Electrical Integrity of State-of-the-Art 0.13 prn SO1 CMOS Devices a n d Circuits T r a n s f e r r e d f o r Three-Dimensional (3D) I n t e g r a t e d C i r c u i t (IC) Fabrication
AbstractWe introduce a new scheme for building threedimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs) based on the layer transfer of completed devices. We demonstrate for the fmt time that the processes required for stacking active device layers preserve the intrinsic electrical characteristics of stateof-the-art short-channel MOSFETs and ring oscillator circuits, which is critical to the success of high performance 3D ICs.
Metastable Ge 1Ϫy C y alloys were grown by molecular beam epitaxy as homogeneous solid solutions having a diamond lattice structure. The substrates were ͑100͒ oriented Si wafers and the growth temperature was 600°C. We report on measurements of the composition, structure, lattice constant, and optical absorption of the alloy layers. In thick relaxed layers, C atomic fractions up to 0.03 were obtained with a corresponding band gap of 0.875 eV. These alloys offer new opportunities for fundamental studies, and for the development of silicon-based heterostructure devices.
Si thermal etching studies have been performed using pure
Cl2
in an ultrahigh vacuum rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition reactor in the temperature range of 650–850°C and the flow rate range of 1–10 sccm which corresponds to a pressure range of 0.5–3.5 mTorr. The effects of temperature and
Cl2
flow were investigated with thermodynamic equilibrium calculations performed to determine possible reaction pathways. The effect of adding
H2
, up to 500 sccm, on Si etch rates at 800 and 850°C was also obtained experimentally. Thermodynamic equilibrium calculations were used to support the experimental results and determine the reaction by‐products. It is proposed that
SiCl2
equilibrium partial pressure can be used as a means to compare the etching ability, thus the selectivity, of different selective Si processes. The results from the etching studies were used to explain the behavior of Si epitaxy growth rate from the
Si2H6,H2
and
Cl2
system in the 650–850°C, 22–24 mTorr processing regime. The implications of the etching studies for selective silicon epitaxy with the
Si2H6
and
Cl2
chemistry are discussed and then extended to the
SiH2Cl2
based chemistry.
We present the use of the Si2H6/H2/CL2 chemistry for selective silicon epitaxy by rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition (RTCVD). The experiments were carried out in an ultrahigh vacuum rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition reactor. Epitaxial layers were grown selectively with growth rates above 150 nm/min at 800 °C and 24 mTorr using 10% Si2H6 and H2 and Cl2 with a minimum Si:Cl ratio of 1. Excellent selectivity with respect to SiO2 and Si3N4 was obtained indicating that very low Cl2 partial pressures are sufficient to preserve selectivity. In situ doping results with B2H6 show that sharp doping transitions and a wide range of B concentrations can be obtained with a slight B incorporation rate reduction with Cl2 addition. Our results indicate that UHV-RTCVD with the Si2H6/H2/Cl2 chemistry yields highly selective Si epitaxy with growth rates well within the practical throughput limits of single wafer manufacturing and with a potential to reduce the Cl content below the levels used in conventional SiH2Cl2 based selective epitaxy processes.
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