Summary of the invention
In summary of the invention part, introduced the concept of a series of reduced forms, this will further describe in embodiment part.Summary of the invention part of the present invention does not also mean that key feature and the essential features that will attempt to limit technical scheme required for protection, does not more mean that the protection range of attempting to determine technical scheme required for protection.
The preparation method who the invention provides a kind of semiconductor device, comprising:
Semiconductor substrate is provided, on described substrate, at least comprises the first fin and the second fin;
On described substrate, deposit high work function metal material layer, to cover described the first fin and described the second fin;
On the described high work function metal material layer of described the second fin and both sides, form low work function metal material layer, to form work function metal material laminate on described the second fin;
Deposition gate pattern mask layer, low work function metal material layer and described high work function metal material layer described in etching, to form grid structure on described the first fin and described the second fin.
As preferably, form after described grid structure, carry out annealing steps, so that the low work function metal in the described low work function metal material layer on described the second fin diffuses in described high work function metal material layer.
As preferably, form after described grid structure, also comprise the step of deposition interlayer dielectric layer planarization.
As preferably, when described interlayer dielectric layer is removed in described planarization, remove remaining described high work function metal material layer and described low work function metal material layer on described fin, to form independently bigrid without junction structure.
As preferably, low work function metal material layer and described high work function metal material layer described in dry etching, to form grid structure.
As preferably, described dry etching is selected Cl
2and O
2combination, or CHF
3and O
2combination.
As preferably, described method is further comprising the steps of:
Before the high work function metal material layer of deposition, on described the first fin region and described the second fin region, carry out dissimilar doping.
As preferably, described the first fin both sides doping P type dopant, to form PMOS.
As preferably, described the second fin both sides doped N-type dopant, to form NMOS.
As preferably, described high work function metal material layer is Mo.
As preferably, described low work function metal material layer is Ta.
As preferably, on described substrate, deposit after high work function metal material layer, in described the first fin both sides, carry out same type or dissimilar Implantation, to form identical or different threshold voltages.
As preferably, on described the second fin, deposit after low work function metal material layer, in described the second fin both sides, carry out same type or dissimilar Implantation, to form identical or different threshold voltages.
The present invention also provides a kind of and has had independent double-metal grid without the semiconductor device of junction structure, and it comprises:
Semiconductor substrate;
Be positioned at the first fin and the second fin in described Semiconductor substrate;
Uniform doped with dissimilar dopant in described the first fin both sides and described the second fin both sides substrate;
Be positioned at the high work function metal material layer of described the first fin both sides, to form independently bigrid in described the first fin region without junction structure,
Be positioned at high work function metal material layer and the low work function metal material layer of described the second fin both sides, to form independently bigrid in described the second fin region without junction structure.
As preferably, described high work function metal material layer is Mo.
As preferably, described low work function metal material layer is Ta.
As preferably, the dopant of described the second fin both sides is N-type dopant, to form NMOS.
As preferably, the dopant of described the second fin both sides is P type dopant, to form PMOS.
As preferably, between the high work function metal material layer on described the first fin and the high work function metal material layer on described the second fin, mutually isolate.
(Vth) is controlled for threshold voltage in the device that the method for the invention prepares, and there is no node between the double-metal grid for preparing of described method, for bigrid FinFET independently, make the threshold voltage (Vth) of semiconductor device more stable, strengthened the performance of sram cell.
Embodiment
In the following description, a large amount of concrete details have been provided to more thorough understanding of the invention is provided.Yet, it is obvious to the skilled person that the present invention can be implemented without one or more these details.In other example, for fear of obscuring with the present invention, for technical characterictics more well known in the art, be not described.
In order thoroughly to understand the present invention, by propose detailed description in following description, so that the preparation method of semiconductor device of the present invention to be described.Obviously, execution of the present invention is not limited to the specific details that the technical staff of semiconductor applications has the knack of.Preferred embodiment of the present invention is described in detail as follows, yet except these are described in detail, the present invention can also have other execution modes.
Should give attention, the term that used is here only in order to describe specific embodiment, but not intention restriction is according to exemplary embodiment of the present invention.As used herein, unless context explicitly points out in addition, otherwise singulative is also intended to comprise plural form.In addition, it is to be further understood that, when using in this manual term " to comprise " and/or when " comprising ", it indicates and has described feature, integral body, step, operation, element and/or assembly, but do not get rid of, does not exist or additional one or more other features, integral body, step, operation, element, assembly and/or their combination.
Now, describe in more detail according to exemplary embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.Yet these exemplary embodiments can multiple different form be implemented, and should not be interpreted as being only limited to the embodiments set forth herein.To should be understood that, to provide these embodiment of the present inventionly to disclose thoroughly and complete in order making, and the design of these exemplary embodiments is fully conveyed to those of ordinary skills.In the accompanying drawings, for the sake of clarity, exaggerated the thickness in layer and region, and used the identical Reference numeral to represent identical element, thereby will omit description of them.
Preparation method below in conjunction with Fig. 1-6 pair semiconductor device containing highly controlled fin of the present invention is described further:
As shown in Figure 1, provide Semiconductor substrate, on described substrate, at least comprise the first fin and the second fin;
Particularly, described Semiconductor substrate 101 can be at least one in following mentioned material: stacked SiGe (S-SiGeOI), germanium on insulator SiClx (SiGeOI) and germanium on insulator (GeOI) etc. on stacked silicon (SSOI), insulator on silicon, silicon-on-insulator (SOI), insulator.In Semiconductor substrate, can be defined active area.On this active area, can also include other active device, in order to simplify accompanying drawing, shown in do not indicate in figure.
Described Semiconductor substrate is divided into territory, nmos area and PMOS region in the present invention.
Then in described Semiconductor substrate, form fin, at least in described PMOS region and territory, nmos area, form respectively the first fin 20 and the second fin 10.The formation method of described the first fin and the second fin can be selected ability common method, for example in the present invention can be on described substrate epitaxial growth semiconductor material layer, then on described semiconductor material layer, form fin pattern mask layer, the photoresist mask layer that for example comprises fin CD, pattern, then take described fin pattern mask layer as semiconductor material layer described in mask etch, to described substrate, form the first fin 20 and the second fin 10, then remove described mask layer.
With reference to Fig. 2, on described substrate, deposit high work function metal material layer, to cover described the first fin and described the second fin;
Particularly, after forming described the first fin 20 and the second fin 10, on described substrate, carry out uniformly ion doping, for example on substrate, N-type doping is carried out in territory, nmos area, to form N-type transistor, carries out the doping of P type in PMOS region, to form P transistor npn npn, described N-type dopant comprises P, As, Sb, and described P type dopant comprises B and BF and In, and described doping method can be following any method:
First method is Implantation (Nitrogen implantation), and the ion energy of described injection is 1kev-10kev, and the ion dose of injection is 5 * 10
14-5 * 10
16atom/cm
2.Be preferably in the present invention below 400 ℃, and can comparatively independently control Impurity Distribution (ion energy) and impurity concentration (ion current density and injection length) by described method, the method more easily obtains the doping of high concentration, and be anisotropy doping, independently controlling depth and concentration.
The present invention also can select plasma doping (plasma doping), when adopting the method, generally selects higher temperature, generally selects in the present invention 900-1200 ℃, and described method is isotropism.
Then on described substrate, deposit high work function metal material layer, preferred Mo in the present invention, described deposition process can be selected a kind of in sputter (Sputtering), physical vapor deposition (PVD) method, and its thickness can be 40-100nm.
Then in the both sides of fin described in described PMOS region, carry out Implantation, wherein said injection ionic type can be identical or different, to form identical or different threshold voltages in described fin both sides, preferably carry out in the present invention dissimilar Implantation, form different threshold voltages, the ion of wherein said injection can select this area to commonly use kind, at this, will not enumerate.
Then on described the second fin and both sides, deposit low work function metal material layer, to cover described the second fin, and form work function metal material laminate on described the second fin;
Particularly, at the low work function metal material layer of the upper deposition of described high work function metal material layer (Mo material layer), preferred Ta in the present invention, then on described the second fin region, form mask layer, etching is removed and is positioned at the described low work function metal material layer on the first fin region, then remove mask layer, only on described the second fin region, form low work function metal material layer, in conjunction with the Mo material layer that is positioned at below, form work function metal material laminate, wherein said Ta selects physical vapor deposition (PVD) method to form, and its thickness can be 20-50nm.In this step, the high work function metal material layer on the high work function metal material layer on described the first fin region and described the second fin region is formed to isolation, to form separately independently grid structure simultaneously.
Then in the both sides of the second fin described in territory, described nmos area, carry out Implantation, wherein said injection ionic type can be identical or different, to form identical or different threshold voltages in described fin both sides, preferably carry out in the present invention dissimilar Implantation, form different threshold voltages, the ion of wherein said injection can select this area to commonly use kind, at this, will not enumerate.
With reference to Fig. 4, on described the first fin and described the second fin, form grid structure;
Particularly, can first on described metal material layer, form grid structure patterned mask layer, the described grid structure patterned mask layer of take is metal material layer described in mask etch, comprises Mo and Ta material layer, forms grid structure.
As preferably, described in etching, selecting Cl during metal material layer
2and O
2combination, or CHF
3and O
2combination, wherein gas flow is 10-400sccm, described etching pressure is 20-300mTorr, etching period is 5-120s, is preferably 5-60s, more preferably 5-30s.
After forming described grid structure, also comprise annealing steps; so that the described low work function metal material layer on described the second fin diffuses in described high work function metal material layer; wherein said annealing steps is generally that described substrate is placed under the protection of high vacuum or high-purity gas; being heated to certain temperature heat-treats; at high-purity gas of the present invention, be preferably nitrogen or inert gas; the temperature of described thermal anneal step is 900-1200 ℃, and the described thermal anneal step time is 1-200s.
As further preferred, can select rapid thermal annealing in the present invention, particularly, can select a kind of in following several mode: pulse laser short annealing, pulsed electron beam short annealing, ion beam short annealing, continuous wave laser short annealing and incoherent wideband light source (as halogen lamp, arc lamp, graphite heating) short annealing etc.Those skilled in the art can select as required, are also not limited to examples cited.
After executing annealing steps, can also further comprise the step that deposits interlayer dielectric layer, described interlayer dielectric layer can be used such as SiO2, fluorocarbon (CF), carbon doped silicon oxide (SiOC) or carbonitride of silicium (SiCN) etc. in an embodiment of the present invention.Or, also can use film having formed SiCN film etc. on fluorocarbon (CF).It is main component that fluorocarbon be take fluorine (F) and carbon (C).Fluorocarbon also can be used the material with noncrystal (amorphism) structure.Interlayer dielectric layer can also be used such as Porous structures such as carbon doped silicon oxide (SiOC).
Then carry out planarisation step, in this step, remove remaining described high work function metal material layer and described low work function metal material layer on described the first fin and the second fin, to form independently bigrid without junction structure (Dual gate junctionless) simultaneously.
Fig. 5 be the bigrid that forms in described PMOS without the vertical view of junction structure, in the both sides of described the first fin, formed and there is certain thickness Mo material layer.
Fig. 6 be the bigrid that forms in described NMOS without the vertical view of junction structure, in the both sides of described the first fin, formed and there is certain thickness work function metal material laminate.
The present invention also provides a kind of and has had independent double-metal grid without the semiconductor device of junction structure, and it comprises:
Semiconductor substrate;
Be positioned at the first fin and the second fin in described Semiconductor substrate;
Uniform doped with dissimilar dopant in described the first fin both sides and described the second fin both sides substrate;
Be positioned at the high work function metal material layer of described the first fin both sides, to form independently bigrid in described the first fin region without junction structure,
Be positioned at high work function metal material layer and the low work function metal material layer of described the second fin both sides, to form independently bigrid in described the second fin region without junction structure.
(Vth) is controlled for threshold voltage in the device that the method for the invention prepares, and there is no node (junction) between the double-metal grid for preparing of described method, for bigrid FinFET independently, make the threshold voltage (Vth) of semiconductor device more stable, strengthened the performance of sram cell.
Fig. 7 is the process chart that preparation the present invention prepares semiconductor device, comprises the following steps:
Step 201 provides Semiconductor substrate, at least comprises the first fin and the second fin on described substrate;
Step 202 deposits high work function metal material layer on described substrate, to cover described the first fin and described the second fin;
Step 203 forms low work function metal material layer on the described high work function metal material layer of described the second fin and both sides, to form work function metal material laminate on described the second fin;
Step 204 deposition gate pattern mask layer, low work function metal material layer and described high work function metal material layer described in etching, to form grid structure on described the first fin and described the second fin.
The present invention is illustrated by above-described embodiment, but should be understood that, above-described embodiment is the object for giving an example and illustrating just, but not is intended to the present invention to be limited in described scope of embodiments.In addition it will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to above-described embodiment, according to instruction of the present invention, can also make more kinds of variants and modifications, these variants and modifications all drop in the present invention's scope required for protection.Protection scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalent scope thereof.