Technique for controlling mechanical stress in a channel...

Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Making field effect device having pair of active regions... – Having insulated gate

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C438S595000, C438S938000, C257SE21640

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07314793

ABSTRACT:
During the formation of a transistor element, sidewalls spacers are removed or at least partially etched back after ion implantation and silicidation, thereby rendering the mechanical coupling of a contact etch stop layer to the underlying drain and source regions more effective. Hence, the mechanical stress may be substantially induced by the contact etch step layer rather than by a combination of the spacer elements and the etch stop layer, thereby significantly facilitating the stress engineering in the channel region. By additionally performing a plasma treatment, different amounts of stress may be created in different transistor devices without unduly contributing to process complexity.

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Shimizu, “Local Mechanical-Stress Control (LMC): A New Technique for CMOS-Performance Enhancement”, 2001 IEEE.

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