Strained CMOS Devices With Shallow-Trench-Isolation Stress Buffer Layers

In this brief, shallow-trench-isolation (STI) stress buffer techniques, including sidewall stress buffer and channel surface buffer layers, are developed to reduce the impact of compressive STI stress on the mobility of advanced n-type MOS (NMOS) devices. Our investigation shows that a 7% driving current gain at an NMOS device has been achieved, whereas no degradation at a p-type MOS (PMOS) device was observed. The same junction leakage at both the NMOS and PMOS devices was maintained. A stress relaxation model with simulation is thus proposed to account for the enhanced transport characteristics.     

A 90-nm logic technology featuring strained-silicon

A leading-edge 90-nm technology with 1.2-nm physical gate oxide, 45-nm gate length, strained silicon, NiSi, seven layers of Cu interconnects, and low-/spl kappa/ CDO for high-performance dense logic is presented. Strained silicon is used to increase saturated n-type and p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) drive currents by 10% and 25%, respectively. Using selective epitaxial Si/sub 1-x/Ge/sub x/ in the source and drain regions, longitudinal uniaxial compressive stress is introduced into the p-type MOSEFT to increase hole mobility by >50%. A tensile silicon nitride-capping layer is used to introduce tensile strain into the n-type MOSFET and enhance electron mobility by 20%. Unlike all past strained-Si work, the hole mobility enhancement in this paper is present at large vertical electric fields in nanoscale transistors making this strain technique useful for advanced logic technologies. Furthermore, using piezoresistance coefficients it is shown that significantly less strain (/spl sim/5 /spl times/) is needed for a given PMOS mobility enhancement when applied via longitudinal uniaxial compression versus in-plane biaxial tension using the conventional Si/sub 1-x/Ge/sub x/ substrate approach.     

High drive current NMOS with Si-SiGe heterostructure low electric field channel

A drive-current enhancement in NMOS with a compressively strained SiGe structure, which had been a difficult challenge for CMOS integration with strained SiGe high-hole-mobility PMOS, was successfully achieved using a Si-SiGe heterostructure low electric field channel of optimum thickness. A 4-nm-thick Si low-field-channel NMOS with a 4-nm-thick Si/sub 0.8/Ge/sub 0.2/ layer improved drive current by 10% with a 20% reduction in gate leakage current compared with Si-control, while suppressing threshold-voltage rolloff characteristic degradation, and demonstrated excellent I/sub on/--I/sub off/ characteristics of I/sub on/ = 1 mA//spl mu/m for I/sub off/ = 100 nA//spl mu/m. These results are the best in ever reported NMOS with a compressively strained SiGe structure and indicate that a Si-SiGe heterostructure low-field-channel NMOS integrated with a compressively strained SiGe channel PMOS is a promising candidate for high-speed CMOS in 65-nm node logic technology.     

背栅应力对LOCOS隔离的SOI器件背栅阈值电压的影响

LOCOS隔离的SOI器件的性能强烈依赖于其背栅特性,而背栅应力会影响到背栅的特性。常温下在SOI器件的背栅上施加大电压并持续30秒以上可以显著改变背栅的阈值电压。这种改变是稳定的和时不变的。对NMOS加正的背栅压和对PMOS加负的背栅压都可以提高其背栅阈值电压。实验结果表明沿着硅岛的边缘有一条从源到漏的寄生漏电通道,而且将栅,源,漏接地并在背栅上加大的偏压可以强烈影响漏电通道。因此我们可以得到结论,背栅应力会影响与漏电流直接相关的背栅阈值电压。     

Hole and electron mobility enhancement in strained SiGe verticalMOSFETs

We have fabricated strained SiGe vertical P-channel and N-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) by Ge ion implantation and solid phase epitaxy. No Si cap is needed in this process because Ge is implanted after gate oxide growth. The vertical MOSFETs are fabricated with a channel length below 0.2 μm without sophisticated lithography and the whole process is compatible with a regular CMOS process. The enhancement for the hole and electron mobilities in the direction normal to the growth plane of strained SiGe over that of bulk Si has been demonstrated in this vertical MOSFET device structure for the first time. The drain current for the vertical SiGe MOSFETs has been found to be enhanced by as much as 100% over the Si control devices and the drain current for the vertical SiGe NMOSFETs has been enhanced by 50% compared with the Si control de, ices on the same wafer. The electron mobility enhancement in the normal direction is not as significant as that for holes, which is in agreement with theoretical predictions     

Gate-induced drain leakage in FD-SOI devices: What the TFET teaches us about the MOSFET

This paper compares the gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) in fully-depleted (FD) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) and in standard metal-oxide-semiconductor FET (MOSFET) fabricated in the same process. The measurements show that the MOSFET GIDL current is lower than the GIDL in a TFET with the same junction doping, especially for devices with thick gate oxide and under low drain bias. A model describing lateral band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) is developed for GIDL in the FD-SOI TFET. By combining the model of gate-controllable tunneling diode in series with a field effect diode, we achieve an accurate picture of GIDL in FD-SOI MOSFETs.     

Observation of halo implant from the drain side reaching the source side and vice versa in extremely short p-channel transistors

The merging of halo implants from the drain side and the source side creates a maximum in the magnitude of the threshold voltage and thus a minimum in the off-current in the metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors. This paper demonstrates that the halo implant from the drain side can cross-over to the source side and vice versa for the look-ahead transistor test structures (transistor test structures with gate length smaller than that of the target transistor). The phenomenon of the cross-over of halo implant is more readily observed in PMOS transistors compared to NMOS transistors because for the same mask gate length, the effective channel length of PMOS transistor tends to be smaller than that of NMOS transistor. The advantage of the cross-over of halo implants can be understood as follows. Since the hole mobility is smaller than the electron mobility in silicon, PMOS transistor tends to have smaller on-current (I_on) than NMOS transistor. The on-current can be increased by using PMOS transistor with smaller mask gate length compared to the NMOS transistor. However, this approach will make the PMOS transistor very sensitive to the statistical variation in the gate electrode length during manufacturing. By making use of the above reported phenomenon, PMOS transistor can be made shorter without running into manufacturing control problem, resulting in bigger I_on but the penalty is that the I_off will become significantly higher.     

The leakage current improvement in an ultrashallow junction NMOSwith Co silicided source and drain

The leakage current characteristics of the cobalt silicided NMOS transistors with a junction depth of 800 Å have been studied. In order to minimize the junction leakage current, the thickness of the CoSi₂ layer should he controlled under 300 Å and the Si surface damage induced by the gate spacer etch should be minimized. The post furnace annealing after the second silicidation by the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process also affected the leakage current characteristics. The gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) current was not affected by the lateral encroachment of CoSi₂ layer into the channel direction when the gate spacer length was larger than 400 Å     

AC/DC characterization of NMOS and PMOS hot-carrier-induceddegradation under AC/DC stress

The AC/DC measurements of NMOS and PMOS I_dsat shifts are compared following DC stress. The results of the I _dsat shifts are found to be the same. The AC I_dsat measurements were performed under a variety of different conditions (varying frequency, amplitude, and base level) and showed that hot-carrier-induced interfaced states are shallow and fast (<20 ns). AC versus DC stressing was also examined. In PMOS devices, pulsed drain stress was found to be generally quasi-static, while pulsed gate stress produced enhanced device degradation under certain bias conditions. In NMOS transistors AC drain stress was found to be quasi-static in strong device saturation, while AC gate stress resulted in significantly enhanced degradation. In weak device saturation, both gate and drain pulsing resulted in early catastrophic device failure     

Forming of Very Shallow Junction for S/D Extension in Deep Sub-Micron CMOS Devices

Very shallow junctions for S/D extension in deep sub-micron CMOS devices are required to suppress the short channel effect as devices scaling down, and the surface concentrations (N,) of these junctions need to be kept in a higher value to reduce the series resistance of the lightly doped drain structure. But it is very difficult for the conventional ion implantation to meet the requirement above. This article presents the results of forming very shallow and ultrashallow junctions used in 0.25 micron and 0.10 micron CMOS devices respectively with low energy implantation (LEI) and pre-amorphization implantation plus low energy implantation (PAI+LEI). The LEI was performed on the modified normal ion-imptantor (IM-200M). Using LEI only the minimum junction depth,is 61nm for NMOS and 57nm for PMOS (Nsub=1×1018cm-3) respectively after 1000℃ RTA and both Ns are above 3×1019cm-3 While using Ge PAI+LEI,under the optimized processing condition,the junction depth of 58nm for NMOS and 42nm for PMOS are obtained,with the leakage current density being 4nA/cm2.     

Disposable polysilicon LDD spacer technology

An advanced 0.5-μm CMOS disposable lightly doped drain (LDD) spacer technology has been developed. This 0.5-μm CMOS technology features surface-channel LDD NMOS and PMOS devices, n⁺/p⁺ poly gates, 125-A-thick gate oxide, and Ti-salicided source/drain/gate regions. Using only two masking steps, the NMOS and PMOS LDD spacers are defined separately to provide deep arsenic n⁺ regions for lower salicided junction leakage, while simultaneously providing shallow phosphorus n^- and boron p^- regions for improved device short-channel effects. Additionally, the process allows independent adjustment of the LDD and salicide spacers to optimize the LDD design while avoiding salicide bridging of source/drain to gate regions. The results indicate extrapolated DC hot-carrier lifetimes in excess of 10 years for a 0.3-μm electrical channel-length NMOS device operated at a power-supply voltage of 3.3 V     

A logic nanotechnology featuring strained-silicon

Strained-silicon (Si) is incorporated into a leading edge 90-nm logic technology . Strained-Si increases saturated n-type and p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) drive currents by 10 and 25%, respectively. The process flow consists of selective epitaxial Si/sub 1-x/Ge/sub x/ in the source/drain regions to create longitudinal uniaxial compressive strain in the p-type MOSFET. A tensile Si nitride-capping layer is used to introduce tensile uniaxial strain into the n-type MOSFET and enhance electron mobility. Unlike past strained-Si work: 1) the amount of strain for the n-type and p-type MOSFET can be controlled independently on the same wafer and 2) the hole mobility enhancement in this letter is present at large vertical electric fields, thus, making this flow useful for nanoscale transistors in advanced logic technologies.     

High-mobility ultrathin strained Ge MOSFETs on bulk and SOI with low band-to-band tunneling leakage: experiments

For the first time, the tradeoffs between higher mobility (smaller bandgap) channel and lower band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) leakage have been investigated. In particular, through detailed experiments and simulations, the transport and leakage in ultrathin (UT) strained germanium (Ge) MOSFETs on bulk and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) have been examined. In the case of strained Ge MOSFETs on bulk Si, the resulting optimal structure obtained was a UT low-defect 2-nm fully strained Ge epi channel on relaxed Si, with a 4-nm Si cap layer. The fabricated device shows very high mobility enhancements >3.5/spl times/ over bulk Si devices, 2/spl times/ mobility enhancement and >10/spl times/ BTBT reduction over 4-nm strained Ge, and surface channel 50% strained SiGe devices. Strained SiGe MOSFETs having UT (T/sub Ge/<3 nm) very high Ge fraction (/spl sim/ 80%) channel and Si cap (T/sub Si cap/<3 nm) have also been successfully fabricated on thin relaxed SOI substrates (T/sub SOI/=9 nm). The tradeoffs in obtaining a high-mobility (smaller bandgap) channel with low tunneling leakage on UT-SOI have been investigated in detail. The fabricated device shows very high mobility enhancements of >4/spl times/ over bulk Si devices, >2.5/spl times/ over strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI; strained to 20% relaxed SiGe) devices, and >1.5/spl times/ over 60% strained SiGe (on relaxed bulk Si) devices.     

CMOS on buried nitride—A VLSI SOI technology

A CMOS technology in silicon on insulator (SOI) for VLSI applications is presented. The insulator is a buried silicon nitride formed by nitrogen implantation and annealing. The CMOS devices are fabricated in the superficial monocrystalline silicon layer without an epitaxial process, 1-µm PMOS and 2-µm NMOS transistors have been realized, which have been used to built inverters, ring Oscillators, and other circuits. With 40-nm gate oxide the transistors withstand gate and drain voltages of 10 V. Mobilities, subthreshold behavior, and leakage currents are nearly the same as in bulk-CMOS devices. Ring-oscillator measurements yield inverter delay times of 230 ps and power delay products of 14 fJ.     

CMOS／SIMOX和CMOS／BESOI的γ射线辐照特性比较

用薄膜ＳＩＭＯＸ（ＳｅｐａｒａｔｉｏｎｂｙＩＭｐｌａｎｔａｔｉｏｎｏｆＯＸｙｇｅｎ）、厚膜ＢＥＳＯＩ（ｆｆｅｎｄｉｎｇａｎｄＥｔｃｈ－ｂａｃｋＳｉｌｉｃｏｎＯｎＩｎｓｕｌａｔｏｒ）和体硅材料制备了ＣＭＯＳ倒相器电路，并用６０Ｃｏγ射线进行了总剂量辐照试验。在不同偏置条件下，经不同剂量辐照后，分别测量了ＰＭＯＳ、ＮＭＯＳ的亚阈特性曲线，分析了引起ＭＯＳＦＥＴ阈值电压漂移的两种因素（辐照诱生氧化层电荷和新生界面态电荷）。对ＮＭＯＳ／ＳＩＭＯＸ，由于寄生背沟ＭＯＳ结构的影响，经辐照后背沟漏电很快增大，经３００Ｇｙ（Ｓｉ）辐照后器件已失效。而厚膜ＢＥＳＯＩ器件由于顶层硅膜较厚，基本上没有背沟效应，其辐照特性优于体硅器件。最后讨论了提高薄膜ＳＩＭＯＸ器件抗辐照性能的几种措施。     

Effects of Mechanical Strain on Characteristics of Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistors Fabricated on Stainless Steel Foil

The effects of uniaxial tensile strain on the performance of polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors (poly-Si TFTs) is reported. Longitudinal strain increases the electron mobility and decreases the hole mobility, while transverse strain decreases the electron mobility and slightly decreases the hole mobility. Under longitudinal strain the off current decreases for both NMOS and PMOS TFTs and shifts in threshold voltage and substhreshold slope are observed for p-channel TFTs. A strong dependence on channel length for both electron and hole mobilities under longitudinal strain indicates the presence of a series resistance. For poly-Si TFTs, the mobility changes under strains are related to the strain effects on single crystalline silicon devices.      

A deep submicron Si1-xGex/Si vertical PMOSFETfabricated by Ge ion implantation

We report a deep submicron vertical PMOS transistor using strained Si_1-xGe_x channel formed by Ge ion implantation and solid phase epitaxy. These vertical structure Si_1-xGe_x /Si transistors can be fabricated with channel lengths below 0.2 μm without using any sophisticated lithographic techniques and with a regular MOS process. The enhancement of hole mobility in a direction normal to the growth plane of strained Si_1-xGe_x over that of bulk Si has been experimentally demonstrated for the first time using this vertical MOSFET. The drain current of these vertical MOS devices has been found to be enhanced by as much as 100% over control Si devices. The presence of the built-in electric field due to a graded SiGe channel has also been found to be effective in further enhancement of the drive current in implanted-channel MOSFET's     

Improved low temperature characteristics of P-channel MOSFETs withSi1-xGex raised source and drain

P-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors with Si_1-xGe_x raised source and drain (RSD) have been fabricated and further studied for low temperature applications. The Si _1-xGe_x RSD layer was selectively grown by ANELVA SRE-612 ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHVCVD) system. Compared to devices with conventional Si RSD, improved transconductance and specific contact resistance were obtained, and these improvements become even more dramatic with reducing channel length. Well-behaved short channel characteristics with reduced drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL) and off-state leakage current are demonstrated on devices with 100 nm Si_1-xGe_x RSD, due to the resultant shallow junction and less implantation damage. Moreover, temperature measurements reveal that Si_1-xGe_x RSD devices show more dramatic improvement in device performance at low temperature (-50 °C) operation, which can be ascribed to the higher temperature sensitivity of the Si_1-xGe_x sheet resistance     

Impacts of additive uniaxial strain on hole mobility in bulk Si and strained-Si p-MOSFETs

Hole mobility changes under uniaxial and combinational stress in different directions are characterized and analyzed by applying additive mechanical uniaxial stress to bulk Si and SiGe-virtual-substrate-induced strained-Si (s-Si) p-MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors) along <110> and <100> channel directions. In bulk Si, a mobility enhancement peak is found under uniaxial compressive strain in the low vertical field. The combination of (100) direction uniaxial tensile strain and substrate-induced biaxial tensile strain provides a higher mobility relative to the (110) direction, opposite to the situation in bulk Si. But the combinational strain experiences a gain loss at high field, which means that uniaxial compressive strain may still be a better choice. The mobility enhancement of SiGe-induced strained p-MOSFETs along the (110) direction under additive uniaxial tension is explained by the competition between biaxial and shear stress.     

Punchthrough behavior in short channel NMOS and PMOS 6H-siliconcarbide transistors at elevated temperatures

An experimental investigation of the effects of high temperature on short channel NMOS and PMOS transistors in 6H-SiC is reported. Punchthrough characteristics are presented and examined at room temperature and 300°C. The punchthrough current increases dramatically for scaled PMOS transistors at high temperature while the temperature dependence of electrical characteristics for short channel NMOS is small. The results presented in this paper also provide insight into design criteria for short channel silicon carbide (SiC) devices intended for operation at elevated temperatures