Smoothing surface roughness of iii-v semiconductor fins formed from silicon mandrels by regrowth
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTze-Chiang Chen, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Sanghoon Lee, Effendi Leobandung
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Abstract
A method of forming a III-V semiconductor vertical fin is provided. The method includes forming a fin mandrel on a substrate, forming a spacer layer on the substrate surrounding the fin mandrel, forming a wetting layer on each of the sidewalls of the fin mandrel, forming a fin layer on each of the wetting layers, removing the fin mandrel, removing the wetting layer on each of the fin layers, and forming a fin layer regrowth on each of the sidewalls of the fin layers exposed by removing the wetting layer from each of the fin layers.
Claims16
A method of forming a III-V semiconductor vertical fin, comprising:
- forming a fin mandrel on a substrate;
- forming a spacer layer on the substrate surrounding the fin mandrel;
- forming a wetting layer on each of the sidewalls of the fin mandrel;
- aiming a fin layer on each of the wetting layers;
- removing the fin mandrel;
- removing the wetting layer on each of the fin layers;
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- forming a fin layer regrowth on each of the sidewalls of the fin layers exposed by removing the wetting layer from each of the fin layers.
A method of forming a III-V semiconductor vertical fin, comprising:
- forming a fin mandrel on a substrate;
- forming a spacer layer on the substrate surrounding the fin mandrel;
- forming a wetting layer on each of the sidewalls of the fin mandrel;
- forming a fin layer on each of the wetting layers, where the fin layer is a binary or ternary III-V semiconductor material;
- removing the fin mandrel;
- removing the wetting layer on each of the fin layers;
- forming a fin layer regrowth on each of the sidewalls of the fin layers exposed by removing the wetting layer from each of the fin layers;
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- forming a dummy gate layer over a middle section of a vertical fin including the fin layer regrowth and the fin layer.
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