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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Daniel Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Chunchieh Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Dong Jun Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
ProMOS Technologies, Inc., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
Substrate isolation trench () are formed in a semiconductor substrate (). Dopant (e.g. boron) is implanted into the trench sidewalls by ion implantation to suppress the current leakage along the sidewalls. During the ion implantation, the transistor gate dielectric () faces the ion stream, but damage to the gate dielectric is annealed in subsequent thermal steps. In some embodiments, the dopant implantation is an angled implant. The implant is performed from the opposite sides of the wafer, and thus from the opposite sides of each active area. Each active area includes a region implanted from one side and a region implanted from the opposite side. The two regions overlap to facilitate threshold voltage adjustment.