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Granted Patent B2
US 10,546,788 · App. 15/811,821 · Granted Jan 28, 2020

Dual channel FinFETs having uniform fin heights

Inventors: Zhenxing Bi (Niskayuna, NY); Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, NY); Peng Xu (Guilderland, NY); Jie Yang (Clifton Park, NY)
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
H01L21/823821H01L21/3085H01L21/76224H01L21/823412H01L21/823807H01L27/0924H01L29/6681H01L29/66795H01L29/785H01L29/7854H01L21/02532H01L21/20H01L21/2205H01L21/228H01L21/2236H01L21/2251H01L21/2652H01L21/308H01L21/30608H01L21/8213H01L21/8252H01L21/8254H01L21/8256H01L29/161
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Patent No.
US 10,546,788
App. No.
15/811,821
Granted
Jan 28, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of making a semiconductor device including forming a first blanket layer on a substrate; forming a second blanket layer on the first blanket layer; patterning a first fin of a first transistor region and a second fin of a second transistor region in the first blanket layer and the second blanket layer; depositing a mask on the second transistor region; removing the first fin to form a trench; growing a first semiconductor layer in the trench where the first fin was removed; and growing a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer.

Claims (17)

1. A method of making a semiconductor device, the method comprising:

forming a blanket layer of n-doped silicon on a silicon substrate;

forming a blanket layer of SiGe directly on the blanket layer of n-doped silicon, the blanket layer of SiGe being a single discrete layer of SiGe;

patterning a plurality of first fins of an n-type field effect transistor (NFET) and a plurality of second fins of a p-type field effect transistor (PFET) in the blanket layer of n-doped silicon and the blanket layer of SiGe;

depositing a dielectric material around the plurality of first fins and the plurality of second fins;

depositing a mask on the plurality of second fins of the PFET;

removing the plurality of first fins of the NFET to form a plurality of fin trenches in the dielectric material;

performing an epitaxial prebake process to round a-bottom edges of each of the plurality of fin trenches;

growing a p-doped silicon epitaxial layer in the plurality of fin trenches, the p-doped silicon epitaxial layer being a single discrete layer of silicon doped with a p-type dopant; and

growing a silicon epitaxial layer directly on the p-doped silicon epitaxial layer, the silicon epitaxial layer being a single discrete layer of silicon.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising depositing a hardmask on the blanket layer of SiGE before patterning the plurality of first fins and the plurality of second fins.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising recessing the silicon epitaxial layer and the dielectric material, and removing the hardmask before depositing a gate on the plurality of first fins.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising polishing a surface of the dielectric material after growing the silicon epitaxial layer to remove silicon overgrowth.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising recessing the silicon epitaxial layer and the dielectric material to form a plurality of silicon fins in the NFET.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the plurality of second fins of the PFET further comprises a hardmask cap, and the method further comprises removing the hardmask cap after growing the silicon epitaxial layer.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising forming a gate stack on the plurality of first fins.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the gate stack comprises a gate dielectric layer deposited directly on the silicon epitaxial layer and the blanket layer of SiGe.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 14, 2017
From: BI, ZHENXING; CHENG, KANGGUO; XU, PENG; YANG, JIE
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044121/0245 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15435627 · Feb 17, 2017
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