Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Yuri Masuoka

Huan-Tsung Huang

Shyh-Horng Yang

Ken-Ichi Goto

Carlos H Diaz

Kuo-Tai Huang

Peng-Soon Lim

Peng-Fu Hsu

Yong-Tian Hou

The present disclosure provides a method for making a semiconductor device having metal gate stacks. The method includes forming a high k dielectric material layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first metal layer on the high k dielectric material layer; forming a silicon layer on the first metal layer; patterning the silicon layer, the first metal layer and the high k dielectric material layer to form a gate stack; and performing a silicidation process to fully change the silicon layer into a silicide electrode.

Semiconductor device with metal gate

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a source region and a drain region, defining a first dimension from the source to drain; and a gate stack disposed on the semiconductor substrate and partially interposed between the source region and the drain region. The gate stack includes a high k dielectric layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate; a first metal feature disposed on the high k dielectric layer, the first metal gate feature having a first work function and defining a second dimension parallel with the first dimension; and a second metal feature having a second work function different from the first work function and defining a third dimension parallel with the first dimension, the third dimension being less than the second dimension.

Local charge and work function engineering on MOSFET

Transistor performance improving method with metal gate

The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first active region and a second active region, providing a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region, forming a high-k dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate, forming a first capping layer and a second capping layer over the high-k dielectric layer, the first capping layer overlying the first region and the second capping layer overlying the second region, forming a layer containing silicon (Si) over the first and second capping layers, forming a metal layer over the layer containing Si, and forming a first gate stack over the first region and a second gate stack over the second active region. The first gate stack includes the high-k dielectric layer, the first capping layer, the layer containing Si, and the metal layer and the second gate stack includes the high-k dielectric layer, the second capping layer, the layer containing Si, and the metal layer.

Method to improve dielectric quality in high-k metal gate technology

The present disclosure provides a method for making a semiconductor device having metal gate stacks. The method includes forming a high k dielectric material layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a metal gate layer on the high k dielectric material layer; forming a top gate layer on the metal gate layer; patterning the top gate layer, the metal gate layer and the high k dielectric material layer to form a gate stack; performing an etching process to selectively recess the metal gate layer; and forming a gate spacer on sidewalls of the gate stack.

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Jhubei, Taiwan

Yuri Masuoka