Method for forming stacked nanowire transistors
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsTung Ying Lee, Shao-Ming Yu
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Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor stack including elongated semiconductor features isolated from each other and overlaid in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, and a second semiconductor stack including elongated semiconductor features isolated from each other and overlaid in the direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate. The second semiconductor stack has different geometric characteristics than the first semiconductor stack. A top surface of the first semiconductor stack is coplanar with a top surface of the second semiconductor stack.
Claims19
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first semiconductor stack including elongated semiconductor features spaced apart from each other and overlaid in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate;
- and
- a second semiconductor stack including elongated semiconductor features spaced apart from each other and overlaid in the direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate, the second semiconductor stack having different geometric characteristics than the first semiconductor stack, a top surface of a topmost elongated semiconductor feature of the first semiconductor stack being coplanar with a top surface of a topmost elongated semiconductor feature of the second semiconductor stack, wherein the topmost elongated semiconductor feature of the first semiconductor stack is formed of a different material than the topmost elongated semiconductor feature of the second semiconductor stack, wherein a bottommost elongated semiconductor feature from the first semiconductor stack is closer to the substrate than a bottommost elongated semiconductor feature from the second semiconductor stack without either bottommost elongated semiconductor features from the first or second semiconductor stacks physically directly contacting the substrate.
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first nanowire stack including a first plurality of nanowires;
- and
- a second nanowire stack including a second plurality of nanowires, wherein a nanowire of the first plurality of nanowires has a different thickness than a nanowire of the second plurality of nanowires, and wherein a top surface of a top-most nanowire of the first plurality of nanowires is coplanar with a top surface of a top-most nanowire of the second plurality of nanowires, wherein a bottommost nanowire from the first nanowire stack is closer to the substrate than a bottommost nanowire from the second nanowire stack without either bottommost nanowires from the first or second nanowire stacks directly contacting the substrate, wherein the bottommost nanowire from the second nanowire stack is thicker than the bottommost nanowire from the first nanowire stack, wherein the top-most nanowire of the first plurality of nanowires is formed of a different material than the top-most nanowire of the second plurality of nanowires.
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first nanowire stack including a first plurality of nanowires;
- a second nanowire stack including a second plurality of nanowires, the second nanowire stack having different geometric characteristics than the first nanowire stack;
- and
- an isolation feature disposed in the substrate adjacent the first nanowire stack, and
- wherein a bottommost nanowire from the first plurality of nanowires is closer to the substrate than a bottommost nanowire from the second plurality of nanowires without either bottommost nanowires from the first or second plurality of nanowires directly contacting the substrate, wherein the bottommost nanowire from the second plurality of nanowires is thicker than the bottommost nanowire from the first plurality of nanowires, wherein the first plurality of nanowires has a different number of nanowires than the second plurality of nanowires.
The semiconductor of device 15, wherein each elongated semiconductor feature of the first semiconductor stack has a first thickness, wherein the first semiconductor stack is part of a first transistor in a single circuit, and
- wherein each elongated semiconductor feature of the second semiconductor stack has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness, wherein the second semiconductor stack is part of a second transistor in the single circuit, the second transistor performing a different function than the first transistor, wherein an input/output operation of the second transistor improves because of the thicker elongated semiconductor features of the second semiconductor stack.
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