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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2022
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Tsai-Jung Ho, Xihu Township, TW;
Tze-Liang Lee, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/423 (2006.01); H01L 21/8234 (2006.01); H01L 29/66 (2006.01); H01L 29/786 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/42392 (2013.01); H01L 21/823418 (2013.01); H01L 21/823468 (2013.01); H01L 29/66545 (2013.01); H01L 29/6656 (2013.01); H01L 29/78618 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device includes a substrate including an active region, a gate stack over the active region, and a hard mask over the gate stack. The hard mask includes a capping layer, a buttress layer extending along sidewalls and a bottom of the capping layer, and a liner layer extending along sidewalls and a bottom of the buttress layer. The buttress layer includes a metal oxide material or a metal nitride material.