R. Malik, L. Clevenger, I. McStay, O. Gluschenkov, W. Robl, P. Shafer, G. Stojakovic, W. Yan, M. Naeem, R. Ramachandran, K. Wong, J. Prakash, W. Kang, Y. Li, R. Vollertsen, A. Strong, W. Bergner, R. Divakaruni, G. Bronner
{"title":"W/WN/poly gate implementation for sub-130 nm vertical cell DRAM","authors":"R. Malik, L. Clevenger, I. McStay, O. Gluschenkov, W. Robl, P. Shafer, G. Stojakovic, W. Yan, M. Naeem, R. Ramachandran, K. Wong, J. Prakash, W. Kang, Y. Li, R. Vollertsen, A. Strong, W. Bergner, R. Divakaruni, G. Bronner","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934932","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the implementation of W/WN/poly gates in a 135 nm sub-8F2 vertical cell DRAM technology with dual gate oxide planar support transistors. Key features include low sheet resistance wordlines, high performance peripheral logic circuitry and a scalable memory cell array. A process flow detailing the decoupling of the array and support regions of the DRAM to achieve planar support transistors with L/sub eff/(nFET)<140 nm is discussed.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123750195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep sub-micron CMOS device design for low power analog applications","authors":"H. Deshpande, B. Cheng, J. Woo","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934960","url":null,"abstract":"Signal swing, power and device performance requirements for analog applications result in trade-offs for scaled MOSFET design. This paper presents a comprehensive study on optimization of deep sub-micron NMOS device for low power analog applications. It is shown that novel channel engineering is essential along with thin gate oxides and shallow junctions for improving the device analog performance.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125151960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S.Y. Lee, H.H. Kim, D. Jung, Y.J. Song, N. Jang, M.K. Choi, B.K. Jeon, Y.T. Lee, K.M. Lee, S. Joo, S.O. Park, K. Kim
{"title":"Highly scalable sub-10F/sup 2/ 1T1C COB cell for high density FRAM","authors":"S.Y. Lee, H.H. Kim, D. Jung, Y.J. Song, N. Jang, M.K. Choi, B.K. Jeon, Y.T. Lee, K.M. Lee, S. Joo, S.O. Park, K. Kim","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934974","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, technology innovation for high density and high performance FRAM has been pronounced. Among the breakthrough technologies for high density and high performance FRAM, 1T1C capacitor-on-bitline (COB) cell technology is essential because it can greatly reduce FRAM cell size compared to previous and current 2T2C FRAMs (Kinam Kim, 1999; Lee et al., 1999). Design improvement for enhanced sensing ability is also a promising technology for highly reliable mega-bit density FRAM (Jeon et al, 2000). Although the recent demonstration shows a promising future for stand-alone FRAM applications, current 1T1C COB FRAM still has incomparably large cell size factor compared to DRAM and flash. This is one of the most challenging issues that FRAM faces for developing high-density stand-alone memory. In this work, a novel cell structure for sub-10 F/sup 2/ cell size is for the first time developed. The key technologies for the sub-10 F/sup 2/ novel cell are: (1) advanced oxidation barrier and PZT film technologies which enables MIM ferroelectric capacitors to be lowered to /spl sim/500 nm thick stack: (2) single-mask capacitor etching technology which can produce >80/spl deg/ ferroelectric capacitor fence slope; (3) no cell via contact technology by which capacitor pitch can ideally be reduced to 2F; (4) an Al-reflow process which enables sub-0.4 /spl mu/m back-end interconnection without degrading the ferroelectric capacitor. The novel cell is demonstrated with an experimental 4 Mb FRAM, where the 1T1C COB cell is fabricated with folded bit line architecture and plate line-up sensing scheme.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"107 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131386366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Lee, Y.H. Kim, H. Luan, S.J. Lee, T. Jeon, W. Bai, D. Kwong
{"title":"MOS devices with high quality ultra thin CVD ZrO/sub 2/ gate dielectrics and self-aligned TaN and TaN/poly-Si gate electrodes","authors":"C. Lee, Y.H. Kim, H. Luan, S.J. Lee, T. Jeon, W. Bai, D. Kwong","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934987","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we have successfully fabricated and characterized self-aligned TaN and TaN/poly-Si gated n-MOSFETs with ultra thin (EOT=11 /spl Aring/) CVD ZrO/sub 2/ gate dielectrics. It is show that while both gate stacks show excellent leakage current and good thermal stability after a 900/spl deg/C, 30 s, N/sub 2/ anneal, the TaN/poly-Si ZrO/sub 2/ devices exhibit superior thermal stability even after 1000/spl deg/C, 30 s, N/sub 2/ anneal. In addition, the TaN/poly-Si devices show negligible frequency dependence of CV, charge trapping, and superior TDDB characteristics, compared to TaN devices. Well-behaved N-MOSFETs with both TaN and TaN/poly-Si gate electrodes are demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115939486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Onishi, L. Kang, R. Choi, E. Dharmarajan, S. Gopalan, Y. Jeon, C. Kang, B. Lee, R. Nieh, J.C. Lee
{"title":"Dopant penetration effects on polysilicon gate HfO/sub 2/ MOSFET's","authors":"K. Onishi, L. Kang, R. Choi, E. Dharmarajan, S. Gopalan, Y. Jeon, C. Kang, B. Lee, R. Nieh, J.C. Lee","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934984","url":null,"abstract":"Effect of dopant penetration on electrical characteristics of polysilicon gate HfO/sub 2/ gate dielectric MOSFETs has been studied quantitatively for the first time. Significant boron penetration was observed at high temperature dopant activation, which degrades not only flatband voltage (V/sub fb/) but channel carrier mobility. Surface nitridation prior to HfO/sub 2/ deposition can suppress boron penetration along with equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) reduction.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127195464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Kong, R. Venkatraman, R. Castagnetti, F. Duan, S. Ramesh
{"title":"High-density and high-performance 6T-SRAM for system-on-chip in 130 nm CMOS technology","authors":"W. Kong, R. Venkatraman, R. Castagnetti, F. Duan, S. Ramesh","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934971","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed the smallest high density 6T-SRAM cell (1.87 /spl mu/m/sup 2/) reported to date in 130 nm CMOS logic process for system-on-chip (SOC) applications. We have also developed an ultra-high speed 6T-SRAM cell (2.49 /spl mu/m/sup 2/) with cell current of 116 /spl mu/A for SOC applications requiring even higher performance. These were achieved using our systematic SRAM technology development methodology and optimized OPC capability. These cells do not require additional process steps and use 248 nm lithography, making them very attractive for low-cost SOC manufacturing.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127910945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Momose, T. Ohguro, S. Nakamura, Y. Toyoshima, H. Ishiuchi, H. Iwai
{"title":"Study of wafer orientation dependence on performance and reliability of CMOS with direct-tunneling gate oxide","authors":"H. Momose, T. Ohguro, S. Nakamura, Y. Toyoshima, H. Ishiuchi, H. Iwai","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934955","url":null,"abstract":"With the expected limitations of conventional CMOS downsizing, various new structures, such as vertical and concave MOSFETs, are under serious investigation. These new types of MOSFETs have a special feature in that the channel of the MOSFETs consists of various surfaces with different crystal orientations. With thinning of the gate oxides, the substrate orientation dependence of the oxide quality becomes a major concern, because Si-SiO/sub 2/ interface quality control becomes important in terms of suppressing the tunneling leakage current and improving TDDB reliability (Sorsch et al., 1998). This paper, for the first time, reports the surface orientation dependence of the ultra-thin gate oxide properties in the direct tunneling regime. Various characteristics of the oxide and MOSFET properties were compared by fabricating direct-tunneling gate CMOS on [100]-, [100] 4/spl deg/off, and [111]-oriented Si substrates.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131929854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electron wavefunction penetration into gate dielectric and interface scattering-an alternative to surface roughness scattering model","authors":"I. Polishchuk, C. Hu","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934942","url":null,"abstract":"A quantum mechanical (QM) simulator was used to determine the amount of carrier wavefunction penetration into gate dielectric. The amount of penetration affects the inversion charge density Q/sub inv/, inversion charge centroid, and most importantly carrier mobility. It is shown that interface scattering due to wavefunction penetration is in better agreement with the universal mobility data than the surface roughness scattering mechanism. The interface scattering allows the extension of the universal mobility model from SiO/sub 2/ to high-K gate dielectrics.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"413 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122380724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kim Ilgweon, Kwon Jaesoon, Lee Kyosung, Kim Dongchan, Shin Jungho, Choy Junho, Kim Namsung, Yang Heesik, Cheon Youngil, Park Juseok, Kwon Woyup, Song Youngjin, Park Daeyoung, Kim Jibum
{"title":"Retention time improvement by fast-pull and fast-cool (FPFC) ingot growing combined with proper arrangement of subsequent thermal budget for 0.18 /spl mu/m DRAM cell and beyond","authors":"Kim Ilgweon, Kwon Jaesoon, Lee Kyosung, Kim Dongchan, Shin Jungho, Choy Junho, Kim Namsung, Yang Heesik, Cheon Youngil, Park Juseok, Kwon Woyup, Song Youngjin, Park Daeyoung, Kim Jibum","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934981","url":null,"abstract":"The denudation scheme based on vacancy-assisted BMD (bulk micro defect) formation for reducing grown-in defects and the method of reducing STI-stress caused by denudation thermal budget was investigated to improve the retention time of high density DRAM with STI (shallow trench isolation). In this paper, we report the denudation scheme employing low-cost FPFC (fast-pull and fast-cool) ingot growth, combined with proper arrangement of subsequent thermal budget, resulting in excellent improvement of DRAM retention time.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125195928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-performance 157 nm resist based on fluorine-containing polymer","authors":"S. Kishimura, M. Endo, M. Sasago","doi":"10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIT.2001.934935","url":null,"abstract":"A new high-performance resist for F/sub 2/ laser (157 nm) VUV (vacuum ultraviolet) lithography has been developed. The resist polymers consist of fluorinated-alicyclic methacrylate (MA), fluorinated-alkyl MA, acid labile unit, etch-resistant unit and adhesive unit. These polymers can be easily synthesized at low cost. A resist based on this polymer has over 40% transmittance per 100 nm thickness and the same etch-resistance as adamanthyl MA type-ArF resists. Fine images with vertical profiles of 200 nm thickness are obtained by contact exposure with the F/sub 2/ laser. Simulations showed that the resolution of this resist with a F/sub 2/ laser stepper (NA 0.85) has 70 nm L/S and 40 nm isolated line pattern capability at 200 nm thickness. Based on the developed 157 nm resist, 157 nm VUV lithography can be accepted as a 70 nm node.","PeriodicalId":232773,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Technology. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01 CH37184)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115146560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}