Abstract: A method of fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit includes the steps of providing a substrate having a semiconductor surface, forming a gate dielectric layer on the semiconductor surface and a polysilicon layer on the gate dielectric layer. The polysilicon layer is patterned while being undoped to form a plurality of polysilicon comprising gates. A first pattern is used to protect a plurality of PMOS devices and a first n-type implant is performed to dope the gates and source/drain regions for a plurality of NMOS devices. A second pattern is used to protect the PMOS devices and the sources/drains and gates for a portion of the plurality of NMOS devices and a second n-type implant is performed to dope the gates of the other NMOS devices.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit includes the steps of providing a substrate having a semiconductor surface, forming a gate dielectric and a plurality of gate electrodes thereon in both NMOS and PMOS regions using the surface. A multi-layer offset spacer stack including a top layer and a compositionally different bottom layer is formed and the multi-layer spacer stack is etched to form offset spacers on sidewalls of the gate electrodes. The transistors designed to utilize a thinner offset spacer are covered with a first masking material, and transistors designed to utilize a thicker offset spacer are patterned and first implanted. At least a portion of the top layer is removed to leave the thinner offset spacers on sidewalls of the gate electrodes. The transistors designed to utilize the thicker offset spacer are covered with a second masking material, and the transistors designed to utilize the thinner offset spacer are patterned and second implanted.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit and integrated circuits therefrom includes the steps of providing a substrate having a semiconductor surface, forming a gate dielectric layer on the semiconductor surface and a polysilicon including layer on the gate dielectric. A portion of the polysilicon layer is masked, and pre-gate etch implant of a first dopant type into an unmasked portion of the polysilicon layer is performed, wherein masked portions of the polysilicon layer are protected from the first dopant. The polysilicon layer is patterned to form a plurality of polysilicon gates and a plurality of polysilicon lines, wherein the masked portion includes at least one of the polysilicon lines which couple a polysilicon gate of a PMOS device to a polysilicon gate of an NMOS device.

Abstract: A method of forming a transistor device is provided wherein a gate structure is formed over a semiconductor body of a first conductivity type. The gate structure is formed comprising a protective cap thereover and defining source/drain regions laterally adjacent thereto. A first implant is performed of a second conductivity type into both the gate structure and the source/drain regions. The semiconductor body is etched to form recesses substantially aligned to the gate structure wherein the first implant is removed from the source/drain regions. Source/drain regions are implanted or grown by a selective epitaxial growth.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a semiconductor substrate, a least one MOS transistor formed in or on the substrate, the MOS transistor including a source and drain doped with a first dopant type having a channel region of a second dopant type interposed between, and a gate electrode and a gate insulator over the channel region. A silicide layer forming a low resistance contact is at an interface region at a surface portion of the source and drain. At the interface region a chemical concentration of the first dopant is at least 5×1020 cm?3. Silicide interfaces according to the invention provide MOS transistor with a low silicide interface resistance, low pipe density, with an acceptably small impact on short channel behavior.

Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit includes forming a gate structure over a semiconductor body, and forming a shadowing structure over the semiconductor body laterally spaced from the gate structure, thereby defining an active area in the semiconductor body therebetween. The method further includes performing an angled implant into the gate structure, wherein the shadowing structure substantially blocks dopant from the angled implant from implanting into the active area, and performing a source/drain implant into the gate structure and the active area.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for doping a target area of a semiconductor substrate, such as a source or drain region of a transistor, with an electronically active dopant (such as an N-type dopant used to create active areas in NMOS devices, or a P-type dopant used to create active areas in PMOS devices) having a well-controlled placement profile and strong activation. The method comprises placing a carbon-containing diffusion suppressant in the target area at approximately 50% of the concentration of the dopant, and activating the dopant by an approximately 1,040 degree Celsius thermal anneal. In many cases, a thermal anneal at such a high temperature induces excessive diffusion of the dopant out of the target area, but this relative concentration of carbon produces a heretofore unexpected reduction in dopant diffusion during such a high-temperature thermal anneal.

Abstract: Sidewall spacers that are primarily oxide, instead of nitride, are formed adjacent to a gate stack of a CMOS transistor. Individual sidewall spacers are situated between a conductive gate electrode of the gate stack and a conductive contact of the transistor. As such, a capacitance can develop between the gate electrode and the contact, depending on the dielectric constant of the interposed sidewall spacer. Accordingly, forming sidewall spacers out of oxide, which has a lower dielectric constant than nitride, mitigates capacitance that can otherwise develop between these features. Such capacitance is undesirable, at least, because it can inhibit transistor switching speeds. Accordingly, fashioning sidewall spacers as described herein can mitigate yield loss by reducing the number of devices that have unsatisfactory switching speeds and/or other undesirable performance characteristics.

Abstract: Methods of forming a microelectronic structure are described. Embodiments of those methods include providing a gate structure disposed on a substrate comprising at least one recess, wherein a channel region is in a <110> direction, and then forming a compressive layer in the at least one recess.

Abstract: Method and structure to decrease area capacitance within a buried insulator device structure are disclosed. A portion of the substrate layer of a buried insulator structure opposite the insulator layer from the gate is doped with the same doping polarity as the source and drain regions of the device, to provide reduced area capacitance. Such doping may be limited to portions of the substrate which are not below the gate.

Abstract: Method and structure to decrease area capacitance within a buried insulator device structure are disclosed. A portion of the substrate layer of a buried insulator structure opposite the insulator layer from the gate is doped with the same doping polarity as the source and drain regions of the device, to provide reduced area capacitance. Such doping may be limited to portions of the substrate which are not below the gate.

Abstract: Method to form a structure to decrease area capacitance within a buried insulator device structure is disclosed. A portion of the substrate layer of a buried insulator structure opposite the insulator layer from the gate is doped with the same doping polarity as the source and drain regions of the device, to provide reduced area capacitance. Such doping may be limited to portions of the substrate which are not below the gate.

Abstract: Method and structure to decrease area capacitance within a buried insulator device structure are disclosed. A portion of the substrate layer of a buried insulator structure opposite the insulator layer from the gate is doped with the same doping polarity as the source and drain regions of the device, to provide reduced area capacitance. Such doping may be limited to portions of the substrate which are not below the gate.