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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 04, 2023
Applicant:

Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Robert D. Clark, Leuven, BE;

Steven Consiglio, Albany, NY (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H10P 95/90 (2026.01); H10P 14/40 (2026.01); H10P 14/692 (2026.01); H10P 50/26 (2026.01); H10P 50/66 (2026.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H10P 95/904 (2026.01); H10P 14/412 (2026.01); H10P 14/6939 (2026.01); H10P 50/267 (2026.01); H10P 50/667 (2026.01);
Abstract

A method of forming a device includes providing a substrate containing an exposed semiconductor region, forming a metal oxide film over the exposed semiconductor region, and forming an oxygen-scavenging metal film over the metal oxide film. The method includes chemically reducing the metal oxide film to an elemental metal film by scavenging oxygen from the metal oxide film into the oxygen-scavenging metal film; and reacting the elemental metal film with the semiconductor region to form a metal-semiconductor layer, the metal-semiconductor layer forming a source/drain contact region of a transistor.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Clark, Robert. (2026). Silicidation process for semiconductor devices (U.S. Patent No. 12772811). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12772811

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