Background technology
Transistor, especially " metal-semiconductor-oxide " field-effect transistor (MOSFET) are one of integrated circuit most common components.Leakage current is the important indicator of weighing transistor performance.The more low transistor that means of leakage current is more strong to the control ability of electric current.
Adopting shallow doping techniques (LDD) is to make one of modal technology in field at transistor at present.This technology is to adopt the doping source ion implantation/drain electrode identical with source/drain electrode and the zone between the conducting channel, and the doping content of formation forms so-called shallow doped source/drain electrode structure less than the doping content of source/drain electrode.The effect of this structure is the channel length that increases between source electrode and the drain doping region territory, suppresses short-channel effect, thereby reduces transistor leakage current between source electrode and the drain electrode under off state.
Figure 1A-1C is the sectional view that prior art forms each step in the transistorized flow process.At first, shown in Figure 1A, forming the photoresist layer 101 with first pattern at substrate 100, is that mask carries out the ion injection with the photoresist layer 101 with first pattern, forms shallow doped region 102A and 102B.Remove the photoresist layer 101 with first pattern then.Substrate 100 can be P type or N-type substrate, and the doping ion of shallow doped region 102A and 102B has the conduction type opposite with substrate 100.Then, as shown in Figure 1B, form the photoresist layer 103 with second pattern at substrate 100, photoresist layer 103 with second pattern cover do not carry out on the substrate zone that ion injects directly over, and the photoresist layer 103 with second pattern is wider than and is not carried out the zone that ion injects on the substrate.Be that mask carries out ion and injects with the photoresist layer 103 with second pattern, form source electrode 104A and drain electrode 104B.Source electrode 104A has the conduction type identical with the doping ion of shallow doped region 102A and 102B with the doping ion of drain electrode 104B.Remove the photoresist layer 103 with second pattern then, finish the making of shallow doped source/drain electrode structure.Wherein, shallow doped source structure comprises source electrode 104A and shallow doped region 102A, and shallow doped-drain structure comprises drain electrode 104B and shallow doped region 102B.
In addition, in order to finish transistorized making, also will do not carry out on the substrate 100 zone that ion injects (being that former cause has the zone that the photoresist layer 101 of first pattern covers) directly over form grid structure 105, shown in Fig. 1 C.
Adopt shallow doping techniques can shorten source electrode 104A and the distance of drain electrode between the 104B, suppress short-channel effect.The above-mentioned two injection techniques of available technology adopting form dopant well (namely, shallow doped source/drain electrode structure), the doping ion is distribution gradient in substrate 100, the distribution of the doping content on consequent substrate 100 surfaces also has gradient, doping content near grid structure 101 1 sides is lower, and is higher away from the doping content of grid structure 101 1 sides.
In addition, along with the continuous development of semiconductor technology, the integrated degree of semiconductor device is also more and more higher, and is therefore, also more and more higher for the requirement of the critical size of semiconductor device.When the critical size of semiconductor device is controlled, in order to optimize junction depth and to reduce the reason of leaking electricity, to the contact area between the semiconductor device also requirement to some extent.For example in the process of the photodiode dopant well of existing construction drawing image-position sensor, dopant well is made ion degree of depth distribution gradient, to increase the contact area between semiconductor device and substrate, it is the PN junction area, and then junction capacitance increase, resistance are increased, improve and resist the ability of wearing, and reduce the generation of leakage current.
Fig. 2 A-2B is the sectional view of each step in the flow process of the prior art dopant well that forms degree of depth distribution gradient.Shown in Fig. 2 A, form the photoresist layer 201 with first pattern at substrate 200.Then, be that mask carries out the ion injection with the photoresist layer 201 with first pattern, form first dopant well 202, remove first photoresist layer 201.As shown in Figure 1B, form the photoresist layer 203 with second pattern at substrate 200.Then, be that mask carries out the ion injection with the photoresist layer 203 with second pattern, form second dopant well 204, remove the photoresist layer 203 with second pattern.Above-mentioned pair of injection technology all adopts identical ion, forms the dopant well of degree of depth distribution gradient, increased the PN junction area.
The dopant well of degree of depth distribution gradient has extensive use in semiconductor technology, its range of application is not limited to above-mentioned two types.Yet the dopant well that existing technology forms degree of depth distribution gradient all adopts two injection technologies, namely forms to inject photoresist-first time-form to inject photoresist-second time.Two injection technologies need be carried out twice injection, and most of situation needs the removal photoresist twice, and therefore, processing step is more, needs long process cycle, and has increased the burden of instrument, is unfavorable for the raising of production efficiency.
Therefore, need a kind of manufacture method of new dopant well, to shorten process cycle, reduce processing step, reduce the burden of instrument, and enhance productivity.
Summary of the invention
Introduced the concept of a series of reduced forms in the summary of the invention part, this will further describe in the embodiment part.Summary of the invention part of the present invention does not also mean that key feature and the essential features that will attempt to limit technical scheme required for protection, does not more mean that the protection range of attempting to determine technical scheme required for protection.
The invention provides a kind of method of making dopant well, comprising: substrate is provided, forms the photoresist layer with first pattern at substrate; Apply the cross-linked material layer at described photoresist layer and described substrate with first pattern; Described substrate is cured, in order to make described cross-linked material layer generation cross-linking reaction, and form cross-linked layer in the part that contacts with described photoresist layer with first pattern of described cross-linked material layer; Remove the part that cross-linking reaction does not take place in the described cross-linked material layer, to stay described cross-linked layer; Form the photoresist layer with second pattern at described cross-linked layer; Be that mask carries out ion and injects with described photoresist layer with second pattern and described photoresist layer with first pattern, in described substrate, form described dopant well.
Preferably, described thickness with photoresist layer of first pattern is 300-600nm.
Preferably, described photoresist layer and described gross thickness with photoresist layer of second pattern with first pattern is 1500-1900nm.
Preferably, forming described material with photoresist layer of first pattern is the photoresist that can produce the light acid molecule, and the material of described cross-linked material layer is that chemical shrinkage-assisted analysis strengthens the etching material.
It is preferably, described that to cure used stoving temperature be 60-120 ℃.
It is preferably, described that to cure the used time of curing be 60-90 second.
Preferably, described second pattern is different with described first pattern.
Preferably, described dopant well is the dopant well of degree of depth distribution gradient.
Preferably, in the horizontal, the width of described second pattern is less than the width of described first pattern, and described dopant well is shallow doped source/drain electrode structure.
The present invention also provides a kind of making transistorized method, comprising: adopt said method to make described dopant well as shallow doped source/drain electrode structure; Remove described the have photoresist layer of first pattern, described cross-linked layer and described photoresist layer with second pattern; On described substrate, form grid structure with described photoresist layer The corresponding area with second pattern, to form described transistor.
According to the manufacture method of dopant well of the present invention, can shorten process cycle effectively, reduce processing step, reduce the burden of instrument, and enhance productivity.
Embodiment
In the following description, a large amount of concrete details have been provided in order to more thorough understanding of the invention is provided.Yet, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the present invention can need not one or more these details and implemented.In other example, for fear of obscuring with the present invention, be not described for technical characterictics more well known in the art.
In order thoroughly to understand the present invention, will in following description, detailed steps be proposed, so that explanation the present invention is the dopant well that how to form degree of depth distribution gradient.Obviously, execution of the present invention is not limited to the specific details that the technical staff of semiconductor applications has the knack of.Preferred embodiment of the present invention is described in detail as follows, yet except these were described in detail, the present invention can also have other execution modes.
Embodiment one
Fig. 3 A-3G is the sectional view that the method according to this invention forms each step in the transistorized flow process.
As shown in Figure 3A, provide substrate 300, substrate 300 can be monocrystalline silicon, polysilicon or amorphous silicon; Substrate 300 also can be silicon, germanium, GaAs or silicon Germanium compound; Substrate 300 can also have epitaxial loayer or epitaxial loayer silicon-on; Substrate 300 can also be other semi-conducting material, enumerates no longer one by one here.Substrate 300 can be P type or N-type substrate.Form the photoresist layer 301 with first pattern at substrate 300, the thickness with photoresist layer 301 of first pattern can be 300-600nm.In the horizontal, the width of first pattern is D1, wherein said laterally for subsequent technique in the transverse cross-section parallel of the grid that forms, and with the surperficial parallel direction of substrate 300, i.e. direction X shown in Fig. 3 A.Have the formation method of photoresist layer 301 of first pattern for earlier forming photoresist layer at substrate 300, form through technology such as exposure, development then.
Shown in Fig. 3 B, apply cross-linked material layer 302 at the photoresist layer 301 with first pattern and substrate 300.The material that formation has the photoresist layer 301 of first pattern is the photoresist that can produce the light acid molecule, for example, and i-line type photoresist, ArF type photoresist or KrF type photoresist.The material of cross-linked material layer 302 can be the chemical shrinkage-assisted analysis that provides of AZ electronic material company strengthen etching with material (Resolution Enhancement Lithography Assisted By Chemical Shrink, RELACS).
Shown in Fig. 3 C, cure the substrate that is coated with cross-linked material layer 302 300 that forms through above-mentioned steps, in order to make cross-linked material layer 302 that cross-linking reaction take place, and form cross-linked layer 303 in the part that contacts with photoresist layer 301 that have first pattern cross-linked material layer 302.Wherein, the temperature of curing is 60-120 ℃, and the time of curing is 60-90 second.In the process of curing, cross-linking reaction takes place with cross-linked material layer 302 at boundary (being the part that contacts with photoresist layer 301 that have first pattern cross-linked material layer 302) in the photoresist layer 301 with first pattern, forms the water-fast cross-linked layer 303 of one deck on the surface of the photoresist layer 301 with first pattern.Via the development step of water-soluble developer solution, remove the part that cross-linking reaction does not take place in the cross-linked material layer 302, to stay cross-linked layer 303 then.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, the material of cross-linked material layer is RELACS.RELACS mainly is made up of water miscible macromolecule and crosslinking agent.Contain the light acid molecule in the photoresist, after technologies such as overexposure, development, because the developer solution of alkalescence can produce neutralization with the light acid molecule at photoresist layer edge, make the light acid molecule concentration at edge descend.In baking step, remain in the light acid molecule in the photoresist and produce diffusion motion because be heated, in the process of diffusion, can produce new light acid molecule simultaneously, these light acid molecules can diffuse in the RELACS layer, what the cross-linking reaction of catalysis RELACS, concrete course of reaction can be looked is the chemical reaction that three molecules participate in:
P+C+H
+→PC+H
+,
Wherein, P represents the macromolecule in the RELACS reagent, and C represents the corsslinking molecular among the RELACS, H
+Be photoresist residual light acid molecule after formation has the lithography layer of pattern, PC then represents the product after macromolecule and corsslinking molecular produce cross-linking reaction.
Shown in Fig. 3 D, form the position that the photoresist layer 304 with second pattern defines shallow doped region in advance at cross-linked layer 303.Second pattern is different with first pattern.In the present embodiment, forming two-layer photoresist layer is in order to define transistorized shallow doped source/drain structure, therefore, further to require in the horizontal the width (D of second pattern
2) less than the width (D of first pattern
1), with on substrate with D
1-D
2(2d) Dui Ying zone forms shallow doped region.Have the formation method of photoresist layer 304 of second pattern for earlier forming photoresist layer at substrate 300 and cross-linked layer 303, form through technology such as exposure, development then.Photoresist layer 301 with first pattern is 1500-1900nm with the gross thickness with photoresist layer 304 of second pattern.The particular location of second pattern and concrete width can specifically be determined according to width and the depth distribution situation of the shallow doped region that will form.Photoresist layer 304 with second pattern further blocks ions is injected in the substrate 300, so that do not mix in the zone that has on the photoresist layer 304 corresponding substrates 300 of second pattern.
Present embodiment will form shallow doped source/drain electrode structure, to increase the distance between the source/drain electrode that will form subsequently by shallow doped region, suppresses short-channel effect.Therefore, the photoresist layer 304 with second pattern be positioned at photoresist layer 301 with first pattern directly over, and in the horizontal, the width of second pattern is than the little 2d of width of first pattern, wherein, width d is corresponding to the width of shallow doped region.
Shown in Fig. 3 E, be that mask carries out the ion injection with the photoresist layer 304 with second pattern and the photoresist layer 301 with first pattern, in substrate 300, form source electrode 306A and drain electrode 306B, and shallow doped region 305A and 305B.Source electrode 306A and drain electrode 306B, and the doping ion of shallow doped region 305A and 305B has the conduction type opposite with substrate 300.When substrate 300 was the P type, described doping ion was N-type, for example arsenic ion, phosphonium ion etc.; When substrate 300 was N-type, described doping ion was the P type, for example indium ion, boron ion, boron fluoride ion etc.
Shown in Fig. 3 F, technologies such as employing ashing are removed the photoresist layer 301 that has photoresist layer 304, the cross-linked layer 303 of second pattern and have first pattern.
In addition, in order to finish transistorized making, directly over the zone (photoresist layer 304 The corresponding area that namely have second pattern) of not carrying out the ion injection on the substrate 300, form grid structure 307, shown in Fig. 3 G.
Embodiment two
Fig. 4 A-4F is the sectional view of each step in the flow process of the method according to this invention dopant well of forming degree of depth distribution gradient.
Shown in Fig. 4 A, substrate 400 is provided, substrate 400 can be monocrystalline silicon, polysilicon or amorphous silicon; Substrate 400 also can be silicon, germanium, GaAs or silicon Germanium compound; Substrate 400 can also have epitaxial loayer or epitaxial loayer silicon-on; Substrate 400 can also be other semi-conducting material, enumerates no longer one by one here.Form the photoresist layer 401 with first pattern at substrate 400, the thickness with photoresist layer 401 of first pattern can be 800-3000nm.
Shown in Fig. 4 B, apply cross-linked material layer 402 at the photoresist layer 401 with first pattern and substrate 400.The material that formation has the photoresist layer 401 of first pattern is the photoresist that can produce the light acid molecule, for example, and i-line type photoresist, ArF type photoresist or KrF type photoresist.The material of cross-linked material layer 402 can be the RELACS that AZ electronic material company provides.
Shown in Fig. 4 C, cure the substrate that is coated with cross-linked material layer 402 400 that forms through above-mentioned steps, in order to make cross-linked material layer 402 that cross-linking reaction take place, and form cross-linked layer 403 in the part that contacts with photoresist layer 401 that have first pattern cross-linked material layer 402.Wherein, the temperature of curing is 60-120 ℃, and the time of curing is 60-90 second.In the process of curing, cross-linking reaction takes place with cross-linked material layer 402 at boundary (being the part that contacts with photoresist layer 401 that have first pattern cross-linked material layer 402) in the photoresist layer 401 with first pattern, forms the water-fast cross-linked layer 403 of one deck on the surface of the photoresist layer 401 with first pattern.Via the development step of water-soluble developer solution, remove the part that cross-linking reaction does not take place in the cross-linked material layer 402, to stay cross-linked layer 403 then.
Shown in Fig. 4 D, form the photoresist layer 404 with second pattern at cross-linked layer 403, define the position that forms shallow doped region in advance.In order to make the degree of depth distribution gradient of dopant well, common first pattern is different with second pattern.Realizing with this: does not mix in the zone on the substrate 400 that is covered by two-layer photoresist layer; Zone on the substrate 400 that is only covered by one deck photoresist layer, the ion concentration of injection is lower, the degree of depth is more shallow; Zone on the substrate 400 that is not covered by any photoresist layer, the ion concentration of injection is higher, the degree of depth is darker.Thickness with photoresist layer 404 of second pattern can be 800-3000nm.The position of second pattern and width can specifically be determined according to width and the depth distribution situation of the shallow doped region that will form.
Formation method with the photoresist layer 401 of first pattern and the photoresist layer 404 with second pattern is identical with the method shown in Fig. 3 A-3G, namely forms photoresist layer earlier, makes photoresist layer have pattern through technologies such as exposure, developments then.
Shown in Fig. 4 E, be that mask carries out the ion injection with the photoresist layer 404 with second pattern and the photoresist layer 401 with first pattern, in substrate 400, form the dopant well 405 of degree of depth distribution gradient.Dopant well 405 can be N-type or P type.When dopant well 405 was N-type, the doping ion was N-type, for example arsenic ion, phosphonium ion etc.; When dopant well 405 was the P type, the doping ion was the P type, for example indium ion, boron ion, boron fluoride ion etc.
Shown in Fig. 4 F, technologies such as employing ashing are removed the photoresist layer 401 that has photoresist layer 404, the cross-linked layer 403 of second pattern and have first pattern, finish whole doping process.
According to above-mentioned execution mode of the present invention, after formation has photoresist layer, the cross-linked layer of first pattern and has the photoresist layer of second pattern, adopt and once inject the dopant well that forms degree of depth distribution gradient.Therefore, compare with twice injection of prior art, twice removal photoresist pattern, can shorten process cycle effectively, reduce processing step, reduce the burden of instrument, and enhance productivity.The invention is not restricted to above-mentioned two kinds of execution modes, method of the present invention can be used to form the dopant well of various types of degree of depth distribution gradient.
Fig. 5 forms the flow chart of the dopant well of degree of depth distribution gradient for the method according to this invention.In step 501, substrate is provided, form the photoresist layer with first pattern at substrate.In step 502, apply the cross-linked material layer at the photoresist layer with first pattern and substrate.In step 503, substrate is cured, in order to make cross-linked material layer generation cross-linking reaction, and form cross-linked layer in the part that the photoresist layer with having first pattern of cross-linked material layer contacts.In step 504, remove the part that cross-linking reaction does not take place in the cross-linked material layer, to stay cross-linked layer.In step 505, form the photoresist layer with second pattern at cross-linked layer, define the position that forms shallow doped region in advance.In step 506, be that mask carries out the ion injection with the photoresist layer with second pattern and the photoresist layer with first pattern, form the dopant well of degree of depth distribution gradient.In step 507, technologies such as employing ashing are removed the photoresist layer that has photoresist layer, the cross-linked layer of second pattern and have first pattern, finish whole doping process.
The semiconductor device that has according to the dopant well of aforesaid embodiment manufacturing can be applicable in the multiple integrated circuit (IC).For example be memory circuitry according to IC of the present invention, as random-access memory (ram), dynamic ram (DRAM), synchronous dram (SDRAM), static RAM (SRAM) (SRAM) or read-only memory (ROM) etc.Can also be logical device according to IC of the present invention, as programmable logic array (PLA), application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (ASIC), combination type DRAM logical integrated circuit (buried type dynamic random access memory), radio-frequency devices or other circuit devcies arbitrarily.IC chip according to the present invention can be used for for example consumer electronic products, in various electronic products such as personal computer, portable computer, game machine, cellular phone, personal digital assistant, video camera, digital camera, mobile phone, especially in the radio frequency products.
The present invention is illustrated by above-described embodiment, but should be understood that, above-described embodiment just is used for for example and illustrative purposes, but not is intended to the present invention is limited in the described scope of embodiments.It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that in addition the present invention is not limited to above-described embodiment, can also make more kinds of variants and modifications according to instruction of the present invention, these variants and modifications all drop in the present invention's scope required for protection.Protection scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalent scope thereof.