Integrated circuit devices
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDongchan Suh, Dahye Kim
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Abstract
Provided is an integrated circuit device including: a plurality of fin-type active regions protruding from a top surface of a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction; at least one semiconductor layer, each including a lower semiconductor layer and an upper semiconductor layer sequentially stacked on at least one of the plurality of fin-type active regions; and a plurality of gate electrodes extending in a second horizontal direction crossing the first horizontal direction on the plurality of fin-type active regions, wherein the lower semiconductor layer includes a same material as a material of the upper semiconductor layer, and wherein a semiconductor interface is provided between the lower semiconductor layer and the upper semiconductor layer.
Claims20
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device, the method comprising:
- preparing a substrate having a cell region and a peripheral circuit region;
- forming a first stacked structure on the substrate, the first stacked structure including a plurality of sacrificial semiconductor layers and a plurality of nano-sheet semiconductor layers, the plurality of sacrificial semiconductor layers and the plurality of nano-sheet semiconductor layers being alternately stacked one-by-one on the substrate;
- forming a stack recess by removing a portion of the first stacked structure in the peripheral circuit region;
- forming a second stacked structure on the substrate in the peripheral circuit region, the second stacked structure including a lower semiconductor layer on the substrate and an upper semiconductor layer on the lower semiconductor layer;
- forming a plurality of fin-type active regions in the cell region and the peripheral circuit region defined by trenches by etching an upper portion of the substrate, a plurality of third stacked structures on the plurality of fin-type active regions in the cell region by etching the first stacked structure, and a plurality of fourth stacked structures on the plurality of fin-type active regions in the peripheral circuit region by etching the second stacked structure, the plurality of fin-type active regions extending in a first horizontal direction, each of the plurality of third stacked structures including portions of the sacrificial semiconductor layers and a plurality of nano-sheets that are portions of the plurality of nano-sheet semiconductor layers, and each of the plurality of fourth stacked structures including a portion of the lower semiconductor layer and a portion of the upper semiconductor layer;
- forming a device isolation layer filling the trenches;
- forming a plurality of source/drain regions on the on the plurality of fin-type active regions and the plurality of fourth stacked structures;
- removing portions of the sacrificial semiconductor layers;
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- forming a plurality of gate electrodes extending in a second horizontal direction crossing the first horizontal direction on the plurality of fin-type active regions,
- wherein the forming the second stacked structure comprises:
- forming the lower semiconductor layer on the substrate through an epitaxial growth at a first temperature by using the substrate exposed in the peripheral circuit region as the seed;
- forming a semiconductor amorphous layer on the lower semiconductor layer;
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- forming the upper semiconductor layer by crystallizing the semiconductor amorphous layer.
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device, the method comprising:
- preparing a substrate having a peripheral circuit region;
- forming a semiconductor epitaxial layer on the substrate in the peripheral circuit region;
- forming a semiconductor amorphous layer on the semiconductor epitaxial layer;
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- forming a semiconductor crystalline layer by crystallizing the semiconductor amorphous layer by performing heat treatment by using the semiconductor epitaxial layer as the seed;
- forming a plurality of fin-type active regions defined by trenches forming by etching an upper portion of the substrate, and a plurality of semiconductor layers by etching the semiconductor epitaxial layer and the semiconductor crystalline layer, each of the plurality of semiconductor layers including a lower semiconductor layer that is a portion of the semiconductor epitaxial layer and an upper semiconductor layer on the lower semiconductor layer that in a portion of the semiconductor crystalline layer;
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- forming a plurality of gate electrodes on the plurality of fin-type active regions and plurality of semiconductor layers,
- wherein a semiconductor interface is provided between the lower semiconductor layer and the upper semiconductor layer of the each of the plurality of semiconductor layers.
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