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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2008
Applicant:
Steven Arthur Vitale, Murphy, TX (US);
Inventor:
Steven Arthur Vitale, Murphy, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/3205 (2006.01); H01L 21/4763 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor device is fabricated with a selected critical dimension. A gate dielectric layer is formed over a semiconductor body. A gate layer comprised of a conductive material, such as polysilicon, is formed over the gate dielectric layer. The gate layer is patterned to form a gate electrode having a first horizontal dimension. One or more growth-stripping operations are performed to reduce a critical dimension of the gate electrode to a second horizontal dimension, where the second horizontal dimension is less than the first horizontal dimension.