Stacked nanosheets by aspect ratio trapping
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKarthik Balakrishnan, Kangguo Cheng, Pouya Hashemi, Alexander Reznicek
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Abstract
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a plurality of suspended and stacked nanosheets of semiconductor channel material located above a pillar of a sacrificial III-V compound semiconductor material. Each semiconductor channel material comprises a semiconductor material that is substantially lattice matched to, but different from, the sacrificial III-V compound semiconductor material, and each suspended and stacked nanosheets of semiconductor channel material has a chevron shape. A functional gate structure can be formed around each suspended and stacked nanosheet of semiconductor channel material.
Claims9
A method of forming a semiconductor structure, said method comprising:
- providing a plurality of trench dielectric material portions located on a surface of a semiconductor substrate portion, wherein each trench dielectric material portion is separated from one another by an aspect ratio trapping trench;
- forming a semiconductor pillar structure within each aspect ratio trapping trench, wherein each semiconductor pillar structure includes alternating layers of a sacrificial III-V compound semiconductor material and a semiconductor channel material;
- recessing each trench dielectric material portion to expose each layer of said semiconductor channel material;
- forming a plurality of sacrificial gate structures on portions of each semiconductor pillar structure, wherein a dielectric spacer is present on each sidewall of each sacrificial gate structure;
- removing exposed portions of each semiconductor pillar structure not covered by said sacrificial gate structure and said dielectric spacer to provide a plurality of semiconductor nanosheet structures including a remaining portion of said alternating layers of sacrificial III-V compound semiconductor material and semiconductor channel material;
- removing each sacrificial gate structure;
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- suspending each remaining portion of each semiconductor channel material of each semiconductor nanosheet structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.