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US 12,009,435 · App. 17/473,151 · Granted Jun 11, 2024

Integrated nanosheet field effect transistors and floating gate memory cells

Inventors: Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, NY); Julien Frougier (Albany, NY); Veeraraghavan S. Basker (Schenectady, NY); Alexander Reznicek (Troy, NY)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
H01L29/7883H01L21/0259H01L29/0665H01L29/40114H01L29/42392H01L29/66545H01L29/66742H01L29/66825H01L29/78696
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Patent No.
US 12,009,435
App. No.
17/473,151
Granted
Jun 11, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device including a nanosheet field effect transistor (FET) comprising a thin gate oxide layer and a floating gate memory cell comprising a tunneling oxide, a floating gate, and a blocking oxide layer over a fin FET device. The device fabricated by forming a nanosheet stack and fin structures, forming tunneling oxide and floating gate layers over the nanosheet stack and fin structures, forming dummy gate structures over the nanosheet stack and fin structures, removing the dummy gate structures, forming a blocking oxide layer over the floating gate, and forming replacement metal gates.

Claims (33)

1. A semiconductor device comprising: a nanosheet field effect transistor (FET) comprising a gate oxide layer; and

a floating gate memory cell comprising a tunneling oxide, a floating gate, a dielectric isolation layer, and a blocking oxide layer over a fin FET device.

2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the tunneling oxide and floating gate layers are disposed beneath a gate contact and the blocking oxide is disposed beneath and beside the gate contact.

3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the FET and floating gate memory cell are disposed at a common device level.

4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the floating gate memory comprises a vertical blocking oxide layer disposed adjacent to a control gate.

5. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the FET further comprises a dielectric isolation layer.

6. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the floating gate memory cell further comprises a plurality of fins.

7. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the method comprising:

forming a nanosheet stack and fin structures;

forming tunneling oxide and floating gate layers over the nanosheet stack and fin structures;

forming dummy gate structures over the nanosheet stack and fin structures;

exposing the floating gate;

forming a blocking oxide layer over the floating gate; and

forming replacement metal gates.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising forming an oxide layer adjacent to the blocking oxide layer and the nanosheet stack.

9. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising forming a dielectric isolation layer beneath a field effect transistor.

10. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising forming a dielectric isolation layer beneath a floating gate memory cell.

11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the nanosheet stack and fin structures are formed at a common device level.

12. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the replacement metal gate is formed adjacent to vertical blocking oxide layers.

13. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the tunneling oxide and the floating gate layers are disposed beneath a gate contact and the blocking oxide is disposed beneath and beside the gate contact.

14. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprising a field effect transistor (FET) and a floating gate memory cell, the method comprising:

forming a nanosheet stack for the FET;

forming at least one fin structure for the floating gate memory;

forming tunneling oxide and floating gate layers over the fin structure;

forming dummy gate structures over the nanosheet stack and fin structures;

exposing the floating gate layer of the floating gate memory;

forming a blocking oxide layer over the floating gate; and

forming a replacement metal gate adjacent to the blocking oxide layer.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the tunneling oxide and the floating gate layers are disposed beneath a gate contact and the blocking oxide is disposed beneath and beside the gate contact.

16. The method according to claim 14 , further comprising forming an oxide layer adjacent to the blocking oxide layer and the nanosheet stack.

17. The method according to claim 14 , further comprising forming a dielectric isolation layer beneath a field effect transistor.

18. The method according to claim 14 , further comprising forming a dielectric isolation layer beneath a floating gate memory cell.

19. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the nano sheet stack and fin structures are formed at a common device level.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 13, 2021
From: XIE, RUILONG; FROUGIER, JULIEN; BASKER, VEERARAGHAVAN S.; REZNICEK, ALEXANDER
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057461/0782 →
Continuity (1)
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