Field Effect Transistor With Etched-Back Gate Dielectric
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKatherine Saenger, Rajarao Jammy, Vijay Narayanan
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Abstract
An ultrathin high-k gate dielectric made for use in a field-effect transistor is provided. The gate dialectric is made by depositing a high-k gate dielectric material on a substrate and forming an ultrathin high-k dielectric by performing a thinning process on the high-k gate dielectric material. The process used to thin the high-k dielectric material can include at least one of any number of processes including wet etching, dry etching (including gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) processing), and hybrid damage/wet etching.
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An ultrathin high-k gate dielectric for use in a field-effect transistor made by a method comprising:
- depositing a high-k gate dielectric material on a substrate;
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- forming an ultrathin high-k dielectric by performing a thinning process on said high-k gate dielectric material, wherein the ultrathin high-k dielectric has a thickness of less than about 3 nm.
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