Silicon-enriched shallow trench oxide for reduced recess during LDD spacer etch
US6013558A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 6, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jan 11, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 6, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH10D84/0151
- WIPO fieldSemiconductors
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of isolating a semiconductor device by shallow trench isolation is provided by: (a) etching a trench into the surface of an integrated circuit; (b) depositing an oxide in the trench so that at least the upper portion of the oxide is silicon-rich; (c) providing a polysilicon gate electrode on the surface of the integrated circuit, with the gate electrode being provided substantially adjacent to the trench with a space between the trench and the gate electrode; (d) providing a spacer oxide to cover the trench oxide, the gate electrode and the space between the trench and the gate electrode, so that the spacer oxide has near-stoichiometric levels of silicon; and (e) etching the spacer oxide from the surface of the integrated circuit under conditions effective to selectively etch the spacer oxide from the upper surface of the integrated circuit and from the upper surface of the gate electrode without etching the trench oxide from the upper portion of the trench.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.