An object is to provide a semiconductor device of which a manufacturing process is not complicated and by which cost can be suppressed, by forming a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film typified by zinc oxide, and a manufacturing method thereof. For the semiconductor device, a gate electrode is formed over a substrate; a gate insulating film is formed covering the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film is formed over the gate insulating film; and a first conductive film and a second conductive film are formed over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film has at least a crystallized region in a channel region.

Semiconductor device, and manufacturing method thereof

For 50 years the exponential rise in the power of electronics has been fuelled by an increase in the density of silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors and improvements to their logic performance. But silicon transistor scaling is now reaching its limits, threatening to end the microelectronics revolution. Attention is turning to a family of materials that is well placed to address this problem: group III-V compound semiconductors. The outstanding electron transport properties of these materials might be central to the development of the first nanometre-scale logic transistors.

Nanometre-scale electronics with III–V compound semiconductors

Process gas discharged from a bypass pipe to a gas exhaust system can be prevented from diffusing back to the inside of a process chamber without having to install a dedicated vacuum pump at the downstream side of the bypass pipe. The substrate processing apparatus includes a process chamber accommodating a substrate, a gas supply system supplying process gas from a process gas source to the process chamber for processing the substrate, a gas exhaust system configured to exhaust the process chamber, two or more vacuum pumps installed in series at the gas exhaust system, and a bypass pipe connected between the gas supply system and the gas exhaust system. The most upstream one of the vacuum pumps is a mechanical booster pump, and the bypass pipe is connected between the mechanical booster pump and the rest vacuum pumps located at a downstream side of the mechanical booster pump.

Substrate Processing Apparatus

This paper reviews the history of strained-silicon and the adoption of uniaxial-process-induced strain in nearly all high-performance 90-, 65-, and 45-nm logic technologies to date. A more complete data set of n- and p-channel MOSFET piezoresistance and strain-altered gate tunneling is presented along with new insight into the physical mechanisms responsible for hole mobility enhancement. Strained-Si hole mobility data are analyzed using six band k/spl middot/p calculations for stresses of technological importance: uniaxial longitudinal compressive and biaxial stress on [001] and [110] wafers. The calculations and experimental data show that low in-plane and large out-of-plane conductivity effective masses and a high density of states in the top band are all important for large hole mobility enhancement. This work suggests longitudinal compressive stress on [001] or [110] wafers and channel direction offers the most favorable band structure for holes. The maximum Si inversion-layer hole mobility enhancement is estimated to be /spl sim/ 4 times higher for uniaxial stress on (100) wafer and /spl sim/ 2 times higher for biaxial stress on (100) wafer and for uniaxial stress on a [110] wafer.

Uniaxial-process-induced strained-Si: extending the CMOS roadmap

This review paper explores considerations for ultimate CMOS transistor scaling Transistor architectures such as extremely thin silicon-on-insulator and FinFET (and related architectures such as TriGate, Omega-FET, Pi-Gate), as well as nanowire device architectures, are compared and contrasted Key technology challenges (such as advanced gate stacks, mobility, resistance, and capacitance) shared by all of the architectures will be discussed in relation to recent research results

Considerations for Ultimate CMOS Scaling

For the first time, we have successfully fabricated gate-all-around twin silicon nanowire transistor (TSNWFET) on bulk Si wafer using self-aligned damascene-gate process With 10nm diameter nanowire, saturation currents through twin nanowires of 264 mA/mum, 111 mA/mum for n-channel TSNWFET and p-channel TSNWFET are obtained, respectively No roll-off of threshold voltages, ~70 mV/dec of substhreshold swing (SS), and ~20 mV/V of drain induced barrier lowering(DIBL) down to 30 nm gate length are observed for both n-ch and p-ch TSNWFETs

High performance 5nm radius Twin Silicon Nanowire MOSFET (TSNWFET) : fabrication on bulk si wafer, characteristics, and reliability

A field-effect transistor (FET) with a round-shaped nano-wire channel and a method of manufacturing the FET are provided. According to the method, source and drain regions are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A plurality of preliminary channel regions is coupled between the source and drain regions. The preliminary channel regions are etched, and the etched preliminary channel regions are annealed to form FET channel regions, the FET channel regions having a substantially circular cross-sectional shape.

Semiconductor device having a round-shaped nano-wire transistor channel and method of manufacturing same

Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device using a selective epitaxial growth technique include forming a recess in a semiconductor substrate. The substrate having the recess is loaded into a reaction chamber. A semiconductor source gas and a main etching gas are injected into the reaction chamber to selectively grow an epitaxial semiconductor layer on a sidewall and on a bottom surface of the recess. A selective etching gas is injected into the reaction chamber to selectively etch a fence of the epitaxial semiconductor layer which is adjacent to the sidewall of the recess and grown to a level that is higher than an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate.

Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device using a selective epitaxial growth technique

Field effect transistors (FETs) and methods of fabricating FETs that include a channel layer on sidewalls of a structure on a semiconductor substrate and having at least a portion of the channel layer strained in a direction that the sidewalls of the structure extend from the semiconductor substrate are provided. The transistor may be a FinFET, the structure on the semiconductor substrate that includes a fin structure and the sidewalls may be sidewalls of the fin structure. The channel layer may be a Si epitaxial layer and may be on an inner fin structure that includes alternating layers of SiGe and Si. The channel layer may include strained and unstrained portions. The strained and unstrained portions may be sidewalls of the channel layer.

Field effect transistors having a strained silicon channel and methods of fabricating same

In a method of fabricating a CMOS transistor, and a CMOS transistor fabricated according to the method, the characteristics of first and second conductivity type MOS transistors are both simultaneously improved. At the same time, the fabrication process is simplified by reducing the number of masks required. The method includes amorphizing the active region of only the second conductivity type MOS transistor, and performing selective etching to form a first recessed region of a first depth in the active region of the first conductivity type MOS transistor and a second recessed region of a second depth that is greater than the first depth in the active region of the second conductivity type MOS transistor. Selective epitaxial growth is performed in the first and second recessed regions to form an elevated epitaxial layer that fills the first recessed region and extends to a level that is above the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and to form a recessed epitaxial layer that fills the second recessed region.

Dong-Suk Shin

Papers

High performance 5nm radius Twin Silicon Nanowire MOSFET (TSNWFET) : fabrication on bulk si wafer, characteristics, and reliability

Semiconductor device having a round-shaped nano-wire transistor channel and method of manufacturing same

Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device using a selective epitaxial growth technique

Field effect transistors having a strained silicon channel and methods of fabricating same

Method of fabricating CMOS transistor and CMOS transistor fabricated thereby