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US 12,166,042 · App. 17/502,374 · Granted Dec 10, 2024

Stacked nanosheet gate-all-around device structures

Inventors: Nicolas Loubet (Guilderland, NY); Huiming Bu (Glenmont, NY); Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
H01L27/1203H01L21/02532H01L21/0259H01L21/3115H01L21/84H01L29/0665H01L29/42392H01L29/66553H01L29/66742H01L29/78618H01L29/78696
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Patent No.
US 12,166,042
App. No.
17/502,374
Granted
Dec 10, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device including a substrate; a continuous buried oxide layer (BOX) formed on the substrate; and a plurality of nanosheet gate-all-round (GAA) device structures on the BOX, wherein a first plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a logic portion of the substrate and have a first nanosheet width, wherein a second plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a high density region of the substrate and have a second nanosheet width less than the first nanosheet width, wherein the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed directly on the continuous buried oxide layer, and wherein a bottom layer of the nanosheet GAA device structures is a bottom gate formed directly on the BOX.

Claims (47)

1. A device comprising:

a substrate;

a continuous buried oxide layer on the substrate; and

a plurality of nanosheet gate-all-round (GAA) device structures on the continuous buried oxide layer,

wherein a first plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a logic region of the substrate and have a first nanosheet width,

wherein a second plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a high density region of the substrate and have a second nanosheet width less than the first nanosheet width,

wherein the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed directly on the continuous buried oxide layer, and

wherein a bottom layer of the nanosheet GAA device structures is a bottom gate disposed directly on the continuous buried oxide layer.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the nanosheet GAA device structures comprise a plurality of alternating layers of a high-K gate material and a metal material.

3. The device of claim 2 , wherein the layers of the high-K gate material and the metal material have different thicknesses.

4. The device of claim 2 , wherein the layers of the high-K gate material and the metal material have a same thickness.

5. The device of claim 2 , wherein the layers of the first plurality of stacked gates and the layers of the second plurality of stacked gates have different thicknesses.

6. The device of claim 2 , wherein the layers of the first plurality of stacked gates and the layers of the second plurality of stacked gates have a same thickness.

7. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality source-drain regions fully isolated from the substrate by the continuous buried oxide layer.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the first plurality of stacked gates and the second plurality of stacked gates have a same number of layers.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein each stacked gate of the first plurality of stacked gates is disposed in a respective active area of a first region of the substrate.

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein each of the second plurality of stacked gates has a critical dimension less than about 15 nanometers.

11. The device of claim 1 , wherein the second plurality of stacked gates have a pitch of less than about 40 nanometers.

12. The device of claim 1 , wherein each of the first plurality of stacked gates has a critical dimension of at least 10 nanometers and each of the second plurality of stacked gates has a critical dimension less than about 10 nanometers.

13. A structure comprising:

a substrate having a first region and a second region;

a continuous buried oxide layer on the substrate; and

a plurality of nanosheet stacks disposed directly on the continuous buried oxide layer, wherein each of the nanosheet stacks comprises:

a silicon-germanium-on-insulator layer disposed directly on the continuous buried oxide layer;

a first metal layer on the silicon-germanium-on-insulator layer; and

a plurality of silicon-germanium layers disposed on the first metal layer and alternating with at least one additional metal layer,

wherein the plurality of nanosheet stacks each comprise:

a plurality of first nanosheet stacks having a first width in the first region; and

a plurality of second nanosheet stacks having a second width in the second region, wherein the first width is different than the second width.

14. The structure of claim 13 , wherein each of the first nanosheets are disposed in a respective active area of the first region.

15. The structure of claim 13 , wherein each of the second nanosheets has a critical dimension less than about 15 nanometers.

16. The structure of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of second nanosheets have a pitch of less than about 40 nanometers.

17. A method for forming a semiconductor device comprising:

providing a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) layer over a buried oxide layer and a substrate;

depositing a blanket silicon germanium (SiGe) layer on the SOI layer;

depositing an oxide layer on the silicon germanium;

performing a thermal anneal to diffuse germanium of the silicon germanium into the SOI layer and form a SiGe-On-Insulator (SGOI) layer;

removing the oxide layer;

depositing a SiGe/Si super lattice on the SGOI layer;

patterning a first portion of the SiGe/Si super lattice and the SGOI layer to form a first plurality of nanosheet stacks having a first width; and

patterning a second portion of the SiGe/Si super lattice and the SGOI layer to form a second plurality of nanosheet stacks having a second width, wherein the second width is less than the first width.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

forming a plurality of spacers supporting ends of a plurality of Si layers of the SiGe/Si super lattice;

removing a plurality of SiGe layers of the SiGe/Si super lattice; and

depositing a high-K gate material to form a plurality of gate-all-around structures including alternating layers of the high-K gate material and the plurality of Si layers, wherein the high-K gate material forms a full bottom gate on a bottom of the plurality of gate-all-around structures.

19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising thinning the SOI layer.

20. The method of claim 17 , wherein the deposition of the SiGe/Si super lattice is performed at a temperature of less than about 700 degrees Celsius.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 15, 2021
From: LOUBET, NICOLAS; BU, HUIMING; PRANATHARTHIHARAN, BALASUBRAMANIAN
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057806/0468 →
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