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US 11,894,378 B2Granted
Multiple nano layer transistor layers with different transistor architectures for improved circuit layout and performance
AssigneeTokyo Electron Limited
InventorsH. Jim Fulford, Mark I. Gardner
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Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of nano-channel field-effect transistor stacks positioned adjacent to each other such that source-drain regions are shared between adjacent nano-channel field-effect transistor stacks, each nano-channel field-effect transistor stack including at least two nano-channel field-effect transistors and corresponding source/drain regions vertically separated from each other.
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A method of forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising:
- forming nano-sheet structures each having stacked layers of different materials including at least two layers of channel material suitable for use as a channel of a field-effect transistor (FET);
- selectively masking a second portion of the nano-sheet structures while leaving a first portion including a first nano-sheet structure unmasked;
- forming a first doped source/drain region in uncovered openings at a first layer of channel material in the first nano-sheet structure while a second layer of channel material in the first nano-sheet structure is covered, and forming a second doped source/drain region in the uncovered openings at the second layer of channel material in the first nano-sheet structure, the second doped source/drain region positioned vertically above the first doped source/drain region;
- selectively masking the first portion of the nano-sheet structures while leaving the second portion including a second nano-sheet structure unmasked:
- forming a third doped source/drain region in uncovered openings at a first layer of channel material in the second nano-sheet structure while a second layer of channel material in the second nano-sheet structure is covered, and forming a fourth doped source/drain region in the uncovered openings at the second layer of channel material in the first nano-sheet structure, the fourth doped source/drain region positioned vertically above the third doped source/drain region, wherein the first doped source/drain region shares the first channel with the third source/drain region, and wherein the second doped source/drain region shares the second channel with the fourth source/drain region.
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