Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited

Hikaru Kokura

Hiroyuki Ogawa

Hideyuki Kojima

Toru Anezaki

Daisuke Matsunaga

Yoshihiro Takao

Junichi Ariyoshi

Jusuke Ogura

Shinji Sugatani

Takayuki Wada

Koichi Sugiyama

Yasuhiro Sambonsugi

Tohru Fujita

Satoshi Torii

Masanori Terahara

Katsuaki Ookoshi

Kengo Inoue

Atsuo Fushida

Yuka Kase

Tadashi Oshima

Akihiro Hasegawa

Fukashi Harada

Tatsuro Kawabata

Hideaki Matsumura

Fumihiko Akaboshi

Kenji Nukui

Shinji Fukuta

Etsuro Kawaguchi

A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes: forming an element isolation insulating film in a semiconductor substrate; forming a first film on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming a second film on the element isolation insulating film and on the first film; forming a first resist pattern that includes a first open above the element isolation insulating film in a first region; removing the second film on the element isolation insulating film in the first region to separate the second film in the first region into a plurality of parts by performing first etching; forming a third film on the second film in the first region; forming a first gate electrode on the third film in the first region; and forming a first insulating film that includes the first to third films under the first gate electrode by patterning the first to third films.

Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device disclosed herein includes: mounting a substrate on an electrostatic chuck placed inside a chamber, the electrostatic chuck having a first temperature and the substrate being retained in advance in an atmosphere having a second temperature lower than the first temperature; fixing the substrate onto the electrostatic chuck by applying a voltage to the electrostatic chuck; heating the electrostatic chuck to a third temperature higher than the first temperature and the second temperature after mounting the substrate; and processing the substrate after the heating.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first conductive patterns, a second conductive pattern having a top surface of which stepwisely or gradually decreases in height in a direction from a side facing the first conductive pattern toward an opposite side, a first insulation film formed over the plurality of first conductive patterns and the second conductive pattern, and a third conductive pattern formed over the first insulation film.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device including first conductive pattern and second conductive pattern having top surface which decreases in height

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an isolation region defining an active region in a semiconductor substrate, forming a first insulating film over the semiconductor substrate, forming a second insulating film having etching properties different from those of the first insulating film over the first insulating film, selectively removing the second insulating film from a first region over the active region and the isolation region by dry etching using a fluorocarbon-based etching gas, removing a residual film formed by the dry etching over the first insulating film by exposure in an atmosphere containing oxygen, and selectively removing the first insulating film from the first region by wet etching.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

A system for manufacturing a semiconductor device that has a gate electrode and a pair of diffusion layers formed in a semiconductor substrate on sides of the gate electrode, the system including structure for forming an insulating film and a gate electrode on a semiconductor substrate, obtaining a thickness of an affected layer formed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a pair of diffusion layers by injecting an impurity element into the semiconductor substrate in areas flanking the gate electrodes based on a predetermined injection parameter, performing activating heat treatment based on a predetermined heat treatment parameter, and deriving the injection parameter or heat treatment parameter in response to the obtained thickness of the affected layer such that the diffusion layers are set to a predetermined sheet resistance.

Method and system for manufacturing semiconductor device having less variation in electrical characteristics

A gate electrode made of semiconductor is formed on the partial surface area of a semiconductor substrate. A mask member is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate in an area adjacent to the gate electrode. Impurities are implanted into the gate electrode. After impurities are implanted, the mask member is removed. Source and drain regions are formed by implanting impurities into the surface layer of the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the gate electrode. It is possible to reduce variations of cross sectional shape of gate electrodes and set an impurity concentration of the gate electrode independently from an impurity concentration of the source and drain regions.

Semiconductor device manufacture method including process of implanting impurity into gate electrode independently from source/drain and semiconductor device manufactured by the method

A manufacturing method of an electronic device, includes the steps of: implanting P (phosphorous) ions into a substrate semiconductor region made of Si or SiGe by using a resist as a mask; ashing the resist while it is heated in a vacuum environment; and taking out the substrate, the substrate being ashing processed so that a temperature of the substrate is equal to or less than 130&#xb0; C.

Manufacturing method of electronic device with resist ashing

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which has a gate electrode and a pair of diffusion layers formed in a semiconductor substrate on sides of the gate electrode, includes forming an insulating film and a gate electrode on a semiconductor substrate, obtaining a thickness of an affected layer formed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a pair of diffusion layers by injecting an impurity element into the semiconductor substrate in areas flanking the gate electrodes based on a predetermined injection parameter, performing activating heat treatment based on a predetermined heat treatment parameter, and a parameter deriving step provided between the obtaining step and the diffusion layer forming step, the parameter deriving step deriving the injection parameter or heat treatment parameter in response to the obtained thickness of the affected layer such that the diffusion layers are set to a predetermined sheet resistance.

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of modifying a damaged layer containing carbon and formed at a semiconductor surface by exposing the damaged layer to oxygen radicals to form a modified layer, and removing the modified layer by a wet etching process, wherein the modifying step is conducted by adding an active specie of an element that would obstruct formation of double bond between a Si atom and an oxygen atom by causing a chemical bond with Si atoms on the semiconductor surface.

Semiconductor device and fabrication process thereof

Semiconductor device manufacture method including process of implanting impurity into gate electrode independently from source /drain and semiconductor device manufactured by the method

There are provided a gate electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate of one conductivity type via a gate insulating film, ion-implantation controlling films formed on both side surfaces of the gate electrode and having a space between the gate electrode and an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, first and second impurity diffusion regions of opposite conductivity type formed in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the gate electrode and serving as source/drain, a channel region of one conductivity type formed below the gate electrode between the first and second impurity diffusion regions of opposite conductivity type, and pocket regions of one conductivity type connected to end portions of the impurity diffusion regions of opposite conductivity type in the semiconductor substrate below the gate electrode and having an impurity concentration of one conductivity type higher than the channel region.

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Hikaru Kokura