Disclosed herein are non-limiting embodiments of compositions and methods used in the manufacture of semiconductor, photovoltaic, LCD-TFT, or flat panel type devices.
Carbon is a commonly used implant species. It can be implanted alone for carbon doping. Alternatively carbon and one or more other species are used to form a heterogeneous doping. In this case the carbon ion is called a co-implant for the other species, generally a pre-amorphization implant (PAI) species such as Germanium, Phosphorous or Boron. The carbon is positioned between a shallow dopant and end-of-range (EOR) damage caused by the PAI species. The carbon acting as a substituent here will block some interstitials coming back from EOR during the annealing step. It would then avoid transient enhanced diffusion (TED) or boron interstitial cluster formation (BIC). Carbon range also often overlaps with the PAI species and contributes to PAI by itself. Another application of carbon doping is to create compressive strain. In a source/drain in a transistor device created from SIC, carbon implantation will cause tensile strain in the channel. This stress is beneficial for NMOS for instance.
Carbon implantation is challenging. It can be done by epitaxial growth or high dose implant however this can cause amorphization of the silicon re-grown.
Many molecules and techniques have been used for carbon implant. For instance, Hatem, et al. (US 20090200494 A1, Varian) describes the use of a cold implantation process. They describe a low temperature process using gases such as methane, ethane, propane, bibenzyl, butane and pyrene (C16H10) or possible using molecular carbon in combination with diborane, pentaborane, carborane, octaborane, decaborane, or octadecaborane.
Jagannathan et al. (US2002160587A1, IBM) described the doping of Si or SiGe using boron or carbon for heterojunction bipolar transistors (HTB). The carbon containing gas is C2H4.
Jacobson et al. (US2008299749A1) described a method for cluster ion implantation for defect engineering. The method consists of implanting using an ion beam formed from ionized molecules. In the method, molecular cluster dopant ions are implanted into a substrate with or without a co-implant of non-dopant cluster ion (carbon cluster ion for instance). The dopant ion is implanted into the amorphous layer created by the co-implant in order to reduce defects in the crystalline structure (and reducing the leakage current thus improving the performances of the semiconductor junctions). The use of CnH+ type molecules is generally described and more specifically the use of C16H10 solid and not volatile with a high temperature melting point) and C7H7.
Suitable techniques that can be used for carbon implantation include standard ion beam (beamline), plasma doping, or pulsed plasma doping (P2LAD), plasma Immersion Ion Implantation (PI3), including the many related variants of these techniques known in the art.
The present invention is related to a method of manufacturing semiconductor devices in which the carbon doping is done using high carbon content molecules.
In one embodiment, molecules with high carbon content and low hydrogen to carbon ratio (C:H>0.6, preferably >1) are used as the carbon source molecule for carbon ion implantation.
In another embodiment, implanting carbon with a co-implant of Boron or other atoms can enhance devices properties as discussed in the background. The boron co-implant can be accomplished using standard boron compounds such as B18H22, BF3, diborane, decaborane or a boron cluster. In other aspects, the method may include implanting the target material with other species such as Germanium, Phosphorous, Silicon, Arsenic, Xenon, Nitrogen, Aluminum, Magnesium, Silver, Gold, Fluorine, and combinations thereof.
In some embodiments, the method may be used to create material strain and fabricate an ultra-shallow junction in the target material.
The Invention may be further defined in part by the following numbered sentences:
Carbon implantation may be performed by any know procedure in the art including:
Ion beam (beamline) implantation may be used as described in I. P. Jain and Garima Agarwal, Ion beam induced surface and interface engineering, Surface Science Reports, Volume 66, Issues 3-4, March 2011, Pages 77-172, ISSN 0167-5729, DOI: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2010.11.001.
Plasma doping or pulsed plasma doping (P2LAD) may be used as described in Felch, S. B, Fang, Z., Kao, B.-W., Liebert, R. B., Walther, S. R., Hacker, D. Plasma doping for the fabrication of ultra-shallow junctions (2002) Surface and Coatings Technology, 156 (1-3), pp. 229-236.
Any hydrogen co-implanted may, as needed, be removed thereafter by an annealing step such as a standard thermal annealing and/or a UV photoannealing step.
Preferred carbon source molecules for carbon implantation are listed in
C6F6 is a preferred combination carbon and fluorine source molecule for co-implantation of both carbon and fluorine. C6F6 ionization yields C5F3+ as an active implant species.
Ionic species derived from a carbon source molecule are generally the more active implantation species. The carbon source molecules of Table 1 are preferred in part because of their ionization patterns, some of which are demonstrated in the following ionization data:
1,3-Cyclohexadiene ionization yields C6H7+.
1,3-hexadiene ionization yields C5H7+; C6H9+; C4H6+.
Acetylene ionization yields predominant species C2H2+; C2H+.
Cycloheptatriene ionization yields C2H3+; C3H3+; C4H3+; C5H3+; C5H5+; C7H7+; C7H8+.
1,6-heptadiyne ionization yields C2H3+; C3H3+; C4H3+; C5H3+; C5H5+; C7H7+; C7H8+.
Norbornadiene ionization yields C2H3+; C3H3+; C4H3+; C5H3+; C5H5+; C7H7+; C7H8+.
Naphtalene ionization yields C10H7+.
1,2,5,7-cyclooctatetraene ionization yields C8H7+; C6H6; C4H4; C3H3; C2H3.
Benzene ionization yields C6H5+.
1,3-cyclopentadiene ionization yields C5H5+; C3H4; C3H3+.
1,4-pentadiene ionization yields C5H7+; C4H5+; C3H3+.
1,5-hexadiene ionization yields C5H7+; C3H6+; C4H6+; C3H3+.
1,4-diethynylbenzene ionization yields C10H6)
Phenylacetylene ionization yields C8H5+.
2,4-hexadiyne ionization yields C4H3+; C4H4+.
Methylbutenyne ionization yields C5H5+; C3H4+; C3H3+; C4H3+; C4H2+.
Ethynylcyclopropane ionization yields C5H5+.
It will be understood that many additional changes in the details, materials, steps, and arrangement of parts, which have been herein described and illustrated in order to explain the nature of the invention, may be made by those skilled in the art within the principle and scope of the invention as expressed in the appended claims. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the specific embodiments in the examples given above and/or the attached drawings.
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