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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2012
Philippe Meunier-beillard, Kortenberg, BE;
Johannes Josephus Theodorus Marinus Donkers, Valkenswaard, NL;
Hans Mertens, Leuven, BE;
Tony Vanhoucke, Bierbeek, BE;
Philippe Meunier-Beillard, Kortenberg, BE;
Johannes Josephus Theodorus Marinus Donkers, Valkenswaard, NL;
Hans Mertens, Leuven, BE;
Tony Vanhoucke, Bierbeek, BE;
NXP B.V., Eindhvoen, NL;
Abstract
A method of forming a heterojunction bipolar transistor by depositing a first stack comprising an polysilicon layer and a sacrificial layer on a mono-crystalline silicon substrate surface; patterning that stack to form a trench extending to the substrate; depositing a silicon layer over the resultant structure; depositing a silicon-germanium-carbon layer over the resultant structure; selectively removing the silicon-germanium-carbon layer from the sidewalls of the trench; depositing a boron-doped silicon-germanium-carbon layer over the resultant structure; depositing a further silicon-germanium-carbon layer over the resultant structure; depositing a boron-doped further silicon layer over the resultant structure; forming dielectric spacers on the trench sidewalls; filling the trench with emitter material; exposing polysilicon regions outside the trench side walls by selectively removing the sacrificial layer; implanting boron impurities into the exposed polysilicon regions to define base implants; and exposing the resultant structure to a thermal budget for annealing the boron impurities.