United Microelectronics Corp.

Chen-Kuo Chiang

Chun-Hsien Lin

Chan-Lon Yang

Shih-Fang Tzou

Shu-Yen Chan

Ying-Wei Yen

Yun-Ren Wang

Chung-Yih Chen

A semiconductor structure includes a stacked metal oxide layer on a substrate, wherein the stacked metal oxide layer includes a first metal oxide layer, a second metal oxide layer, and a third metal oxide layer from top to bottom, and the energy bandgap of the second metal oxide layer is lower than the energy bandgap of the first metal oxide layer and that of the third metal oxide layer. The semiconductor structure includes a metal oxide layer on a substrate, wherein the energy bandgap of the metal oxide layer changes along a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The present invention also provides a semiconductor process forming said semiconductor structure.

Semiconductor process

Semiconductor structure and process thereof

A semiconductor process having a dielectric layer including metal oxide is provided. The semiconductor process includes: A substrate is provided. A dielectric layer including metal oxide is formed on the substrate, wherein the dielectric layer has a plurality of oxygen-related vacancies. A first oxygen-importing process is performed to fill the oxygen-related vacancies with oxygen. Otherwise, three MOS transistor processes are also provided, each of which has a gate dielectric layer including a high dielectric constant, and a first oxygen-importing process is performed to fill the oxygen-related vacancies with oxygen.

Semiconductor process having dielectric layer including metal oxide and MOS transistor process

A method for switching decoupled plasma nitridation (DPN) processes of different doses, which is able to decrease the switching time, is provided. According to the method, a dummy wafer is inserted into a chamber, a process gas introduced is ignited into plasma, and then a DPN doping process of the next dose is performed on the dummy wafer. The nitrogen concentration of the chamber is thus adjusted rapidly to switch to the DPN process of the next dose. In addition, after several cycles of the above steps are repeated, a dummy wafer is inserted into the chamber, and a complete DPN process of the next dose is performed on the dummy wafer. This process is performed several times before switching to the next DPN process.

Method for switching decoupled plasma nitridation processes of different doses

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Chen-Kuo Chiang