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Publication
Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports
Review
Shallow junction doping technologies for ULSI
Abstract
The fabrication of thin, sub-40 nm doped layers in Si with high concentrations of electrically active dopants and box-like profiles is a major technological challenge. Making these regions without introducing residual defects in the material and without affecting the properties of other material regions in the device is even more difficult. The need to control these properties of doping profiles in ultra-large-scale integrated (ULSI) circuits has driven the study of low energy implantation, transient enhanced diffusion (TED), and focused the search for new shallow junction doping techniques. In this article, we review the motivation for shallow junctions, specific requirements for shallow junctions used in deep sub-micron dimension metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs), current understanding of implant and diffusion processes, and the state-of-the-art in low energy implantation and a number of alternate doping technologies, including plasmaimplantation, gas-immersion laser (GILD) doping, rapid vapor-phase doping (RVD), ion shower doping, and decaborane (B10H14) implantation. © 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.