IP Library Granted Patent US 9,418,870
Granted Patent B2
US 9,418,870 · App. 14/619,326 · Granted Aug 16, 2016

Silicon germanium-on-insulator formation by thermal mixing

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Patent No.
US 9,418,870
App. No.
14/619,326
Granted
Aug 16, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A layer of amorphous silicon is formed on a germanium-on-insulator substrate, or a layer of germanium is formed on a silicon-on-insulator substrate. An anneal is then performed which causes thermal mixing of silicon and germanium atoms within one of the aforementioned structures and subsequent formation of a silicon germanium-on-insulator material.

Claims (11)

1. A method of forming a semiconductor structure, said method comprising:

forming a gate structure on an active silicon germanium region of a silicon germanium-on-insulator material;

forming an amorphous Si layer on exposed surfaces of said active silicon germanium region and surrounding said gate structure; and

forming embedded SiGe source/drain regions in said active SiGe region and at a footprint of said gate structure utilizing a thermal mixing process in which silicon atoms from said amorphous silicon layer intermix with germanium atoms in said SiGe active region to form said embedded SiGe source/drain regions.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said silicon germanium-on-insulator material is formed by a process comprising:

providing a structure comprising, from bottom to top, a germanium-on-insulator substrate and an amorphous silicon layer; and

converting said structure into a silicon germanium-on-insulator material by annealing, wherein during said annealing silicon atoms from said amorphous silicon layer intermix with germanium atoms in a germanium layer of said germanium-on-insulator substrate to form a silicon germanium layer.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said silicon germanium-on-insulator material is formed by a process comprising:

providing a structure comprising, from bottom to top, a silicon-on-insulator substrate and a germanium layer; and

converting said structure into a silicon germanium-on-insulator material by annealing, wherein during said annealing silicon atoms from a silicon layer of the silicon-on-insulator substrate intermix with germanium atoms in said germanium layer to form a silicon germanium layer.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising forming a gate dielectric spacer on sidewalls of said gate structure prior to forming said amorphous silicon layer.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 11, 2020
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: ELPIS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Reel/Frame 052620/0961 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2015
From: BEDELL, STEPHEN W.; DE SOUZA, JOEL P.; KIM, JEEHWAN; SADANA, DEVENDRA K.
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 034937/0634 →