United Microelectronics Corp.

Kuang-Hsiu Chen

Yu-Ren Wang

Chun-Wei Yu

Chueh-Yang Liu

Yi-Liang Ye

Chi-Hsuan Tang

Hsu Ting

Chao-Nan Chen

Kai-Hsiang Wang

Yu-Shu Lin

Chia-Jong Liu

Chun-Jen Chen

Chung-Ting Huang

Sung-Yuan Tsai

Jhong-Yi Huang

Guan-Ying Wu

Wei-Chih Chuang

Bing-Yang Jiang

Yu-Lin Cheng

Yu-Ying Lin

Ted Ming-Lang Guo

Shi-You Liu

Chih-Chung Wang

Sheng-Chen Chung

Chiu-Te Lee

Neng-Hui Yang

Chung-Fu Chang

Ke-Feng Lin

Shao-Wei Wang

Keng-Jen Lin

Wen-Jiun Shen

Chen-An Kuo

Kuan Hsuan Ku

Liang-An Huang

Wei-Chung Sun

Chao Nan Chen

Yan-Huei Li

Hsiang-Hua Hsu

Kai-Ting Hu

Provided are a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure includes the following. A gate structure is formed on a substrate. A tilt implanting process is performed to implant group IV elements into the substrate to form a doped region, and the doped region is located on two sides of the gate structure and partially located under the gate structure. A part of the substrate on two sides of the gate structure is removed to form a first recess. A cleaning process is performed on the surface of the first recess. A wet etching process is performed on the first recess to form a second recess. A semiconductor layer is formed in the second recess.

Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof

A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure and an epitaxial structure. The gate structure is disposed on the substrate, and the epitaxial structure is disposed in the substrate, at one side of the gate structure. The epitaxial structure includes a portion being protruded from a top surface of the substrate, and the portion includes a discontinuous sidewall, with a distance between a turning point of the discontinuous sidewalls and the gate structure being a greatest distance between the epitaxial structure and the gate structure.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device having epitaxial structure

A semiconductor device includes a gate structure on a substrate, a first spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure, a second spacer on a sidewall of the first spacer, a third spacer on a sidewall of the second spacer, and first and second stacks of an epitaxial layer and a cap layer respectively disposed at first and second sides of the gate structure. Preferably, a part of the second spacer comprises an I-shape, the cap layer includes a planar top surface and an inclined sidewall, the cap layer contacts the second spacer and the third spacer directly, and the cap layer includes a vertical sidewall connected to the inclined sidewall.

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a gate structure on a substrate; forming a first spacer and a second spacer around the gate structure; forming a recess adjacent to two sides of the second spacer; performing a cleaning process to trim the second spacer for forming a void between the first spacer and the substrate; and forming an epitaxial layer in the recess.

A metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor includes a substrate. The substrate has a plurality of trenches extending along a first direction and located on a top portion of the substrate. A gate structure line is located on the substrate and extends along a second direction intersecting with the first direction and crossing over the trenches. A first doped line is located in the substrate, located at a first side of the gate structure line, and crosses over the trenches. A second doped line is located in the substrate, located at a second side of the gate structure line, and crosses over the trenches.

Metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor and method of fabricating the same

Semiconductor device having epitaxial structure

A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device are provided, in which the method includes the steps of forming a gate structure on a substrate, forming a spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure, forming two recesses adjacent to two sides of the spacer, performing a cleaning process to trim the spacer for forming a void between the spacer and the substrate, and forming two portions of an epitaxial layer in the two recesses. The semiconductor device preferably includes a cap layer on the two portions of the epitaxial layer as the cap layer includes a planar top surface and an inclined sidewall.

A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a gate structure disposed on the substrate, a spacer disposed on the substrate and covering a sidewall of the gate structure, an air gap sandwiched between the spacer and the substrate, and a source/drain region disposed in the substrate and having a faceted surface exposed from the substrate, wherein the faceted surface borders the substrate on a boundary between the air gap and the substrate.

Semiconductor device and method for forming the same

A method of forming a gate structure on a fin structure includes the steps of providing a fin structure covered by a first silicon oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer, a gate material and a cap material in sequence, wherein the silicon nitride layer contacts the first silicon oxide layer. Later, the cap material is patterned to form a first cap layer and the gate material is patterned to form a first gate electrode by taking the silicon nitride layer as an etching stop layer. Then, the silicon nitride layer not covered by the first gate electrode is removed to expose part of the first silicon oxide layer. Finally, a first dielectric layer is formed to conformally cover the first silicon oxide layer, the first gate electrode and the first cap layer.

FinFET structure and fabricating method of gate structure

A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a gate structure on the substrate; and an epitaxial layer in the substrate adjacent to the gate structure, in which the epitaxial layer includes a planar surface and protrusions adjacent to two sides of the planar surface. Preferably, a contact plug is embedded in part of the epitaxial layer, and a silicide is disposed under the contact plug, in which a bottom surface of the silicide includes an arc.

Semiconductor device having epitaxial layer with planar surface and protrusions

A method for processing a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a protruding structure on a substrate, the protruding structure having a nitride spacer at a sidewall, and an epitaxial layer is formed in the substrate adjacent to the protruding structure. The method includes removing the nitride spacer on the protruding structure. Then, a dilute hydrofluoric (DHF) cleaning process is performed over the substrate, wherein a top surficial portion of the epitaxial layer is removed. A standard clean (SC) process is performed over the substrate, wherein a native oxide layer is formed on an expose surface of the epitaxial layer.

Method for processing semiconductor device

A method for fabricating a semiconductor device. A gate is formed on a substrate. A spacer is formed on each sidewall of the gate. A hard mask layer is formed on the spacer. A recessed region is formed in the substrate and adjacent to the hard mask layer. An epitaxial layer is formed in the recessed region. The substrate is subjected to an ion implantation process to bombard particle defects on the hard mask layer with inert gas ions. An annealing process is performed to repair damages to the epitaxial layer caused by the ion implantation process. The hard mask layer is then removed.

Method for fabricating semiconductor device with strained silicon structure

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Kuang-Hsiu Chen