KR20070070921A - Method for manufacturing saddle type fin transistor - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for fabricating a saddle-type fin transistor is provided to avoid an increase of an FICD(final inspection critical dimension) by performing a fin etch process using a hard mask as spin coating polymer favorable to planarization. A substrate(210) is prepared in which an isolation layer(211) is formed. A hard mask pattern including spin coating polymer(212a) is formed on the resultant structure. A fin etch process using the hard mask pattern is performed to form a saddle-type fin. The process for forming the hard mask pattern can include the following steps. An SiON layer(212b) is deposited on the hard mask pattern. An ARC(anti-reflective coating)(213) is deposited on the SiON layer. A photoresist layer pattern(214) is formed on the ARC. An etch process is performed to etch the ARC and the SiON layer by using the photoresist layer pattern as an etch mask. The spin coating polymer is etched by using the ARC and the SiON layer that are etched by the etch process.

Description

Saddle-type pin transistor manufacturing method {METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SADDLE TYPE FIN TRANSISTOR}

1 is a cross-sectional view showing a general fin transistor.

2 is a cross-sectional view of a typical recess transistor.

3 is a cross-sectional view showing typical transistors.

4 is a plan view illustrating a saddle-type fin transistor according to the prior art.

5 is an enlarged perspective view illustrating a portion 'A' shown in FIG. 4.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II ′ and II-II ′ of FIG. 5.

7A to 7E are perspective views illustrating a method of manufacturing the saddle-type fin transistor shown in FIG. 5.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the saddle fin transistor illustrated in FIG. 7A taken along the gate direction. FIG.

9 and 10 are SEM photographs for explaining the change of the Final Inspection CD (FICD) of the saddle-type fin or gate manufactured by the saddle-type fin transistor manufacturing method according to the prior art.

11 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a method of manufacturing a saddle-type pin transistor according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

12 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a method of manufacturing a saddle-type pin transistor according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110, 210: Substrate

111, 211: device isolation film

114: Saddle Pin

115: gate oxide film

116: polysilicon film

117: conductive film

112a: amorphous carbon film

112b, 212b: SiON film

112, 212: hard mask

113,213: Anti-reflective film

114, 214: photoresist pattern

212a: Spin Coated Polymer

313: organic antireflection film containing silicon

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to semiconductor manufacturing technology, and more particularly, to a method of manufacturing a saddle type fin transistor in which a fin type and a recessed type are mixed.

In general, a transistor having a horizontal channel widely applied to a transistor has various limitations as the design rule is reduced, thereby limiting the size of the transistor. The biggest problems of the reduced horizontal channel transistors include short channel effects and drain induced barrier lower (DIBL) effects caused by shorter channel lengths. In conventional transistors, when the channel length is reduced to 50 nm or less, the dispersion of device characteristics is increased by process variables, and when the channel length is 30 nm or less, the short channel effect and the DIBL effect become severe and it is known that the transistor is difficult to operate normally.

In order to overcome the problems of horizontal channel transistors, double gate transistors have been proposed. The double gate transistor has a channel having a thickness of 30 nm or less, and a structure surrounding the channel or having gates disposed on both sides of the channel.

In the above-described horizontal channel transistor, since the gate electrode is formed only on the upper portion of the horizontal channel, an electric field is vertically asymmetrically applied to the channel, and thus there is a lot of difficulty in effectively controlling the on / off operation of the transistor by the gate electrode. As a result, the smaller the channel size, the greater the influence of the short channel effect. In contrast, in the double gate transistor having the vertical channel, since gate electrodes are formed on both sides of the thin channel, all regions of the channel are affected by the gate electrode. Therefore, since the charge flow between the source and the drain can be suppressed when the transistor is off, power consumption can be reduced, and the on / off operation of the transistor can be effectively controlled.

One of the transistors having a vertical channel is a fin transistor. A typical pin transistor is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 1, the fin transistor has a structure in which an upper portion of the substrate between the device isolation layers 3 is formed in the form of a fin 2, and both sides of the fin 2 function as a channel. The short channel effect problem can be solved by increasing the channel area. However, this structure can reduce the body effect, but there is a limit to increasing the effective channel length. On the other hand, another of the transistors having the vertical channel is a recessed (or trench type) transistor shown in FIG. Unlike a fin transistor, a recessed transistor has a transistor structure in which a threshold voltage is determined regardless of a gate length. However, the threshold voltage is lowered or the short channel effect cannot be solved freely as a recessed transistor.

As shown in FIG. 3, the structure in which the fin transistor and the recess transistor are mixed is a saddle-type fin transistor. The saddle-type pin transistor is a structure that can solve the problem of the pin transistor, the low threshold voltage and the short effective channel length in parallel with the recess transistor. Accordingly, it is advantageous to apply a saddle-type pin transistor rather than a pin transistor in a DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) device in consideration of operating characteristics of the device.

Hereinafter, the structure and manufacturing method of the saddle-type fin transistor according to the prior art will be described.

4 is a plan view illustrating a structure of a saddle-type fin transistor according to the prior art, FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion 'A' shown in FIG. 4, and FIGS. b) is a cross-sectional perspective view, taken along the line II ′ and II-II ′, respectively, shown in FIG. 5. 7A to 7E are process perspective views for explaining the manufacturing method.

First, as shown in FIG. 7A, a bulk substrate 110 that is relatively inexpensive compared to an SOI substrate is used, and a pad oxide film (not shown) and a pad nitride film (not shown) are used on the bulk substrate 110. After the sequential deposition, the substrate 110 is etched to form a trench by performing an STI process.

Subsequently, an HDP (High Density Plasma) film having excellent embedding characteristics is deposited to fill the trench, and then planarized by performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process. As a result, the device isolation layer 111 defining the active region and the field region is formed.

Meanwhile, a wall oxide layer may be formed on the inner surface of the device isolation layer 111. At this time, the wall oxide film is formed by an oxidation process, and the inner surface of the trench is rounded.

Subsequently, an amorphous carbon film 112a, a SiON film 112b, and an antireflection film 113 are formed over the entire structure including the device isolation film 111, and then a photoresist film is formed thereon using a photo process. The pattern 114 is formed. At this time, the amorphous carbon film 112a and the SiON film 112b function as a hard mask 112. The anti-reflection film 113 is formed of an organic or inorganic material as a BARC (Botom Anti Reflective Coating) film.

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 7B, an etching process using the photoresist pattern 114 (see FIG. 7A) is performed to sequentially etch the anti-reflection film 113 and the hard mask 112 to form a hard mask pattern. Hereinafter, the hard mask pattern will be denoted as '112'.

Subsequently, the photoresist pattern 114 is removed through a strip process. At this time, the anti-reflection film 113 is also removed. However, the anti-reflection film 113 may be present without being removed.

Subsequently, as illustrated in FIG. 7C, the saddle fin 14 is formed by performing a pin etching process using the hard mask pattern 112 as an etching mask. In this case, the etching process is performed under the condition that the etching selectivity between the silicon substrate 110 and the device isolation layer 111 is as high as possible to etch the device isolation layer 111 and then to etch the silicon substrate 110 or the silicon substrate 110 first. ) Is etched and the device isolation layer 111 is etched. As such, by using the hard mask pattern 112 including the amorphous carbon layer as the fin mask during the fin etching process, the critical dimension of the fin may be reduced to improve device characteristics. This is because the amorphous carbon film has better etching selectivity with the lower layer than the photosensitive film pattern due to its physical properties, thereby reducing the critical dimension of the fin.

Subsequently, as illustrated in FIG. 7D, the hard mask pattern 112 is removed through an etching process.

Subsequently, as illustrated in FIG. 7E, the gate oxide film 115 is formed on the exposed surface of the substrate 110 by performing a gate oxidation process.

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 7F, the polysilicon film 116 and the conductive film 117 which function as a gate are sequentially deposited so that the fin 114 is buried. At this time, the conductive film 117 is formed of any one of tungsten, tungsten silicide and a stacked structure thereof.

In the saddle-type fin transistor manufacturing method according to the related art described above, an amorphous carbon film is used as a hard mask during the fin etching process as shown in FIG. 7A. For this reason, when a step is generated between the field region and the active region, that is, the device isolation layer and the substrate, the hard mask formed on the upper portion thereof has a step coverage that is formed along the step as it is.

Specifically, it is as follows.

As shown in FIG. 8, when a step is generated between the device isolation layer 111 and the substrate 110 (particularly, when the pad nitride film is removed), the hard mask 112 formed on the upper portion of the device isolation layer 111 and the substrate 110 may be left as it is. do. Accordingly, the thickness of the anti-reflection film 113 between the active area and the field area is greatly different from each other due to the flow characteristics of the anti-reflection film 113 formed under the fin mask, that is, during the photoresist pattern 114 process. It becomes visible.

In this case, when the anti-reflection film 113 is etched, a problem in which a final inspection CD (FICD) difference is large according to the thickness of the anti-reflection film 113 is generated as shown in FIG. 9. Here, FIGS. 9A and 9B show characteristics as shown in Table 1 below.

S-fin (saddle pin); (a) drawing split; (b) Drawing Anti-reflection film thickness 250 Å 450 Å FICD 52 nm 76 nm

As shown in Table 1, the larger the step difference in the saddle fin (S-fin), the larger the FICD. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 10B, in the subsequent gate forming process, the critical dimension of the device isolation layer Fox increases, making it difficult to overlap with the gate. As a result, a short circuit occurs between gates or a leakage current occurs around the contact to form a contact, thereby degrading device characteristics.

On the other hand, Figure 10 (a) is a SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) picture after etching the saddle-shaped fin (S-fin), (b) is a SEM picture after etching the gate.

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and provides a saddle-type pin transistor manufacturing method which can improve the device characteristics by preventing the increase of the FICD caused by the step between the active region and the field region. The purpose is to provide.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a substrate on which an isolation layer is formed, and forming a hard mask pattern including a spin coating polymer on the entire structure including the isolation layer; The present invention provides a saddle-type fin transistor manufacturing method comprising performing a pin etching process using the hard mask pattern to form a saddle-type fin.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the technical idea of the present invention. In addition, in the drawings, the thicknesses of layers and regions are exaggerated for clarity, and in the case where the layers are said to be "on" another layer or substrate, they may be formed directly on another layer or substrate or Or a third layer may be interposed therebetween. In addition, the same reference numerals throughout the specification represent the same components.

Example 1

11 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a method of manufacturing a saddle-type fin transistor according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Here, FIG. 11 corresponds to the diagram shown in FIG. 8.

Referring to FIG. 11, the saddle-type fin transistor manufacturing method according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a spin coating polymer (spin) instead of using an amorphous carbon film as a hard mask 112 (see FIG. 8) as in the related art. hard mask 212 including coating polymer 212a is used.

The spin coating polymer 212a is not formed by a deposition method such as an amorphous carbon film, but includes all polymers applied by an application process, that is, a coating method. When applied by the coating method itself can be flowed flat to obtain a flat structure regardless of the step of the lower layer. In addition, the spin coating polymer 212a is preferably applied to have a thickness of at least a step between the active region and the field region.

On the other hand, the hard mask 212 is formed of a laminated structure of the spin coating polymer 212a and the SiON film 212b. In addition, an organic antireflection film 213 is coated on the hard mask 212, and a photo process is performed on the upper portion of the hard mask 212 to form a photoresist pattern 214. At this time, a photoresist coating process, an exposure process, and a developing process are included in the photo process, but an ArF light source is used in the exposure process.

In Example 1, a process of forming a hard mask pattern is as follows.

First, the organic antireflection film 213 and the SiON film 212b are patterned using the photoresist pattern 214, and then the spin coating polymer 212a is formed using the patterned organic antireflection film 213 and the SiON film 212b. Pattern. As a result, a hard mask pattern including the spin coating polymer 212a is formed.

Example 2

12 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a method of manufacturing a saddle-type fin transistor according to a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 12, in the saddle fin transistor manufacturing method according to the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention, unlike the first exemplary embodiment, a hard mask is formed of a single layer of the spin coating polymer 212a and silicon is included thereon. An organic antireflection film 313 is applied. Then, a photo process is performed on the organic antireflection film 313 to form the photoresist pattern 214.

In Example 2, a process of forming a hard mask pattern is as follows.

First, the organic anti-reflection film 313 is patterned using the photoresist pattern 214, and then the spin coating polymer 212a is patterned using the patterned organic anti-reflection film 313. As a result, a hard mask pattern including the spin coating polymer 212a is formed. Subsequently, a pin etching or silicon recess etching process is performed using this hard mask pattern.

In the saddle-type fin transistor manufacturing method according to the embodiment of the present invention described above, other processes except for the hard mask 212 are performed by the same method described with reference to FIGS. 7A to 7F.

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described in detail in the preferred embodiments, it should be noted that the above-described embodiments are for the purpose of description and not of limitation. In addition, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various embodiments are possible within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, by performing a pin etching process using a spin-coating polymer, which is advantageous for planarization, as a hard mask, an increase in FICD is prevented, thereby solving short circuit and leakage current problems that may be caused in subsequent processes. The characteristics of the device can be improved.

Claims (3)

Providing a substrate on which an isolation layer is formed; Forming a hard mask pattern including a spin coating polymer on the entire structure including the device isolation layer; Forming a saddle fin by performing a pin etching process using the hard mask pattern Saddle-type pin transistor manufacturing method comprising a. The method of claim 1, Forming the hard mask pattern, Depositing a SiON film on the hard mask pattern; Applying an anti-reflection film on the SiON film; Forming a photoresist pattern on the anti-reflection film; And Etching the anti-reflection film and the SiON film by performing an etching process using the photoresist pattern as an etching mask; And Etching the spin coating polymer using the anti-reflection film and the SiON film etched by the etching process Saddle-type pin transistor manufacturing method comprising a. The method of claim 1, Forming the hard mask pattern, Applying an anti-reflection film containing silicon on the hard mask pattern; Forming a photoresist pattern on the anti-reflection film; And Etching the anti-reflection film by performing an etching process using the photoresist pattern as an etching mask; And Etching the spin coating polymer using the anti-reflection film etched by the etching process Saddle-type pin transistor manufacturing method comprising a.

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