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Qimonda Ag

Matthias Ilg

Son Van Nguyen

Markus M Kirchhoff

Kevin J Uram

Gerhard Enders

Dietrich Widmann

Dirk Tobben

Peter Weigand

Radhika Srinivasan

Martin Schrems

Reinhard J Stengl

Johnathan E Faltermeier

Michael Jay Shapiro

Lothar Risch

Martin Franosch

Hans Reisinger

Martin Gutsche

Ashima B Chakravarti

Soichi Nadahara

Ronald Wayne Nunes

Richard L Kleinhenz

Bruno Spuler

Christoph Werner

Juergen Wittmann

Wolfgang Bergner

John K Shugrue

Nathan P Sandler

Kai Huckels

Klaus Roithner

Kevin A McKinley

Klaus Penner

Shigeki Sugimoto

A method for forming a CMOS device. The method includes forming a gate oxide over a surface of a semiconductor substrate. A first doped layer is formed over the gate oxide. The first doped layer is lithographically patterned comprising selectively removing a portion of such first doped layer to expose a first portion of the gate oxide with the first doped layer remaining disposed over a second laterally positioned portion of the gate oxide. A second doped is deposited over the patterned first doped layer, such second doped layer having a dopant different from, for example a conductivity type opposite to, the dopant of the first doped layer. A portion of the second doped layer is deposited over the exposed first portion of the gate oxide and over the first doped layer to provide a pair of vertically positioned regions. A lower region comprises a portion of the first doped layer and an upper region comprising a portion of the second doped layer. The second doped layer is lithographically patterned to form a pair of laterally spaced gate electrodes for the transistors, one of such gates comprising the patterned first doped layer and the other one of the gates comprising the patterned pair of vertically positioned regions.

Dual work function CMOS device

A method of filling gaps between adjacent gate electrodes of a semiconductor structure. A self-planarizing material is deposited over the structure. A first portion of such material flow between the gate electrode to fill the gaps and a second portion of such material becomes deposited over tops of the gate electrodes and over the gaps to form a layer with a substantially planar surface. A phosphorous dopant is formed in the second portion of the self-planarizing material. Thus, relatively small gaps may be filled effectively with a layer having a very planar surface for subsequent photolithography. The phosphorous dopant provides gettering to remove adverse effects of alkali contaminant ions which may enter the gap filling material. The dielectric constant of the material filing the gaps, i.e., the first portion of the gap filling material, being substantially free of such contaminants, has a relatively low dielectric constant thereby reducing electrical coupling between adjacent electrodes. The self-planarizing material is a flowable material. The flowable oxide may be spun on or may be deposited by gaseous deposition. The phosphorous dopant may be provided by, for example: implanting phosphorous ions into the second portion of the self-planarizing layer and heating the material to both cure such material and activate the phosphorous ions; depositing a phosphorous doped layer over the layer of self-planarizing material, heating the structure to out-diffuse the phosphorous dopant into the second portion of the self-planarizing material and selectively removing the deposited layer; or by curing the spun-on self-planarizing material in a phosphine environment.

Integrated circuits and manufacturing methods

Formation of a gate having a polysilicon and silicide layer thereover with reduced resistance and reduced thickness is provided. The polysilicon layer is annealed to diffuse the dopants out from the surface to reduce the dopant concentration to below the level which causes metal rich interface. Thus, a metal silicide layer can be deposited without an intrinsic poly cap layer or requiring the poly to having a decreased dopant concentration. As such, a thinner gate stack having lower sheet resistance and improved reliability is achieved.

Reliable polycide gate stack with reduced sheet resistance and thickness

A trench capacitor having a substrate with a trench extending therein with a nested, e.g., concentric, conductive regions disposed within the trench. A dielectric material is disposed within the substrate. The dielectric material has portions thereof disposed between the concentric conductive regions to dielectrically electrically separate one of the conductive regions from another one of the conductive regions. The dielectrically separated conductive regions provide a pair of electrodes for the capacitor. Selected ones of the concentric conductive regions are electrically connected to provide one of the electrodes for the capacitor. The substrate has a conductive region therein and one of the concentric conductive regions providing one of the electrodes is electrically connected to the conductive region in the substrate. One of the concentric conductive regions is electrically connected to a conductive region in the substrate through a bottom portion of the trench.

Method for forming a high surface area trench capacitor

A DRAM cell is disposed in an electrically isolated region of a semiconductor body. The cell includes a storage capacitor disposed in a trench. The capacitor is disposed entirely within the isolated region of the semiconductor body. The cell includes a transistor disposed in the isolated region. The transistor has a pair of gates. A word line is provided for addressing the cell. The word line has an electrical contact region to the transistor. The word line contact region is disposed entirely within the isolated region of the semiconductor body. The transistor has an active area. The active area has source, drain, and channel regions. The active area is disposed entirely within the isolated region of the semiconductor body. A bit line is provided for the cell. The bit line is in electrical contact with the gates of the transistor at a pair of bit line contact regions. Both such bit line contact regions are disposed entirely within the isolated region of the cell. With such an arrangement a DRAM cell is provided having a relatively occupies a relatively small amount of surface area of the semiconductor body.

Memory cell having trench capacitor and vertical, dual-gated transistor

A method for the fabrication of a doped silicon layer, includes carrying out deposition by using a process gas containing SiH,, Si,H,and a doping gas. The doped silicon layer which is thus produced can be used both as a gate electrode of an MOS transistor and as a conductive connection. At a thickness between 50 and 200 nm it has a resistivity less than or equal to 0.5 m&OHgr;cm.

Method for the fabrication of a doped silicon layer

Fabrication of trench capacitors using disposable hard mask

A reduced metal-rich interface between a poly and metal silicide layer is achieved by insitu doping the metal silicide layer.

Insitu doped metal policide

Improved gap fill of narrow spaces is achieved by using a doped silicate glass having a dopant concentration in a bottom portion thereof which is greater than an amount which causes surface crystal growth and in an upper portion thereof having a lower dopant concentration such that the overall dopant concentration of the doped silicate glass is below that which causes surface crystal growth.

Gapfill of semiconductor structure using doped silicate glasses

An apparatus and method are provided for forming a fluorine doped borophosphosilicate (F-BPSG) glass on a semiconductor device using a low pressure chemical vapor deposition process. The F-BPSG glass exhibits a substantially void-free and particle-free layer on the substrate for structures having gaps as narrow as 0.10 microns and with aspect ratios of 6:1. The reactant gases include sources of boron and phosphorous dopants, oxygen and a mixture of TEOS and FTES. Using a mixture of TEOS and FTES in a low pressure CVD process provides a F-BPSG layer having the above enhanced characteristics. It is a preferred method of the invention to perform the deposition at a temperature of about 750-850.degree. C. and a pressure of 1 to 3 torr to provide for in situ reflow of the F-BPSG during the deposition process. An anneal is also preferred under similar conditions in the same chemical vapor deposition chamber to further planarize the F-BPSG surface. A F-BPSG glass and semiconductor wafers having a layer of fluorine doped BPSG thereon formed by the method and apparatus of the invention are also provided.

Low temperature reflow dielectric-fluorinated BPSG

Capacitor storage charge can be increased by increasing storage node area. A high aspect surface ratio stack capacitor is produced without increasing overall cell dimensions. The node is formed with layers of low doped and high doped concentration borophosphosilicate glass which is deposited by a single process step with precise nanometer dimensions, are selectively etched so that either doped or undoped layers will have a higher etch rate. This etching creates finger-like projections in the node, which provide for greater surface area using a very simplified process requiring fewer processing steps.

Advanced damascene planar stack capacitor fabrication method

A method for planarizing a semiconductor structure having a first surface region with a high aspect ratio topography and a second surface region with a low aspect ratio topography. A flowable material is deposited over the first and second surface regions of the structure. A portion of the material fills gaps in the high aspect ratio topography to form a substantially planar surface over the high aspect ratio topography. A doped layer, for example phosphorus doped glass, is formed over the flowable oxide material. The doped layer is disposed over the high aspect ratio and over the low aspect ratio regions. Upper surface portions over the low aspect ratio region are higher than an upper surface of the flowable material. The upper portion of the doped layer is removed over both the first and second surface portions to form a layer with a substantially planar surface above both the high aspect ratio region and the low aspect ratio region. The method is used for filling gaps, such as gaps between adjacent gate electrodes formed in a gate electrode surface region of a semiconductor structure.

Method of planarizing the semiconductor structure

A method for forming a Self Aligned Contact in a semiconductor device includes incorporating carbon into a nitride layer during or following the formation of the nitride layer on a semiconductor substrate.

Deposition of carbon into nitride layer for improved selectivity of

Fabrication of devices that produces a surface with reduced dishing caused by polishing. The reduced dishing is the result of forming a first layer that partially covers a complex surface topography and a second layer the covers the surface topography. The second layer being more resistant to polishing than the first so as to reduce dishing in the wide spaces of the complex topography.

Dishing resistance

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