WO2012174791A1 - 一种半导体结构及其制造方法 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of semiconductor fabrication, and more particularly to a semiconductor structure and a method of fabricating the same. Background technique
- SOI silicon-on-insulator
- SON Silicon on Nothing
- SON is an advanced technology developed by French CEA-Leti and ST STMicroelectronics for CMOS processes of 90nm and below.
- SON is under the channel through a "cavity" structure.
- a localized silicon-on-insulator is formed, which may be an air gap or an oxide fill.
- the dielectric constant of the cavity structure is significantly reduced, which greatly reduces the effect of the two-dimensional electric field effect of the buried oxide layer.
- the DIBL effect can be greatly reduced, and the thickness of the silicon film and the height of the cavity can be controlled.
- the epitaxial SiGe sacrificial layer process increases the process steps of device fabrication and increases the complexity of the process. As the feature size of the device shrinks, the requirement for ultra-shallow junction depth of the device also makes ion implantation a problem. There are still many challenges in the real use of VLSI manufacturing processes.
- the present invention is directed to at least solving the above technical drawbacks, and provides a semiconductor device structure and a method of fabricating the same, which reduces contact resistance of source/drain regions, improves device performance, reduces cost, and performs a process step.
- the present invention provides a semiconductor structure including a substrate, a semiconductor substrate, a cavity, a gate stack, a sidewall spacer, a source/drain region, and a contact layer, wherein:
- the gate stack is located above the semiconductor substrate
- the sidewall spacer is located on a sidewall of the gate stack
- the source/drain regions are embedded in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the gate stack; [0013] the cavity is embedded in the bottom of the village;
- the semiconductor substrate is suspended above the cavity, in the direction along the length of the gate, the thickness of the intermediate portion of the semiconductor substrate is greater than the thickness of the two sides thereof, in the direction along the width of the gate, Both sides of the semiconductor substrate are connected to the bottom of the village;
- the contact layer covers the exposed surface of the source/drain regions.
- the present invention also provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure, the method comprising: [0018] (a) providing a substrate, forming a gate stack on the substrate, and stacking the gate The side walls form side walls;
- the mask layer is covered with a layer of photoresist, and an opening is formed on the photoresist by exposure and development, and the openings are located on both sides of the gate stack;
- the substrate is etched to form grooves on both sides of the gate stack.
- the step of forming the contact layer comprises:
- the material of the metal layer being one of Co, Ni, Pt, Ti or a combination thereof;
- the unreacted metal layer is removed.
- the SON (silicon-on-nothing) device structure can be fabricated on a common wafer, which greatly reduces the process and reduces the cost and efficiency.
- the contact layer in the semiconductor device the contact resistance of the source/drain regions is reduced, and the performance of the semiconductor device is improved.
- FIG. 1 is a flow chart of one embodiment of a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure in accordance with the present invention
- 2 to FIG. 12 are schematic cross-sectional views of the semiconductor structure at various stages of fabrication in the process of fabricating a semiconductor structure in accordance with the method illustrated in FIG. 1. detailed description
- the body structure includes a substrate 100, a semiconductor body 250, a cavity 410, a gate stack, a sidewall spacer 230, a source/drain region 500, and a contact layer 520, wherein:
- the gate stack is over the semiconductor body 250;
- the sidewall spacer 230 is located on a sidewall of the gate stack
- the source/drain regions 500 are embedded in the semiconductor body 250 on both sides of the gate stack;
- the cavity 410 is embedded in the village bottom 100;
- the semiconductor body 250 is suspended above the cavity 410. In the direction along the length of the gate, the thickness of the semiconductor substrate 250 is greater than the thickness of the two sides thereof, in the direction along the gate width.
- the semiconductor substrate 250 is connected to the bottom of the village;
- the contact layer 520 covers the source/drain regions 500.
- the gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer 200 and a gate 210, optionally, the gate stack further includes a cap layer 220 over the gate.
- the material of the contact layer 520 is one of TiSi 2 , CoSi 2 , NiSi, PtSi 2 or a combination thereof.
- the method includes:
- Step S101 providing a village bottom 100, forming a gate stack on the village bottom 100, forming a side wall 230 in the sidewall of the gate stack;
- Step S102 forming a groove 400 on the substrate on both sides of the gate stack, wet etching the groove 400 on both sides of the gate stack to pass through, forming a cavity 410, suspended in The bottom portion of the cavity 400 forms a semiconductor body 250;
- Step S103 forming a source/drain region 500
- step S104 a contact layer 520 is formed.
- a substrate 100 is provided, and then a gate stack is formed on the substrate 100, and sidewalls 230 are formed on sidewalls of the gate stack.
- the gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer 200 and a gate 210.
- the gate stack further includes a cap layer 220 over the gate.
- the substrate 100 is monocrystalline silicon. Preferably, the crystal orientation of the substrate is ⁇ 100 ⁇ .
- the base 100 can include various doping configurations in accordance with design requirements known in the art (e.g., a P-type substrate or an N-type substrate). In other embodiments, the substrate 100 may also include single crystal Ge, single crystal SiGe, or a combination thereof.
- the thickness of the substrate 100 can be, but is not limited to, about a few hundred microns, for example, it can range from 400 ⁇ m to 800 ⁇ m.
- the gate dielectric layer 200 is first formed on the substrate 100.
- the gate dielectric layer 200 may be formed of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, or a combination thereof, in other implementations.
- the gate dielectric layer 200 may also be a sorghum medium, for example, one of Hf0 2 , HfSiO, HfSiON, HfTaO, HfTiO, HfZrO, A1 2 0 3 , La 2 0 3 , Zr0 2 , and LaAlO.
- the thickness may be from 1 nm to 5 nm, such as 2 nm, 4 nm.
- the gate 210 may be heavily doped polysilicon formed by deposition, or a shape success function metal layer (for NMOS, such as TaC, TiN, TaTbN, TaErN, TaYbN, TaSiN, HfSiN, MoSiN, RuTa x , NiTa x Etc., for PMOS, such as MoN x , TiSiN, TiCN, TaAlC, TiAIN, TaN, PtSi x , Ni 3 Si, Pt, Ru, Ir, Mo, HfRu, RuO x ), the thickness may be from 1 nm to 20 nm, such as 3 nm 5 nm, 8 nm, 10 nm, 12 nm or 15 nm, and a gate electrode 210 is formed by forming heavily doped polysilicon, Ti, Co, Ni, Al, W or an alloy thereof on the work function metal layer. Finally, a capping layer 220 is formed on the gate 210, for example by deposit
- a sidewall spacer 230 is formed on the sidewall of the gate stack for isolation protection of the gate.
- the spacers 230 may be formed of silicon nitride, silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbide, or combinations thereof, and/or other suitable materials, and may have a multilayer structure.
- the sidewall spacer 230 may be formed by a deposition etching process, and may have a thickness ranging from 10 nm to 100 nm, such as 30 nm, 50 nm or 80 nm.
- step S102 grooves 400 are formed on the sides of the gate stack, and the grooves 400 on both sides of the gate stack are wet etched.
- the through hole 410 is formed to form a cavity 410, and a portion of the bottom portion suspended on the cavity 400 forms a semiconductor body 250.
- a groove 400 is formed on the substrate 100 by forming a mask layer 300 on the substrate 100 and the gate stack, and covering the mask layer 300 with a layer of light.
- the encapsulation is formed by forming an opening on the photoresist by exposure development, the openings being located on both sides of the gate stack, and the photoresist is not shown in the drawing.
- the mask layer 300 in the opening is etched, an opening 310 is formed on the mask layer, and the photoresist is removed, as shown in FIG. In this embodiment, one side of the opening 310 is connected to the side wall 230.
- a portion of the mask layer 300 may be interposed between the opening 310 and the sidewall spacer 230, and may be appropriately arranged according to the size of the designed semiconductor device or the like.
- the substrate 100 is then etched to form trenches 400 on both sides of the gate stack, as shown in FIG.
- the material of the mask layer 300 is silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride or a combination thereof, and can be formed on the substrate by a suitable method such as chemical vapor deposition, and the mask layer is etched. This includes dry etching RIE or wet etching with a suitable etching solution.
- the thickness of the mask layer can be controlled according to design requirements, and the thickness thereof The range is 1 ⁇ 5 ⁇ ⁇ .
- the method of etching the bottom of the substrate to form the groove 400 is dry etching RIE.
- RIE dry etching RIE
- the dry etched trench 400 has a nearly steep sidewall, and in subsequent wet etching, the anisotropic wet etching is used to cause the recess on both sides of the gate stack. 400 through each other.
- the recess 400 is continuously etched by a wet etching process, so that the grooves on both sides of the gate stack are punched through.
- Forming a cavity 410 a portion of the bottom portion suspended above the cavity forms a semiconductor body 250.
- a source/drain region may be formed in the semiconductor body 250, and the semiconductor substrate 250 also functions as a semiconductor device.
- the channel region is connected to the substrate 100 at both ends of the semiconductor substrate in a direction along the width of the gate.
- the crystal orientation of the substrate is ⁇ 100>
- the etching solution of the wet etching may be potassium hydroxide (KOH), tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) or ethylenediamine-o-phenylene. Phenol (EDP), etc., or a combination thereof
- the concentration of the etching solution is 5 to 40% by mass
- the reaction temperature is 40 to 90 °C. Since the etching solution of KOH, TMAH and the like has anisotropy on the corrosion of single crystal silicon, the ratio of the corrosion rate of the ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal plane to the etching rate to other crystal planes is about 1:100, so the ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal plane is basically Without corrosion, as shown in FIG. 5, the sidewalls of the cavity 410 are all corrosion stop faces, and the crystal faces are ⁇ 111 ⁇ .
- the anisotropic etching is used to allow the groove structure to pass through.
- Step S103 is performed to form the source/drain region 500.
- the method of forming the source/drain regions 500 is ion implantation, diffusion, in-situ doping epitaxy, or a combination thereof.
- a portion of the semiconductor body 250 is exposed by etching the sidewalls 230 or epitaxy.
- the portion of the sidewall spacer 230 is etched to expose a portion of the semiconductor substrate 250 that is suspended across the cavity 410.
- FIG. As shown, the sidewall spacer 230 is not etched, and an epitaxial semiconductor layer is formed on the edge of the semiconductor body 250 and the surface of the cavity 400 by epitaxy, so that the semiconductor body 250 is exposed outside the sidewall spacer 230. .
- Source/drain regions 500 are then formed by ion implantation, diffusion, or in-situ doping epitaxy, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9. In other embodiments of the invention, in situ doping is employed The epitaxy can form the source/drain region 500 directly in one step, and the process steps are completed.
- the source/drain region 500 may be a P-type doped Si, and for the NMOS, the source/drain region 500 may be an N-type doped Si.
- the semiconductor structure is then annealed to activate doping in source/drain regions 500, which may be formed by other suitable methods including rapid annealing, spike annealing, and the like.
- step S104 is performed to form the contact layer 520.
- a metal layer 510 is formed in a region where the semiconductor structure is exposed by oblique sputtering.
- the angle of the oblique sputtering is preferably substantially parallel to the ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal plane of the silicon, that is, substantially parallel to the side wall of the cavity 410 shown in Fig. 10.
- the material of the metal layer is one of Co, Ni, Pt, Ti or a combination thereof as shown in FIG.
- annealing is performed to cause the metal layer 510 to react with the exposed surface of the source/drain region 500 to form the contact layer 520, and the unreacted metal layer 510 is removed, as shown in FIG.
- the mask layer 300 is removed.
- the cavity 410 may be filled with an insulating material (not shown) depending on the specific device design.
- an interlayer dielectric layer needs to be formed on the entire semiconductor structure, and a portion of the interlayer dielectric layer is deposited into the cavity 410, and then the contact trench can be formed by etching according to a conventional process.
- the bottom of the contact trench needs to expose the contact layer 520, and finally the metal is filled in the contact trench to form a metal plug in contact with the contact layer 520.
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