Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zuozhen Fu

Huaxiang Yin

Dapeng Chen

Xiaolong Ma

Qiuxia Xu

Chao Zhao

Jiang Yan

Changliang Qin

Methods of manufacturing stacked nanowires MOS transistors are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes forming a plurality of fins along a first direction on a substrate. The method also includes forming stack of nanowires constituted of a plurality of nanowires in each of the fins. The method also includes forming a gate stack along a second direction in the stack of nanowires, the gate stack surrounding the stack of nanowires. The method also includes forming source/drain regions at both sides of the gate stack, the nanowires between the respective source/drain regions constituting a channel region. A stack of nanowires may be formed by a plurality of etching back, laterally etching a trench and filling the trench. The laterally etching process includes isotropic dry etching having an internally tangent and lateral etching, and a wet etching which selectively etches along respective crystallographic directions.

Method of manufacturing stacked nanowire MOS transistor

A method for manufacturing a dual metal CMOS device comprising: forming a first type metal work function modulation layer in the first gate trench and the second gate trench; forming a second type work function metal diffusion source layer in the first gate trench and the second gate trench; forming a heat isolation layer that shields the region of the first type device; and thermally annealing the regions where the first type device and the second type device are located.

Dual-metal gate CMOS devices and method for manufacturing the same

The present invention discloses a semiconductor device, comprising substrates, a plurality of gate stack structures on the substrate, a plurality of gate spacer structures on both sides of each gate stack structure, a plurality of source and drain regions in the substrate on both sides of each gate spacer structure, the plurality of gate spacer structures comprising a plurality of first gate stack structures and a plurality of second gate stack structures, wherein each of the first gate stack structures comprises a first gate insulating layer, a first work function metal layer, a second work function metal diffusion blocking layer, and a gate filling layer; Each of the second gate stack structures comprises a second gate insulating layer, a first work function metal layer, a second work function metal layer, and a gate filling layer, characterized in that the first work function metal layer has a first stress, and the gate filling layer has a second stress. Two metal gate layers of different types and/or intensity of stress are formed, respectively, thus different stresses are applied to the channel regions of different MOSFETs effectively and accurately, the device carrier mobility is enhanced simply and efficiently, and the device performance is also enhanced.

Semiconductor device with gate stacks having stress and method of manufacturing the same

The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a gate stack structure on a substrate; forming a drain region in the substrate on one side of the gate stack structure; and forming a source region made of GeSn in the substrate on the other side of the gate stack structure; wherein the forming the source region made of GeSn comprises: implanting precursors in the substrate on the other side of the gate stack structure; and performing a laser rapid annealing such that the precursors react to produce GeSn alloy, thereby to constitute a source region; and wherein the step of implanting precursors further comprises: performing a pre-amorphization ion implantation, so as to form an amorphized region in the substrate; and implanting Sn in the amorphized region.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

The present invention discloses a semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate, a gate stack structure on the substrate, source and drain regions in the substrate on both sides of the gate stack structure, and a channel region between the source and drain regions in the substrate, characterized in that at least one of the source and drain regions comprises a GeSn alloy. In accordance with the semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same of the present invention, GeSn stressed source and drain regions with high concentration of Sn is formed by implanting precursors and performing a laser rapid annealing, thus the device carrier mobility of the channel region is effectively enhanced and the device drive capability is further improved.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same

A method for forming titanium nitride by PVD is disclosed, comprising: generating ions of a noble gas by glow discharge under a vacuum condition that a nitrogen gas and the noble gas are supplied; nitriding a surface of a wafer and a surface of a titanium target with the nitrogen gas; bombarding the surface of the titanium target with the ions of the noble gas after they are accelerated in an electric field so that titanium ions and titanium nitride are sputtered; and forming a titanium nitride layer by depositing titanium nitride on the surface of the wafer in a magnetic field, while titanium ions are injected into the surface of the wafer so that stress is introduced into the titanium nitride layer, wherein non-crystallization fraction of the titanium nitride layer and stress in the titanium nitride layer are increased by increasing kinetic energy of titanium ions which are injected into the surface of the wafer. In the method for forming titanium nitride by PVD according to the present disclosure, kinetic energy of titanium ions which are injected into the surface of the wafer is increased by controlling process parameters so that non-crystallization fraction of the titanium nitride layer and stress in the titanium nitride layer are increased.

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