TW200627528A - Dual silicide process to improve device performance - Google Patents

Dual silicide process to improve device performance

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TW200627528A
TW200627528A TW095101573A TW95101573A TW200627528A TW 200627528 A TW200627528 A TW 200627528A TW 095101573 A TW095101573 A TW 095101573A TW 95101573 A TW95101573 A TW 95101573A TW 200627528 A TW200627528 A TW 200627528A
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John J Ellis-Monagham
Dale W Martin
William J Murphy
James S Nakos
Kirk D Peterson
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    • H10D30/791—Arrangements for exerting mechanical stress on the crystal lattice of the channel regions
    • H10D30/794—Arrangements for exerting mechanical stress on the crystal lattice of the channel regions comprising conductive materials, e.g. silicided source, drain or gate electrodes
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    • H10D30/021—Manufacture or treatment of FETs having insulated gates [IGFET]
    • H10D30/0212—Manufacture or treatment of FETs having insulated gates [IGFET] using self-aligned silicidation
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    • H10D84/0123—Integrating together multiple components covered by H10D12/00 or H10D30/00, e.g. integrating multiple IGBTs
    • H10D84/0126—Integrating together multiple components covered by H10D12/00 or H10D30/00, e.g. integrating multiple IGBTs the components including insulated gates, e.g. IGFETs
    • H10D84/0165—Integrating together multiple components covered by H10D12/00 or H10D30/00, e.g. integrating multiple IGBTs the components including insulated gates, e.g. IGFETs the components including complementary IGFETs, e.g. CMOS devices
    • H10D84/017—Manufacturing their source or drain regions, e.g. silicided source or drain regions
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    • H10D84/0172—Manufacturing their gate conductors
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    • H01L21/28035—Making conductor-insulator-semiconductor electrodes the insulator being formed after the semiconductor body, the semiconductor being silicon characterised by the conductor the final conductor layer next to the insulator being silicon, e.g. polysilicon, with or without impurities
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    • H01L21/28052—Making conductor-insulator-semiconductor electrodes the insulator being formed after the semiconductor body, the semiconductor being silicon characterised by the conductor the final conductor layer next to the insulator being silicon, e.g. polysilicon, with or without impurities the conductor comprising at least another non-silicon conductive layer the conductor comprising a silicide layer formed by the silicidation reaction of silicon with a metal layer
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    • H10D30/0227—Manufacture or treatment of FETs having insulated gates [IGFET] having source and drain regions or source and drain extensions self-aligned to sides of the gate having both lightly-doped source and drain extensions and source and drain regions self-aligned to the sides of the gate, e.g. lightly-doped drain [LDD] MOSFET or double-diffused drain [DDD] MOSFET
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    • H10D30/601—Insulated-gate field-effect transistors [IGFET] having lightly-doped drain or source extensions, e.g. LDD IGFETs or DDD IGFETs 
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    • H10D64/663—Electrodes having a conductor capacitively coupled to a semiconductor by an insulator, e.g. MIS electrodes the conductor comprising a layer of silicon contacting the insulator, e.g. polysilicon having vertical doping variation the conductor further comprising additional layers, e.g. multiple silicon layers having different crystal structures the additional layers comprising a silicide layer contacting the layer of silicon, e.g. polycide gates

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