IP Library Granted Patent US 8,673,699
Granted Patent B2
US 8,673,699 · App. 13/551,054 · Granted Mar 18, 2014

Semiconductor structure having NFET extension last implants

Inventors: Thomas N. Adam (Slingerlands, NY); Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, NY); Bruce B. Doris (Brewster, NY); Bala S. Haran (Watervliet, NY); Pranita Kulkarni (Slingerlands, NY); Amlan Majumdar (White Plains, NY); Stefan Schmitz (Ballston Spa, NY)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,673,699
App. No.
13/551,054
Filed
Jul 17, 2012
Granted
Mar 18, 2014
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2822
USPC
438/154
Abstract

A method of forming a semiconductor structure which includes an extremely thin silicon-on-insulator (ETSOI) semiconductor structure having a PFET portion and an NFET portion, a gate structure in the PFET portion and the NFET portion, a high quality nitride spacer adjacent to the gate structures in the PFET portion and the NFET portion and a doped faceted epitaxial silicon germanium raised source/drain (RSD) in the PFET portion. An amorphous silicon layer is formed on the RSD in the PFET portion. A faceted epitaxial silicon RSD is formed on the ETSOI adjacent to the high quality nitride in the NFET portion. The amorphous layer in the PFET portion prevents epitaxial growth in the PFET portion during formation of the RSD in the NFET portion. Extensions are ion implanted into the ETSOI underneath the gate structure in the NFET portion.

Claims (26)

1. A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprising:

(a) obtaining an extra thin semiconductor on insulator (ETSOI) wafer having a PFET portion where a p-type field effect transistor (PFET) will be formed and an NFET portion where an n-type field effect transistor (NFET) will be formed;

(b) forming at least one gate structure in the PFET portion and at least one gate structure in the NFET portion;

(c) depositing a high quality nitride over the PFET portion and the NFET portion, the high quality nitride being unetchable in dilute hydrofluoric acid (HF);

(d) depositing a low quality nitride over the high quality nitride, the low quality nitride being etchable in dilute HF;

(e) etching the PFET portion to remove the high quality nitride and low quality nitride except for high quality nitride and low quality nitride adjacent to the at least one gate structure in the PFET portion;

(f) etching the PFET portion and the NFET portion to remove the low quality nitride;

(g) forming a doped faceted epitaxial silicon/germanium (SiGe) on the ETSOI adjacent to the high quality nitride and the at least one gate structure in the PFET portion to form a faceted raised source/drain (RSD) in the PFET portion and an amorphous portion on the high quality nitride;

(h) depositing a low quality nitride over the PFET portion and the NFET portion;

(i) etching the PFET portion to remove the low quality nitride while maintaining the low quality nitride adjacent to the high quality nitride and at least one gate structure to form disposable spacers from the low quality nitride adjacent to the high quality nitride and etching the NFET portion to remove the low quality nitride and high quality nitride except for high quality nitride and low quality nitride adjacent to the at least one gate structure in the NFET portion, the low quality nitride adjacent to the at least one gate structure in the NFET portion forming disposable spacers;

(j) ion implanting into the RSD in the PFET portion to render amorphous a top portion of the RSD in the PFET portion;

(k) etching the disposable spacers adjacent the at least one gate structure in the NFET portion and the PFET portion to leave at least the high quality nitride adjacent to the at least one gate structure in the PFET portion and at least the high quality nitride adjacent to the at least one gate structure in the NFET portion;

(l) forming a faceted epitaxial silicon RSD on the ETSOI adjacent to the at least one gate structure in the NFET portion;

(m) performing a rapid thermal anneal;

(n) ion implanting extensions into the ETSOI underneath the at least one gate structure in the NFET portion; and

(o) performing a short time scale anneal to activate the NFET extension implants but not diffuse them.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein step (i) comprises two etching steps such that a first etching step comprises etching the low quality nitride from the PFET portion and the NFET portion and a second etching step comprises etching the high quality nitride from the NFET portion wherein the second etching step has different etching parameters than the first etching step.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein forming in step (i) comprises a cyclic epitaxial process.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein epitaxial material is not formed on the RSD in the PFET portion during the cyclic epitaxial process.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the epitaxial silicon formed in step (I) is undoped silicon.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising the steps between step (I) and step (m) of forming oxide spacers adjacent to the high quality nitride in the NFET portion, masking the PFET portion and ion implanting into the RSD in the NFET portion and step (m) of performing a rapid thermal anneal includes driving in dopants of the RSD into the ETSOI in the PFET portion and NFET portion.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the epitaxial silicon formed in step (l) is doped silicon and step (m) of performing a rapid thermal anneal includes driving in dopants of the RSD into the ETSOI in the PFET portion and NFET portion.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the short time anneal in step (o) is a laser anneal or a flash anneal such that the anneal time is less than 10 milliseconds.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising a step (p) of forming nitride spacers adjacent to the at least one gate structure in the PFET portion and the at least one gate structure in the NFET portion.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein dilute HF may be defined as having a range of HF:H 2 O (water) from 1:10 to 1:100 and the high quality nitride is a nitride that has an etch rate in dilute hydrofluoric (HF) acid of less than about 1 nanometer per minute.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the low quality nitride has an etch rate in dilute HF of more than about 10 nanometers per minute.

Assignments (7)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2021
From: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
Reel/Frame 056987/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2020
From: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Reel/Frame 054636/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2020
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
Reel/Frame 054633/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Nov 29, 2018
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 049490/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2015
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. 2 LLC; GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Reel/Frame 036779/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2015
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. 2 LLC
Reel/Frame 036550/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 17, 2012
From: ADAM, THOMAS N.; CHENG, KANGGUO; DORIS, BRUCE B.; HARAN, BALA S.; KULKARNI, PRANITA; MAJUMDAR, AMLAN; SCHMITZ, STEFAN
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028567/0399 →
Continuity (1)
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