Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Tsung-Hsing Yu

Yi-Ming Sheu

Ken-Ichi Goto

Chia-Wen Liu

Zhiqiang Wu

Yeh Hsu

Shin-Jiun Kuang

Shih-Syuan Huang

Jean-Pierre Colinge

Chih-Ching Wang

Wei-Hao Wu

Wen-Hsing Hsieh

Jon-Hsu Ho

Ching-Fang Huang

Wen-Yuan Chen

Yi-Han Wang

Carlos H Diaz

Tzer-Min Shen

Kuan-Lun Cheng

Chun-Yi Lee

Chun-Fu Cheng

Chih-Pin Tsao

Mahaveer Sathaiya Dhanyakumar

Chih Chieh Yeh

Chih-Chieh Yeh

Dhanyakumar Mahaveer Sathaiya

Meikei Ieong

The present disclosure provides many different embodiments of an IC device. The IC device includes a gate stack disposed over a surface of a substrate and a spacer disposed along a sidewall of the gate stack. The spacer has a tapered edge that faces the surface of the substrate while tapering toward the gate stack. Therefore the tapered edge has an angle with respect to the surface of the substrate.

Structure and method for integrated circuit

A semiconductor device includes a gate structure located on a substrate; and a raised source/drain region adjacent to the gate structure. An interface is between the gate structure and the substrate. The raised source/drain region includes a stressor layer providing strain to a channel under the gate structure; and a silicide layer in the stressor layer. The silicide layer extends from a top surface of the raised source/drain region and ends below the interface by a predetermined depth. The predetermined depth allows the stressor layer to maintain the strain of the channel.

Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof

Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a recess in a substrate and forming an epitaxy region, comprising a multilayer structure with a substance having a first lattice constant larger than a second lattice constant of the substrate. Forming the epitaxy region further includes forming a first layer in proximity to an interface between the epitaxy region and the substrate with an average concentration of the substance from about 20 to about 32 percent by an in situ growth, and forming a second layer over the first layer, a bottom portion of the second layer having a concentration of the substance from about 27 percent to about 37 percent by an in situ growth operation.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor structure

A semiconductor device includes a first type region including a first conductivity type and a second type region including a second conductivity type. The semiconductor device includes a channel region extending between the first type region and the second type region. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode surrounding at least some of the channel region. A first gate edge of the gate electrode is separated a first distance from a first type region edge of the first type region and a second gate edge of the gate electrode is separated a second distance from a second type region edge of the second type region. The first distance is less than the second distance.

Asymmetric semiconductor device

A semiconductor device having a channel formed from a nanowire with a multi-dimensional diameter is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a drain region formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further comprises a nanowire structure formed between a source region and the drain region. The nanowire structure has a first diameter section joined with a second diameter section. The first diameter section is coupled to the drain region and has a diameter greater than the diameter of the second diameter section. The second diameter section is coupled to the source region. The semiconductor device further comprises a gate region formed around the junction at which the first diameter section and the second diameter section are joined.

Semiconductor structures and methods for multi-dimension of nanowire diameter to improve drive current

Method of forming semiconductor device having gate dielectric surrounding at least some of channel region and gate electrode surrounding at least some of gate dielectric

The present disclosure relates to a transistor device having epitaxial source and drain regions with dislocation stress memorization (DSM) regions that provide stress to a channel region. In some embodiments, the transistor device has an epitaxial source region arranged within a substrate. An epitaxial drain region is arranged within the substrate and is separated from the epitaxial source region by a channel region. A first DSM region, which has a stressed lattice configured to generate stress within the channel region, extends from below the epitaxial source region to a location within the epitaxial source region. A second DSM region, which has a stressed lattice configured to generate stress within the channel region, extends from below the epitaxial drain region to a location within the epitaxial drain region.

Dislocation stress memorization technique (DSMT) on epitaxial channel devices

The present disclosure relate to an integrated chip having long-channel and short-channel transistors having channel regions with different doping profiles. In some embodiments, the integrated chip includes a first gate electrode arranged over a first channel region having first length, and a second gate electrode arranged over a second channel region having a second length greater than the first length. The first channel region and the second channel region have a dopant profile, respectively along the first length and the second length, which has a dopant concentration that is higher by edges than in a middle of the first channel region and the second channel region. The dopant concentration is also higher by the edges of the first channel region than by the edges of the second channel region.

Epitaxial channel with a counter-halo implant to improve analog gain

Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor structure including a substrate and an epitaxy region partially disposed in the substrate. The epitaxy region includes a substance with a lattice constant that is larger than a lattice constant of the substrate. The concentration profile of a substance in the epitaxy region is monotonically increasing from a bottom portion of the epitaxy region to a of the epitaxy region. A first layer of the epitaxy region has a height to width ratio of about 2. The first layer is a layer positioned closest to the substrate, and the first layer has an average concentration of the substance from about 20 to about 32 percent. A second layer disposed over the first layer. The second layer has a bottom portion with a concentration of the substance from about 27 percent to about 37 percent.

Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof

Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor structure, including a substrate and a regrowth region. The substrate is made of a first material with a first lattice constant, and the regrowth region is made of the first material and a second material, having a lattice constant different from the first lattice constant. The regrowth region is partially positioned in the substrate. The regrowth region has a 'tip depth' measured vertically from a surface of the substrate to a widest vertex of the regrowth region, and the tip depth being less than 10 nm. The regrowth region further includes a top layer substantially made of the first material, and the top layer has substantially the first lattice constant.

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Tsung-Hsing Yu