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Process for making low-leakage contacts

US5605862A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 5, 1995
Grant dateFeb 25, 1997
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Expiry dateApr 5, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L2924/0002
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A semiconductor device having low-leakage borderless contacts is formed by etching contact openings adjacent first and second electronic elements of opposite dopant type, conformally depositing a thin doped polysilicon layer, protecting the electronic element of similar dopant-type, removing the thin doped polysilicon layer adjacent the oppositely doped electronic element, diffusing dopant from said polysilicon layer into a side wall of the electronic element of similar dopant-type, and then depositing tungsten within the contact openings.

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