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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2004
Veit Klee, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Sun-oo Kim, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Veit Klee, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Sun-Oo Kim, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method of making a semiconductor device for an integrated circuit chip. An interim gate electrode stack formed includes a top silicon portion patterned from a second silicon layer, a sandwiched oxide portion patterned from an etch stop oxide layer, and a bottom silicon portion patterned from a first silicon layer formed on a gate dielectric layer over a substrate. Etching the second silicon layer is stopped at the etch stop oxide layer. A spacer structure is formed about the interim gate electrode stack, and then the top silicon portion and the sandwiched oxide portion are removed. The spacer structure height may be reduced. A metal layer is formed over the bottom silicon portion of the interim gate electrode stack and over source and drain regions of the substrate, all of which are silicided at the same time to form a fully silicided (FUSI) gate electrode and silicided source and drain regions.