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US 12,170,230 B2Granted
Methods of forming bottom dielectric isolation layers
AssigneeApplied Materials, Inc.
InventorsSanKuei Lin, Pradeep K. Subrahmanyan
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Abstract
Embodiments of this disclosure relate to methods for removing a dummy material from under a superlattice structure. In some embodiments, after removing the dummy material, it is replaced with a bottom dielectric isolation layer beneath the superlattice structure.
Claims15
A processing method for removing a dummy material, the method comprising:
- forming a liner over a superlattice structure on a dummy material, the superlattice structure comprising a plurality of channel layers and a corresponding plurality of semiconductor material layers alternatingly arranged in a plurality of stacked pairs extending between a source trench and a drain trench, the semiconductor material layers comprising silicon (Si), the channel layers comprising of silicon-germanium (SiGe), and the dummy material comprising silicon doped with a dopant selected from one or more of boron, phosphorus, arsenic, or germanium, the concentration of dopant in a range of from 2 atomic percent to 10 atomic percent;
- removing the liner from the dummy material;
- and
- removing the dummy material without substantially affecting the channel layers and the semiconductor material layers covered by the liner.
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A processing method comprising:
- recessing a plurality of channel layers in a superlattice structure to remove a depth of channel material and form a plurality of recessed channel layers, the superlattice structure on a dummy material, the superlattice structure comprising the plurality of channel layers and a corresponding plurality of semiconductor material layers alternatingly arranged in a plurality of stacked pairs extending between a source trench and a drain trench, the plurality of semiconductor material layers comprising silicon (Si), the plurality of channel layers comprising silicon-germanium (SiGe), and the dummy material comprising silicon doped with a dopant selected from one or more of boron, phosphorus, arsenic, or germanium, the concentration of dopant in a range of from 2 atomic percent to 10 atomic percent;
- forming a conformal liner having a thickness over the plurality of recessed channel layers, the plurality of semiconductor material layers and the dummy material;
- removing the liner from the dummy material without exposing the plurality of recessed channel layers or the plurality of semiconductor material layers;
- removing the dummy material;
- etching the liner to expose the plurality of semiconductor material layers;
- depositing a bottom dielectric isolation layer under the superlattice structure;
- and
- depositing a silicon material on the bottom dielectric isolation layer to fill the superlattice structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.