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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2003
Applicants:
Kaiping Liu, Plano, TX (US);
Zhiqiang Wu, Plano, TX (US);
Majid Movahed Mansoorz, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/336 (2006.01); H01L 29/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a transistorhaving a germanium implant regionlocated therein, a method of manufacture therefor, and an integrated circuit including the aforementioned transistor. The transistor, in one embodiment, includes a polysilicon gate electrodelocated over a semiconductor substrate, wherein a sidewall of the polysilicon gate electrodehas a germanium implanted regionlocated therein. The transistorfurther includes source/drain regionslocated within the semiconductor substrateproximate the polysilicon gate electrode