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- the present invention relates to a SiGe-based heterojunction bipolar transistor, and more particularly, to a SiGe-based heterojunction bipolar transistor that has improved performance due to mobility enhancement.
- the present invention is also related to a method of fabricating such a SiGe-based heterojunction bipolar transistor.
- the base material is epitaxdially deposited by means of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) as front-end-of-line (FEOL) films relatively early in the manufacturing process.
- CVD chemical vapor deposition
- MBE molecular beam epitaxy
- FEOL front-end-of-line
- incorporation of substitutional germanium into the crystal lattice of the silicon creates a compressive strain in the material, because the Ge atom requires a larger atomic separation. It also reduces the bandgap of the material.
- the Ge content increases abruptly to a constant value across the entire base region (single rectangular profile) or parts thereof (stepped profile).
- the Ge content in the base region is not a constant, but instead increases from a low Ge concentration near the emitter-base junction to a high Ge concentration deeper into the base region, thus creating a drift field with decreasing bandgap in the direction of the electron flow.
- the electrons injected from the emitter of the HBT device face a reduced injection barrier due to the low Ge concentration at the emitter-base junction, and then experience an accelerating field across the base region due to the increasing Ge content deeper into the base region.
- the low Ge content at the emitter-base junction increases the electron injection into the base, thus increasing the current gain.
- the Ge grading in the base region has the effect of speeding the transport of electrons across the device, resulting in reduced transit time through the base, which is of particular importance in scaling the device to a higher-speed performance.
- Such a desired Ge grading can be readily created by time-dependent programming of the Ge precursor flows during the SiGe film deposition.
- the strain in the pseudomorphically grown SiGe film reaches a critical level, either due to increase of the SiGe film thickness or increase of the Ge content, it can no longer be contained by elastic energy stored in the distorted SiGe crystal structure. Instead, a portion of the strain will be relaxed through generation of misfit dislocations in the heteroepitaxial interface. Therefore, for a SiGe film of a specific Ge content, there exists a “critical thickness,” defined as the maximum thickness for the pseudomorphic growth of the SiGe film, below which the strain caused by lattice mismatch between Si and Ge is contained by elastic energy stored in crystal lattice distortion, and above which a portion of the strain is relaxed through generation of misfit dislocations in the heteroepitaxial interface.
- critical Ge content is defined as the maximum germanium content that can be incorporated into the pseudomorphic SiGe film, below which the strain caused by lattice mismatch between Si and Ge is contained by elastic energy stored in crystal lattice distortion, and above which a portion of the strain is relaxed through generation of misfit dislocations in the heteroepitaxial interface.
- Dislocation defects originated from strain relaxation are electrically active and can cause increased carrier scattering, carrier trapping, and carrier recombination. Therefore, in the past, the Ge content and total thickness of a SiGe base layer were carefully designed not to exceed the critical values, in order to avoid formation of dislocation defects in the device structure.
- the present invention seeks to further improve performance of currently available SiGe-based HBT devices by increasing biaxial strain in the base region of the HBT devices, which in turn increases carrier mobility in the base region.
- the present invention discovers that although a further increase in the Ge content of the ultra-thin base layers of the currently available SiGe-based HBT devices does not further increase carrier velocity, it can cause increase in biaxial strains near the base region, i.e., increased compressive strain along the direction parallel to the substrate surface (i.e., the lateral direction) and increased tensile strain along the direction perpendicular to the substrate surface (i.e., the vertical direction), which functions to enhance mobility of holes laterally flowing through the base region and electrons vertically traversing the base region.
- the carrier base-transit time of the currently available SiGe-based HBT devices can be further reduced by increasing the Ge content of the ultra-thin base layers of such HBT devices to near-critical value.
- the base resistance of the SiGe-based HBT devices also depends on the carrier mobility, so an increase of the base layer Ge content to near-critical value can also be used to reduce the base resistance.
- the present invention relates to a HBT device containing a collector region, a base region, an extrinsic base region, and an emitter region.
- the base region of the HBT device comprises an ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer, i.e., having a thickness of not more than about 100 nm.
- a critical germanium content can be predetermined for such an ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer, based on its thickness, and the SiGe-containing layer is arranged and constructed so that it has a germanium content profile with an average germanium content of not less than about 80% of the predetermined critical germanium content.
- the average germanium content in the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer is not less than 90%, more preferably not less than 95%, and still more preferably not less than 99%, of the predetermined critical germanium content.
- the average germanium content in the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer is substantially equal to (i.e., with ⁇ 0.1% difference) the predetermined critical germanium content.
- Critical germanium content for the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer can be readily calculated by various conventionally known methods, as described hereinafter in greater detail, and the present invention selects the average calculated critical germanium content for controlling the actual germanium content in the SiGe-containing layer, so as to minimize the risk of dislocation generation.
- the calculated critical germanium content is between about 16 atomic % to about 18 atomic %, while the average value of 17 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content in the present invention.
- the calculated critical germanium content of a 100 nm thick SiGe-containing layer is between about 9 atomic % to about 11 atomic %, and the average value of 10 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content for practice of the present invention.
- the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer of the present invention may have a flat Ge content profile (i.e., a substantially uniform Ge content is provided across the entire SiGe-containing layer), a multi-step Ge content profile (i.e., multiple plateaus of uniform Ge content are provided across the entire SiGe-containing layer), or a graded Ge content profile (i.e., the Ge content changes in the SiGe-containing layer).
- the term “Ge content profile” or “germanium content profile” as used herein refers to a plot of germanium contents in a structure as a function of thickness or depth in the structure.
- the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer has a graded Ge content profile, which may have any suitable shape, either regular or irregular.
- such an ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer may have a triangular Ge content profile, or a trapezoidal Ge content profile.
- the “average Ge content” is determined by first integrating the Ge content over the entire SiGe-containing layer, i.e., so as to determine the total or integrated Ge content in the layer, and then dividing the integrated Ge content over the thickness of the layer.
- a SiGe-based HBT is found to be stable in further high-temperature processing steps, which are required to finish the HBT device, as long as the average Ge content in the base layer of such a SiGe-based HBT device remains below or equal to a critical Ge content corresponding to the thickness of the base layer.
- the critical Ge content can be readily determined, for example, from the Matthew/Blakeslee line (MBL) that is to be described in greater detail hereinafter.
- certain deposition techniques such as ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHVCVD) and high-temperature bake-conditioned remote plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD), allow the SiGe-containing base layer to be deposited with an average Ge content that is very close (more than 95%) to the critical Ge content.
- the present invention relates to a heterojunction bipolar transistor that comprises a SiGe-containing base layer having a thickness of not more than about 50 nm and a germanium content profile with an average germanium content ranging from about 16.5 atomic % to about 17.5 atomic %.
- the present invention relates to a method for enhancing carrier mobility in a heterojunction bipolar transistor that has an ultra-thin SiGe-containing base layer, without changing quasi-static drift field of the base layer.
- the quasi-static drift field of a SiGe-containing layer depends on the Ge grading rate or the shape of the Ge content profile, but not the absolute Ge content, in the SiGe-containing layer.
- a uniform increase in the Ge content across the ultra-thin SiGe-containing base layer can be used to reach near-critical Ge content in the base layer, thereby maximizing the biaxial strain and the carrier mobility in the base layer, but it does not change the Ge grading rate or the shape of the Ge content profile and thus maintains the same quasi-static drift field in the base layer.
- the method of the present invention comprises:
- the present invention provides a method for fabricating a high performance SiGe-based HBT device, by:
- the projected thickness and the projected germanium profile can be readily determined by theoretical band-structure calculations and historical base profile scaling, which are known in the art and therefore are not described in detail herein.
- the projected germanium profile provides for germanium grading over the base layer, which establishes a quasi-static drift field for accelerating carriers across the base layer.
- FIG. 1 shows a cross-sectional view of an exemplary prior art SiGe-based HBT device.
- FIG. 2 shows two prior art base Ge content profiles for SiGe-based HBT devices.
- FIG. 3 shows an improved base Ge content profile for a high performance SiGe HBT device, in comparison with a prior art base Ge content profile, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 shows another improved base Ge content profile for a high performance SiGe HBT device, in comparison with a prior art base Ge content profile, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 shows yet another improved base Ge content profile for a high performance SiGe HBT device, in comparison with a prior art base Ge content profile, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 shows a Matthews-Blakeslee curve that can be used for determining the critical Ge content for a SiGe-containing layer based on its thickness.
- FIG. 1 A typical SiGe-based HBT having a deep trench isolation and a T-shaped emitter is shown in FIG. 1 (hereinafter FIG. 1 ).
- FIG. 1 includes a semiconductor structure 10 that includes at least a collector 12 that is positioned between two shallow trench isolations regions 14 R and 14 L.
- the shallow trench isolation region on the left hand side of the drawing, represented by 14 L, has a deep trench 16 extending from a bottom walled surface of the shallow trench.
- the semiconductor structure shown in FIG. 1 also includes a first epitaxial silicon layer 18 , a SiGe base 20 , and a second epitaxial silicon layer 22 , which are located atop the trench isolation regions and the collector 12 .
- a T-shaped emitter 30 is present in the structure as shown in FIG. 1 .
- the HBT shown in FIG. 1A is fabricated utilizing conventional bipolar processing techniques that are well known in the art.
- a heterojunction Si-containing base particularly comprised of SiGe, is epitaxially grown on a collector pedestal surrounded by isolation oxide.
- germanium content profiles and germanium grading in conventional SiGe-based HBT devices were used to be limited by the critical thickness and critical germanium content of the SiGe base layer, recent aggressive scaling of the SiGe HBT devices has led to significant reductions in device dimensions, including significant reduction in the base layer thickness. Further, since recent studies indicate that carriers traveling through ultra-thin base layers have already reached a saturation velocity at the today's moderate Ge grading and that increased Ge grading in the ultra-thin base layers does not yield further improvements in carrier velocity, currently available SiGe-based HBT devices have base Ge content well below the critical value.
- FIG. 2 shows two exemplary graded Ge profiles in currently available SiGe-based HBT devices.
- the average Ge contents for these two graded Ge profiles (x A1 and x A2 , respectively) are well below the critical Ge content (x c ) of the ultra-thin SiGe base layers of such devices.
- the present invention discovers that although further increase in the Ge content of the ultra-thin base layers of the currently available SiGe-based HBT devices does not further increase carrier velocity, it can cause increase in biaxial strains near the base region, thereby enhancing carrier mobility in the base region and reducing the carrier base-transit time as well as the base resistance in the SiGe-based HBT devices.
- the present invention utilizes near-critical average Ge content in the ultra-thin base region of a SiGe HBT, so as to increase carrier mobility and further reduce base resistance and carrier transit time through the neutral base region.
- the method described by the present invention can be used to modify and improve the performance of an existing SiGe HBT device, or to fabricate a high performance SiGe HBT device ab initio.
- the present invention proposes modification of the existing SiGe HBT, by uniformly increasing the germanium content in the SiGe base layer of the existing HBT device by a sufficient amount so that the average germanium content of the SiGe base layer is close to, or at least near, 80% of the critical germanium content.
- FIG. 3 shows a graded Ge content profile 14 , which is created by uniformly increasing Ge content in the graded Ge content profile 12 of an existing SiGe HBT device having an ultra-thin base region, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- the increased Ge content is referred to as ⁇ x
- the average Ge content (x A ) in the new graded Ge content profile 14 is significantly closer to the critical germanium content (x c ) than the average Ge content (not shown) in the prior art Ge content profile 12 .
- FIG. 4 shows a graded Ge content profile 24 , which is created by uniformly increasing Ge content (by ⁇ x) in the prior art graded Ge content profile 22 of an existing SiGe HBT device having an ultra-thin base region, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- the average Ge content (x A ) in the new graded Ge content profile 14 is significantly closer to the critical germanium content (x c ) than the average Ge content (not shown) in the prior art Ge content profile 12 .
- FIG. 5 shows another graded Ge content profile 34 , which is created by uniformly increasing Ge content by ⁇ x in both the ultra-thin SiGe base region of an existing SiGe HBT and the two epitaxial silicon layers flanking the ultra-thin SiGe base (i.e., layers 18 and 22 of FIG. 1 ), according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- the Ge content increases in the two epitaxial silicon layers are indicated by ramps 36 a and 36 b in FIG. 5 , and the average Ge content (x A ) in the new graded Ge content profile 34 is significantly closer to the critical germanium content (x c ) than the average Ge content (not shown) in the prior art Ge content profile 32 .
- the increase in Ge content can be either limited to only the ultra-thin SiGe base region, so that the epitaxial silicon layers flanking such an ultra-thin SiGe base consist essentially of silicon, with little or no Ge therein, or it can be extended to also the flanking epitaxial silicon layers, forming an extended SiGe epitaxial base region.
- the present invention provides a method to enhance the carrier mobility in a SiGe-based HBT device while reducing the base resistance of the transistor.
- carrier mobility enhancement is achieved by changing the Ge profile in the ultra-thin base region of the HBT device, without negatively impacting the drift fields that are typically associated with bipolar transistors.
- the present invention provides a method in which the Ge content profile in the ultra-thin base region of a SiGe HBT device is changed to provide the simultaneous application of lateral compressive and vertical tensile strain.
- This change in Ge content profile as described by the present invention does not negatively affect, or significantly alter, the quasi-static drift field created by the amount of Ge grading in the ultra-thin base region.
- the internal biaxial layer strain can be greatly enhanced up to the apparent and metastable critical point of relaxation.
- the critical Ge content for a SiGe base layer of a specific thickness can be readily determined by various methods, as described by J. C. Bean et al., “Ge x Si 1-x /Si Strained-Layer Superlattice Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy,” J. V AC . S CI . T ECHNOL ., Vol. A2, No. 2, pp. 436-440 (1984); J. H. van der Merwe, “Crystal Interfaces. Part I. Semi-Infinite Crystals,” J. A PPL . P HYS ., Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 117-122 (1963); J. M. Matthews and A. E.
- the critical Ge contents calculated by using different methods may differ slightly from one another, due to the different models used and different parameters considered.
- the present invention selects the average calculated critical germanium content for controlling the actual germanium content in the SiGe-containing layer.
- the calculated critical germanium content is between about 16 atomic % to about 18 atomic %, while the value of 17 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content in the present invention.
- the calculated critical germanium content of a 100 nm thick SiGe-containing layer is between about 9 atomic % to about 11 atomic %, and the value of 10 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content for practice of the present invention.
- the ultra-thin SiGe base layer with the near-critical Ge content is pseudomorphically grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), with well-established process control and proven repeatability and suitable for batch processing and large-scale manufacturing.
- CVD process requires no plasma treatment, and the substitutional Ge atoms are electrically inactive, save for minute changes in band structure and ensuring ultra-low contamination levels in the base layers.
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- This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/212,187, filed Aug. 26, 2005.
- The present invention relates to a SiGe-based heterojunction bipolar transistor, and more particularly, to a SiGe-based heterojunction bipolar transistor that has improved performance due to mobility enhancement. The present invention is also related to a method of fabricating such a SiGe-based heterojunction bipolar transistor.
- In the state-of-the-art SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) devices, the base material is epitaxdially deposited by means of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) as front-end-of-line (FEOL) films relatively early in the manufacturing process. This offers the possibility of tailoring specific base profiles in both alloy and dopant and allows pseudomorphic growth of alloys of silicon with germanium and carbon, which can be used to improve performance of the HBT devices.
- Specifically, incorporation of substitutional germanium into the crystal lattice of the silicon creates a compressive strain in the material, because the Ge atom requires a larger atomic separation. It also reduces the bandgap of the material. In some SiGe-based heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) devices, the Ge content increases abruptly to a constant value across the entire base region (single rectangular profile) or parts thereof (stepped profile). In a “graded” SiGe HBT device, the Ge content in the base region is not a constant, but instead increases from a low Ge concentration near the emitter-base junction to a high Ge concentration deeper into the base region, thus creating a drift field with decreasing bandgap in the direction of the electron flow. The electrons injected from the emitter of the HBT device face a reduced injection barrier due to the low Ge concentration at the emitter-base junction, and then experience an accelerating field across the base region due to the increasing Ge content deeper into the base region. The low Ge content at the emitter-base junction increases the electron injection into the base, thus increasing the current gain. The Ge grading in the base region has the effect of speeding the transport of electrons across the device, resulting in reduced transit time through the base, which is of particular importance in scaling the device to a higher-speed performance. Such a desired Ge grading can be readily created by time-dependent programming of the Ge precursor flows during the SiGe film deposition.
- However, when the strain in the pseudomorphically grown SiGe film reaches a critical level, either due to increase of the SiGe film thickness or increase of the Ge content, it can no longer be contained by elastic energy stored in the distorted SiGe crystal structure. Instead, a portion of the strain will be relaxed through generation of misfit dislocations in the heteroepitaxial interface. Therefore, for a SiGe film of a specific Ge content, there exists a “critical thickness,” defined as the maximum thickness for the pseudomorphic growth of the SiGe film, below which the strain caused by lattice mismatch between Si and Ge is contained by elastic energy stored in crystal lattice distortion, and above which a portion of the strain is relaxed through generation of misfit dislocations in the heteroepitaxial interface. Similarly, for a SiGe film of a specific thickness, there exists a “critical Ge content,” which is defined as the maximum germanium content that can be incorporated into the pseudomorphic SiGe film, below which the strain caused by lattice mismatch between Si and Ge is contained by elastic energy stored in crystal lattice distortion, and above which a portion of the strain is relaxed through generation of misfit dislocations in the heteroepitaxial interface.
- Dislocation defects originated from strain relaxation are electrically active and can cause increased carrier scattering, carrier trapping, and carrier recombination. Therefore, in the past, the Ge content and total thickness of a SiGe base layer were carefully designed not to exceed the critical values, in order to avoid formation of dislocation defects in the device structure.
- Recent aggressive scaling of the SiGe HBT devices in both the vertical and lateral directions has led to significant reductions in device dimensions, including significant reduction in the base layer thickness. Further, recent high-frequency measurements indicate that carriers traveling through ultra-thin base layers of high-performance HBTs (e.g., having a thickness of not more than about 100 nm) have already reached a saturation velocity at the today's aggressive Ge grading. In other words, increased Ge grading in the ultra-thin base layers does not yield further improvements in carrier velocity.
- As a result, state-of-the-art SiGe-based HBT devices (see Khater et al., “SiGe HBT Technology with fMax/fT=350/300 GHz and Gate Delay Below 3.3 ps,” IEEE Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM Technical Digest, 13-15 Dec. 2004, pp. 247-250) have base layers with Ge content and thickness that are well below the critical values.
- The present invention seeks to further improve performance of currently available SiGe-based HBT devices by increasing biaxial strain in the base region of the HBT devices, which in turn increases carrier mobility in the base region.
- The present invention discovers that although a further increase in the Ge content of the ultra-thin base layers of the currently available SiGe-based HBT devices does not further increase carrier velocity, it can cause increase in biaxial strains near the base region, i.e., increased compressive strain along the direction parallel to the substrate surface (i.e., the lateral direction) and increased tensile strain along the direction perpendicular to the substrate surface (i.e., the vertical direction), which functions to enhance mobility of holes laterally flowing through the base region and electrons vertically traversing the base region.
- Since the carrier base-transit time depends not only on carrier velocity, but also on carrier mobility, the carrier base-transit time of the currently available SiGe-based HBT devices can be further reduced by increasing the Ge content of the ultra-thin base layers of such HBT devices to near-critical value.
- Further, the base resistance of the SiGe-based HBT devices also depends on the carrier mobility, so an increase of the base layer Ge content to near-critical value can also be used to reduce the base resistance.
- In one aspect, the present invention relates to a HBT device containing a collector region, a base region, an extrinsic base region, and an emitter region. The base region of the HBT device comprises an ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer, i.e., having a thickness of not more than about 100 nm. A critical germanium content can be predetermined for such an ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer, based on its thickness, and the SiGe-containing layer is arranged and constructed so that it has a germanium content profile with an average germanium content of not less than about 80% of the predetermined critical germanium content.
- Preferably, the average germanium content in the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer is not less than 90%, more preferably not less than 95%, and still more preferably not less than 99%, of the predetermined critical germanium content. Most preferably, the average germanium content in the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer is substantially equal to (i.e., with ±0.1% difference) the predetermined critical germanium content.
- Critical germanium content for the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer can be readily calculated by various conventionally known methods, as described hereinafter in greater detail, and the present invention selects the average calculated critical germanium content for controlling the actual germanium content in the SiGe-containing layer, so as to minimize the risk of dislocation generation. For example, for a SiGe-containing layer of about 50 nm thick, the calculated critical germanium content is between about 16 atomic % to about 18 atomic %, while the average value of 17 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content in the present invention. For another example, the calculated critical germanium content of a 100 nm thick SiGe-containing layer is between about 9 atomic % to about 11 atomic %, and the average value of 10 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content for practice of the present invention.
- The ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer of the present invention may have a flat Ge content profile (i.e., a substantially uniform Ge content is provided across the entire SiGe-containing layer), a multi-step Ge content profile (i.e., multiple plateaus of uniform Ge content are provided across the entire SiGe-containing layer), or a graded Ge content profile (i.e., the Ge content changes in the SiGe-containing layer). The term “Ge content profile” or “germanium content profile” as used herein refers to a plot of germanium contents in a structure as a function of thickness or depth in the structure. Preferably, the ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer has a graded Ge content profile, which may have any suitable shape, either regular or irregular. For example, such an ultra-thin SiGe-containing layer may have a triangular Ge content profile, or a trapezoidal Ge content profile.
- For a simple (i.e., stepped) or complicated (graded) SiGe-containing layer, the “average Ge content” is determined by first integrating the Ge content over the entire SiGe-containing layer, i.e., so as to determine the total or integrated Ge content in the layer, and then dividing the integrated Ge content over the thickness of the layer. A SiGe-based HBT is found to be stable in further high-temperature processing steps, which are required to finish the HBT device, as long as the average Ge content in the base layer of such a SiGe-based HBT device remains below or equal to a critical Ge content corresponding to the thickness of the base layer. The critical Ge content can be readily determined, for example, from the Matthew/Blakeslee line (MBL) that is to be described in greater detail hereinafter. Moreover, certain deposition techniques, such as ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHVCVD) and high-temperature bake-conditioned remote plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD), allow the SiGe-containing base layer to be deposited with an average Ge content that is very close (more than 95%) to the critical Ge content.
- In another aspect, the present invention relates to a heterojunction bipolar transistor that comprises a SiGe-containing base layer having a thickness of not more than about 50 nm and a germanium content profile with an average germanium content ranging from about 16.5 atomic % to about 17.5 atomic %.
- In a further aspect, the present invention relates to a method for enhancing carrier mobility in a heterojunction bipolar transistor that has an ultra-thin SiGe-containing base layer, without changing quasi-static drift field of the base layer. The quasi-static drift field of a SiGe-containing layer depends on the Ge grading rate or the shape of the Ge content profile, but not the absolute Ge content, in the SiGe-containing layer.
- Therefore, a uniform increase in the Ge content across the ultra-thin SiGe-containing base layer can be used to reach near-critical Ge content in the base layer, thereby maximizing the biaxial strain and the carrier mobility in the base layer, but it does not change the Ge grading rate or the shape of the Ge content profile and thus maintains the same quasi-static drift field in the base layer.
- In one embodiment, the method of the present invention comprises:
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- measuring the thickness of the SiGe-containing base layer;
- calculating a critical germanium content based on the thickness of the SiGe-containing base layer;
- measuring germanium content in the SiGe-containing base layer to determine the germanium content profile of said SiGe-containing base layer; and
- changing the germanium content profile of the SiGe-containing base layer, by uniformly increasing the germanium content in the SiGe-containing base layer by a sufficient amount so that the changed germanium content profile has an average germanium content of not less than about 80% of the calculated critical germanium content.
- In a still further aspect, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a high performance SiGe-based HBT device, by:
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- determining a projected thickness and a projected germanium profile for a SiGe-containing base layer of the SiGe-based HBT device, wherein said projected thickness is not more than about 100 nm;
- calculating a critical germanium content based on the projected thickness and an average germanium content based on the projected germanium profile and the critical germanium content, wherein said average germanium content is not less than 80% of the critical germanium content;
- forming a collector for the HBT device in a semiconductor substrate;
- depositing over the collector a SiGe-containing base layer, which has the projected thickness, the projected germanium profile, and the calculated average germanium content; and
- forming an extrinsic base and an emitter for the HBT device.
- The projected thickness and the projected germanium profile can be readily determined by theoretical band-structure calculations and historical base profile scaling, which are known in the art and therefore are not described in detail herein. Preferably, the projected germanium profile provides for germanium grading over the base layer, which establishes a quasi-static drift field for accelerating carriers across the base layer.
- Other aspects, features and advantages of the invention will be more fully apparent from the ensuing disclosure and appended claims.
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FIG. 1 shows a cross-sectional view of an exemplary prior art SiGe-based HBT device. -
FIG. 2 shows two prior art base Ge content profiles for SiGe-based HBT devices. -
FIG. 3 shows an improved base Ge content profile for a high performance SiGe HBT device, in comparison with a prior art base Ge content profile, according to one embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 4 shows another improved base Ge content profile for a high performance SiGe HBT device, in comparison with a prior art base Ge content profile, according to one embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 5 shows yet another improved base Ge content profile for a high performance SiGe HBT device, in comparison with a prior art base Ge content profile, according to one embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 6 shows a Matthews-Blakeslee curve that can be used for determining the critical Ge content for a SiGe-containing layer based on its thickness. - A typical SiGe-based HBT having a deep trench isolation and a T-shaped emitter is shown in
FIG. 1 (hereinafterFIG. 1 ). Specifically,FIG. 1 includes asemiconductor structure 10 that includes at least acollector 12 that is positioned between two shallowtrench isolations regions deep trench 16 extending from a bottom walled surface of the shallow trench. The semiconductor structure shown inFIG. 1 also includes a first epitaxial silicon layer 18, a SiGe base 20, and a secondepitaxial silicon layer 22, which are located atop the trench isolation regions and thecollector 12. The structure shown inFIG. 1 also includes anextrinsic base 24 and anoxide layer 26 which are patterned to expose a surface of the secondepitaxial silicon layer 22 that is located above the SiGe base 20.Nitride spacers 28 are located on sidewalls of theoxide layer 26 and theextrinsic base 24. A T-shapedemitter 30 is present in the structure as shown inFIG. 1 . - The HBT shown in
FIG. 1A is fabricated utilizing conventional bipolar processing techniques that are well known in the art. For example, a heterojunction Si-containing base, particularly comprised of SiGe, is epitaxially grown on a collector pedestal surrounded by isolation oxide. - During epitaxial growth, sophisticated boron, germanium, and carbon content profiles (with either exponential or polynomial ramps) can readily be created by time dependent programming of precursor flows. Graded germanium content profiles are desirable for creating built-in drift fields that accelerate carriers across the otherwise neutral base region of the transistor, thus drastically reducing the transit time.
- Although germanium content profiles and germanium grading in conventional SiGe-based HBT devices were used to be limited by the critical thickness and critical germanium content of the SiGe base layer, recent aggressive scaling of the SiGe HBT devices has led to significant reductions in device dimensions, including significant reduction in the base layer thickness. Further, since recent studies indicate that carriers traveling through ultra-thin base layers have already reached a saturation velocity at the today's moderate Ge grading and that increased Ge grading in the ultra-thin base layers does not yield further improvements in carrier velocity, currently available SiGe-based HBT devices have base Ge content well below the critical value.
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FIG. 2 shows two exemplary graded Ge profiles in currently available SiGe-based HBT devices. The average Ge contents for these two graded Ge profiles (xA1 and xA2, respectively) are well below the critical Ge content (xc) of the ultra-thin SiGe base layers of such devices. - The present invention discovers that although further increase in the Ge content of the ultra-thin base layers of the currently available SiGe-based HBT devices does not further increase carrier velocity, it can cause increase in biaxial strains near the base region, thereby enhancing carrier mobility in the base region and reducing the carrier base-transit time as well as the base resistance in the SiGe-based HBT devices.
- Therefore, the present invention utilizes near-critical average Ge content in the ultra-thin base region of a SiGe HBT, so as to increase carrier mobility and further reduce base resistance and carrier transit time through the neutral base region. The method described by the present invention can be used to modify and improve the performance of an existing SiGe HBT device, or to fabricate a high performance SiGe HBT device ab initio.
- In order to maintain the same drift fields created by the graded Ge content profiles in the ultra-thin base region of the existing SiGe HBT, the present invention proposes modification of the existing SiGe HBT, by uniformly increasing the germanium content in the SiGe base layer of the existing HBT device by a sufficient amount so that the average germanium content of the SiGe base layer is close to, or at least near, 80% of the critical germanium content.
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FIG. 3 shows a gradedGe content profile 14, which is created by uniformly increasing Ge content in the gradedGe content profile 12 of an existing SiGe HBT device having an ultra-thin base region, according to one embodiment of the present invention. The increased Ge content is referred to as Δx, and the average Ge content (xA) in the new gradedGe content profile 14 is significantly closer to the critical germanium content (xc) than the average Ge content (not shown) in the prior artGe content profile 12. - Similarly,
FIG. 4 shows a gradedGe content profile 24, which is created by uniformly increasing Ge content (by Δx) in the prior art gradedGe content profile 22 of an existing SiGe HBT device having an ultra-thin base region, according to one embodiment of the present invention. The average Ge content (xA) in the new gradedGe content profile 14 is significantly closer to the critical germanium content (xc) than the average Ge content (not shown) in the prior artGe content profile 12. -
FIG. 5 shows another gradedGe content profile 34, which is created by uniformly increasing Ge content by Δx in both the ultra-thin SiGe base region of an existing SiGe HBT and the two epitaxial silicon layers flanking the ultra-thin SiGe base (i.e., layers 18 and 22 ofFIG. 1 ), according to another embodiment of the present invention. The Ge content increases in the two epitaxial silicon layers are indicated byramps FIG. 5 , and the average Ge content (xA) in the new gradedGe content profile 34 is significantly closer to the critical germanium content (xc) than the average Ge content (not shown) in the prior artGe content profile 32. - Therefore, the increase in Ge content can be either limited to only the ultra-thin SiGe base region, so that the epitaxial silicon layers flanking such an ultra-thin SiGe base consist essentially of silicon, with little or no Ge therein, or it can be extended to also the flanking epitaxial silicon layers, forming an extended SiGe epitaxial base region.
- The present invention provides a method to enhance the carrier mobility in a SiGe-based HBT device while reducing the base resistance of the transistor. In accordance with the present invention, carrier mobility enhancement is achieved by changing the Ge profile in the ultra-thin base region of the HBT device, without negatively impacting the drift fields that are typically associated with bipolar transistors.
- More particularly, the present invention provides a method in which the Ge content profile in the ultra-thin base region of a SiGe HBT device is changed to provide the simultaneous application of lateral compressive and vertical tensile strain. This change in Ge content profile as described by the present invention does not negatively affect, or significantly alter, the quasi-static drift field created by the amount of Ge grading in the ultra-thin base region. By adding a uniform amount of additional Ge to the base Ge content profile and increasing the average Ge content in the ultra-thin base layer to near-critical value, the internal biaxial layer strain can be greatly enhanced up to the apparent and metastable critical point of relaxation.
- The critical Ge content for a SiGe base layer of a specific thickness can be readily determined by various methods, as described by J. C. Bean et al., “GexSi1-x/Si Strained-Layer Superlattice Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy,” J. V
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FIG. 6 shows a Matthews-Blakeslee curve that correlates the critical thickness of a SiGe-containing film with the Ge content therein, which can be readily used to determine the critical Ge content giving a specific thickness of the SiGe film. - The critical Ge contents calculated by using different methods may differ slightly from one another, due to the different models used and different parameters considered. The present invention selects the average calculated critical germanium content for controlling the actual germanium content in the SiGe-containing layer. For example, for a SiGe-containing layer of about 50 nm thick, the calculated critical germanium content is between about 16 atomic % to about 18 atomic %, while the value of 17 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content in the present invention. For another example, the calculated critical germanium content of a 100 nm thick SiGe-containing layer is between about 9 atomic % to about 11 atomic %, and the value of 10 atomic % is selected as the predetermined critical germanium content for practice of the present invention.
- Preferably, the ultra-thin SiGe base layer with the near-critical Ge content is pseudomorphically grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), with well-established process control and proven repeatability and suitable for batch processing and large-scale manufacturing. In addition, CVD process requires no plasma treatment, and the substitutional Ge atoms are electrically inactive, save for minute changes in band structure and ensuring ultra-low contamination levels in the base layers.
- While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with respect to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing and other changes in forms and details may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. It is therefore intended that the present invention not be limited to the exact forms and details described and illustrated, but fall within the scope of the appended claims.
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