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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2012
Toshiharu Furukawa, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Steven J. Holmes, Guilderland, NY (US);
David V. Horak, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Charles W. Koburger, Iii, Delmar, NY (US);
Toshiharu Furukawa, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Steven J. Holmes, Guilderland, NY (US);
David V. Horak, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Charles W. Koburger, III, Delmar, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A finFET structure includes a semiconductor fin located over a substrate. A gate electrode is located traversing the semiconductor fin. The gate electrode has a spacer layer located adjoining a sidewall thereof. The spacer layer does not cover completely a sidewall of the semiconductor fin. The gate electrode and the spacer layer may be formed using a vapor deposition method that provides for selective deposition upon a sidewall of a mandrel layer but not upon an adjoining surface of the substrate, so that the spacer layer does not cover completely the sidewall of the semiconductor fin. Other microelectronic structures may be fabricated using the lateral growth methodology.