Detailed Description
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the description is illustrative only and is not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. Moreover, in the following description, descriptions of well-known structures and techniques are omitted so as to not unnecessarily obscure the concepts of the present disclosure.
Various structural schematics according to embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the figures. The figures are not drawn to scale, wherein certain details are exaggerated and possibly omitted for clarity of presentation. The shapes of various regions, layers, and relative sizes and positional relationships therebetween shown in the drawings are merely exemplary, and deviations may occur in practice due to manufacturing tolerances or technical limitations, and a person skilled in the art may additionally design regions/layers having different shapes, sizes, relative positions, as actually required.
In the context of the present disclosure, when a layer/element is referred to as being "on" another layer/element, it can be directly on the other layer/element or intervening layers/elements may be present. In addition, if a layer/element is "on" another layer/element in one orientation, then that layer/element may be "under" the other layer/element when the orientation is reversed.
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a contact hole pattern mask and a method for manufacturing the contact hole pattern mask, which are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The main invention of the present disclosure is to change the contact hole pattern mask from a circle to an ellipse, and the adopted technical means is to change the shape of the mask by Optical Proximity Correction (OPC), and the included angle between the major axis of the ellipse and the drain line can be plus or minus 45 degrees.
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a first contact hole pattern mask shape according to the present disclosure; a contact hole pattern mask for manufacturing a drain contact hole pattern of the buried channel array transistor, the contact hole being a contact hole connecting a drain line of the drains of the two transistors and the drain of each transistor; by changing the shape of the mask using optical proximity correction, changing the contact hole pattern mask from a circular shape to an elliptical shape, the horizontal angle between the major axis of the elliptical shape and the drain line can be positive 45 degrees. The contact hole pattern manufactured through the circular contact hole pattern mask is circular, and has an area of: π r ^2(nm ^2) where r is the radius of the circle. In this embodiment, the contact hole pattern manufactured by the elliptical contact hole pattern mask is elliptical, and has an area of: π ra (nm ^2) where r is the minor axis radius, corresponding to the radius of the original circular mask, and a is the major axis radius.
Since the length of the major axis of the ellipse is greater than the minor axis, the area of the elliptical contact hole pattern mask, π ra, is greater than the area of the circular contact hole pattern mask, π r ^2, resulting in the area of the elliptical contact hole pattern being made greater than the area of the circular contact hole pattern. Therefore, due to the increase of the area caused by the long axis, the overlay margin of the long axis is enlarged, the generated overlay distribution is stable, the defect of the contact hole is reduced, and the yield of the contact hole manufacture is improved.
The elliptical contact hole pattern of the present embodiment has major and minor axis dimensions of 40nm or less.
The included angle between the major axis of the ellipse and the drain line is preferably 45 degrees, but the technical effect of the present disclosure can be better implemented when the included angle is less than 45 degrees. However, the case of more than 45 degrees is not generally adopted because the margin generated in the lateral direction is gradually reduced, resulting in poor technical effect of implementing the invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a second contact hole pattern mask shape according to the present disclosure; a contact hole pattern mask for manufacturing a drain contact hole pattern of the buried channel array transistor, the contact hole being a contact hole connecting a drain line of the drains of the two transistors and the drain of each transistor; by changing the shape of the mask using optical proximity correction, changing the contact hole pattern mask from circular to elliptical, the horizontal angle between the major axis of the ellipse and the drain line can be negative 45 degrees. The contact hole pattern manufactured through the circular contact hole pattern mask is circular, and has an area of: π r ^2(nm ^2) where r is the radius of the circle. In this embodiment, the contact hole pattern manufactured by the elliptical contact hole pattern mask is elliptical, and has an area of: π ra (nm ^2) where r is the minor axis radius, corresponding to the radius of the original circular mask, and a is the major axis radius.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of drain line contact for a buried channel array transistor made using the contact hole pattern mask of the present disclosure; in fig. 4, drain lines DL connect the drains of two rows of BCATs, and contact holes, two rows of contact holes DLC1 and DLC2 respectively, are formed at each contact of the drain lines with the BCATs. Both rows of contact hole patterns may be generated using the contact hole pattern mask of the present disclosure, or only one row of contact hole patterns selected may be generated using the contact hole pattern mask of the present disclosure.
Since the major axis length of the ellipse is greater than the minor axis, the area of the elliptical contact hole pattern mask is greater than that of the circular contact hole pattern mask, resulting in the preparation of an elliptical contact hole pattern having an area greater than that of the circular contact hole pattern. Therefore, due to the increase of the area caused by the long axis, the overlay margin of the long axis is enlarged, the generated overlay distribution is stable, the defect of the contact hole is reduced, and the yield of the contact hole manufacture is improved.
The elliptical contact hole pattern of the present embodiment has major and minor axis dimensions of 40nm or less.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating the concept of improving overlay margin after using the contact hole pattern mask of the present disclosure. Since the major axis length of the ellipse is greater than the minor axis, the area of the elliptical contact hole pattern mask is greater than that of the circular contact hole pattern mask, resulting in the preparation of an elliptical contact hole pattern having an area greater than that of the circular contact hole pattern. Therefore, due to the increase of the area caused by the long axis, the overlay margin of the long axis is enlarged, the generated overlay distribution is stable, the defect of the contact hole is reduced, and the yield of the contact hole manufacture is improved. The included angle between the major axis of the ellipse and the drain line is preferably minus 45 degrees in this embodiment, however, the technical effect of the present disclosure can be better implemented when the included angle is less than 45 degrees. However, the case of more than 45 degrees is not generally adopted because the margin generated in the lateral direction is gradually reduced, resulting in poor technical effect of implementing the invention.
Fig. 6 is a flowchart of a method for manufacturing a contact hole pattern mask according to the present disclosure, which includes the following steps:
s1, determining an optical proximity correction model of the contact hole pattern mask according to the specification of the contact hole pattern to be prepared;
s2, determining an alignment margin according to the optical proximity correction model; in this step, it can be further verified whether the overlay margin meets the design requirement;
and S3, manufacturing an elliptical contact hole pattern mask according to the overlay margin. In this step, first, the major and minor axis dimensions of the contact hole pattern mask are determined according to the overlay margin; then, an elliptical contact hole pattern mask is fabricated according to the major and minor axis dimensions.
Further, according to the practical use effect of the contact hole pattern mask, embodiments of the present disclosure may further include the steps of:
and S4, correcting the optical proximity correction model according to the wafer-level quality of the contact hole pattern mask.
In the above method flow, the composition of the contact hole pattern is determined by steps S1, S2. The method is suitable for the objects including the manufacture of contact hole patterns and the process of fusing all the objects.
Therefore, the method of the present disclosure expands the overlay margin of the long axis due to the increase of the area caused by the long axis, and the overlay distribution thereof is stable, so that the defects of the contact hole are reduced, thereby increasing the yield of the contact hole manufacturing.
In the present disclosure, there is also provided a semiconductor device including a buried channel array transistor, a drain contact hole pattern of the transistor being prepared using the above elliptical contact hole pattern mask.
In the above description, the technical details of patterning, etching, and the like of each layer are not described in detail. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that layers, regions, etc. of the desired shape may be formed by various technical means. In addition, in order to form the same structure, those skilled in the art can also design a method which is not exactly the same as the method described above. In addition, although the embodiments are described separately above, this does not mean that the measures in the embodiments cannot be used in advantageous combination.
The embodiments of the present disclosure have been described above. However, these examples are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. The scope of the disclosure is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof. Various alternatives and modifications can be devised by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present disclosure, and such alternatives and modifications are intended to fall within the scope of the present disclosure.