Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a floating gate manufacturing method of a Nor flash memory, a circuit and application thereof, and a method for removing silicon nitride by two-step etching is adopted, so that the stability and reliability of a NOR flash memory storage unit are effectively improved.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows:
a method for manufacturing a floating gate of a Nor flash memory comprises the following steps:
sequentially depositing a silicon dioxide layer and a silicon nitride layer on a silicon substrate in sequence;
performing photoetching by adopting a prefabricated storage unit silicon substrate photomask, and etching to form a shallow trench isolation channel;
filling an isolation medium into the shallow trench isolation channel, and enabling the surface of the shallow trench isolation channel to be flush with the silicon nitride layer;
performing wet etching operation of removing silicon nitride twice to form a groove, wherein each operation comprises isolation medium quantitative etching and silicon nitride quantitative etching which are performed in sequence;
removing the silicon dioxide layer on the silicon substrate at the bottom of the groove by wet etching;
depositing silicon dioxide again at the bottom of the groove to form a grid oxide layer;
and filling polysilicon into the trench, and making the surface of the trench flush with the upper surface of the isolation medium to form a floating gate polysilicon layer.
Preferably, the thickness of the silicon dioxide layer is
The thickness of the silicon nitride layer is
The depth of the shallow trench isolation channel is
And forming a shallow trench isolation channel by dry etching, wherein the size of the top of the active region of the flash memory unit remained on the etched silicon substrate is 50-100 nanometers.
Preferably, the isolation medium is silicon dioxide, and the redundant silicon dioxide layer is removed through a chemical mechanical polishing process to enable the surface of the redundant silicon dioxide layer to be flush with the silicon nitride layer.
Preferably, the isolation medium quantitative etching is hydrofluoric acid etching, and the silicon nitride quantitative etching is phosphoric acid etching.
Preferably, when performing the wet etching operation of the first silicon nitride removal, the method adopts
Performing isolation medium quantitative etching by using hydrofluoric acid with silicon dioxide etching amount
Performing silicon nitride quantitative etching by phosphoric acid with silicon nitride etching amount;
when performing the wet etching operation of the second silicon nitride removal, adopting
Performing isolation medium quantitative etching by using hydrofluoric acid with silicon dioxide etching amount
The phosphoric acid of the silicon nitride etching amount performs silicon nitride quantitative etching.
Preferably, the wet etching for removing the silicon dioxide layer on the silicon substrate at the bottom of the trench is specifically adopted
The hydrofluoric acid etching amount of the silicon dioxide etching amount leaves the silicon dioxide layer on the surface of the silicon substrate.
Preferably, the redeposited silicon dioxide forms a gate oxide layer thickness of
The thickness of the floating gate polysilicon layer is
The width is 60-100 nanometers.
The invention also provides a Nor flash memory circuit which comprises the floating gate prepared by the method.
The invention also provides a chip comprising the NOR flash memory circuit.
The invention also provides an electronic device, which comprises the chip.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the method can generate the relatively vertical side surface of the groove of the isolation medium, so that the subsequent filling of a polycrystalline silicon layer is facilitated, meanwhile, a grid oxide layer is formed by generating silicon dioxide layers twice, the bottom of the groove can be well matched, so that a floating gate polycrystalline silicon layer with excellent electrical property is obtained, and a Nor flash memory circuit with high stability and reliability is formed.
Further salient features and significant advances with respect to the present invention over the prior art are described in further detail in the examples section.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that certain names are used throughout the specification and claims to refer to particular components. It will be understood that one of ordinary skill in the art may refer to the same component by different names. The present specification and claims do not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but not function. As used in the specification and claims of this application, the terms "comprises" and "comprising" are intended to be open-ended terms that should be interpreted as "including, but not limited to," or "including, but not limited to. The embodiments described in the detailed description are preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, in the floating gate manufacturing method of Nor flash memory provided in this embodiment, the same steps and parameters as those in the prior art are not described much, and those skilled in the art can select the steps and parameters as needed, and only the content of the innovative design of the invention is described in detail in this embodiment;
the preparation method of this example includes:
referring to fig. 2, a
silicon dioxide layer 2 is deposited on a
silicon substrate 1, wherein the thickness of the
silicon dioxide layer 2 is
Wherein
Is equal to 10
-10Rice, one tenth of a nanometer;
the deposition is continued outside the
silicon dioxide layer 2 to a thickness of
A
silicon nitride layer 3;
referring to fig. 3, photolithography is performed on the wafer using a memory cell silicon substrate mask, where photolithography is a process of removing a specific portion of a thin film on the surface of the wafer through a series of manufacturing steps, after which the wafer surface is left with a micro-patterned structure. Through the photoetching process, the characteristic pattern part is finally reserved on the wafer, and the general photoetching process needs to go through the procedures of cleaning and drying the surface of the silicon wafer, coating a bottom, spin-coating a photoresist, soft drying, aligning exposure, post-drying, developing, hard drying, etching, detecting and the like, and is not described in detail herein;
referring to fig. 3, a shallow trench isolation trench 4(STI) is formed by etching, the depth of the shallow trench isolation trench 4 being
Etching the top size of the flash memory unit
active area 9 remained on the
silicon substrate 1 to be 50-100 nanometers; here, the etching is dry etching, which mainly refers to exposing the surface of a silicon wafer to plasma generated in a gas state, and the plasma reacts with the silicon wafer (or both) through a window opened in the photoresist, thereby removing exposed surface materials, and has very good directionality, and a nearly vertical etching profile can be obtained, and the dry etching is mainly divided into three types: metal etching, dielectric etching and silicon etching, wherein the dielectric etching is used for etching dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide, and etching media are needed for manufacturing contact holes and through hole structures, and window etching with high depth-to-width ratio (ratio of depth to width of a window) has certain challenge; silicon etching (including polysilicon) is applied to occasions needing to remove silicon, such as etching polysilicon transistor gates and silicon groove capacitors; the metal etching mainly comprises the steps of removing an aluminum alloy composite layer on a metal layer to manufacture an interconnection line; the dry etching mainly comprises medium etching and silicon etching, and specific etching gas parameters are proportioned as required by people in the field, and are not described in detail;
referring to fig. 4, an isolation medium 5, silicon dioxide, is filled into the shallow trench isolation channel 4, and the surface of the isolation medium is flush with the silicon nitride layer 3, and the excess isolation medium 5 is removed mainly by a chemical mechanical polishing process, so that the surface of the isolation medium is flush with the silicon nitride layer 3;
referring to fig. 5, a wet etching operation of removing silicon nitride is performed twice to form a trench 6, and each operation includes isolation medium quantitative etching and silicon nitride quantitative etching which are performed in sequence;
in this embodiment, the isolation medium is etched by hydrofluoric acid, and the silicon nitride is etched by phosphoric acid, specifically
When the wet etching operation of the first silicon nitride removal is carried out, the method adopts
Performing isolation medium quantitative etching by using hydrofluoric acid with silicon dioxide etching amount
Performing silicon nitride quantitative etching by phosphoric acid with silicon nitride etching amount;
when performing the wet etching operation of the second silicon nitride removal, adopting
Performing isolation medium quantitative etching by using hydrofluoric acid with silicon dioxide etching amount
Phosphoric acid of silicon nitride etching amount performs silicon nitride quantitative etching
Referring to fig. 6, the
silicon dioxide layer 2 on the silicon substrate at the bottom of the
trench 6 is removed by wet etching, specifically, the wet etching is performed
The hydrofluoric acid with the silicon dioxide etching amount is used for etching the
silicon dioxide layer 2 remained on the surface of the
silicon substrate 1, and meanwhile, the height of the
isolation medium 5 and the width of the
groove 6 formed between the
isolation medium 5 are also increased;
referring to FIG. 7, the re-deposition is performed at the bottom of the
trench 6
Form of silicon dioxideThe gate oxide layer 7 of the NOR flash memory is formed by, for example, high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition (hdp-cvd) silicon oxide to form the gate oxide layer 7;
referring to fig. 8, polysilicon is filled into the
trench 6, and the surface of the polysilicon is flush with the upper surface of the
isolation medium 5 to form a floating gate polysilicon layer 8, specifically, polysilicon is filled into the trench and the upper surfaces of the polysilicon and the
isolation medium 5 are flush with each other by using chemical mechanical polishing to form the floating gate polysilicon layer 8, and the thickness of the formed floating gate polysilicon layer 8 is equal to that of the floating gate polysilicon layer 8
The floating gate polysilicon layer 8 is formed to have a width dimension of 60-100 nm.
Example 2
Referring to fig. 1, the present embodiment provides a memory circuit including a floating gate prepared by the method of embodiment 1.
Example 3
The embodiment provides a chip comprising the Nor flash memory circuit according to embodiment 2.
Example 4
The present embodiment provides an electronic device including the chip according to embodiment 3.
It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative embodiments, and that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.
Furthermore, it should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment may contain only a single embodiment, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should integrate the description, and the embodiments may be combined as appropriate to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.