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US 9,196,706 · App. 14/004,802 · Granted Nov 24, 2015

Method for manufacturing P-type MOSFET

Inventors: Qiuxia Xu (Beijing, CN); Huilong Zhu (Poughkeepsie, NY); Tianchun Ye (Beijing, CN); Huajie Zhou (Beijing, CN); Gaobo Xu (Beijing, CN); Qingqing Liang (Lagrangeville, NY)
Assignee: Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
H01L29/66545H01L21/02181H01L21/02189H01L21/02192H01L21/02194H01L21/265H01L21/28088H01L21/28185H01L29/42364H01L29/4966H01L29/517
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Patent No.
US 9,196,706
App. No.
14/004,802
Granted
Nov 24, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a method for manufacturing a p-type MOSFET, including: forming a part of the MOSFET on a semiconductor substrate including source/drain regions, a replacement gate, and a gate spacer; removing the replacement gate stack of the MOSFET to form a gate opening; forming an interface oxide layer on the exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming a high-K gate dielectric layer on the interface oxide layer; forming a first metal gate layer; implanting dopant ions into the first metal gate layer; and performing annealing to cause the dopant ions to diffuse and accumulate at an upper interface between the high K gate dielectric layer and the first metal gate layer and a lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the interface oxide layer, and also to generate electric dipoles by interfacial reaction at the lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the interface oxide layer.

Claims (22)

1. A method for manufacturing a P-type MOSFET, the method comprising:

forming a part of the MOSFET on a semiconductor substrate, the part of the MOSFET comprising source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate, a replacement gate stack between the source/drain regions above the semiconductor substrate, and a gate spacer surrounding the replacement gate stack;

removing the replacement gate stack of the MOSFET to form a gate opening exposing a surface of the semiconductor substrate;

forming an interface oxide layer on the exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate;

forming a high-K gate dielectric layer on the interface oxide layer in the gate opening;

forming a first metal gate layer on the high-K gate dielectric layer;

implanting dopant ions into the first metal gate layer;

forming a second metal gate layer on the first metal gate layer to fill the gate opening; and

performing annealing to cause the dopant ions to diffuse and accumulate at an upper interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the first metal gate layer and a lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the interface oxide layer, and also to generate electric dipoles by interfacial reaction at the lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the interface oxide layer.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the high-K gate dielectric layer comprise any one selected from ZrO 2 , ZrON, ZrSiON, HfZrO, HfZrON, HfON, HfO 2 , HfAlO, HfAlON, HfSiO, HfSiON, HfLaO, HfLaON, and any combination thereof.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the high-K gate dielectric layer has a thickness of about 1.5 nm-5 nm.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the high-K gate dielectric layer is formed by any one of atom layer deposition, physical vapor deposition, and metal organic chemical vapor deposition.

5. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising performing additional annealing after forming the high-K gate dielectric layer to improve quality of the high-K gate dielectric layer.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first metal gate layer comprises any one selected from TiN, TaN, MoN, WN, TaC, TaCN, and any combination thereof.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first metal gate layer has a thickness of about 2 nm-10 nm.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the second metal gate layer comprises any one selected from W, Ti, TiAl, Al, Mo, Ta, TiN, TaN, WN, and any combination thereof.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in implanting the dopant ions into the first metal gate layer, energy and dosage of ion implantation is controlled according to a desired threshold voltage to cause the dopant ions to distribute only in the first metal gate layer.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the energy of the ion implantation is about 0.2 KeV-30 KeV.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the dosage of the ion implantation is about 1E13 cm −2 -1E15 cm −2 .

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein dopant ions implanted into the first metal gate layer is capable of increasing effective work function.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the dopant is any one selected from In, B, BF 2 , Ru, W, Mo, Al, Ga, and Pt.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the annealing is performed in inert gas environment or weak reduction gas environment at about 350° C.-450° C. for about 20-90 minutes.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 18, 2015
From: YE, TIANCHUN
To: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Reel/Frame 036640/0378 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2014
From: XU, QIUXIA; ZHU, HUILONG; ZHOU, HUAJIE; XU, GAOBO; LIANG, QINGQING
To: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Reel/Frame 032201/0247 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2013
From: XU, QIUXIA; ZHU, HUILONG; ZHOU, HUAJIE; XU, GAOBO; LIANG, QINGQING
To: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Reel/Frame 031549/0646 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2012 1 0506496 · Nov 30, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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