A kind of method that improves the pmos fet hole mobility
Technical field
The invention belongs to semiconductor device technology, relate to the method for a kind of raising P-type mos (PMOS) field-effect transistor hole mobility in more detail.
Background technology
" power consumption-speed " predicament that present IC faces is the main bottleneck that hinders the very large scale integration technology development.Improving device carrier channels mobility is one of key that solves above-mentioned predicament.On the basis that channel mobility promotes significantly, can adopt lower supply voltage and higher threshold value drain voltage on the one hand, favourable to reducing power consumption; Simultaneously can guarantee that again device has enough current driving abilities and speed.Utilizing strain engineering is to improve one of most promising technology of charge carrier effective mobility.Proposed much to improve the method for charge carrier effective mobility, as: go up to form the rise technology of strained silicon of twin shaft at relaxation edge germanium silicon (SiGe) and shown and can improve carrier mobility, but it is difficult to be integrated in the CMOS technology and goes, because its complex process, defective is many, has shortcomings such as self-heating effect and cost height.Can introduce the stress of wishing at channel region and induce stress engineering, thereby significantly improve carrier mobility based on the technology of traditional Si base CMOS technology.As uniaxial strain silicon technologies such as embedded SiGe source/leakage engineering, stress cap layer, stress storage technologies, they are more superior than the common twin shaft processes with strained silicon that rises, but still many shortcomings are arranged, as embedded SiGe source/leakage engineering, need increase source/processing steps such as leakage burn into selective epitaxy, its complex process, difficulty is big, and the process integration difficulty, the difficult control of rate of finished products.And the present invention be by in the source/drain extension region injects Ge, thereby induce a kind of method that stress improves hole mobility at channel region, this method and traditional cmos process are compatible fully, and it is simple for process, do not need to increase mask yet, can be integrated into easily in the CMOS technology and go, not only cost is low, and effect is very good, not only improved the activation efficiency of boron, PMOS extension area sheet resistance is reduced greatly, the more important thing is that it increases substantially hole mobility, thereby significantly improved device and circuit performance.And dwindling along with device feature size, the effect that hole mobility improves is more remarkable (as: under the 1.2MV/cm longitudinal electric field, when channel length is 90 nanometers, hole mobility improves 26%, and when channel length narrowed down to 35 nanometers, hole mobility then improved 43%), these characteristics are consistent with the trend of large scale integrated circuit development, show that fully the present invention has the advantage of sustainable development, thereby have more value and the rosy prospect of applying.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to induce stress engineering and improve hole mobility in the raceway groove at the stress of channel region introducing hope by technology.
The core of this method is at PMOS extension area low energy boron difluoride (BF
2) or before boron (B) injected, at first the Si extension area to PMOS carried out the pre-amorphous injection of germanium (Ge), and then low energy is injected BF
2Or B.This method has not only improved the activation efficiency of B, and PMOS extension area sheet resistance is reduced greatly, the more important thing is that it increases substantially hole mobility, and its essence is that channel region is due to band structure changes under stress.The concrete steps of this method are as follows:
Step 1: after the reactive ion etching polysilicon forms gate electrode, low-pressure chemical vapor deposition method (LPCVD) deposition tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), thermal decomposition forms a SiO
2Film;
Step 2: reactive ion etching the one SiO
2Film forms first side wall;
Step 3: the decrystallized injection of germanium;
Step 4:BF
2(or B) low energy is injected;
Step 5:LPCVD deposits tetraethoxysilane, and thermal decomposition forms the 2nd SiO
2Film;
Step 6: reactive ion etching the 2nd SiO
2Film forms second side wall;
Step 7:BF
2Source/leakage is injected;
Step 8: rapid thermal annealing (RTA).
Step 1 wherein: be after finishing conventional local field oxidation isolation and active area, form gate medium, deposit polysilicon film on it, then carry out photoetching and reactive ion etching, form polygate electrodes, the low-pressure chemical vapor deposition method deposits TEOS then, and 740-750 ℃ of thermal decomposition forms a SiO
2Film, thickness 20-40nm;
Step 2 wherein: reactive ion etching the one SiO
2Film forms first side wall, pressure 200-250m τ, radio frequency (RF) power 250-350W, CHF
3/ CF
4/ Ar=40-60sccm/5-16sccm/200-300sccm, no over etching, soft etching 5-10 second;
Step 3 wherein: the decrystallized injection of germanium: energy 15-40Kev, dosage 2-8 * 10
14Cm
-2
Step 4:BF wherein
2Low energy is injected: BF
2Energy 5-8Kev, dosage 3-6 * 10
14Cm
-2
Wherein step 5:LPCVD deposits TEOS, and 710-750 ℃ of thermal decomposition forms the 2nd SiO
2Film, thickness 100-150nm;
Step 6 wherein: reactive ion etching the 2nd SiO
2Film forms second side wall, pressure 200-250m τ, RF power 250-350W, CHF
3/ CF
4/ Ar=40-60sccm/5-16sccm/200-300sccm;
Step 7:BF wherein
2Source/leakage is injected: energy 25-35Kev, dosage 1.5-3 * 10
15Cm
-2
Wherein step 8:RTA temperature is 1000-1020 ℃, time 4-8 second, formation source/drain junction.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 has provided SIMS profile analysis result, process decrystallized injection of Ge and BF
2Low energy is injected and the sample of sample behind RTA and the not decrystallized injection of process Ge compares.
Thereby Fig. 2 has provided Ge at the schematic diagram of the decrystallized injection of source/drain extension region at channel region introducing stress.
Fig. 3 has compared the input characteristics of the PMOS device that decrystallized injection of Ge (b) and the decrystallized injection of no Ge (a) are arranged.
Embodiment
Condition according to summary of the invention provides all can reach effect of the present invention, so the following examples are just with helping understand the present invention, and non-limiting scope of the present invention.In addition, equipment used in the present invention etc. all are semiconductor device technology equipment commonly used, and this point is that those skilled in the art are familiar with, thereby the present invention does not do any description to employed apparatus.
Embodiment:
Step 1) local field oxide thickness is SiO
2300nm, nitrogenize gate medium 1.4nm, polysilicon thickness 180nm on it then carries out photoetching and reactive ion etching, forms polygate electrodes, and LPCVD deposits TEOS then, and 720 ℃ of thermal decompositions form a SiO
2Film, thickness 30nm;
Step 2) reactive ion etching the one SiO
2Film forms first side wall, RF power 300W, CHF
3/ CF
4/ Ar=50sccm/10sccm/250sccm, operating pressure 200m τ, terminal point trigger and end, and do not have quarter, 7 seconds soft quarters;
The decrystallized injection of step 3) germanium (Ge): energy 20Kev, dosage 3 * 10
14Cm
-2
Step 4) BF
2Low energy is injected: energy 6Kev, dosage 5 * 10
14Cm
-2
Step 5) LPCVD deposits TEOS, and 720 ℃ of thermal decompositions form the 2nd SiO
2Film, thickness 120nm;
Step 6) reactive ion etching the 2nd SiO
2Film forms second side wall, RF power 300W, pressure 200m τ, CHF
3/ CF
4/ Ar=50sccm/10sccm/250sccm crosses and carved 7 seconds soft quarters 1 second;
Step 7) BF
2Source/leakage is injected: 30Kev, 2.5 * 10
15Cm
-2
Step 8) RTA, 1005 ℃, 4 seconds.
As seen from Figure 1, adopting the PMOS extension area junction depth of the sample of the decrystallized injection of Ge is 31nm, will reduce about 46% than the sample junction depth of the decrystallized injection of no Ge, simultaneously because the injection of Ge, improved the activity ratio of B, it is about 100% that super shallow junction surface concentration is improved, and sheet resistance reduces 35%.
As can be seen from Figure 3, the sample of the decrystallized injection of Ge is arranged, driven saturated power supply I
OsImproved 27%.This is because the decrystallized injection of Ge has been introduced a uniaxial compressive stress to raceway groove, as shown in Figure 2, because first side wall is extremely thin, make the distance at stress riser and raceway groove center shorter, so this uniaxial compressive stress is stronger to channelling, the result has improved the hole mobility of PMOS device greatly, with the PMOS device comparison of the decrystallized injection of no Ge, its hole mobility improves 26%, at less OFF leakage current I
OffObtained big ON state saturation current I down,
On
In sum, the present invention can improve the pmos fet hole mobility significantly, and source drain extension region sheet resistance is significantly reduced, and the two all makes the device current driving force improve greatly, and keeps low OFF leakage current simultaneously.