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- the present invention relates to metal insulator semiconductor field effect transistors (MISFET).
- MISFET metal insulator semiconductor field effect transistors
- CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
- Inverter Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
- CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
- parasitic capacitances For deep sub-micron CMOS, as the gate lengths get shorter, leakage current tends to get higher, and the overall process technology becomes more complex. Not only the number of processing steps increases, but the complexity and difficulty of some of those steps is also increased. Since to make CMOS circuits, NMOS and PMOS devices are needed, many Front-End processing steps have to be made twice, separately for each device type.
- CMOS circuits can also be made with other MOSFET architectures, like Vertical MOSFETs (see reference [1]).
- the perspectives opened by Vertical MOSFETs are very attractive. That is especially true when considering the technological and fundamental physical limitations facing conventional (Planar) MOSFETs for gate lengths below 100nm.
- the channel length is defined by the doping and/or heterojunction profiles, made by low temperature epitaxy. Lithography defines the cross section of the devices (channel width), and therefore the density of integration.
- the present invention pertains to the field of Complementary Metal-Insulator- Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (C-MISFETs). Since the most common insulator is an oxide (silicon dioxide), these devices are almost always designated by Complemetary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (C-MOSFETs). More specifically, it pertains to CMOS circuits made with a new kind of Vertical MOSFETs.
- C-MISFETs Complementary Metal-Insulator- Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors
- the present invention introduces a MOSFET device, that behaves as N- or P-type transistor, depending only on the applied bias.
- Setting of the source voltage supply determines if the device will behave as a NMOS or as a PMOS.
- Vps positive drain to source
- VDS negative drain to source
- VGS gate to source
- the same device acts like a PMOS. Therefore, with the device of the present invention it is possible to make complementary circuits (CMOS), even though only a single device type is fabricated, which "a priori" is neither N- or P-type.
- the subject of this invention will hereafter be designated by "Single Device Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor", or SD- CMOS.
- VH-MOSFETs Vertical Heterojunction MOSFETs
- the device type (NMOS or PMOS) is defined by what type of dopant is incorporated in the source and drain regions.
- Numerical simulations of Double-Gate SOI CMOS with 30 nm gate/channel lengths (see reference [4]), predict extraordinary performance levels.
- a very illustrative parameter is the CMOS ring oscillator delay being less than 1 picosecond. Equal or better performance levels should be expected for the VH-MOSFET with channel lengths like 20 nm for example.
- CMOS integration schemes have been proposed (see reference [3]), where the device layers of one device type are stacked on the device layers of the other device type, thereby enabling a single epitaxial growth step, and a common gate stack (gate insulator and gate electrode).
- Such integration schemes offer the perspective of significant overall front-end process simplification, and area gains, over configurations where NMOS and PMOS transistors would be made "side by side”.
- MISFET metal insulator semiconductor field effect transistor
- a source layer being made with a material having a source band gap (EG2) and a source mid-gap value (EGM2), said source layer having a source
- a channel layer between the source layer and the drain layer said channel layer being made with a material having a channel band gap (EG3) and a channel mid-gap value (EGM3), said channel layer having a channel Fermi level (EF3); a source contact layer connected to the source layer opposite the channel layer, said source contact layer having a source contact Fermi-Level (EF1 ); and
- said source band gap is substantially narrower (EG2) than said channel band gap (EG3); • said source contact Fermi-Level (EF1), said source Fermi-Level (EF2), said channel Fermi-Level (EF3), said drain Fermi-Level (EF4) and said gate electrode Fermi-Level (EF6) are equal to said source mid-gap value (EGM2) and said channel mid-gap value (EGM3), within a predetermined tolerance value, when no voltage is applied to the device.
- EG2 source mid-gap value
- ECM3 gate electrode Fermi-Level
- the Fermi-Levels are substantially equal to the source and the channel mid-gap values, symmetric paths from source to drain for electrons and for holes are created. This allows the device to behave as an NMOS or PMOS, depending on the voltage applied. It substantially improves the manufacturing process of MISFET's, since it is no longer necessary to decide, contrary to known devices hitherto, upon fabrication if the device should behave as NMOS or as PMOS.
- Figure 1 is a schematic cross section through the layers of one preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention.
- Figures 2a, 2b and 2c are schematic band alignments, along a vertical section from Source to Drain in the device of Figure 1 , near the interface with the Gate insulator, for different Drain and Gate bias conditions, when the device is used as an N-MOS.
- Figures 3a, 3b and 3c are schematic band alignments, along a vertical section from Source to Drain in the device of Figure 1 , near the interface with the Gate insulator, for different Drain and Gate bias conditions, when the device is used as a P-MOS.
- Figures 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d are schematic band alignments of two identical SD- CMOS devices, along a vertical section from Source to Drain, near the interface with the Gate insulator, for different Drain and Gate bias conditions.
- Figures 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e and 5f are schematic band alignments of one SD- CMOS device, along a vertical section from Source to Drain, near the interface with the Gate insulator, for different Drain and Gate bias conditions.
- Figure 6 illustrates a 3-dimensional perspective of a "Gate All Around” device.
- Figure 7a illustrates a 3-dimensional perspective of one possible implementation of the "Edge-Gate" arrangement.
- Figure 7b illustrates a 3-dimensional perspective of a second possible implementation of the "Edge-Gate" arrangement.
- Figure 7c illustrates a 3-dimensional perspective of third possible implementation of the "Edge-Gate" arrangement.
- Figure 8 illustrates a 3-dimensional perspective of a possible implementation of the "Inner-Gate” together with “Edge-Gate” arragements.
- Figure 9a illustrates an implementation of a "NOR" logic gate, where SD- CMOS devices to behave as NMOS and PMOS are made on opposite sides of the "Drain Contact".
- Figure 9b illustrates an implementation of a "NOR" logic gate, where a SD- CMOS devices will behave alternatively as NMOS or PMOS by changing the bias at the source contact.
- Figures 10A to 10N illustrate a process flow for manufacturing a device according to the invention according to a first preferred embodiment.
- Figures 11A to 11M illustrate a process flow for manufacturing a device according to the invention according to a second preferred embodiment.
- Figures 12A to 12Q illustrate a process flow for manufacturing a device according to the invention according to a third preferred embodiment.
- Figure 13a is a band-diagram, along a horizontal section through the gate electrode, the gate insulator, the channel, the gate insulator and the gate electrode of the device according to Figure 1 in absence of any applied voltage to any terminal of the device.
- Figure 13b is a band-diagram, along a horizontal section through the gate electrode, the gate insulator, the source, the gate insulator and the gate electrode of the device according to Figure 1 in absence of any applied voltage to any terminal of the device.
- Figure 13c is a band-diagram, along a horizontal section through the gate electrode, the gate insulator, the source contact, the gate insulator and the gate electrode of the device according to Figure 1 in absence of any applied voltage to any terminal of the device.
- Figure 13d is a band-diagram, along a horizontal section through the gate electrode, the gate insulator, the drain, the gate insulator and the gate electrode of the device according to Figure 1 in absence of any applied voltage to any terminal of the device.
- Layer 1 is the contact to the Source: metal with workfunction or Fermi-Level in the middle of the band-gap of the Source material.
- Layer 2 is the Source: "narrow" band-gap material, with its mid-gap point aligned with the mid-gap point of the channel material, resulting in similar offsets in the conduction and valence bands, with respect to the channel material.
- Layer 3 is the channel: "wide" band-gap material.
- Layer 4 is the Drain: metal with a workfunction or Fermi-Level in the middle of the gap of the channel material.
- Layer 5 is the Gate insulator.
- Layer 6 is the Gate electrode: conductor with Fermi-Level in the middle of the gap of the channel material.
- Layers 1, 4, and 6 can be of the same material.
- FIG. 2a a band diagram of the device is shown when no voltage is applied, in other words the drain to source voltage and the gate to source voltage are both equal to zero.
- EF(1) is the Fermi-Level in material 1.
- EF(2) is the Fermi-Level in material 2.
- EC(2) is the conduction band edge of material 2.
- EV(2) is the valence band edge of material 2.
- EF(3) is the Fermi-Level in material 3.
- EC(3) is the conduction band edge of material 3.
- EV(3) is the valence band edge of material 3.
- EF(4) is the Fermi-Level in material 4.
- VS is the potential at the Source.
- VD is the potential at the Drain.
- VDS>0, VGS 0
- EC (2) is the conduction band edge of material 2
- EV(2) is the valence band edge of material 2
- EF(3) is the Fermi-Level in material 3
- EC(3) is the conduction band edge of material 3
- EV(3) is the valence band edge of material 3
- EF(4) is the Fermi-Level in material 4 VS is the potential at the Source.
- VD is the potential at the Drain.
- VDS>0, VGS>0 EF(1) is the Fermi-Level in material 1
- EC(2) is the conduction band edge of material 2
- EV(2) is the valence band edge of material 2
- EF(3) is the Fermi-Level in material 3
- EC(3) is the conduction band edge of material 3
- EV(3) is the valence band edge of material 3
- VS is the potential at the Source.
- VD is the potential at the Drain.
- ECn(2) is the region of the conduction band of material 2, that is below the
- EC(2) is the conduction band edge of material 2
- EV(2) is the valence band edge of material 2
- EF(3) is the Fermi-Level in material 3
- EC(3) is the conduction band edge of material 3
- EV(3) is the valence band edge of material 3
- VD is the potential at the Drain.
- VGS (VS-VG) is the difference of potential between Source and Gate.
- VDS 0
- VGS 0.
- EF(2) is the Fermi-Level in material 2
- EC(2) is the conduction band edge of material 2
- EV(2) is the valence band edge of material 2
- EF(3) is the Fermi-Level in material 3
- EC(3) is the conduction band edge of material 3
- EV(3) is the valence band edge of material 3
- EF(4) is the Fermi-Level in material 4
- VS is the potential at the Source.
- VD is the potential at the Drain.
- EC(2) is the conduction band edge of material 2
- EV(2) is the valence band edge of material 2
- EF(3) is the Fermi-Level in material 3
- EC(3) is the conduction band edge of material 3
- EV(3) is the valence band edge of material 3
- EF(4) is the Fermi-Level in material 4 VS is the potential at the Source.
- VD is the potential at the Drain.
- EVn(2) is the region of the valence band of material 2, that is above the EF(2), as an effect of negative Gate to Source voltage (VGS ⁇ 0).
- Figures 2a and 3a When comparing Figures 2a and 3a, it can be noted that the device is identical for both cases. The device will however behave as an N-MOS ( Figures 2b and 2c) or a P-MOS ( Figures 3b and 3c) in function of the voltage applied. It should be noted that the vertical axis in Figures 2 and 3 is expressed as potential in Volts. It could also be expressed as potential energy in electron-volts. The same applies to other figures where potential is indicated.
- the devices are connected together in a "CMOS Inverter" arrangement: The Drains are connected together. The Gates are connected together. The Source of the device on the left hand side of the figure, is connected to the ground potential. This device will behave as a NMOS. The Source of the device on the right hand side of the figure, is connected to a negative potential. This device will behave as a PMOS.
- VD GND.
- the device on the left has just been switched “Off 1 .
- the device on the right has just been switched “On”, and current starts to flow.
- FIG. 4b Steady state.
- VG GND.
- VD -VSS.
- the device on the left is still “Off”.
- the device on the left has just been turned On. VDS>0, current flows.
- the device on the right has just been turned "Off'.
- the device on the right is "Off”.
- Source to Drain near the interface with the Gate insulator, for different Drain and Gate bias conditions.
- the Source of the device is going to be changed between GND and -VSS potentials.
- the device behaves as a NMOS transistor.
- the device behaves as a PMOS transistor.
- the Gate of the device switches between GND and -VSS potentials.
- VDS -VSS.
- VGS -VSS.
- the device has just been turned “On” as PMOS, and hole current starts to flow.
- VS -VSS.
- VG GND.
- VD -VSS.
- VGS -VSS.
- the device has just been switched from a "On-state” PMOS, to a "Off-state” NMOS. No electron current flows.
- VS GND.
- VG -VSS.
- VD -VSS.
- VDS +VSS.
- VGS +VSS.
- the device has just been turned “On” as NMOS, and “electron current” starts to flow.
- VD GND.
- the device concept of the present invention is independent of any particular implementation. It can be implemented in different materials systems, like Si- based and GaAs-based alloys, for example. Independently of the materials system, it can also be implemented with different "Process Flows” or "Process Integration Architectures”.
- the shape of the conduction band should mirror the shape of the valence band (or vice-versa), the middle of the band-gap being the mirror line.
- the Source material is made of an undoped semiconductor, with a very narrow band-gap, which is much narrower, in particular 9 to 10 times narrower, than the band-gap of the channel material.
- the band-alignment must be such that the band-gap of the source material is fully nested in the band-gap of the channel material.
- the offsets in the conduction and valence bands should be of the same magnitude. Actually, due to the differences in effective masses, the conduction and valence band offsets may in fact be slightly different.
- the Channel material is made of an undoped semiconductor, with a band- gap wide enough to comprise the barrier height for electrons and for holes, and the very small band-gap of the source material.
- An elemental semiconductor might also have the advantage of no alloy scattering.
- the barrier height for electrons and holes determines off-state current (for electrons and holes respectively), and therefore should be large enough to enable room-temperature operation with negligible "off-state" currents.
- the barrier heights ought to be engineering parameters, which should be possible to continuously vary across a wide range of values (for example by variation of alloy compositions of the source layer).
- the Drain is defined by a Schottky junction, between the channel and a metal with a workfunction or Fermi-Level in the middle of the band-gap of the channel material.
- the Gate electrode also needs to have a Fermi-Level in the middle of the band-gap of the channel material: metal with workfucntion in the middle of the band-gap of the source and channel materials.
- the metal insulator semiconductor field effect transistor comprises a source layer 2 being made with a material having a source band gap (EG2) and a source mid-gap value (EGM2), said source layer having a source Fermi-Level (EF2).
- a drain layer 4 has a drain Fermi-Level (EF4).
- a channel layer 3 is provided between the source layer and the drain layer.
- the channel layer is made with a material having a channel band gap (EG3) and a channel mid- gap value (EGM3).
- the channel layer further has a channel Fermi level (EF3).
- a source contact layer 1 is connected to the source layer opposite the channel layer, said source contact layer having a source contact Fermi-Level (EF1).
- a gate electrode 6 has a gate electrode Fermi-Level (EF6).
- the source band gap is substantially narrower (EG2) than said channel band gap (EG3), in particular at least 9 to 10 times.
- the source contact Fermi-Level (EF1), the source Fermi-Level (EF2), the channel Fermi- Level (EF3), the drain Fermi-Level (EF4) and the gate electrode Fermi-Level (EF6) are equal to the source mid-gap value (EGM2) and the channel mid- gap value (EGM3), within a predetermined tolerance value, when no voltage is applied to the device.
- the source band gap (EG2) is the difference between the conduction band edge (EC2) and the valence band edge (EV2) for the source. It can be equated as follows :
- the channel band gap (EG3) is the difference between the conduction band edge (EC3) and the valence band edge (EV3) for the channel. It can be equated as follows :
- the source mid-gap value can be equated as follows :
- EGM2 (EC2 - EV2)/2;
- the band-gap of the source material EG2 could be for example around 0.11 eV, with a tolerance of plus or minus ( ⁇ ) 5% on this value (total of 10%), resulting in the range of 0.1 to 0.12 eV.
- the band-gap of the channel material EG3 should be around 1.1 eV, with a tolerance of plus or minus ( ⁇ ) 5% on this value (total of 10%), resulting in the range of 1.0 to 1.2 eV.
- EC3 - EC2 0.5 eV ( ⁇ ) 5% (total of 10%), resulting in a range from 0.475 eV to 0.525 eV
- EV3 - EV2 0.5 eV ( ⁇ ) 5% (total of 10%), resulting in a range from 0.475 eV to 0.525 eV
- the tolerance value as indicated in claim 1 can be expressed in different ways.
- the Fermi-Levels in the source and channel regions should be close to the following values:
- EF3 EV3 + EGM3, plus or minus ( ⁇ ) 5% (total of 10%)
- EF3 0 ( ⁇ ) 0.05 eV or will range from -0.05 eV to + 0.05 eV.
- the 0.05 eV tolerance is approximately 0.05/1.1 or +/- 5% of the channel band gap (EG3).
- the tolerance value can be expressed diffenently.
- the device according to the invention has the following layers with the following characteristics: • layer 1 is the contact to the Source: metal with Fermi-Level in the middle of the band-gap of the Source material, and therefore also in the middle of the band-gap of the channel material;
- layer 2 is the Source: "narrow" band-gap material, with its mid-gap point aligned with the mid-gap point of the channel material, resulting in similar offsets in the conduction and valence bands, with respect to the channel material;
- layer 3 is the channel: "wide" band-gap material
- layer 4 is the Drain: metal with a Fermi-Level in the middle of the gap of the channel material; • layer 5 is the Gate insulator; and
- layer 6 is the Gate electrode: conductor with Fermi-Level in the middle of the gap of the channel material.
- Layers 1 , 4, and 6 can be the same material.
- Figures 2a, 2b, 2c show schematics of the band-diagrams for positive bias conditions, when the device behaves as a NMOS transistor.
- Figures 3a, 3b, 3c show schematics of the band-diagrams for negative bias conditions, when the device behaves as a PMOS transistor.
- silicon-based technology is very important.
- the embodiment of the SD-CMOS with silicon-compatible materials will make use of silicon-based alloys like Sii- ⁇ Ge ⁇ , Sh-yCy, Si - ⁇ - yGe x Cy, etc. Due to layer formation difficulties, it is less likely that alloys with Sn can be used. However if the perceived/ anticipated technological issues are overcome, compounds with this element could also be used.
- 5 Typically can be SiO2, or SiON/Si3N4, etc.
- Titanium Nitride TiN
- the Source is a very narrow (for example 5 KT, which at room temperature is about 130 mili-electron-Volts) band-gap material pseudomorphically grown on silicon.
- the band-alignment with silicon is such that the band offsets in the conduction and valence bands must be symmetric (for example 0.5 volts for each band discontinuity).
- Examples of possible materials providing such requirements are a combination of Sh- ⁇ Ge ⁇ , Sh-yCy, Sii- ⁇ -yGe x Cy, either as random alloys or as short-period superlattices of alternating layers of Sii- yCy, and Sii- ⁇ Ge ⁇ , for example.
- the exact composition and thickness of these layers is an engineering question, not a conceptual one. Enough data is already known about these alloys (see reference [8]), to be able to predict that some combination will deliver the band-alignment necessary for this concept.
- the Source is contacted by a metal electrode with a Fermi-Level in the middle of the silicon bad-gap. Since the band-gap of the source material is very narrow, and centered (with equal discontinuities for the conduction and valence bands) in the band-gap of silicon, it means that the Fermi-Level of the metal at the source is also in the middle its band-gap. Therefore it is possible to have good ohmic contacts without any rectifying properties (for both electrons and holes) between the source metal and the very narrow semiconductor at the source, even though there is no doping involved. TiN (titanium nitride) is an example of a metal with such properties (see reference [9]).
- the Channel is made of non-doped pure silicon.
- the Channel/Drain interface is a Schottky junction, between the silicon channel, and a metal drain with a Fermi-Level near the mid-gap of silicon.
- TiN titanium nitride
- TiN titanium nitride
- the Gate electrode is a conductor with the Fermi-Level in the middle of the band-gap of silicon.
- TiN titanium nitride
- the Fermi-Level (or Chemical Potential) will be in the middle of the band-gaps of the source (narrow band-gap material) and channel regions.
- a "flat band condition" exists across the gate to channel interface. So, from the shape of the electrostatic potential (band edges), the physical picture for electrons and holes is very symmetric. However, in real space, there is an asymmetry between the source/channel and the channel/drain interfaces.
- the reverse "Off-state” current is the thermionic current over the barrier.
- that current is indeed very low. Therefore, the drain of these devices is not able to inject current over the barrier, thereby preventing it from acting as the source of the complementary device-type.
- the very narrow band-gap material is positioned between the metal contact and the silicon channel, in order to enable a "switch-On/Off" effect mentioned before. If the metal contact was positioned directly on the silicon channel (Schottky junction), that switch On/Off" mechanism would not be possible.
- the presence of the very narrow band-gap film in the source layer is the key enabler of this mechanism, which makes possible the lowering of the effective barrier height (distance between band edge in the channel and the Fermi- Level in the source), for either electrons or holes.
- the presence of that film also breaks the symmetry between source and drain interfaces with the channel material.
- That film enables drift-diffusion or ballistic current across the source to channel heterojunction. If a Schottky junction was made directly on silicon (at the source), the barrier height could not be changed, and the only turn-on current mechanism possible would be tunneling (see references [10, 11]).
- CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
- CMOS Inverter could be made either by having “conventional” “Static Source Voltage Supply”, in which case it would require two transistors, or by having a “Dynamic Source Voltage Supply”, in which case only one transistor is required.
- the devices will be "separated" into NMOS- or PMOS-like devices, by the metallization scheme, in which power supply voltages for NMOS and PMOS transistors are "hardwired".
- the power supply can be alternated between “positive” and “negative” voltages, the same device acts like “NMOS” AND “PMOS” sequentially in time.
- CMOS Inverter By changing the bias of the source, and maintaining the gate bias constant while the source voltage is changed, a "CMOS Inverter" with just one transistor is possible.
- Figure 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4d show schematics of the band diagrams of two identical SD-CMOS devices with common Gates and Drains, for different bias conditions.
- the potentials applied to the sources are such that the device on the left will behave as a NMOS, and the device on the right will behave as a PMOS.
- VD GND.
- the device on the right has just been switched “On”, and current starts to flow.
- the device on the left is still “Off”.
- the device on the left has just been turned On. VDS>0, current flows.
- the device on the right has just been turned "Off".
- the device on the right is "Off".
- Source to Drain near the interface with the Gate insulator, for different Drain and Gate bias conditions.
- the Source of the device is going to be changed between GND and -VSS potentials.
- the device behaves as a NMOS transistor.
- the device behaves as a PMOS transistor.
- the Gate of the device switches between GND and -VSS potentials.
- Drain voltage is the output of the Inverter.
- Gate Voltage is the input of the Inverter.
- the source voltage is switched between “0” and “-1", in which case the device "behaves” as NMOS and PMOS respectively.
- the device is "Off" as NMOS. No electron current flows.
- VS -VSS.
- VG GND.
- VD GND.
- VDS -VSS.
- VGS -VSS.
- the device has just been turned “On” as PMOS, and hole current starts to flow.
- VGS -VSS.
- VS GND.
- VG GND.
- VD -VSS.
- VDS +VSS.
- VGS 0.
- the device has just been switched from a "On-state” PMOS, to a "Off-state"
- VDS +VSS.
- VGS +VSS.
- the device has just been turned “On” as NMOS, and "electron current” starts to flow.
- VS GND.
- VG -VSS.
- VD GND.
- VGS +VSS.
- the topology of choice for logic gates is the “NAND” configuration.
- the logic inputs are the gate terminals of a series of n-type MOSFETs, connected in series with a PMOS (the load transistor). Each additional logic input, requires an additional NMOS device to be inserted in the series with all of them.
- the sources of several NMOS are shunted together, and the same is done for the drains.
- the set of parallel NMOS devices is connected in series with a PMOS device (the load transistor).
- Each additional logic input requires an extra NMOS device to be connected in parallel with the other NMOS transistors.
- NANDs being the configuration of choice for "Planar MOSFETs are: 1) For "Planar MOSFETs", the series connection enables area savings, because for devices of the same type, the source of one transistor can be the drain of another. However, for bulk CMOS, and because of the "body effect", the number of number of logic inputs is typically reduced to two. A larger number of inputs is possible, only if Silicon- On-lnsulator (SOI) technology is used.
- SOI Silicon- On-lnsulator
- the total “Off-state” current is the “Off-state” current of the least leaky device.
- the total “Off-state” current is the sum of the "Off- state” currents of ail individual NMOS devices.
- the step which defines "Mesas” exposing the device layers where the gate stack is formed simultaneously provides “isolation” between devices.
- the contacts to the several device layers are made inside the perimeter of the gate stack (which as its name suggests, surrounds the device layers).
- Figure 6 is a schematic of 3-dimensional perspective of a "Gate All Around” device. "EDGE-GATE"
- the "Isolation" and “Gate Stack” formation steps are performed separately.
- the gate is not surrounding the “Mesa” of the device layers, but it is placed on only one crystalline plane.
- the other sides of the “device layer Mesa” face the "Field Isolation” for example.
- Figure 7a is a schematic of 3-dimensional perspective of one possible implementation of the "Edge-Gate" arrangement.
- Figure 7b is a schematic of 3-dimensional perspective of a second possible implementation of the "Edge-Gate" arrangement.
- Figure 7c is a schematic of 3-dimensional perspective of third possible implementation of the "Edge-Gate" arrangement.
- the gate is surrounded by the device layers, which at the edges face the "Field Isolation".
- the "Field Isolation” and “Gate Stack” formation steps are performed separately. This configuration enables not only single drain contact, but also single source contact, for several independent gates. This is an ideal configuration for "NOR" logic gates.
- Figure 8 is a schematic of 3-dimensional perspective of a possible implementation of the "Inner-Gate” together with “Edge-Gate” arrangements.
- Figure 9 is a top view of a possible implementation of the "Inner-Gate” together with “Edge-Gate” arrangements.
- Figure 9a shows an implementation where SD-CMOS devices to behave as NMOS and PMOS are made on opposite sides of the "Drain Contact”.
- Figure 9b shows an implementation where a single SD-CMOS device will behave alternatively as NMOS or PMOS by changing the bias at the source contact.
- SD-CMOS does not suffer from “corner effect”, due to the intrinsics of the device physics, and therefore none of the possible implementations or process integration architectures, is affected by it.
- the reason for the immunity to “corner effect”, is that the “corner effect” is a geometric effect that re-enforces the "zero-bias" electric field across a MOS interface.
- references [17] and [18] demonstrate the feasibility of epitaxial insulators like SrTiO3 and BaTiO3 (the later a Ferroelectric) using epitaxial TiN on silicon as a buffer material.
- CMOS Integration schemes for Vertical MOSFETs have been proposed before, but for SD-CMOS only one device structure needs to be fabricated, and that carries important consequences.
- SD-CMOS is an asymmetric Vertical MOSFET, it means that source and drain are not interchangeable, and therefore, choosing which one is at the bottom and at the top of the layer stack, carries consequences.
- Source as the top layer implies one of the following options:
- Another set of options regarding the device layers has to do with the formation of the device Mesas: blanket growth followed by patterning of the epitaxial layers, or pre-patterning of hard mask followed by selective epitaxial growth.
- Inner-Gate and Edge-Gate can be implemented simultaneously, without extra masks.
- the circuit configuration chosen is a "NOR Gate” with 5 inputs (4 “inner- gates” and 1 "edge-gate”).
- the capacitor layers are not used (are in fact transparent to the functionality of simple logic gates). In an small change to this flow with an extra mask, the capacitor flms could have been removed from the "logic-only” areas.
- gate stack (gate insulator & gate electrode). 23) CMP of gate stack, stopping on Si3N4 and SiO2.
- MISD Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
- MI-FET Metal-lnsulator-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
- a Metal-lnsulator-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor is disclosed, composed of the following active regions: a) A channel layer, made with a "wider" band-gap undoped semiconductor. b) A drain layer, made with a metal directly interfaced to the channel material (Schottky junction), having a Fermi-Level value in the middle of the band-gap of the channel material. c) A source layer, made with a semiconductor with a "narrower" band-gap, centered with the band-gap of the channel material (equal offsets in the conduction and valence bands between the source and channel layers). d) A source contact metal with a Fermi-Level in the middle of the band-gap of the channel material. e) A gate electrode with a Fermi-Level in the middle of the band-gap of the channel material.
- a MISFET is disclosed with specific embodiment in the silicon materials system, having the following device layers: a) Channel material: undoped silicon (Si). b) Drain material: epitaxial titanium nitride (TiN). c) Source material: Sii- ⁇ -yG ⁇ Cy, either as random alloy or short-period superlattice of alternating Sii-yCy/S - ⁇ Ge ⁇ layers for example. d) Source contact metal: epitaxial titanium nitride (TiN). e) Gate electrode: titanium nitride (TiN).
- MISD Metal-lnsulator-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
- CMOS circuits having configurations where "inverters”, “logic gates”, memory cells, are fabricated with a single device which sequentially behaves as NMOS and PMOS, by appropriately sequentially changing the voltage at the source terminal.
- the MISFET can be used for logic applications, for Random Memory (Dynamic, Static, Flash, Ferroelectric) applications, for logic applications with embedded Random Memory (Dynamic, Static, Flash, Ferroelectric) elements, for Random Memory (Dynamic, Static, Flash, Ferroelectric) applications with embedded logic elements, for co-integration with image sensors, like CCD and CMOS imagers, or any other kind, for co-integration with any kind of Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), or Micro-Optical or Optoelectronic integrated systems.
- MEMS Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems
- Process Integration Architecture depicted in Figure 7a can be achieved, where the Drain layer is at the bottom of the device layer stack (and therefore the Source at the top), and where a Gate Stack is positioned in such a way, as to be common to two devices, each one with its separate drain and source layers and respective contacts.
- Process Integration Architecture depicted in Figure 7b can be achieved, where the Source layer is at the bottom of the device layer stack (and therefore the Drain at the top), and where a Gate Stack is positioned in such a way, as to be common to two devices, each one with its separate drain and source layers and respective contacts.
- Process Integration Architecture depicted in Figure 7a can be achieved, where the Drain layer is at the bottom of the device layer stack (and therefore the Source at the top), and where a Drain Contact is positioned in such a way, as to be common to two devices, each one with its separate Gate Stack at the extreme edges of the device layer stack, and with its separate source layers and respective contacts.
- Process Integration Architecture depicted in Figures 8 and 9a can be achieved where a single device layer stack, has single source and drain contacts, but several parallel Gates, for a compact "NOR-gate” arrangement.
- the arrangement as depicted, represents a solution with "Dynamic Source Voltage Supply”.
- Process Integration Architecture depicted in Figure 9b can be achieved, where a single device layer stack, has a single drain contact, two source contacts, and several parallel Gates, for a compact "NOR-gate” arrangement.
- the arrangement as depicted, represents a solution with "Fixed Source Voltage Supply”.
- the process flow according to Figures 10A to 10N can be used for CMOS logic, with very reduced number of extra processing steps for the inclusion of embedded memory (possibly Ferroelectric).
- the process flow according to Figures 11A to 11M can be used for CMOS logic, with very reduced number of extra processing steps for the inclusion of embedded memory (possibly Ferroelectric).
- VFT Vertical F-Shape, Transistor
- Insulator Substrate e g : Q Quu;artz or Sapphire
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