Abstract: Methods of forming a strained channel device utilizing dislocations disposed in source/drain structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a thin silicon germanium material in a source/drain opening of a device comprising silicon, wherein multiple dislocations are formed in the silicon germanium material. A source/drain material may be formed on the thin silicon germanium material, wherein the dislocations induce a tensile strain in a channel region of the device.

Abstract: Source and drain contacts that provide improved contact resistance and contact interface stability for transistors employing silicon and germanium source and drain materials, related transistor structures, integrated circuits, systems, and methods of fabrication are disclosed. Such source and drain contacts include a contact layer of co-deposited titanium and silicon on the silicon and germanium source and drain. The disclosed source and drain contacts improve transistor performance including switching speed and reliability.

Abstract: Integrated circuitry comprising transistor structures with a source/drain etch stop layer to limit the depth of source and drain material relative to a channel of the transistor. A portion of a channel material layer may be etched in preparation for source and drain materials. The etch may be stopped at an etch stop layer buried between a channel material layer and an underlying planar substrate layer. The etch stop layer may have a different composition than the channel layer while retaining crystallinity of the channel layer. The source and drain etch stop layer may provide adequate etch selectivity to ensure a source and drain etch process does not punch through the etch stop layer. Following the etch process, source and drain materials may be formed, for example with an epitaxial growth process. The source and drain etch stop layer may be, for example, primarily silicon and carbon.

Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having embedded GeSnB source or drain structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having embedded GeSnB source or drain structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires above a fin, the fin including a defect modification layer on a first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the defect modification layer. A gate stack is around the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A first epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires, and a second epitaxial source or drain structure is at a second end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires.

Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having germanium nanowire channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having germanium nanowire channel structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires above a fin, each of the nanowires including germanium, and the fin including a defect modification layer on a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer on the defect modification layer, and a third semiconductor layer on the second semiconductor layer. A gate stack is around the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A first epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires, and a second epitaxial source or drain structure is at a second end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires.

Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having vertically discrete source or drain structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having vertically discrete source or drain structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A gate stack is around the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A first epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires, the first epitaxial source or drain structure including vertically discrete portions aligned with the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A second epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires, the second epitaxial source or drain structure including vertically discrete portions aligned with the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, integrated circuit structures having channel structures with sub-fin dopant diffusion blocking layers are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin having a lower fin portion and an upper fin portion. The lower fin portion includes a dopant diffusion blocking layer on a first semiconductor layer doped to a first conductivity type. The upper fin portion includes a portion of a second semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer on the dopant diffusion blocking layer. An isolation structure is along sidewalls of the lower fin portion. A gate stack is over a top of and along sidewalls of the upper fin portion, the gate stack having a first side opposite a second side. A first source or drain structure at the first side of the gate stack.

Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having source or drain structures with epitaxial nubs, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having source or drain structures with epitaxial nubs, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires and a second vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A first pair of epitaxial source or drain structures includes vertically discrete portions aligned with the first vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A second pair of epitaxial source or drain structures includes vertically discrete portions aligned with the second vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A conductive contact structure is laterally between and in contact with the one of the first pair of epitaxial source or drain structures and the one of the second pair of epitaxial source or drain structures.

Abstract: An integrated circuit structure comprises a relaxed buffer stack that includes a channel region, wherein the relaxed buffer stack and the channel region include a group III-N semiconductor material, wherein the relaxed buffer stack comprises a plurality of AlGaN material layers and a buffer stack is located over over the plurality of AlGaN material layers, wherein the buffer stack comprises the group III-N semiconductor material and has a thickness of less than approximately 25 nm. A back barrier is in the relaxed buffer stack between the plurality of AlGaN material layers and the buffer stack, wherein the back barrier comprises an AlGaN material of approximately 2-10% Al. A polarization stack over the relaxed buffer stack.

Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques, systems, and method for a semiconductor device. Embodiments herein may present a semiconductor device including a substrate and an insulator layer above the substrate. A channel area may include an III-V material relaxed grown on the insulator layer. A source area may be above the insulator layer, in contact with the insulator layer, and adjacent to a first end of the channel area. A drain area may be above the insulator layer, in contact with the insulator layer, and adjacent to a second end of the channel area that is opposite to the first end of the channel area. The source area or the drain area may include one or more seed components including a seed material with free surface. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Methods of forming a strained channel device utilizing dislocations disposed in source/drain structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a thin silicon germanium material in a source/drain opening of a device comprising silicon, wherein multiple dislocations are formed in the silicon germanium material. A source/drain material may be formed on the thin silicon germanium material, wherein the dislocations induce a tensile strain in a channel region of the device.

Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for providing functionality of a transistor which comprises a conformal layer of a gate work function silicide. In an embodiment, the transistor comprises a channel region and a gate dielectric which extends and adjoins the channel region. The gate dielectric also adjoins a layer structure of the transistor, the layer structure comprising a silicide. The silicide includes silicon and a component D which comprises a non-metal element from one of Groups IIIa, IVa, or Va. In another embodiment, the silicide further comprises a component M which includes a transition metal element from one of Groups IVb, Vb, VIb, VIIB, or VIIIb and/or which includes a metal element from one of Groups IIIa, IVa, or Va.

Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having underlying dopant-diffusion blocking layers are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires above a fin. The fin includes a dopant diffusion blocking layer on a first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the dopant diffusion blocking layer. A gate stack is around the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A first epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A second epitaxial source or drain structure is at a second end of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure has a substrate including silicon and a layer of relaxed buffer material on the substrate with a thickness no greater than 300 nm. The buffer material comprises silicon and germanium with a germanium concentration from 20 to 45 atomic percent. A source and a drain are on top of the buffer material. A body extends between the source and drain, where the body is monocrystalline semiconductor material comprising silicon and germanium with a germanium concentration of at least 30 atomic percent. A gate structure is wrapped around the body.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, integrated circuit structures having germanium-based channels are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin having a lower silicon portion, an intermediate germanium portion on the lower silicon portion, and a silicon germanium portion on the intermediate germanium portion. An isolation structure is along sidewalls of the lower silicon portion of the fin. A gate stack is over a top of and along sidewalls of an upper portion of the fin and on a top surface of the isolation structure. A first source or drain structure is at a first side of the gate stack. A second source or drain structure is at a second side of the gate stack.

Abstract: Methods of forming a strained channel device utilizing dislocations disposed in source/drain structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a thin silicon germanium material in a source/drain opening of a device comprising silicon, wherein multiple dislocations are formed in the silicon germanium material. A source/drain material may be formed on the thin silicon germanium material, wherein the dislocations induce a tensile strain in a channel region of the device.

Abstract: Methods of forming a strained channel device utilizing dislocations disposed in source/drain structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a thin silicon germanium material in a source/drain opening of a device comprising silicon, wherein multiple dislocations are formed in the silicon germanium material. A source/drain material may be formed on the thin silicon germanium material, wherein the dislocations induce a tensile strain in a channel region of the device.

Abstract: A device includes a device level having a metallization structure coupled to a semiconductor device and a transistor above the device level. The transistor has a body including a single crystal group III-V or group IV semiconductor material, a source structure on a first portion of the body and a drain structure on a second portion of the body, where the source structure is separate from the drain structure. The transistor further includes a gate structure including a first gate structure portion in a recess in the body and a second gate structure portion between the source structure and the drain structure. A source contact is coupled with the source structure and a drain contact is coupled with the drain structure. The source contact is in contact with the metallization structure in the device level.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, integrated circuit structures having source or drain structures with a contact etch stop layer are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin including a semiconductor material, the fin having a lower fin portion and an upper fin portion. A gate stack is over the upper fin portion of the fin, the gate stack having a first side opposite a second side. A first epitaxial source or drain structure is embedded in the fin at the first side of the gate stack. A second epitaxial source or drain structure is embedded in the fin at the second side of the gate stack, the first and second epitaxial source or drain structures including a lower semiconductor layer, an intermediate semiconductor layer and an upper semiconductor layer.

Abstract: High-purity Ge channeled N-type transistors include a Si-based barrier material separating the channel from a Ge source and drain that is heavily doped with an N-type impurity. The barrier material may have nanometer thickness and may also be doped with N-type impurities. Because of the Si content, N-type impurities have lower diffusivity within the barrier material and can be prevented from entering high-purity Ge channel material. In addition to Si, a barrier material may also include C. With the barrier material, an N-type transistor may display higher channel mobility and reduced short-channel effects.