IP Library Granted Patent US 11,710,699
Granted Patent B2
US 11,710,699 · App. 17/463,704 · Granted Jul 25, 2023

Complementary FET (CFET) buried sidewall contact with spacer foot

Inventors: Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, NY); Jingyun Zhang (Albany, NY); Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, NY); Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, NY)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
H01L23/5286H01L21/26513H01L21/823814H01L21/823871H01L21/823885H01L27/0922H01L29/0847H01L29/41741H01L29/66545H01L29/66666H01L29/7827
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Patent No.
US 11,710,699
App. No.
17/463,704
Granted
Jul 25, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A CFET includes a fin that has a bottom channel portion, a top channel portion, and a channel isolator between the bottom channel portion and the top channel portion. The CFET further includes a source and drain stack that has a bottom source or drain (S/D) region connected to the bottom channel portion, a top S/D region connected to the top channel portion, a source-drain isolator between the bottom S/D region and the top S/D region. The CFET further includes a spacer foot physically connected to a base sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region and a buried S/D contact that is physically connected to an upper sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region. The CFET may further include a common gate around the bottom channel portion, around the top channel portion, and around the channel isolator.

Claims (24)

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a fin comprising a bottom channel portion, a top channel portion, and a channel isolator between the bottom channel portion and the top channel portion;

a source and drain stack comprising a bottom source or drain (S/D) region connected to the bottom channel portion, a top S/D region connected to the top channel portion, and a source-drain isolator directly connected with both and in between the bottom S/D region and the top S/D region;

a spacer foot directly connected to a base sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region; and

a buried S/D contact directly connected to an upper sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region that is above the spacer foot.

2. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the buried contact is further directly connected to a buried power rail.

3. The semiconductor device of claim 2 , further comprising:

a top S/D contact directly connected to an upper surface of the top S/D region.

4. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein a top surface of the buried S/D contact is between a top surface of the source-drain isolator and a bottom surface of the source-drain isolator.

5. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , a common gate around the bottom channel portion, around the top channel portion, and around the channel isolator.

6. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the buried S/D contact is further directly connected to a top surface of the spacer foot and physically connected to a sidewall of the spacer foot.

7. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein an entire top surface of the bottom S/D region is covered by the source-drain isolator that is directly connected thereto.

8. A semiconductor device comprising:

a fin pair comprising: a first fin comprising a first bottom channel portion, a first top channel portion, and a first channel isolator between the first bottom channel portion and the first top channel portion; and a second fin comprising a second bottom channel portion, a second top channel portion, and a second channel isolator between the second bottom channel portion and the second top channel portion;

a source and drain stack comprising a bottom source or drain (S/D) region connected to the first bottom channel portion and to the second bottom channel portion, a top S/D region connected to the first top channel portion and to the second top channel portion, a source-drain isolator directly connected with both and in between the bottom S/D region and the top S/D region;

a spacer foot directly connected to a base sidewall portion of the first bottom S/D region; and

a buried S/D contact directly connected to an upper sidewall portion of the first bottom S/D region.

9. The semiconductor device of claim 8 , wherein the buried contact is further directly connected to a buried power rail.

10. The semiconductor device of claim 9 , further comprising:

a top S/D contact directly connected to an upper surface of the first top S/D region.

11. The semiconductor device of claim 8 , wherein a top surface of the buried S/D contact is between a top surface of the source-drain isolator and a bottom surface of the source-drain isolator.

12. The semiconductor device of claim 8 , further comprising: a common gate around the fin pair.

13. The semiconductor device of claim 8 , wherein the buried S/D contact is further directly connected to a top surface of the spacer foot and directly connected to a sidewall of the spacer foot.

14. The semiconductor device of claim 8 , wherein sidewalls of the source-drain isolator are coplanar and vertically aligned with respective sidewalls of the bottom S/D region and are coplanar and vertically aligned with respective sidewalls of the top S/D region.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2021
From: XIE, RUILONG; ZHANG, JINGYUN; VEGA, REINALDO; CHENG, KANGGUO
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230062819A1 · Mar 2, 2023
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