EP1516365A1 - Herstellungsverfahren für eine halbleiterstruktur mit einer mehrzahl von gatestapeln auf einem halbleitersubstrat und entsprechende halbleiterstruktur - Google Patents
Herstellungsverfahren für eine halbleiterstruktur mit einer mehrzahl von gatestapeln auf einem halbleitersubstrat und entsprechende halbleiterstrukturInfo
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- EP1516365A1 EP1516365A1 EP03735476A EP03735476A EP1516365A1 EP 1516365 A1 EP1516365 A1 EP 1516365A1 EP 03735476 A EP03735476 A EP 03735476A EP 03735476 A EP03735476 A EP 03735476A EP 1516365 A1 EP1516365 A1 EP 1516365A1
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- gate stacks
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10B—ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES
- H10B12/00—Dynamic random access memory [DRAM] devices
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10W—GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
- H10W20/00—Interconnections in chips, wafers or substrates
- H10W20/01—Manufacture or treatment
- H10W20/031—Manufacture or treatment of conductive parts of the interconnections
- H10W20/069—Manufacture or treatment of conductive parts of the interconnections by forming self-aligned vias or self-aligned contact plugs
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10B—ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES
- H10B12/00—Dynamic random access memory [DRAM] devices
- H10B12/30—DRAM devices comprising one-transistor - one-capacitor [1T-1C] memory cells
- H10B12/37—DRAM devices comprising one-transistor - one-capacitor [1T-1C] memory cells the capacitor being at least partially in a trench in the substrate
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10B—ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES
- H10B12/00—Dynamic random access memory [DRAM] devices
- H10B12/30—DRAM devices comprising one-transistor - one-capacitor [1T-1C] memory cells
- H10B12/48—Data lines or contacts therefor
- H10B12/485—Bit line contacts
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10B—ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES
- H10B99/00—Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a production method for a semiconductor structure with a plurality of gate stacks on a semiconductor substrate and a corresponding semiconductor structure.
- the memory cells of integrated DRAM memory circuits consist of a bit line contact, a selection transistor and a storage capacitor.
- the capacitor can be designed as a trench capacitor or as a stacked capacitor over the gate lines (stacked).
- bit line contacts are etched between the gate lines arranged in strips and are then filled with a conductive material, metal or highly doped polysilicon. In certain designs, a bit line contact is used for two adjacent memory cells, which also saves space.
- bit line contact plug a suitable metal filling (eg tungsten). It is also a central problem to find a suitable etching for the bit line contact, ie an etching of doped SiO 2 selectively to the silicon nitride covering the gate lines, the etching ensuring an opening of the bit line contact hole without the gate lines or their Damage insulation. This is particularly critical because of the process and thickness fluctuations of the layers that form or isolate the gate lines.
- the width of the gate line stacks, the thickness of the side wall oxide, the thickness of the side wall packer and the thickness of a liner made of silicon nitride, which acts as a diffusion barrier in order to avoid contamination of the doped SiO 2 in the gate lines, are particularly critical.
- the etching process is accomplished by two-step etching.
- anisotropic etching is carried out as vertically as possible up to the silicon nitride cap
- etching is carried out as selectively as possible to the silicon nitride cap, the profile of the upper region of the contact hole should not be widened if possible.
- a reduction in the material thicknesses for the individual components of the gate line stack also requires considerable effort. For example, it is known that even a slight reduction in the thickness of the side wall oxide considerably deteriorates the leakage current behavior of the selection transistors, so that the required hold time of the memory signal in the storage capacitor can no longer be guaranteed.
- the problem underlying the present invention is that the space problem for the bit line contacts relax.
- the advantages of the manufacturing method according to the invention and the corresponding semiconductor structure lie in particular in the fact that the relaxed space conditions reduce the short-circuit problem in contact hole etching, so that the yield in the process, for example in the DRAM manufacturing process, can be significantly increased. Furthermore, the invention offers the possibility of further shrinks.
- the idea on which the present invention is based consists in increasing the lateral width for the bit line contact by unilaterally reducing the side wall oxide on the bit line contact side, that is to say on the side of the selection transistor remote from the storage capacitor of the respective memory cell.
- the side wall oxide on the selection transistor is designed asymmetrically, ie thicker on the side of the storage capacitor and thinner on the side of the bit line contact.
- the side wall oxide on the bit line side of the selection transistor can only be thinned or completely removed, as a result of which the lateral opening for the bit line contact can be enlarged by a maximum of twice the width of the side wall oxide.
- the sidewall oxide on the selection transistor on the side of the storage capacitor is left unchanged by a suitable masking, which means that a deterioration in the leakage current behavior of the memory cell can be avoided.
- the gate stacks are provided in parallel in the form of strips on the semiconductor substrate.
- the gate stacks are provided on the semiconductor substrate with approximately the same shape and approximately the same distance.
- active regions of the selection transistors are provided in the space between the gate stacks in a self-adjusting manner.
- the removal of the side wall oxide takes place on the side walls of the Control electrode serving gate stack using a mask instead.
- the sidewall oxide is removed on opposite sidewalls of adjacent gate stacks via respective active areas, which simultaneously serve as a connection for two selection transistors.
- a respective bit line contact is formed between side walls of adjacent gate stacks with the side wall oxide at least partially removed.
- the gate stacks have a lower first layer made of polysilicon and an overlying second layer made of a metal silicide, in particular a tungsten silicide.
- the first, the second layer and a third layer lying thereon are applied and structured on the gate dielectric.
- the third layer is a silicon nitride layer.
- silicon nitride side wall spacers are formed on the gate stacks on the side walls.
- FIG. 1-5 show schematic representations of successive process stages of a manufacturing process. rens for a semiconductor structure with a plurality of gate stacks on a semiconductor substrate as an embodiment of the present invention.
- reference numeral 1 denotes a silicon semiconductor substrate in which trench capacitors TK1, TK2, TK3, TK4 are provided for corresponding memory cells.
- Reference numerals 60 to 65 denote doping regions introduced into the semiconductor substrate 1, which are drain and source regions of the selection transistors shown in this section, which are driven by the gate stacks GS2, GS3, GS6, GS7.
- the areas 60, 62, 63, 65 also serve as connection areas for the associated storage capacitors TK1-TK4.
- the regions 61 and 64 each belong to two adjacent selection transistors at the same time.
- the gate stacks GS1, GS4, GS5, GS8 belong to selection transistors in other rows of the memory cell matrix.
- Under the gate stacks GS1-GS8 on the semiconductor substrate 1 is the thin gate oxide denoted by reference number 5 in the figures.
- the gate stacks GS1 to GS8 are provided in strips on the semiconductor substrate 1 and all have the same structure and approximately the same size and the same distance from one another.
- the gate stacks GS1 to GS8 have a lower layer 10 made of polysilicon and an overlying layer 20 made of tungsten silicide.
- a cap 30 made of silicon nitride is provided. The respective left and right side walls of the strip-shaped gate stacks GS1 to GS8 are exposed at this stage.
- the active areas 60 to 65 between the gate stacks GS1 to GS7 can expediently be set by self-aligned ones Insert implantations between the gate stacks GS1 to GS8.
- the two side walls of the gate stacks GS1 to GS8 are oxidized to form a customary side wall oxide 40, typically 4-15 nm thick.
- This sidewall oxide 40 provides electrical insulation to prevent short circuits between the bit line and the gate line.
- a mask M is applied to this structure, which is structured in such a way that the side walls of the gate stack remote from the trench capacitors are exposed, which in this section belong to the selection transistors for the relevant storage capacitors.
- these are the gate stacks GS2, GS6, GS7 and GS6.
- Corresponding bit line contacts are to be created between the gate stacks GS2, GS3 and GS7, GS6 later.
- the side wall oxide 40 is thinned out on the unmasked exposed side walls of the gate stacks GS1, GS2, GS3, GS4, GS5, GS6, GS7, GS8, which is reduced by approximately 50%. leaves thin sidewall oxide 40 'on the relevant sidewalls.
- This thinning of the sidewall oxide can be done using a wet chemical etching with a suitable oxide-etching solution, for example HF, Diluted HF (DHF), Buffered HF (BHF) or Buffered Oxide Etch (BOE), or by means of a etching process, such as a reactive ion etching process.
- a suitable oxide-etching solution for example HF, Diluted HF (DHF), Buffered HF (BHF) or Buffered Oxide Etch (BOE), or by means of a etching process, such as a reactive ion etching process.
- the gate oxide present on the floor between the relevant gate stacks is also reduced or removed, which does not have a disruptive effect.
- a respective side wall spacer 50 made of silicon nitride is provided in a known manner to protect the side wall oxide 40 or the thinned side wall oxide 40 'during the subsequent formation of the bit line contacts between the gate stacks GS2, GS3 and GS6, GS7 , where thinning results in a greater lateral width d ⁇ compared to other intermediate areas without thinning.
- the first step is the application of a liner made of silicon nitride as a diffusion barrier, then the deposition and planarization of a doped layer made of Si0 2 and finally the self-aligned etching of the bit line contact holes between the gate stacks GS2, GS3 and GS6, GS7 in said two-stage etching process, and that Filling the bit line contact with a suitable metal, such as tungsten.
- the selection of the layer materials for the gate stacks and their arrangement are only examples and can be varied in many ways.
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| DE10228571 | 2002-06-26 | ||
| DE10228571A DE10228571A1 (de) | 2002-06-26 | 2002-06-26 | Herstellungsverfahren für eine Halbleiterstruktur mit einer Mehrzahl von Gatestapeln auf einem Halbleitersubstrat und entsprechende Halbleiterstruktur |
| PCT/EP2003/005581 WO2004004011A1 (de) | 2002-06-26 | 2003-05-27 | Herstellungsverfahren für eine halbleiterstruktur mit einer mehrzahl von gatestapeln auf einem halbleitersubstrat und entsprechende halbleiterstruktur |
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| EP1516365A1 true EP1516365A1 (de) | 2005-03-23 |
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| US (2) | US7118955B2 (de) |
| EP (1) | EP1516365A1 (de) |
| JP (1) | JP2005536040A (de) |
| KR (1) | KR100642041B1 (de) |
| DE (1) | DE10228571A1 (de) |
| TW (1) | TWI273677B (de) |
| WO (1) | WO2004004011A1 (de) |
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| US8325529B2 (en) * | 2009-08-03 | 2012-12-04 | Sandisk Technologies Inc. | Bit-line connections for non-volatile storage |
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