Channel stop and well dopant migration control implant for reduced MOS threshold voltage mismatch
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorMahalingam Nandakumar
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AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorMahalingam Nandakumar
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A channel stop and well dopant migration control implant (e.g., of argon) can be used in the fabrication of a transistor (e.g., PMOS), either around the time of threshold voltage adjust and well implants prior to gate formation, or as a through-gate implant around the time of source/drain extension implants. With its implant depth targeted about at or less than the peak of the concentration of the dopant used for well and channel stop implants (e.g., phosphorus) and away from the substrate surface, the migration control implant suppresses the diffusion of the well and channel stop dopant to the surface region, a more retrograde concentration profile is achieved, and inter-transistor threshold voltage mismatch is improved without other side effects. A compensating through-gate threshold voltage adjust implant (e.g., of arsenic) or a threshold voltage adjust implant of increased dose can increase the magnitude of the threshold voltage to a desired level.
A metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor, comprising:
A metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor, comprising:
An metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor, comprising:
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