IP Library Granted Patent US 9,716,045
Granted Patent B2
US 9,716,045 · App. 15/229,754 · Granted Jul 25, 2017

Directly forming SiGe fins on oxide

Inventors: Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, NY); Hong He (Schenectady, NY); Juntao Li (Cohoes, NY); Junli Wang (Singerlands, NY)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
H01L21/823807H01L21/02532H01L21/02538H01L21/76229H01L21/823821H01L21/823878H01L21/845H01L27/092H01L27/0924H01L27/1211H01L29/0649H01L29/1037H01L29/16H01L29/161H01L29/20
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Patent No.
US 9,716,045
App. No.
15/229,754
Granted
Jul 25, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Semiconductor mandrel structures are formed extending upward from a remaining portion of a semiconductor substrate. A first oxide isolation structure is formed on exposed surfaces of the remaining portion of the semiconductor substrate and between each semiconductor mandrel structure. A silicon germanium alloy fin is formed on opposing sidewalls of each semiconductor mandrel structure that is present in a pFET device region of the semiconductor substrate and directly on a surface of each first oxide isolation structure. Each semiconductor mandrel structure is removed and a second oxide isolation structure is formed between each first oxide isolation structure and extending beneath a bottommost surface of each first oxide isolation structure.

Claims (25)

1. A semiconductor structure comprising:

a plurality of silicon germanium alloy fins located within a pFET device region of a semiconductor substrate, wherein each silicon germanium alloy fin is located directly on a first oxide isolation structure, and one sidewall surface of each silicon germanium alloy fin is vertically aligned to a sidewall edge of one of said first oxide isolation structures, and wherein each first oxide isolation structure located entirely within said pFET device region contains a pair of spaced apart silicon germanium alloy fins; and

a second oxide isolation structure located between each of said first oxide isolation structures, wherein each of said second oxide isolation structures has a depth that is deeper than a depth of said first oxide isolation structures.

2. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , wherein each of said second oxide isolation structures has a topmost surface that is coplanar with a topmost surface of each of said first oxide isolation structures.

3. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , further comprising a functional gate structure straddling over each silicon germanium alloy fin.

4. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of n-channel semiconductor fins located within an nFET device region of said semiconductor substrate.

5. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , wherein each n-channel semiconductor material fin is located directly on a first oxide isolation structure located in said nFET device region, wherein one sidewall surface of each n-channel semiconductor material fin is vertically aligned to a sidewall edge of one of said first oxide isolation structures in said nFET device region.

6. The semiconductor structure of claim 5 , further comprising a second oxide isolation structure in said nFET device region and located between each of said first oxide isolation structures in said nFET device region.

7. The semiconductor structure of claim 6 , wherein each of said second oxide isolation structures in said nFET device region has a depth that is deeper than a depth of first oxide isolation structures in said nFET device region.

8. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , wherein each of said n-channel semiconductor material fins comprises germanium.

9. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , wherein each of said n-channel semiconductor material fins comprises a III-V compound semiconductor.

10. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , further comprising a functional gate structure straddling over each n-channel semiconductor material fin.

11. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , wherein each of said n-channel semiconductor material fins has a same height as that of each silicon germanium alloy fin.

12. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , wherein each of said n-channel semiconductor material fins has a different height as that of each silicon germanium alloy fin.

13. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , wherein each of said n-channel semiconductor material fins has a same width as that of each silicon germanium alloy fin.

14. The semiconductor structure of claim 4 , wherein each of said n-channel semiconductor material fins has a different width as that of each silicon germanium alloy fin.

15. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , wherein each silicon germanium alloy fin is single crystalline.

16. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , wherein each silicon germanium alloy fin has a germanium content of from 10 atomic percent germanium to 90 atomic percent germanium.

17. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , wherein each second oxide isolation structure extends below a topmost surface of said semiconductor substrate.

18. A semiconductor structure comprising:

a plurality of silicon germanium alloy fins located within a pFET device region of a semiconductor substrate, wherein each silicon germanium alloy fin is located directly on a first oxide isolation structure, and one sidewall surface of each silicon germanium alloy fin is vertically aligned to a sidewall edge of one of said first oxide isolation structures, and wherein each first oxide isolation structure located entirely within said pFET device region contains a pair of spaced apart silicon germanium alloy fins;

a second oxide isolation structure located between each of said first oxide isolation structures present in said pFET device region, wherein each of said second oxide isolation structures has a depth that is deeper than a depth of said first oxide isolation structures;

a plurality of n-channel semiconductor fins located within an nFET device region of said semiconductor substrate, wherein each n-channel semiconductor material fin is located directly on a first oxide isolation structure located in said nFET device region, wherein one sidewall surface of each n-channel semiconductor material fin is vertically aligned to a sidewall edge of one of said first oxide isolation structures in said nFET device region; and

a second oxide isolation structure in said nFET device region and located between each of said first oxide isolation structures in said nFET device region, wherein a first oxide isolation structure located at the boundary between said pFET device region and said nFET device region includes one silicon germanium alloy in said pFET device region and one n-channel semiconductor material fin in said nFET device region.

19. The semiconductor structure of claim 18 , wherein each of said second oxide isolation structures in said pFET and nFET device regions has a topmost surface that is coplanar with a topmost surface of each of said first oxide isolation structures in said pFET and nFET device regions.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 4, 2020
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: ELPIS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Reel/Frame 052561/0161 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 5, 2016
From: CHENG, KANGGUO; HE, HONG; LI, JUNTAO; WANG, JUNLI
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039355/0786 →
Continuity (2)
Division 14674586 · Mar 31, 2015
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