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US 10,593,673 B2Granted
Nanosheet with single epitaxial stack forming off-set dual material channels for gate-all-around CMOS
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsXin Miao, Jingyun Zhang, Alexander Reznicek, Choonghyun Lee
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Abstract
A semiconductor structure is provided in which an nFET nanosheet stack of suspended silicon channel material nanosheets is present in an nFET device region and a pFET nanosheet stack of suspended silicon germanium alloy channel material nanosheets is present in a pFET device region. The silicon channel material nanosheets of the nFET nanosheet stack are off-set by one nanosheet from the silicon germanium alloy channel material nanosheets of the pFET nanosheet stack.
Claims14
A semiconductor structure comprising:
- an nFET device region comprising an nFET nanosheet stack of suspended silicon channel material nanosheets located entirely above a p-type silicon punch through stop layer that is present directly on a first portion of a silicon substrate having a first height;
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- a pFET device region located laterally adjacent the nFET device region and comprising a pFET nanosheet stack of suspended silicon germanium alloy channel material nanosheets located entirely above an n-type doped silicon germanium alloy layer that is present directly on a second portion of the semiconductor substrate having a second height that is greater than the first height, wherein each suspended silicon channel material nanosheet in the nFET device region is vertically and horizontally off-set by one nanosheet from each silicon germanium alloy channel material nanosheet in the pFET device region, and the p-type silicon punch through stop layer is vertically and horizontally off-set from the n-type doped silicon germanium alloy layer, and wherein the n-type doped silicon germanium alloy layer has a topmost surface that is coplanar with a bottommost surface of a bottommost silicon channel material nanosheet of the suspended silicon channel material nanosheets and a bottommost surface that directly contacts the second portion of the semiconductor substrate and is coplanar with a topmost surface of the p-type silicon punch through stop layer.
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