Transistors having stressed channel regions and methods of forming transistors having stressed channel regions
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrent A. Anderson, Edward J. Nowak
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Abstract
A method of forming a field effect transistor and a field effect transistor. The method includes (a) forming gate stack on a silicon layer of a substrate; (b) forming two or more SiGe filled trenches in the silicon layer on at least one side of the gate stack, adjacent pairs of the two or more SiGe filled trenches separated by respective silicon regions of the silicon layer; and (c) forming source/drains in the silicon layer on opposite sides of the gate stack, the source/drains abutting a channel region of the silicon layer under the gate stack.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- (a) forming gate stack on a silicon layer of a substrate;
- (b) forming two or more SiGe filled trenches in said silicon layer on at least one side of said gate stack, adjacent pairs of said two or more SiGe filled trenches separated by respective silicon regions of said silicon layer;
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- (c) forming source/drains in said silicon layer on opposite sides of said gate stack, said source/drains abutting a channel region of said silicon layer under said gate stack.
A structure, comprising:
- a gate stack on a silicon layer of a substrate;
- two or more SiGe filled trenches in said silicon layer on at least one side of said gate stack, adjacent pairs of said two or more SiGe filled trenches separated by respective silicon regions of said silicon layer;
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- source/drains in said silicon layer on opposite sides of said gate stack, said source/drains abutting a channel region of said silicon layer under said gate stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.