Aiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Hsueh-Chang Sung

Tsz-Mei Kwok

Kuan-Yu Chen

Hsien-Hsin Lin

A method includes etching a trench in a substrate adjacent to a gate structure, wherein the trench includes a bottom surface and a tip portion extending under a spacer of the gate structure. The method further includes epitaxially growing a first semiconductor material in the trench, wherein the first semiconductor material covers an entirety of the bottom surface of the trench, and the first semiconductor material grows in the tip portion. The method further includes epitaxially growing a second semiconductor material in the trench, wherein the second semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material, the second semiconductor material covers the first semiconductor material, and the second semiconductor material directly contacts the substrate between the bottom surface of the trench and the tip portion.

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Hsueh-Chang Sung