Etsoi cmos architecture with dual backside stressors
AssigneeGlobalfoundries Inc.
InventorsBin Yang, Michael Hargrove
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AssigneeGlobalfoundries Inc.
InventorsBin Yang, Michael Hargrove
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A semiconductor is formed on an ETSOI layer, the thin Si layer of an ETSOI substrate, with enhanced channel stress. Embodiments include semiconductor devices having dual stress liners on the back surface of the ETSOI layer. An embodiment includes forming an ETSOI substrate comprising an extra thin layer of Si on a backside substrate with an insulating layer, e.g., a BOX, there between, forming a semiconductor device on the Si surface, removing the backside substrate, as by CMP and the insulting layer, as by wet etching, and forming a stress liner on the backside of the remaining Si layer opposite the semiconductor device. The use of stress liners on the backside of the ETSOI layer enhances channel stress without modifying ETSOI semiconductor process flow.
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