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Granted Patent B2
US 12,453,170 · App. 17/894,827 · Granted Oct 21, 2025

Integration of nanosheets with bottom dielectric isolation and ideal diode

Inventors: Andrew Gaul (Halfmoon, NY); Anthony I. Chou (Guilderland, NY); Julien Frougier (Albany, NY); Andrew M. Greene (Slingerlands, NY)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
H10D84/811H01L21/02603H01L21/26513H10D8/041H10D8/825H10D30/014H10D30/031H10D30/43H10D30/6735H10D30/6757H10D62/121
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Patent No.
US 12,453,170
App. No.
17/894,827
Granted
Oct 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Techniques for co-integrating gate-all-around nanosheet devices having bottom dielectric isolation with an ideal vertical P-N-P diode on a common substrate are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor structure includes: a diode in a first region of a bulk substrate, where the diode includes P-N-P vertical implanted layers present in the bulk substrate, and a single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers; and a nanosheet device with a bottom dielectric isolation layer in a second region of the bulk substrate. The nanosheet device can include nanosheet channels and gates that surround a portion of each of the nanosheet channels in a gate-all-around configuration. A method of fabricating the present semiconductor structures is also provided.

Claims (45)

1. A semiconductor structure, comprising:

a diode in a first region of a bulk substrate, wherein the diode comprises P-N-P vertical implanted layers present in the bulk substrate, and a single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed directly on a top layer of the P-N-P vertical implanted layers; and

a nanosheet device with a bottom dielectric isolation layer in a second region of the bulk substrate.

2. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , wherein the P-N-P vertical implanted layers comprise:

a Psub implant in the bulk substrate;

an Nwell implant in the bulk substrate over the Psub implant; and

a P+ implant in the second region of the bulk substrate over the Nwell implant.

3. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , further comprising:

multiple source/drain contacts to the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers.

4. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , wherein the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers has a width W of from about 2 μm to about 5 μm, and a length L of from about 3 μm to about 10 μm.

5. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , wherein the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers has a varying height H.

6. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , further comprising:

a ring of a same material as the bottom dielectric isolation layer surrounding the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers.

7. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , further comprising:

gates contacting opposite ends of the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers.

8. A semiconductor structure, comprising:

a diode in a first region of a bulk substrate, wherein the diode comprises P-N-P vertical implanted layers present in the bulk substrate, and a single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed directly on a top layer of the P-N-P vertical implanted layers; and

a nanosheet device with a bottom dielectric isolation layer in a second region of the bulk substrate, wherein the nanosheet device comprises nanosheet channels and gates that surround a portion of each of the nanosheet channels in a gate-all-around configuration.

9. The semiconductor structure of claim 8 , wherein the P-N-P vertical implanted layers comprise:

a Psub implant in the bulk substrate;

an Nwell implant in the bulk substrate over the Psub implant; and

a P+ implant in the first region of the bulk substrate over the Nwell implant.

10. The semiconductor structure of claim 8 , further comprising:

multiple source/drain contacts to the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers.

11. The semiconductor structure of claim 8 , wherein the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers has a width W of from about 2 μm to about 5 μm, and a length L of from about 3 μm to about 10 μm.

12. The semiconductor structure of claim 8 , wherein the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers has a varying height H.

13. The semiconductor structure of claim 8 , further comprising:

a ring of a same material as the bottom dielectric isolation layer surrounding the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers.

14. The semiconductor structure of claim 8 , further comprising:

first gates contacting opposite ends of the single source/drain region epitaxial material disposed on the P-N-P vertical implanted layers, wherein the gates that surround the portion of each of the nanosheet channels comprise second gates.

15. The semiconductor structure of claim 14 , wherein the single source/drain region epitaxial material contacts both the bulk substrate and patterned portions of the nanosheet channels under the first gates.

16. The semiconductor structure of claim 14 , wherein the first gates and the second gates comprise a same combination of materials.

17. A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure, the method comprising:

performing a Psub implant in a bulk substrate, including in a first region of the bulk substrate;

performing an Nwell implant in the bulk substrate over the Psub implant;

forming a nanosheet device with nanosheet channels and a bottom dielectric isolation layer in a second region of the bulk substrate;

performing a P+ implant in the first region of the bulk substrate over the Nwell implant; and

concurrently forming a source/drain region epitaxial material directly on the P+ implant in the first region of the bulk substrate and in source/drain regions of the nanosheet device in the second region of the bulk substrate.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

forming a nanosheet stack on the first region and the second region of the bulk substrate; and

selectively removing the nanosheet stack from the first region of the bulk substrate.

19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

forming a ring of a same material as the bottom dielectric isolation layer surrounding the source/drain region epitaxial material in the first region of the bulk substrate.

20. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

concurrently forming first gates in the first region of the bulk substrate that contact opposite ends of the source/drain region epitaxial material, and second gates in the second region of the bulk substrate that surround a portion of each of the nanosheet channels in a gate-all-around configuration.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 24, 2022
From: GAUL, ANDREW; CHOU, ANTHONY I.; FROUGIER, JULIEN; GREENE, ANDREW M.
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
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