High speed double polycide bipolar/cmos integrated circuit process

Abstract

A mixed bipolar-CMOS self-aligned process and integrated circuit provide a high performance NPN bipolar transistor in parallel to fabrication of a PMOSFET and an NMOSFET. Gate and base contacts are formed in a first polysilicon layer. The base contacts are implanted with P+ ion concentrations for diffusing base contact regions of the substrate in a later drive-in step. Source and drain contacts and emitter contacts are formed in a second polysilicon layer. The source and drain contacts are formed as a unit and then separated into discrete contacts by a spin-on polymer planarization and etch-back procedure. Lightly-doped lateral margins of the source, drain and base regions are ion-implanted in an initial low concentration (e.g. about 10.sup.13 atoms/cm.sup.2). The gate and base contact structures serve as a mask to self-align the implants. Then, the gate and base structures are enclosed in an oxide box having sidewalls. The second polysilicon layer, next deposited, is laterally spaced by the sidewalls from the first layer. The second layer is selectively implanted with dopant ions of appropriate type for each device: N-type for the NMOSFET and P-type for the PMOSFET and the base of an NPN bipolar transistor. A drive-in step diffuses the implanted ions into the substrate. A shallow P+ intrinsic base is formed, which is spaced from the P+ base contact diffusions by a lightly-doped margin. Then, the emitter contact polysilicon is implanted N+ and a drive-in step forms a shallow emitter within the P+ base. The FET device likewise have graduated doping profiles in their source and drain diffusions.