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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Qiuyi Ye, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
William R. Tonti, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Yujun Li, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/978 ; H01L 2/9417 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/978 ; H01L 2/9417 ;
Abstract
A dual work function semiconductor structure with borderless contact and method of fabricating the same are presented. The structure may include a field effect transistor (FET) having a substantially cap-free gate and a conductive contact to a diffusion adjacent to the cap-free gate, wherein the conductive contact is borderless to the gate. Because the structure is a dual work function structure, the conductive contact is allowed to extend over the cap-free gate without being electrically connected thereto.