Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shijie Chen

Dapeng Chen

Wenwu Wang

Xiaolei Wang

Kai Han

Huilong Zhu

Wang Wenwu

The present invention relates to the field of semiconductor manufacturing. The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which comprises: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming an interface layer, a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode on the substrate; forming a metal oxygen absorption layer on the gate electrode; performing a thermal annealing process on the semiconductor device so that the metal oxygen absorption layer absorbs oxygen in the interface layer and the thickness of the interface layer is reduced. By means of the present invention, the thickness of the interface layer can be reduced on one hand, and on the other hand the metal in the metal oxygen absorption layer is made to diffuse into the gate electrode and/or the gate dielectric layer through the annealing process, which further achieves the effects of adjusting the effective work function and controlling the threshold voltage.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device

The present invention provides a semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region; a first gate structure belong to a PMOS device on the first region; a second gate structure belong to an nMOS device on the second region; a multiple-layer first sidewall spacer on sidewalls of the first gate structure, wherein a layer of the multiple-layer first sidewall spacer adjacent to the first gat structure is an oxide layer; a multiple-layer second sidewall spacer on sidewalls of the second gate structure, wherein a layer of the multiple layers of second sidewall spacer adjacent to the first gat structure is a nitride layer. Application of the present invention may alleviate the oxygen vacancy in a high-k gate dielectric in a pMOS device, and further avoid the problem of EOT growth of an nMOS device during the high-temperature thermal treatment process, and therefore effectively improve the overall performance of the high-k gate dielectric CMOS device.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. After depositing the metal gate electrode material, a layer of oxygen molecule catalyzing layer having a catalyzing function to the oxygen molecules is deposited, and afterwards, a low-temperature PMA annealing process is used to decompose the oxygen molecules in the annealing atmosphere into more active oxygen atoms. These oxygen atoms are diffused into the high-k gate dielectric film through the metal gate to supplement the oxygen vacancies in the high-k film, in order to alleviate oxygen vacancies in the high-k film and improve the quality of the high-k film. According to the present invention, the oxygen vacancies and defects of high-k gate dielectric film will be alleviated, and further, growth of SiOinterface layer having a low dielectric constant caused by the traditional PDA high temperature process may be prevented. Thereby, the EOT of the entire gate dielectric layer may be effectively controlled, and the MOS device may be continuously scaled. Meanwhile, the present invention further provides a semiconductor device obtained according to the above-mentioned method.

A semiconductor device is provided. A multi-component high-k interface layer containing elements of the substrate is formed from an ultra-thin high-k dielectric material in a single-layer structure of atoms by rapid annealing in the manufacturing of a CMOS transistor by the replacement gate process, and a high-k gate dielectric layer with a higher dielectric constant and a metal gate layer are formed thereon. The EOT of the device is effectively decreased, and the diffusion of atoms in the high-k gate dielectric layer from an upper level thereof is effectively prevented by the optimized high-k interface layer at high-temperature treatment.

There is provided a CMOSFET device with a threshold voltage controlled by means of its gate stack configuration and a method of fabricating the same. The CMOSFET device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; am interface layer grown on the silicon substrate; a first high-k gate dielectric layer deposited on the interface layer; a very thin metal layer deposited on the first high-k gate dielectric layer; a second high-k gate dielectric layer deposited on the very thin metal layer; and a gate electrode layer deposited on the second high-k gate dielectric layer.

CMOSFET device with controlled threshold voltage and method of fabricating the same

There is provided a CMOSFET device with threshold voltage controlled by means of interface dipoles and a method of fabricating the same. A cap layer, for example a very thin layer of poly-silicon, amorphous silicon, or SiO, is interposed inside high-k gate dielectric layers of the CMOSFET device, and the threshold voltage is adjusted by means of the interface dipoles formed by the cap layer inside the high-k gate dielectric layers. According to the present invention, it is possible to effectively optimize the threshold voltage of the CMOSFET device without significantly increasing EOT thereof.

CMOSFET device with controlled threshold voltage characteristics and method of fabricating the same

A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A multi-component high-k interface layer containing elements of the substrate is formed from a ultra-thin high-k dielectric material in a single-layer structure of atoms by rapid annealing in the manufacturing of a CMOS transistor by the replacement gate process, and a high-k gate dielectric layer with a higher dielectric constant and a metal gate layer are formed thereon. The EOT of the device is effectively decreased, and the diffusion of atoms in the high-k gate dielectric layer from an upper level thereof is effectively prevented by the optimized high-k interface layer at high-temperature treatment. Thus, the present invention may also avoid the growth of the interface layers and the degradation of carrier mobility. Furthermore, the present invention may further alleviate the problem of high interface state and interface roughness caused by direct contact of the high-k gate dielectric layer with high dielectric constant and the substrate, and thus the overall performance of the device is effectively enhanced.

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