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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2011
Sharmin Sadoughi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sharmin Sadoughi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit device is disclosed that includes a dual stress liner NMOS device having a tensile stress layer that overlies a NMOS gate film stack, a dual stress liner PMOS device having a compressive stress layer that overlies a PMOS gate film stack, a reduced-stress dual stress liner NMOS device having a stress reduction layer that extends between the tensile stress layer and the NMOS gate film stack, and a reduced-stress dual stress liner PMOS device having a stress reduction layer that extends between the compressive stress layer and the PMOS gate film stack. In embodiments of the invention additional reduced-stress dual stress liner NMOS devices and reduced-stress PMOS devices are formed by altering the thickness and/or the material properties of the stress reduction layer.