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US 11,901,240 B2Granted
Multi-fin vertical field effect transistor and single-fin vertical field effect transistor on a single integrated circuit chip
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJeonghyuk Yim, Kang Ill Seo
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Abstract
Provided is a vertical field-effect transistor (VFET) device which includes: a substrate; a plurality of single-fin VFETs including respective 1st fin structures on the substrate; and a plurality of multi-fin VFETs each of which includes a plurality of 2nd fin structures on the substrate, wherein a fin pitch of the 2nd fin structures is smaller than a fin pitch of the 1st fin structures.
Claims7
A vertical field-effect transistor (VFET) device comprising:
- a substrate;
- at least one single-fin VFET formed on the substrate, and each of the at least one single-fin VFET comprising a fin structure and a gate structure surrounding the fin structure, the fin structure forming a channel for current flow in a vertical direction;
- a plurality of multi-fin VFETs formed on the same substrate, each of the plurality of multi-fin VFETs comprising a plurality of fin structures and a connected gate structure surrounding the fin structures;
- and
- a 1st isolation structure between a single-fin VFET and a neighboring multi-fin VFET to electrically disconnect the gate structure of the single-fin VFET and the connected gate structure of the neighboring multi-fin VFET,
- wherein the connected gate structure is formed in a space between the neighboring two fin structures among the plurality of fin structures
- wherein a 2nd isolation structure is formed between two neighboring multi-fin VFETs to electrically disconnect the connected gate structures of the two neighboring multi-fin VFETs from each other,
- wherein the fin structure of the at least one single-fin VFET, the plurality of fin structures of each of the multi-fin VFETs, and the 1stand 2ndisolation structures are extended in directions parallel to each other and a top surface of the substrate, perpendicular to a direction in which the plurality of fin structures are arranged.
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A vertical field-effect transistor (VFET) device comprising:
- a substrate;
- at least one single-fin VFET formed on the substrate, and each of the at least one single-fin VFET comprising a fin structure and a gate structure surrounding the fin structure, the fin structure forming a channel for current flow in a vertical direction;
- at least one multi-fin VFET formed on the same substrate, each of the at least one multi-fin VFET comprising a plurality of fin structures and a connected gate structure surrounding the fin structures;
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- an isolation structure between a single-fin VFET and a neighboring multi-fin VFET to electrically disconnect the gate structure of the single-fin VFET and the connected gate structure of the neighboring multi-fin VFET,
- wherein the connected gate structure is formed in a space between the neighboring two fin structures among the plurality of fin structures,
- wherein a horizontal width of a fin structure of the multi-fin VFET is smaller than a horizontal width of the fin structure of the single-fin VFET.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.