Nec Corporation

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Tri Chemical Laboratories Inc.

Atsushi Ogura

Hitoshi Wakabayashi

Risho Koh

Shigeharu Yamagami

Kiyoshi Takeuchi

Koji Watanabe

Koichi Takeda

Masahiro Nomura

Toru Tatsumi

Masayasu Tanaka

Koichi Terashima

Hisashi Takemura

Yukishige Saito

Tohru Mogami

Yukinori Ochiai

Toyoji Yamamoto

Mitsuru Narihiro

Hideaki Machida

Kohichi Arai

Jong-Wook Lee

Yoshio Ohshita

Masato Ishikawa

Koji Egami

A semiconductor device comprising a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region,

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same

A semiconductor device comprising: a MIS type field effect transistor which comprises a semiconductor raised portion protruding from a substrate plane, a gate electrode extending over the semiconductor raised portion from the top onto the opposite side faces of the semiconductor raised portion, a gate insulation film existing between the gate electrode and the semiconductor raised portion, and source and drain regions provided in the semiconductor raised portion; an interlayer insulating film provided on a substrate including the transistor; and a buried conductor interconnect that is formed by filling in a trench formed in the interlayer insulating film with a conductor, wherein the buried conductor interconnect connects one of the source and drain regions of the semiconductor raised portion and another conductive portion below the interlayer insulating film.

Semiconductor device having a conductive portion below an interlayer insulating film and method for producing the same

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, which enables a semiconductor device to have high speed operating characteristics and high performance characteristics such as lower electrical power consumption, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a method of manufacturing the semiconductor substrate thereof in a process, as well as to a semiconductor substrate manufactured by the method of manufacturing the same and a semiconductor device manufactured using the semiconductor substrate.

Semiconductor substrate manufacturing method and semiconductor device manufacturing method, and semiconductor substrate and semiconductor device manufactured by the methods

A technique is provided that is capable of employing raw materials having no halogen, which has a high possibility of exerting a bad influence upon semiconductor elements, thereby to easily form molybdenum films (molybdenum silicide films or molybdenum nitride films) of which purity is high at a low temperature. A film forming material for forming molybdenum films, molybdenum silicide films, or tungasten nitride films is provided, wherein a Mo source of said film is one or more chemical compounds selected from the group consisting of a hexadimethylaminodimolybdenum, a hexaethylmethylaminodimolybdenum, and a hexadiethylaminodimolybdenum.

Film forming method

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer formed on an insulator, a gate insulating film formed on the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film and extending in a first direction, source/drain regions formed in the semiconductor layer on both sides of the gate electrode, a body contact region in the semiconductor layer, a partial isolating region in which a field insulating film thicker than the gate insulating film intervenes between the semiconductor layer and an extending portion of the gate electrode, and a full isolating region in which the semiconductor layer on the insulator is removed. The full isolating region is formed to be in contact with at least a part of a side parallel to the first direction of the source/drain regions.

SOI MOSFET

A SOI substrate includes a SiO film ( ) having a center located at the depth of the damage peak where the crystal damage is maximum after the Si substrate ( ) is ion-implanted with oxygen ions. Even if a crystal defect ( ) remains at the depth of the density peak where the density is maximum, the crystal defect does not effect the device operation because it is outside the active layer. By using a low-dose SIMOX process, a lower-cost SOI substrate can be obtained wherein crystal defects formed in the active layer are reduced.

SOI substrate and method for manufacturing the same

There is provided a method of fabricating a silicon-on-insulator substrate, including the steps of (a) forming a silicon substrate at a surface thereof with an oxygen-containing region containing oxygen at such a concentration that oxygen is not precipitated in the oxygen-containing region in later mentioned heat treatment, (b) forming a silicon oxide film at a surface of the silicon substrate, (c) implanting hydrogen ions into the silicon substrate through the silicon oxide film, (d) overlapping the silicon substrate and a support substrate each other so that the silicon oxide film makes contact with the support substrate, and (e) applying heat treatment to the thus overlapped silicon substrate and support substrate to thereby separate the silicon substrate into two pieces at a region into which the hydrogen ions have been implanted, one of the two pieces remaining on the silicon oxide film as a silicon-on-insulator active layer. The support substrate, the silicon oxide film located on the support substrate, and the silicon-on-insulator active layer formed on the silicon oxide film defines a silicon on-insulator structure. The method makes it possible to significantly reduce crystal defect density in the silicon-on-insulator active layer, which ensures that a substrate made in accordance with the method can be used for fabricating electronic devices thereon.

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate

After O,ions are implanted in a silicon substrate (,), heat treatment is applied to the silicon substrate at a temperature of from 1,200&deg; C. to 1,410&deg; C., both inclusive, in an atmosphere having an oxygen content of from 0.1% to 1%, both inclusive, whereby a buried oxide layer (,) is formed. Subsequent to the above heat treatment, post heat treatment may be applied to the silicon substrate (,) at a temperature of from 1,200&deg; C. to 1,410&deg; C., both inclusive, in an atmosphere having an oxygen content of from 1% to 30%, both inclusive. Further, prior to the heat treatment, provisional heat treatment may be applied to the silicon substrate,at a temperature of form 350&deg; C. to 1,000&deg; C., both inclusive, for 1 hour or longer.

Production process of SOI substrate

There is provided a method of fabricating a silicon-on-insulator substrate, including the steps of (a) forming a silicon substrate at a surface thereof with an oxygen-containing region containing oxygen at such a concentration that oxygen is not precipitated in the oxygen-containing region in later mentioned heat treatment, (b) forming a silicon oxide film at a surface of the silicon substrate, (c) implanting hydrogen ions into the silicon substrate through the silicon oxide film, (d) overlapping the silicon substrate and a support substrate each other so that the silicon oxide film makes contact with the support substrate, and (e) applying heat treatment to the thus overlapped silicon substrate and support substrate to thereby separate the silicon substrate into two pieces at a region into which the hydrogen ions have been implanted, one of the two pieces remaining on the silicon oxide film as a silicon-on-insulator active layer. The support substrate, the silicon oxide film located on the support substrate, and the silicon-on-insulator active layer formed on the silicon oxide film defines a silicon-on-insulator structure. The method makes it possible to significantly reduce crystal defect density in the silicon-on-insulator active layer, which ensures that a substrate made in accordance with the method can be used for fabricating electronic devices thereon.

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and method of fabricating the same

An oxygen ion is implanted into a silicon substrate at a dose of 3.times.10.sup.17 (cm.sup.-2) or lower. Then, the silicon substrate is heated at 1250.degree. C. or lower for 40 minute or longer. And the silicon substrate is heated at 1300.degree. C. or higher in an inert gas atmosphere. Further, the silicon substrate is heated at 1300.degree. C. or higher in an atmosphere containing an oxygen gas in an amount of 1% by volume or more.

Method of fabricating SOI substrate

The invention provides a method of fabricating an SOI substrate including the steps of introducing crystal defects at a desired depth in a silicon substrate, and thereafter, implanting oxygen or nitrogen ions into the silicon substrate, and thermally annealing the silicon substrate. The method of the present invention makes it possible to fabricate an SOI substrate with fewer crystal defects and lower fabrication cost than is possible according to the prior art.

In a field intensity relaxation of the drain end of a MOSFET, a projective area is not increased with a reduced electrostatic coupling of the source or drain with the gate. The MOSFET satisfying such condition is fabricated on the SOIS film formed by processes of the lateral vapor phase epitaxial growth and the like. A U-shape low concentration impurity region is provided on a gate electrode through a gate dioxide film and high concentration impurity regions are formed at the tops of protrusions. The gate electrode is embedded in insulation films, and the transistor region is fabricated by the lateral vapor phase epitaxial growth and the like.

Method of producing a semiconductor on insulating substrate, and a

In an SOI substrate having a base substrate, an insulating film and a semiconductor active layer, a potential difference is given between the base substrate and an etching solution or among the base substrate, the semiconductor active layer and the etching solution to form a uniform depletion layer on the active layer side from the interface between the insulating film and the active layer. The semiconductor active layer is uniformly thinned down by etching using a solution or by the combination of chemical or electro-chemical surface and etching with the resultant reaction product. In this case, the individual electrodes are provided with seal members to prevent the base substrate electrode and the active layer electrode from contacting the etching solution or the reaction solution due to the etching using the etching solution or the chemical reaction using the reaction solution. According to this invention, therefore, the active layer in, for example, a bonded SOI substrate can be thinned down uniformly at a low cost.

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Atsushi Ogura