Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsTien-Shun Chang, Chun-Feng Nieh, Huicheng Chang, Yee-Chia Yeo
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Abstract
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, comprises the following steps: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a dummy insulation layer and a dummy electrode sequentially stacked on the semiconductor substrate; forming spacers on sidewalls of the dummy electrode; removing the dummy electrode to exposes inner sidewalls of the spacers; and performing an ion implantation process to the inner sidewalls of the spacers and the dummy insulation layer.
Claims20
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- a semiconductor substrate comprising fin structures;
- insulators disposed above the semiconductor substrate and between the fin structures, wherein the fin structures protrude from the insulators;
- a stack structure disposed above the fin structures, wherein an extending direction of the stack structure is different with an extending direction of the fin structures, and the stack structure comprises a gate electrode and a gate insulation layer;
- spacers disposed on two opposite sides of the stack structure, wherein the spacers are implanted with molecular ions, wherein each of the molecular ions includes at least two fluorine atoms;
- an etch stop layer directly connected with outer sidewalls of the spacers and the top surface of the insulators;
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- an interlayer dielectric layer disposed on the etch stop layer, wherein the etch stop layer is disposed between the spacers and the interlayer dielectric layer and between the insulator and the interlayer dielectric layer.
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- a substrate comprising fin structures;
- insulators disposed above the substrate and between the fin structures;
- a stack structure disposed above the fin structures, wherein an extending direction of the stack structure is different with an extending direction of the fin structures, and the stack structure comprises a gate electrode and a gate insulation layer;
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- spacers disposed on two opposite sides of the stack structure, wherein each of the spacers comprises a first region and a second region, the first region is located beside top portions of the fin structures, the second region is located beside bottom portions of the fin structures protruding from the insulators, and a fluorine concentration in the first region is greater than a fluorine concentration in the second region.
A semiconductor device, comprising:
- a semiconductor substrate;
- insulators disposed above the semiconductor substrate;
- a stack structure disposed above the semiconductor substrate and the insulator, and the stack structure comprises a gate electrode and a gate insulation layer;
- an etch stop layer disposed above the semiconductor substrate and the insulator;
- spacers disposed on two opposite sides of the stack structure, wherein outer sidewalls of the spacers is directly connected with a first portion of the etch stop layer, inner sidewalls of the spacers is directly connected with the gate insulation layer of the stack structure, and the spacers are implanted with molecular ions;
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- an interlayer dielectric layer disposed on the etch stop layer, wherein a second portion of the etch stop layer is disposed between the insulator and the interlayer dielectric layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.