Patent ID: 8367485

Claim:
A method for fabricating an n-type field effect transistor of a semiconductor device, the method comprising: forming a gate stack of an n-type field effect transistor on an active region of a silicon-on-insulator substrate of a semiconductor device, wherein the active region is within a semiconductor layer and is doped with a p-type dopant, and wherein the semiconductor device includes at least one p-type field effect transistor; forming a gate spacer surrounding the gate stack of the n-type field effect transistor, etching the gate spacer, wherein the etching forms a differential gate spacer surrounding the gate stack of the n-type field effect transistor, and wherein the differential gate spacer comprises at least one dimension that is greater than a corresponding dimension of a gate spacer formed on, and surrounding, a gate stack of a corresponding p-type field effect transistor of the semiconductor device; forming at the n-type field effect transistor of the semiconductor device, while maintaining exposed a region reserved for a source region and a region reserved for a drain region, a first trench having a dimension d″ in the region reserved for the source region and a second trench having a dimension d″ in the region reserved for the drain region, wherein the first trench is formed between a first shallow trench isolation region in the semiconductor layer and a first outer wall of the differential gate spacer, and wherein the second trench is formed between a second shallow trench isolation region in the semiconductor layer and a second outer wall of the differential gate spacer; forming at the p-type field effect transistor of the semiconductor device, while maintaining exposed a region reserved for a source region and a region reserved for a drain region, a third trench having a dimension d′″ in the region reserved for the source region and a fourth trench having a dimension d′″ in the region reserved for the drain region, wherein dimension d′″ is larger than dimension d″, wherein the third trench is formed between the second shallow trench isolation region and a first outer wall of the gate spacer of the p-type field effect transistor, and wherein the fourth trench is formed between a third shallow trench isolation region in the semiconductor layer and a second outer wall of the gate spacer of the p-type field effect transistor; and epitaxially growing, while maintaining exposed the regions of the n-type field effect transistor reserved for the source and drain regions, respectively, silicon germanium within the first trench and the second trench of the n-type field effect transistor.