Disclosure of Invention
An object of the present invention is to provide, at least in part, a semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus including the semiconductor device.
According to an aspect of the present invention, a semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a metal layer formed over the substrate; an alloy layer formed over the metal layer, wherein the alloy layer completely covers a surface of the metal layer, and an edge of the alloy layer is suspended beyond an edge of the metal layer; and forming a mask layer above the alloy layer, wherein the mask layer is made of a transparent material.
Preferably, the substrate material is Si or GaAs.
Preferably, the material of the metal layer is Ge.
Preferably, the alloy layer material is GeSn.
Preferably, the transparent material is SiO2Or Si3N4A material.
By the invention, SiO is sputtered2A GeSn microdisk was prepared for the hard mask. Because of SiO2Is transparent, so SiO is not removed2In the case of (3), the test may be performed after the preparation. Wherein, SiO2The GeSn microdisk has a supporting effect and can easily obtain an ultrathin (up to 10nm) GeSn microdisk with strain release.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: forming a substrate, depositing a metal layer above the substrate, and depositing an alloy layer above the metal layer; depositing a mask layer above the alloy layer, wherein the mask layer is made of a transparent material; forming a patterned photoresist over the mask layer; performing a first dry etching process to remove part of the mask layer; performing a second dry etching process to remove a part of the metal layer and the alloy layer; removing the photoresist; and carrying out a third dry etching process to remove the part of the residual metal layer, so that the part of the alloy layer covers the metal layer, and the edge of the alloy layer exceeds the edge of the metal layer and is in a suspension state.
Preferably, the first dry etching process includes using CF4Chlorine is used as etching gas for dry etching.
Preferably, the second dry etching process includes dry etching using chlorine gas as an etching gas.
Preferably, the third dry etching process includes using CF4And O2And etching with etching gas to perform dry etching.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic apparatus including an integrated circuit formed of the above semiconductor device.
Preferably, the electronic device further comprises: a display cooperating with the integrated circuit and a wireless transceiver cooperating with the integrated circuit.
Detailed Description
The following disclosure provides many different embodiments, or examples, for implementing different features of the invention. Specific examples of components and arrangements are described below to simplify the present disclosure. These are, of course, merely examples and are not intended to limit the invention. For example, in the description that follows, forming a first feature over or on a second feature may include embodiments in which the first and second features are in direct contact, as well as embodiments in which additional features may be formed between the first and second features such that the first and second features are not in direct contact.
Furthermore, spatial relationship terms, such as "below", "lower", "above", "upper", and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one element or component's relationship to another element or component as illustrated. Spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatial relationship descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly as such.
Fig. 1-6 show a flow chart of a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to a disclosed embodiment of the invention.
In this embodiment, the semiconductor device includes: a substrate 101; a metal layer 102 formed over the substrate; an alloy layer 103 formed over the metal layer, wherein the alloy layer completely covers the surface of the metal layer, and an edge of the alloy layer is suspended beyond the edge of the metal layer; a mask layer 104 is formed over the alloy layer, the mask layer 104 being a transparent material.
A substrate 101. In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the substrate 101 is a bulk silicon semiconductor substrate. Further, the substrate 101 may be a substrate of various forms including, but not limited to, a silicon-on-semiconductor Substrate (SOI), a compound semiconductor substrate (e.g., a GaAs substrate), an alloy semiconductor substrate (e.g., a SiGe substrate), and the like. In some embodiments, the semiconductor substrate may include a doped epitaxial layer.
Continuing with fig. 1, a metal layer 102 is formed over the substrate 101. A metal layer 102 is deposited on the substrate 101. In some embodiments, metal layer 102 comprises Ge element. In some embodiments, the metal layer 102 is formed by any of a variety of deposition techniques, including Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD), Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (APCVD), Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), and other suitable deposition techniques.
And an alloy layer 103 formed over the metal layer 102, wherein the alloy layer 103 completely covers the surface of the metal layer 102, and an edge of the alloy layer 103 is suspended beyond an edge of the metal layer 102. The forming of the suspended alloy layer comprises the following process methods:
in the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, an alloy layer 103 is formed over the metal layer 102. The alloy layer 103 uses GeSn material. In some embodiments, alloy layer 103 may be formed using LPCVD, APCVD, PECVD, PVD, or sputtering.
As shown in fig. 2, a mask layer 104 is formed over the alloy layer 103. The mask layer 104 may be a hard mask layer formed of a transparent material, for example, SiO2、Si3N4Etc. a transparent material. Specifically, the mask layer 104 is formed by using a low-temperature sputtering method, wherein the low temperature is not more than 300 ℃, and the thickness of the transparent mask layer 104 is not more than 200 nanometers.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, a patterned photoresist 105 is formed over the mask layer 104. The photoresist may be formed by a conventional method, for example, a photoresist may be spin-coated on a mask layer, and then a desired shape of the photoresist may be finally formed through exposure, development and removal steps. Other methods of forming patterned photoresist may also be employed. The photoresist and underlying material are then dry etched.
As shown in fig. 4, a first dry etching process is performed to remove a portion of the mask layer 104, and the mask layer 104 under the photoresist 105 remains. Etching with common Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etcher, wherein the first dry etching adopts CF4(ii) a The gas pressure is controlled at 5mT, the reaction temperature of the mixed gas is 20 ℃, the upper radio frequency power is 400W, and the lower radio frequency power is 100W, CF4The total flow rate of (3) is 50 sccm.
And a second dry etching process is performed to remove part of the metal layer 102 and the alloy layer 103 as shown in fig. 5. And etching by using a common Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etching machine, wherein the secondary dry etching process adopts chlorine, the air pressure is controlled to be 5mT, the reaction temperature of the mixed gas is 20 ℃, the upper radio frequency power is 300W, the lower radio frequency power is 45W, and the total flow of the chlorine is 35 sccm.
As shown in fig. 6, the photoresist 105 is removed. The photoresist 105 may be removed by a dry stripping process.
As shown in fig. 7, a third dry etching process is performed to remove a portion of the remaining metal layer 102, such that the alloy layer 103 partially covers the metal layer 102, and an edge of the alloy layer 103 exceeds an edge of the metal layer 102 and is in a suspended state. Etching with common Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etcher, wherein the third dry etching process adopts CF4+O2The gas pressure is controlled at 90mT, the reaction temperature of the mixed gas is 20 ℃, the upper radio frequency power is 200W, and the lower radio frequency power is 0W, CF4/O2Has a total flow rate of 100sccm, wherein CF is used4/O2In volume percent, CF4Volume ratio of 70%, O2The volume ratio is 30%.
In general, the disclosed method produces GeSn thin film suspended microdisk by low temperature sputter deposition of a mask layer of transparent material on an alloy layer (i.e., GeSn). The GeSn film suspension micro-disk is characterized in that the mask layer is made of a transparent material, the transparent mask layer is arranged on the GeSn film suspension micro-disk, the performance of the GeSn film suspension micro-disk cannot be affected, after the mask layer acts on the GeSn film suspension micro-disk, the situation that the edge of the etched GeSn film suspension micro-disk bends and upwarps due to stress release can be avoided, a supporting effect can be generated on the GeSn film suspension micro-disk, and the problem that the thin GeSn film suspension micro-disk with high Sn components is difficult to manufacture directly through selective etching in the prior art is solved. In addition, when the mask layer film is prepared by sputtering the transparent material at low temperature, the stress of the prepared mask layer is small, and other stresses cannot be additionally introduced to the GeSn film suspension micro-disk, so that the measurement of the subsequent performance of the GeSn film suspension micro-disk is influenced.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method comprises the following steps:
s1: forming a substrate, depositing a metal layer above the substrate, and depositing an alloy layer above the metal layer;
in this step, a metal layer 102 is deposited on the substrate 101, and an alloy layer 103 is deposited over the metal layer 102, and any one of various deposition techniques including Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD), Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (APCVD), Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), and other suitable CVD epitaxial techniques may be selected to form the metal layer 102 and the alloy layer 103.
S2: depositing a mask layer above the alloy layer, wherein the mask layer is made of a transparent material;
in this step, the mask layer 104 is also formed using a method specifically using low-temperature sputtering. Specifically, the mask layer 104 is formed by using a low-temperature sputtering method, wherein the low temperature is not more than 300 ℃, and the thickness of the transparent mask layer 104 is not more than 200 nanometers. In some embodiments, a 100 nm thick SiO layer is prepared by low temperature sputtering at 300 ℃ over the alloy layer 1032And (5) masking the layer. In other embodiments, SiO with a thickness of 30 nm is prepared by low temperature sputtering at 200 ℃ above the alloy layer 1032And (5) masking the layer. Of course, the temperature of the low-temperature sputtering can be any temperature such as 120-200 ℃, and the formed SiO2Mask layer or Si3N4The mask layer is a transparent hard mask layer, and the thickness of the mask layer is as thin as possible, for example, the thickness of the mask layer may be 20 nm to 100 nm, and the thickness of the mask layer is determined by that after the mask layer acts on the alloy layer (i.e., GeSn thin film layer), the edge of the alloy layer is not bent and upwarps when the mask layer and the alloy layer (i.e., GeSn thin film layer) are etched together, and the mask layer is easy to support.
S3: forming a patterned photoresist over the mask layer;
in this step, a photoresist may be formed by a conventional method, for example, a photoresist may be spin-coated on a mask layer, and then a desired shape of the photoresist may be finally formed through exposure, development, and removal steps. Other methods of forming patterned photoresist may also be employed. The photoresist and underlying material are then dry etched.
S4: carrying out a first dry etching process to remove part of the mask layer;
in this step, a general Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etcher is used for etching, whichIn the first dry etching, CF is adopted4The gas pressure is controlled at 5mT, the reaction temperature of the mixed gas is 20 ℃, the upper radio frequency power is 400W, and the lower radio frequency power is 100W, CF4The total flow rate of (3) is 50 sccm.
S5: performing a second dry etching process to remove part of the metal layer and the alloy layer;
in the step, a common Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etching machine is adopted for etching, wherein the secondary dry etching process adopts chlorine, the gas pressure is controlled to be 5mT, the reaction temperature of the mixed gas is 20 ℃, the upper radio frequency power is 300W, the lower radio frequency power is 45W, and the total flow of the chlorine is 35 sccm.
S6: removing the patterned photoresist;
in this step, the patterned photoresist 105 may be removed by a dry stripping process.
S7: and carrying out a third dry etching process to remove the part of the residual metal layer again, so that the part of the alloy layer covers the metal layer, and the edge of the alloy layer exceeds the edge of the metal layer and is in a suspension state.
In the step, a common Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etching machine is adopted for etching, wherein CF is adopted for the third dry etching process4+O2The gas pressure is controlled at 90mT, the reaction temperature of the mixed gas is 20 ℃, the upper radio frequency power is 200W, and the lower radio frequency power is 0W, CF4/O2Has a total flow rate of 100sccm, wherein CF is used4/O2In volume percent, CF4Volume ratio of 70%, O2The volume ratio is 30%.
In the preparation method, the GeSn microdisk with a thin high Sn component can be directly manufactured by selective etching under the etching process condition by controlling the three-time dry etching process condition, the GeSn film suspension microdisk prepared by the method has the advantages of thin thickness which can reach 10 to 20 nanometers, and can overcome the problems of bending and upwarping of the edge of the GeSn film suspension microdisk with the thin high Sn component and difficult support in the prior art after the GeSn film suspension microdisk coacts with the transparent material, and the preparation method has a remarkable beneficial effect.
The components of several embodiments are discussed above so that those skilled in the art may better understand the various aspects of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should appreciate that they may readily use the present disclosure as a basis for designing or modifying other processes and structures for carrying out the same purposes and/or achieving the same advantages of the embodiments introduced herein. Those skilled in the art should also realize that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure, and that they may make various changes, substitutions, and alterations herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.