Stacked planar double-gate lamellar field-effect transistor

1. A method of making a field-effect transistor device, comprising the steps of:

forming a substrate, wherein the substrate is planarized to a thickness along a first plane;

creating a fin stack parallel to the first plane, the fin stack having a plurality of fins, including:

a first sacrificial material layer on the substrate,

a first semiconductive material layer on the first sacrificial material layer, and

a second sacrificial material layer on the first semiconductive material layer;

inserting a dummy gate having a second thickness, a dummy void, and an outer end that is coplanar to a second face of the fin stack;

inserting a first spacer having a first thickness and a first void, and having an outer end that is coplanar to a first face of the fin stack;

removing, at least partially, the first sacrificial material layer and the second sacrificial material layer by etching the first sacrificial material layer in a second plane and the second sacrificial material layer in a fourth plane;

removing the first spacer, following, removing, at least partially, the first sacrificial material layer;

inserting a second spacer having the first thickness and a second void onto the first face such that the second spacer exposes and completely surrounds the first semiconductive material layer;

removing the dummy gate, exposing a third face of the fin stack that is parallel to the first face; and

depositing a high-k dielectric layer on the third face, wherein the high-k dielectric layer surrounds the exposed first semiconductive material layer, except for the outer of the exposed first semiconductive material layer.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

depositing a source/drain region electrically coupled to the first semiconductive material layer on the first face; and

wherein the etching the first sacrificial material layer in the second plane and the second sacrificial material layer in the fourth plane is etched to a depth of the second thickness as measured from the second face to the third face.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the etching the first sacrificial material in the second plane and the second sacrificial material layer in the fourth plane is etched to a depth of the first thickness as measured from the outer end of the first spacer.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the substrate is a silicon-on-insulator (“SOI”) wafer having an SOI layer separated from a silicon layer by a buried oxide layer.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the semiconductive material is silicon.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sacrificial material is silicon germanium.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first and second spacers are silicon nitride.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein depositing the first sacrificial material layer on the substrate is accomplished using a condensation method.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein depositing the first semiconductive material layer on the first sacrificial material layer is accomplished using an epitaxial process.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein removing the dummy gate utilizes an aqueous etch process.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein inserting the dummy gate comprises the steps of:

depositing a dummy gate material surrounding the plurality of fins;

planarizing the dummy gate material;

forming a fifth spacer on the dummy gate material that masks an outline and location of the dummy gates; and

using a sixth spacer to pattern the dummy gates.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the dummy gate comprises poly-silicon.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first plane is parallel to the second plane.

14. There method of claim 13 , further comprising planarizing the fin stack at the first face that is perpendicular to the first plane and at the second face that is perpendicular to the first plane and parallel to the first face.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein providing the fin stack includes creating the fin stack, wherein the fin stack is parallel to the first plane, and wherein the creating the fin stack comprises the steps of:

forming a third spacer on the stack that masks an outline and location of the plurality of fins; and

using a fourth spacer to pattern the plurality of fins in the stack.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first sacrificial material layer on the substrate is located in the second plane.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first semiconductive material layer on the first sacrificial material layer is located in a third plane, wherein the third plane is parallel to the first plane.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the second sacrificial material layer on the first semiconductive material layer is located in the fourth plane parallel to the first plane.