Field effect transistors with 2-dimensional electron gas channels
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJulien Frougier, Kangguo Cheng, Ruilong Xie, Juntao Li, Chanro Park, Oleg Gluschenkov
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Abstract
A semiconductor structure that includes a channel region comprising vertically stacked channels of at least two III-V semiconductor material layers having a two dimensional electron gas regions at an interface of the at least two III-V semiconductor material layers; a gate all around (GAA) geometry gate structure present on the channel region; and source and drain regions on opposing sides of the channel region.
Claims20
A semiconductor structure comprising:
- a channel region comprising at least one channel of at least two III-V semiconductor material layers having a two dimensional electron gas regions at an interface of the at least two III-V semiconductor material layers;
- a gate all around (GAA) geometry gate structure present on the channel region;
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- source and drain regions on opposing sides of the channel region.
A semiconductor structure comprising:
- a channel region comprising at least one channel of at least two III-V semiconductor material layers having a two dimensional electron gas regions at an interface of the at least two III-V semiconductor material layers, wherein the at least two III-V semiconductor material layers include
- a core semiconductor layer and an epitaxial cladding layer that is present on the exterior faces of the core semiconductor layer;
- a gate all around (GAA) geometry gate structure present on the channel region;
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- source and drain regions on opposing sides of the channel region.
A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprising:
- forming a stack including a repeating sequence including a sacrificial III-V semiconductor material and at least two channel III-V semiconductor materials that form a two dimensional electron gas region at an interface of the at least two channel III-V semiconductor materials;
- forming a replacement gate structure on a channel region of a fin structure including the stack including the repeating sequence including a sacrificial III-V semiconductor material and at least two channel III-V semiconductor materials;
- forming III-V source and drain regions on source and drain portions of the fin structure at opposing ends of the channel region;
- removing the sacrificial III-V semiconductor material, and
- replacing the replacement gate structure with a functional gate structure having a gate all around (GAA) geometry on the at least two channel III-V semiconductor materials having the two dimensional electron gas region at the interface of the at least two channel III-V semiconductor materials.
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