forming a first cladding layer comprising the first germanium concentration on a first non-planar silicon body, and wherein forming the second SiGe channel region further comprises forming a second cladding layer comprising the second germanium concentration on a second non-planar silicon body, the first and second non-planar silicon bodies having a pair of opposite sidewalls separated by a distance defining a semiconductor body width.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein forming the first and second cladding layers further comprises:
exposing a first pair of opposite sidewalls of the first non-planar silicon body while masking the second non-planar silicon body;
forming the first cladding layer on the first pair of exposed opposite sidewalls;
exposing a second pair of opposite sidewalls of the second non-planar silicon body and;
forming the second cladding layer on the second pair of opposite sidewalls.
5. The method of claim 3, wherein forming the first and second cladding layer further comprises epitaxially growing a SiGe layer on the first and second non-planar silicon bodies.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein at least one of the first and second cladding layers are grown to the thickness of between 5 Å and 300 Å and wherein at least one of the first or second concentration of Ge is between approximately 25% and 30%.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein forming the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode further comprises depositing a titanium nitride layer having a work function between 4.5 and 4.9 on the gate insulator over both the first and second SiGe channel regions.
RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/238,447, entitled �CMOS Devices with a Single Work Function Gate Electrode and Method of Fabrication,� filed Sep. 28, 2005now abandoned, and is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/238,445, entitled �Method of Fabricating CMOS Devices Having a Single Work Function Gate Electrode by Band Gap Engineering and Article Made Thereby,� filed on Sep. 28, 2005.
The present invention relates to the field of semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing, and more particularly to CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) devices having gate electrodes with a single work function.
During the past two decades, the physical dimensions of MOSFETs have been aggressively scaled for low-power, high-performance CMOS applications. In order to continue scaling future generations of CMOS, the use of metal gate electrode technology is important. For example, further gate insulator scaling will require the use of dielectric materials with a higher dielectric constant than silicon dioxide. Devices utilizing such gate insulator materials demonstrate vastly better performance when paired with metal gate electrodes rather than traditional poly-silicon gate electrodes.
Depending on the design of the transistors used in the CMOS process, the constraints placed on the metal gate material are somewhat different. For a planar, bulk or partially depleted, single-gate transistor, short-channel effects (SCE) are typically controlled through channel dopant engineering. Requirements on the transistor threshold voltages then dictate the gate work-function values must be close to the conduction and valence bands of silicon. For such devices, a �mid-gap� work function gate electrode that is located in the middle of the p and n channel work function range is inadequate. A mid-gap gate electrode typically results in a transistor having either a threshold voltage that is too high for high-performance applications, or a compromised SCE when the effective channel doping is reduced to lower the threshold voltage. For non-planar or multi-gate transistor designs, the device geometry better controls SCE and the channel may then be more lightly doped and potentially fully depleted at zero gate bias. For such devices, the threshold voltage can be determined primarily by the gate metal work function. However, even with the multi-gate transistor's improved SCE, it is typically necessary to have a gate electrode work function about 250 mV above mid-gap for an nMOS transistor and about 250 mV below mid-gap for a pMOS transistor. Therefore, a single mid-gap gate material is also incapable of achieving low threshold voltages for both pMOS (a MOSFET with a p-channel) and nMOS (a MOSFET with an n-channel) multi-gate transistors.
For these reasons, CMOS devices generally utilize two different gate electrodes, an nMOS electrode and a pMOS electrode, having two different work function values. For the traditional polysilicon gate electrode, the work function values are typically about 4.2 and 5.2 electron volts for the nMOS and pMOS electrodes respectively, and they are generally formed by doping the polysilicon material to be either n or p type. Attempts at changing the work function of metal gate materials to achieve similar threshold voltages is difficult as the metal work function must either be varied with an alloy mixture or two different metals utilized for n and p-channel devices.
One such conventional CMOS device 100 is shown in FIG. 1, where insulating substrate 102, having a carrier 101 and an insulator 103, has a pMOS transistor region 104 and an nMOS transistor region 105. The pMOS device in region 104 is comprised of a non-planar semiconductor body 106 having a source 116 and a drain 117, a gate insulator 112 and a gate electrode 113 made of a �p-metal� (a metal having a work function appropriate for a low pMOS transistor threshold voltage). The nMOS device in region 105 is comprised of a non-planar semiconductor body 107 having a source 116 and a drain 117, a gate insulator 112 and a gate electrode 114 made of an �n-metal� (a metal having a work function appropriate for a low nMOS transistor threshold voltage). While fabricating transistors having gate electrodes made of two different materials is prohibitively expensive, simpler approaches to dual-metal gate integration like work-function engineering of molybdenum, nickel and titanium through nitrogen implantation or silicidation suffer from problems such as poor reliability and insufficient work-function shift. However, as previously described, if a single mid-gap metal is used as the gate electrode for both the pMOS and nMOS transistors, the transistors have not had the low threshold voltage required for advanced CMOS.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is an illustration of a perspective view of conventional non-planar transistors on an insulating substrate and conventional gate electrodes.
FIG. 2A is an illustration of a perspective view of non-planar transistors on an insulating substrate and gate electrodes in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 2B is an illustration of a perspective view of non-planar transistors on a bulk substrate and gate electrodes in accordance with the present invention.
FIGS. 3A-3F are illustrations of perspective views of a method of fabricating non-planar transistors on an insulating substrate with gate electrodes in accordance with the present invention.
FIGS. 4A-4F are illustrations of perspective views of a method of fabricating non-planar transistors on a bulk substrate with gate electrodes in accordance with the present invention.
FIGS. 5D-5F are illustrations of perspective views of a method of fabricating a plurality of non-planar pMOS transistors on a bulk substrate with gate electrodes in accordance with the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION A novel device structure and its method of fabrication are described. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth, such as specific materials, dimensions and processes, etc. in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. In other instances, well-known semiconductor processes and manufacturing techniques have not been described in particular detail in order to not unnecessarily obscure the present invention.
Embodiments of the present invention include complementary (pMOS and nMOS) transistors having semiconductor channel regions which have been band gap engineered to achieve a low threshold voltage. In particular embodiments, the complementary devices utilize the same material having a single work function as the gate electrode. Engineering the band gap of the semiconductor transistor channels rather than engineering the work function of the transistor gate metal for the individual pMOS and nMOS devices avoids the manufacturing difficulties associated with depositing and interconnecting two separate gate metals in a dual-metal gate process. A single metal gate stack, used for both pMOS and nMOS transistors, simplifies fabrication while engineering the band gap of the semiconductor transistor channels enables independent tuning of the pMOS and NMOS threshold voltages. In embodiments of the present invention, the threshold voltage of a device can be targeted through the use of semiconductor materials that have an appropriate valance band (pMOS) or conduction band (NMOS) offset relative to the complementary device. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention can utilize a single mid-band gap metal for both the pMOS and nMOS transistors in a CMOS device while still achieving a low threshold voltage for both the pMOS and nMOS transistors.
An example of a CMOS device 200 with a metal gate structure and an engineered band gap in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 2A. Although FIG. 2A shows a tri-gate embodiment of the present invention, it should be appreciated that additional embodiments comprising single-gate or multi-gate transistors (such as dual-gate, FinFET, omega-gate) designs are also possible. CMOS device 200 comprises a transistor of a first type on a first region 204 on a first region and a transistor of a complementary type on a second region 205 of substrate 202. Embodiments of the present CMOS invention utilize a cladding 208 as a component of the device in region 204. When the cladding 208 is formed of a semiconductor having a narrower band gap than the semiconductor body 206, the effective threshold voltage of pMOS transistor in region 204 will be reduced by an amount approximately equal to the valence band offset between the semiconductor cladding 208 and the semiconductor body 206. Similarly, any conduction band offset between the cladding material the underlying semiconductor body would likewise modify the effective threshold voltage of an nMOS transistor. In a further embodiment, a semiconductor body having a larger band gap can be used to increase either a pMOS or an nMOS transistor's threshold voltage by the respective band offset relative to the unclad substrate on which the transistors are formed in order to reduce transistor leakage or increase a transistor's breakdown voltage.
In alternate embodiments of the present invention (not shown) both the pMOS transistor and nMOS transistor comprise a semiconductor cladding material having a band offset relative to the substrate semiconductor. When the cladding material has only a valence band offset (no conduction band offset) relative to the substrate, the cladding layer on the nMOS transistor will not have any effect on the nMOS threshold voltage.
In a particular embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2A, device 200 includes non-planar monocrystalline semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 on insulating layer 203 over carrier 201. Semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 can be formed of any well-known semiconductor material, such as silicon (Si), gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium antimonide (InSb), gallium antimonide (GaSb), gallium phosphide (GaP), or indium phosphide (InP). For embodiments where monocrystalline silicon is formed on insulator 203, the structure is commonly referred to as silicon/semiconductor-on-insulator, or SOI, substrate. In an embodiment of the present invention, the semiconductor film on insulator 203 is comprised of a monocrystalline silicon semiconductor doped with either p-type or n-type conductivity with a concentration level between 1�1016-1�1019 atoms/cm3. In another embodiment of the present invention, the semiconductor film formed on insulator 203 is comprised of a silicon semiconductor substrate having an undoped, or intrinsic epitaxial silicon region. Insulator 203 can be any dielectric material and carrier 201 can be any well-known semiconductor, insulator or metallic material.
In another embodiment of the invention, as shown in device 300 of FIG. 2B, a �bulk� substrate is used and semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 are formed on an upper region of the �bulk� semiconductor substrate. In an embodiment of the present invention, the substrate 202 is comprised of a silicon semiconductor substrate having a doped epitaxial silicon region with either p-type or n-type conductivity with a concentration level between 1�106-1�1019 atoms/cm3. In another embodiment of the present invention, the substrate 202 is comprised of a silicon semiconductor substrate having an undoped, or intrinsic epitaxial silicon region. In bulk substrate embodiments of the present invention, isolation regions 210 are formed on the bulk, monocrystalline, semiconductor and border the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207, as shown in FIG. 2B. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the sidewalls of the bodies 206 and 207 extend above the bordering isolation regions 210. In other embodiments, such as for planar single-gate designs, the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 have only a top surface exposed.
In embodiments shown in both FIGS. 2A and 2B, semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 have a pair of opposite sidewalls separated by a distance defining an individual semiconductor body width. Additionally, semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 have a top surface opposite a bottom surface formed over substrate 202. In embodiments with an insulating substrate, semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 are in contact with the insulating layer shown in FIG. 2A. In embodiments with a bulk substrate, semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 are in contact with the bulk semiconductor substrate and the bottom surface of the body is considered to be planar with the bottom surface of the isolation region 210 bordering the body, as shown in FIG. 2B. The distance between the top surface and the bottom surface defines an individual semiconductor body height. In an embodiment of the present invention, the individual body height is substantially equal to the individual semiconductor body width. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 have a width and height less than 30 nanometers, and more particularly, less than 20 nanometers. In another embodiment of the present invention, the individual semiconductor body height is between half the individual semiconductor body width and twice the individual semiconductor body width. In still other embodiments of the present invention, a planar or single-gate transistor design (not shown) is formed on the substrate so that a gate dielectric and a gate electrode are formed only on a top surface of the semiconductor regions.
The semiconductor cladding 208 is ideally capable of remaining single crystalline with the semiconductor body 206 to ensure sufficient carrier lifetime and mobility, as the cladding 208 comprises the channel region of pMOS transistor 204. Semiconductor cladding 208 can be formed of any well-known semiconductor material, such as silicon germanium (SiGe), indium gallium arsenide (InxGa1-xAsy), indium antimonide (InxSby), indium gallium phosphide (InxGa1-xPy), or carbon nanotubes (CNT). In certain embodiments of the present invention where the semiconductor of bodies 206 and 207 are silicon, the semiconductor material used for the cladding 208 is SiGe. In certain other embodiments, one semiconductor body is silicon and the cladding layer is an alloy of silicon and carbon (SiC). In other embodiments of the present invention having a planar or single-gate transistor design (not shown), the cladding layer is formed directly on and adjacent to a top surface of the active semiconductor region over the substrate. In certain embodiments of the present invention having a multi-gate transistor design, as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the cladding region 208 surrounds the semiconductor body 206, on and adjacent to all free semiconductor surfaces. In an embodiment of the present invention the cladding region 208 has a thickness between about 5 and about 300 angstroms, and more particularly, between about 30 and about 200 angstroms.
In certain embodiments of the present invention, the cladding 208, as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, extends beyond the channel region and substantially covers the portions of the semiconductor body 206 that will become the source 216 and drain 217 regions of the pMOS transistor 204. In this manner it is possible to form germanicide source and drain contact region having a low conductivity and a low thermal activation temperature. In other embodiments of the present invention, the cladding 208 does not extend beyond the channel region under the gate insulator 212 and instead, the surfaces of the semiconductor body 206 are directly formed into source and drain regions.
Embodiments of the present invention include increasing the valence band energy of a pMOS transistor having a SiGe cladding region by increasing the concentration of the germanium. In this manner, it is possible to fabricate both a pMOS and nMOS multi-gate transistor having gate electrodes of the same material and threshold voltage magnitudes less than 0.7 V over a range of transistor channel doping levels. As the valence band energy increases, the threshold voltage is lowered by an amount approximately equal to the valance band voltage offset. In an embodiment of the present invention, the germanium concentration is between 5 and 50 percent, and more particularly, between 15 and 30 percent. For embodiments having about 25 percent germanium, the valence band energy is increased by about 300 mV above the valence band of silicon. Thus, a pMOS device having a SiGe channel region comprised of about 25 percent germanium will have a threshold voltage magnitude approximately 300 mV less than that of a pure silicon channel.
In embodiments of the present invention, nMOS multi-gate devices have a work function difference (the difference between the gate metal work function an the semiconductor work function or φmetal-φsemiconductor) of about 0.4 eV while the work function difference for a pMOS multi-gate device is about 0.7 eV. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, the 0.4 eV nMOS work function difference is achieved through Fermi-level pinning a mid-gap titanium nitride metal gate material (having a work function of about 4.7 eV). In a further embodiment of the present invention, a 0.7 eV pMOS work function difference is achieved with a band-engineered SiGe channel region comprised of about 25 percent germanium. The 25 percent germanium-cladding region increases the semiconductor valance band energy and, in effect, shifts the work function difference of the mid-gap titanium nitride metal gate material by about 300 mV, from the pinned Fermi-level of 0.4 eV to the desired 0.7 eV.
Embodiments of the present invention include adjusting the germanium concentration of a pMOS SiGe cladding region to adjust the threshold voltage, enabling multiple threshold voltages on the same chip, which is a different challenge from setting a single threshold voltage to match an nMOS device. For ULSI systems, it is typically necessary to provide a menu of devices with different threshold voltages to allow for the optimization of performance and power consumption. The ability to tune the threshold voltage by about 150 mV is often required. For devices with geometries in the sub-50-nm gate-length regime, it is very difficult to achieve such a range by merely doping the transistor channel. Disadvantageous channel doping can by avoided by embodiments of the present invention where a first pMOS device has a cladding layer comprised of a first germanium concentration targeting a first threshold voltage while a second pMOS device has a cladding layer comprised of a second germanium concentration targeting a second threshold voltage.
In the embodiments depicted in FIGS. 2A and 2B, CMOS devices 200 and 300, respectively, have a gate insulator layer 212. In the depicted embodiments, gate insulator 212 surrounds the cladding 208 of pMOS device 204 and the semiconductor body 207 of the nMOS device. In such tri-gate embodiments, gate dielectric layer 212 is formed on the sidewalls as well as on the top surfaces of the cladding 208 and semiconductor body.207, as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B. In other embodiments, such as in FinFET or dual-gate designs, gate dielectric layer 212 is only formed on the sidewalls of the cladding 208 and sidewalls of semiconductor body 207. Gate insulator 212 can be of any commonly known dielectric material compatible with the cladding 208, semiconductor body 207 and the gate electrode 213. In an embodiment of the present invention, the gate dielectric layer is a silicon dioxide (SiO2), silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy) or a silicon nitride (Si3N4) dielectric layer. In one particular embodiment of the present invention, the gate dielectric layer 212 is a silicon oxynitride film formed to a thickness of between 5-20 Å. In another embodiment of the present invention, gate dielectric layer 212 is a high K gate dielectric layer, such as a metal oxide dielectric, such as to tantalum oxide, titanium oxide, hafnium oxide, zirconium oxide, or aluminum oxide. Gate dielectric layer 212 can be other types of high K dielectric, such as lead zirconium titanate (PZT).
CMOS device embodiments 200 and 300 have a gate electrode 213, as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, respectively. In certain embodiments, gate electrode 213 is formed on and adjacent to gate dielectric layer 212, adjacent to gate insulator 212 formed on and adjacent to sidewalls of each of the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. Gate electrode 213 has a pair of laterally opposite sidewalls separated by a distance, defining the gate length (Lg) of pMOS transistor in region 204 and nMOS transistor in region 205. In certain embodiments of the present invention, where the transistors in regions 204 and 205 are planar or single-gate devices (not shown), the gate electrode is merely on and adjacent to a top surface of the gate insulator over the semiconductor substrate. In the embodiments of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the same material is used to form the gate electrode 213 for pMOS device in region 204 and nMOS device in region 205. In this manner, CMOS device fabrication can be greatly simplified because there is no need for the pMOS device to have a gate metal with a different work function than that of the nMOS device. In further embodiments of the present invention, the same gate electrode structure physically connects a pMOS device 204 to an nMOS device 205. Gate electrode 213 of FIGS. 2A and 2B can be formed of any suitable gate electrode material having the appropriate work function. In an embodiment of the present invention, the gate electrode is a metal gate electrode, such as tungsten, tantalum nitride, titanium nitride or titanium silicide, nickel silicide, or cobalt silicide. In an embodiment of the present invention, the gate electrode 213 of both the pMOS device and then nMOS device is formed from a material having a mid-gap work function between 4.5 and 4.9 eV. In a specific embodiment of the present invention, gate electrode 213 comprises titanium nitride having a work function equal to about 4.7 eV. It should also be appreciated that the gate electrode 213 need not necessarily be a single material, but rather can also be a composite stack of thin films such as a metal/polycrystalline silicon electrode.
As shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, a pair of source 216 drain 217 regions are formed in body 206 and 207 on opposite sides of gate electrode 213. The source region 216 and the drain region 217 are formed of the same conductivity type such as n-type or p-type conductivity, depending on if the transistor is an nMOS device or a pMOS device. In an embodiment of the present invention, source region 216 and drain region 217 have a doping concentration of 1�1019-1�1021 atoms/cm3. Source region 216 and drain region 217 can be formed of uniform concentration or can include subregions of different concentrations or doping profiles such as tip regions (e.g., source/drain extensions).
As shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the portion of semiconductor cladding 208 and semiconductor body 207 located between source regions 216 and drain regions 217 define the channel region of the pMOS device in region 204 and nMOS device in 205. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the channel region of the cladding 208 on the pMOS device in region 204 is undoped SiGe. In other embodiments the channel region of the cladding 208 is doped SiGe. In an embodiment of the present invention, the channel region of semiconductor body 207 is intrinsic or undoped monocrystalline silicon. In an embodiment of the present invention, channel region of semiconductor body 207 is doped monocrystalline silicon. When the channel region is doped, it is typically doped to the opposite conductivity type of the source region 216 and the drain region 217. For example, the nMOS device in region 205 has source and drain regions which are n-type conductivity while the channel region is doped to p-type conductivity. When channel region is doped, it can be doped to a conductivity level of between 1�1016 to 1�1019 atoms/cm3. In certain multi-gate transistor embodiments of the present invention, the pMOS channel regions have an impurity concentration of 1017 to 10e18 atoms/cm3.
A method of fabricating a CMOS device on an insulating substrate in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIG. 2A is illustrated in FIGS. 3A-3F. Insulating substrate can be formed in any commonly known fashion. In an embodiment of the present invention, shown in FIG. 3A, the insulating substrate includes a lower monocrystalline silicon carrier 201 formed on an insulating layer 203, such as a silicon dioxide film or silicon nitride film. Insulating layer 203 isolates semiconductor film 315 from carrier 201, and in an embodiment is formed to a thickness between 200-2000 Å. Insulating layer 203 is sometimes referred to as a �buried oxide� layer and the substrate comprised of 201, 203 and 315 is referred to as a silicon or semiconductor on insulating (SOI) substrate.
Although the semiconductor film 315 is ideally a silicon film, in other embodiments it can be other types of semiconductor films, such as germanium (Ge), a silicon germanium alloy (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), InSb, GaP, GaSb, or InP. In an embodiment of the present invention, semiconductor film 315 is an intrinsic (i.e., undoped) silicon film. In other embodiments, semiconductor film 315 is doped to p-type or n-type conductivity with a concentration level between 1�1016-1�1019 atoms/cm3. Semiconductor film 315 can be in-situ doped (i.e., doped while it is deposited) or doped after it is formed on substrate 202 by for example ion-implantation. Doping after formation enables complementary devices 204 and 205 to be fabricated easily on the same substrate. The doping level of the semiconductor substrate film 315 at this point can determine the doping level of the channel region of the device.
In certain embodiments of the present invention, semiconductor substrate film 315 is formed to a thickness approximately equal to the height desired for the subsequently formed semiconductor body or bodies of the fabricated transistor. In an embodiment of the present invention, semiconductor substrate film 315 has a thickness or height of less than 30 nanometers and ideally less than 20 nanometers. In certain embodiments of the present invention, semiconductor substrate region 315 is formed to a thickness enabling the fabricated transistor to be operated in a fully depleted manner for its designed gate length (Lg).
Semiconductor substrate region 315 can be formed on insulator 203 in any well-known method. In one method of forming a silicon-on-insulator substrate, known as the separation by implantation of oxygen (SIMOX) technique. Another technique currently used to form SOI substrates is an epitaxial silicon film transfer technique generally referred to as bonded SOI.
A masking layer 310 is used to define the active regions of the devices in regions 204 and 205. The masking layer can be any well-known material suitable for defining the semiconductor film 315. In an embodiment of the present invention, masking layer 310 is a lithographically defined photo resist. In another embodiment, 310 is formed of a dielectric material that has been lithographically defined and then etched. In a certain embodiment, masking layer can be a composite stack of materials, such as an oxide/nitride stack. As shown in FIG. 3B, once masking layer 310 has been defined, semiconductor 315 is then defined by commonly any known etching technique to form semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. In certain embodiments of the present invention anisotropic plasma etch, or RIE, is used to define semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. For planar, or single-gate embodiments, non-planar bodies 206 and 207 are not formed, rather the planar device is merely formed on the film 315 and mask 310 is used to define isolation regions. In an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 3C, masking layer 310 is removed from the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 using commonly known techniques that depend on the material selected for masking layer 310. In other embodiments, such as for particular dual-gate or FinFET designs, masking layer 310 is not removed.
If desired, a masking can be formed over any regions of the substrate where there is to be no semiconductor cladding layer. As shown, in FIG. 3D, mask layer 320 is formed over the nMOS device region 205. Mask layer 320 can be of any commonly known material capable of surviving the subsequent process of forming the semiconductor cladding layer. In an embodiment of the present invention, mask layer 320 is a dielectric material capable of serving as a good diffusion barrier, such as silicon nitride. Hard mask 320 ideally has good conformality so that semiconductor body 207 is completely encapsulated by the protective mask 20. Commonly known techniques, such as CVD, LPCVD, or PECVD may be used to deposit the mask material. Mask 320 is then selectively defined by commonly known lithographic and etch techniques, so that the mask 320 is substantially removed from the pMOS region 204 leaving no spacer material or stringers along the semiconductor body 206. In certain embodiments of the present invention, when the semiconductor cladding layer is to be formed on all transistors, no mask layer 320 is formed.
In certain embodiments, semiconductor cladding layer 208 is selectively formed on the semiconductor body 206 of the pMOS device 204, as shown in FIG. 3E. Any commonly known epitaxial processes suitable for the particular semiconductor materials can be used to form the semiconductor cladding layer on the semiconductor body 206. In a particular embodiment, an LPCVD process using germane and a silane as precursors forms a SiGe cladding on a silicon semiconductor body. In still another embodiment, a silicon cladding layer is formed on a SiGe body to form an nMOS device. The cladding layer can be grown to have a particular composition determined by the amount of band offset desired. In a particular embodiment of the present invention a silicon germanium cladding layer having about 25 percent to about 30 percent germanium is formed. In other embodiments, the germanium concentration is about 50 percent. Ideally, the formation process is capable of producing a single crystalline cladding 208 from the semiconductor body 206 seed layer. In an embodiment of the present invention the cladding layer is epitaxially grown on both the top surface and the sidewalls of the semiconductor body 206. In another embodiment where the top surface of semiconductor body 206 is protected by a dielectric, the cladding layer is only grown on and adjacent to the sidewalls. In still other embodiments, when the transistor is a planar design, the cladding layer is grown only on the top surface. The semiconductor cladding layer is grown to the desired thickness, some embodiments including in-situ impurity doping. In certain embodiments where the semiconductor cladding 208 is not lattice matched to the semiconductor body 206, the maximum cladding thickness is the critical thickness. In an embodiment of the present invention, a SiGe cladding is grown to a thickness of 5-300 A. Once the cladding 208 is formed, the mask layer 320 protecting the nMOS region 205 is removed by commonly known techniques, as shown in FIG. 3E. In still other embodiments of the present invention, semiconductor cladding 208 is formed on both the pMOS device 204 and the nMOS device 205.
In certain embodiments of the present invention, various regions over the substrate are selectively and iteratively masked and different pMOS devices clad with semiconductor layers having different band offsets thereby providing pMOS devices with various voltage threshold characteristics. For example, in one embodiment following the FIG. 3C, the pMOS region 204 includes the semiconductor bodies 206A and 206B, as shown in FIG. 5D. Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 5E, a first iteration of the masking and cladding growth process (as described in the context of FIGS. 3D and 3E, respectively), is performed to provide a first cladding layer 208A on semiconductor body 206A. The masking operation is then iterated to expose the semiconductor body 206B to a subsequent selective cladding growth process to form a different cladding layer 208B on the semiconductor body 206B, as shown in FIG. 5E. With the different cladding layers 208A and 208B having different band offsets (e.g., two different Ge concentrations as described elsewhere herein), two pMOS devices 204A and 204B are provided with different voltage threshold characteristics (VT,A and VT,B as shown in FIG. 5E).
A gate dielectric layer 212, as shown in FIG. 3F, is formed on each of the cladding 208 and semiconductor body 207 in a manner dependent on the type of device (single-gate, dual-gate, tri-gate, etc.). In an embodiment of the present invention, a gate dielectric layer 212 is formed on the top surface of each of the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207, as well as on the laterally opposite sidewalls of each of the semiconductor bodies. In certain embodiments, such as dual-gate embodiments, the gate dielectric is not formed on the top surface of the cladding 208 or semiconductor body 207. The gate dielectric can be a deposited dielectric or a grown dielectric. In an embodiment of the present invention, the gate dielectric layer 212 is a silicon dioxide dielectric film grown with a dry/wet oxidation process. In an embodiment of the present invention, the gate dielectric film 212 is a deposited high dielectric constant (high-K) metal oxide dielectric, such as tantalum pentaoxide, titanium oxide, hafnium oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, or another high-K dielectric, such as barium strontium titanate (BST). A high-K film can be formed by well-known techniques, such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD).
As shown in FIG. 3F, a gate electrode 213 is formed on both the pMOS and nMOS devices. In certain embodiments, the same gate electrode material is used for both the pMOS device in region 204 and nMOS device in region 205, but it is not necessarily so as other advantages of the present invention have been described. In an embodiment of the present invention, the gate electrode 213 is formed on the gate dielectric layer 212 formed on and adjacent to the top surface of each of the cladding 208 or semiconductor body 207 and is formed on and adjacent to the gate dielectric 212 formed on and adjacent to the sidewalls of each of the cladding 208 or semiconductor body 207. The gate electrode can be formed to a thickness between 200-3000 Å. In an embodiment, the gate electrode has a thickness of at least three times the height of the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. In an embodiment of the present invention, the gate electrode is a mid-gap metal gate electrode such as, tungsten, tantalum nitride, titanium nitride or titanium silicide, nickel silicide, or cobalt silicide. In an embodiment of the present invention gate electrode 213 is simultaneously formed for both the pMOS device in region 204 and NMOS device in region 205 by well-known techniques, such as blanket depositing a gate electrode material over the substrate of and then patterning the gate electrode material for both the pMOS and nMOS devices through photolithography and etch. In other embodiments of the present invention, �replacement gate� methods are used to form both the pMOS and nMOS gate electrodes 213, concurrently or otherwise.
Source regions 216 and drain regions 217 for the transistor are formed in semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 on opposite sides of gate electrode 213, as shown in FIG. 3F. In an embodiment of the present invention, the source and drain regions include tip or source/drain extension regions. For a pMOS transistor, the semiconductor fin or body 206 is doped to p-type conductivity and to a concentration between 1�1019-1�1021 atoms/cm3. For an nMOS transistor, the semiconductor fin or body 207 is doped with n-type conductivity ions to a concentration between 1�1019-1�1021 atoms/cm3. At this point the CMOS device of the present invention is substantially complete and only device interconnection remains.
A method of fabricating a CMOS device on a bulk substrate in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIG. 2B is illustrated in FIGS. 4A-4F. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the substrate 202 of FIG. 4A can be a �bulk� semiconductor substrate, such as a silicon monocrystalline substrate or gallium arsenide substrate. The method of fabrication on a bulk substrate in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is similar to the method of fabrication previously described for an SOI structure in reference to FIGS. 3A-3F. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the substrate 202 is a silicon semiconductor substrate, upon which there is a doped epitaxial region with either p-type or n-type conductivity with an impurity concentration level between 1�1016-1�1019 atoms/cm3. In another embodiment of the present invention the substrate 202 is a silicon semiconductor substrate upon which there is an undoped, or intrinsic epitaxial silicon region.
In embodiments of the present invention, well regions of semiconductor substrate 202 are doped to p-type or n-type conductivity with a concentration level between about 1�1016-1�1019 atoms/cm3. Semiconductor substrate 202 can be doped by, for example, ion-implantation enabling both pMOS and nMOS well regions to be fabricated easily on the same substrate. The doping level of the semiconductor substrate 202 at this point can determine the doping level of the channel region of the device.
As shown in FIG. 4A, a masking layer 410, like masking layer 310 in FIG. 3A, is used to define the active regions of the pMOS device 204 and the nMOS device 205 on the bulk semiconductor substrate. The method of forming masking layer 410 can be essentially the same as those described for masking layer 310 of FIG. 3A.
As shown in FIG. 4B, the bulk semiconductor is etched using commonly known methods, very similar to those previously described for layer 315 of to SOI substrate shown FIG. 3B, to form recesses or trenches 420 on the substrate in alignment with the outside edges of masking portion 410. The trenches 420 are etched to a depth sufficient to isolate adjacent transistor from one another. As shown in FIG. 4C, the trenches 420 are filled with a dielectric to form shallow trench isolation (STI) regions 210 on substrate 202. In an embodiment of the present invention, a liner of oxide or nitride on the bottom and sidewalls of the trenches 420 is formed by commonly known methods. Next, the trenches 420 are filled by blanket depositing an oxide over the liner by, for example, a high-density plasma (HDP) chemical vapor deposition process. The deposition process will also form dielectric on the top surfaces of the mask portions 410. The fill dielectric layer can then be removed from the top of mask portions 410 by chemical, mechanical, or electrochemical, polishing techniques. The polishing is continued until the mask portions 410 are revealed, forming STI regions 210. In an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 4C, the mask portions 410 are selectively removed at this time. In other embodiments, the mask portions 410 are retained through subsequent processes.
In certain embodiments, as shown in FIG. 4D, the STI regions 210 are etched back or recessed to form the sidewalls of the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. STI regions 210 are etched back with an etchant, which does not significantly etch the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. In embodiments where semiconductor bodies are silicon, isolation regions 210 can be recessed with an etchant comprising a fluorine ion, such as HF. In other embodiments, STI regions 210 are recessed using a commonly known anisotropic etch followed by an isotropic etch to completely remove the STI dielectric from the sidewalls of the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. STI regions 210 are recessed by an amount dependent on the desired channel width of the transistors formed in regions 204 205. In an embodiment of the present invention STI regions 210 are recessed by approximately the same amount as the smaller, or width, dimension of the top surface of the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. In other embodiments the STI regions 210 are recessed by a significantly larger amount than the width dimension of the top surface of the semiconductor bodies 206 and 207. In still other embodiments, the STI regions 210 are not recessed so that planar, or single-gate, devices can be formed.
In certain embodiments, once the non-planar semiconductor bodies 206 and 207 are formed on the bulk substrate, the remaining fabrication operations are analogous to those previously described for the embodiments describing a non-planar transistors on an SOI substrate. FIG. 4E depicts the selective formation of the semiconductor cladding 208 on the semiconductor body 206 using the various techniques described previously in the context of FIGS. 3D and 3E for the SOI embodiments of the present invention. As described for the SOI embodiments, semiconductor cladding 208 may also be formed on semiconductor body 207, if desired. As shown in FIG. 4F, a gate insulator 212, gate electrode 213, source regions 216, and drain regions 217 are formed on both the device in region 204 and complementary device in region 205 following embodiments analogous to those previously described in the context of an SOI substrate. At this point the transistors of the present invention formed on a bulk substrate is substantially complete and only device interconnection remains.
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