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Semiconductor device having an improved anti-radioactivity and method of fabricating the same

US5747354A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 10, 1996
Grant dateMay 5, 1998
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Expiry dateMay 10, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10D62/112
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides an n-channel MOS field effect transistor with an anti-radioactivity. The transistor includes leak guard boron diffusion layers, each of which has a junction surface to an isolation oxide film. The junction surface exists up to a deeper level than a predetermined depth corresponding to a junction surface of n-type source and drain diffusion layers and a p-type silicon substrate. Such leak guard boron diffusion layer is formed by ion-implantation of boron through a gate oxide film, after a formation of the gate oxide film. Such leak guard boron diffusion layers have a higher impurity concentration. The existence of the leak guard boron diffusion layers suppresses a leak to be generated by radiation damages of silicon oxide film such as the gate oxide film and the isolation oxide film.

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