Summary of the invention
Technical problem to be solved by this invention is to provide a kind of Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor, can reduce the horizontal proliferation of the p type impurity of outer base area, thereby can reduce the width of outer base area, improves the maximum oscillation frequency of device.For this reason, the present invention also provides a kind of manufacture method of Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor provided by the invention is formed on silicon substrate, active area is comprised by the isolation of shallow slot field oxygen: a base is comprised of the P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer that is formed on described active area and extend on the described shallow slot field oxygen of described active area week side.One emitter region is comprised of the N-type polysilicon that is formed at top, described base, and described emitter region and described base contact; The size of described emitter region is less than the size of described active area; Top in described emitter region is formed with Metal Contact, and this Metal Contact contacts and draw emitter with described emitter region.Take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the boundary, described base is divided into intrinsic base region and outer base area, and the outer ledge that described intrinsic base region is positioned at described emitter region is take the described base in, the described intrinsic base region outside as outer base area; Include the germanium of autoregistration injection or the first p type impurity of carbon impurity and autoregistration injection in described outer base area, the doped region of the doped region of described germanium or carbon impurity and described the first p type impurity is all take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the autoregistration border, and described germanium or carbon impurity are used for suppressing the diffusion of described the first p type impurity; Top at described outer base area is formed with Metal Contact, and this Metal Contact contacts and draw base stage with described outer base area.
Further improving is also to comprise: a collector region, formed by a N-type ion implanted region that is formed in described active area, and described collector region top and described base contact.One counterfeit buried regions is comprised of the N-type ion implanted region of the oxygen bottom, described shallow slot field that is formed at described active area week side; Described counterfeit buried regions also is diffused in described active area and forms with the bottom of described collector region and contacts; Be formed with the deep hole contact in the oxygen of the described shallow slot field at described counterfeit buried regions top, described deep hole contact contacts and draws collector electrode with described counterfeit buried regions.
Further improve and be, described deep hole contact forms by being filled in titanium in deep hole and titanium nitride metal level and tungsten layer; The thickness of the titanium layer of described titanium and titanium nitride metal level is that the thickness of 100 dusts~500 dusts, titanium nitride layer is 50 dusts~500 dusts.
The further improvement is to be formed with in the bottom of described deep hole contact the N-type impurity that autoregistration is injected, the satisfied condition that forms ohmic contact between described deep hole contact and described counterfeit buried regions that makes of the concentration of the N-type impurity that this autoregistration is injected.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the manufacture method of Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor provided by the invention comprises step: form shallow slot field oxygen and active area on silicon substrate; Form a P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer in the positive deposit of described silicon substrate, described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer is positioned on described active area and extends on the described shallow slot field oxygen of described active area week side, forms the base by described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer; Adopt depositing technics to form a N-type polysilicon on described base, then adopt chemical wet etching technique to carry out etching formation emitter region to described N-type polysilicon; After etching, described emitter region and described base contact, and the size of described emitter region is less than the size of described active area; Take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the boundary, described base is divided into intrinsic base region and outer base area, and the outer ledge that described intrinsic base region is positioned at described emitter region is take the described base in, the described intrinsic base region outside as outer base area; Do not add reticle, adopt the autoregistration injection technology that described outer base area is adulterated, comprising: inject germanium or carbon impurity take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the autoregistration edge in described outer base area; After described germanium or the autoregistration of carbon impurity are injected, inject the first p type impurity take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the autoregistration edge in described outer base area equally; The described germanium of injection or carbon impurity can suppress the diffusion of described the first p type impurity before described the first p type impurity injects; Form Metal Contact by the top at described outer base area and draw base stage; Form Metal Contact by the top in described emitter region and draw emitter.
Further the manufacture method of Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor, comprise the steps:
Step 1, employing chemical wet etching technique form shallow trench and active area on silicon substrate.
Step 2, carry out the N-type Implantation in the bottom of described shallow trench and form counterfeit buried regions.
Step 3, carry out the N-type Implantation form collector region in described active area; The bottom of described collector region forms with described counterfeit buried regions and contacts.
Step 4, form a P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer in the positive deposit of described silicon substrate, described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer is positioned on described active area and extends on the described shallow slot field oxygen of described active area week side, forms the base by described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer.
Step 5, on described base deposit one deck N-type polysilicon, adopt chemical wet etching technique to carry out etching to described N-type polysilicon and form the emitter region; After etching, described emitter region and described base contact, and the size of described emitter region is less than the size of described active area; Take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the boundary, described base is divided into intrinsic base region and outer base area, and the outer ledge that described intrinsic base region is positioned at described emitter region is take the described base in, the described intrinsic base region outside as outer base area.
Step 6, do not add reticle, adopt the autoregistration injection technology that described outer base area is adulterated, comprising: inject germanium or carbon impurity take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the autoregistration edge in described outer base area; After described germanium or the autoregistration of carbon impurity are injected, inject the first p type impurity take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the autoregistration edge in described outer base area equally; The described germanium of injection or carbon impurity can suppress the diffusion of described the first p type impurity before described the first p type impurity injects.
Step 7, form the deep hole contact in the oxygen of the described shallow slot field at described counterfeit buried regions top, described deep hole contact contacts and draws collector electrode with described counterfeit buried regions; Metal Contact is formed on the top at described outer base area, and this Metal Contact contacts and draw base stage with described outer base area; Metal Contact is formed on the top in described emitter region, and this Metal Contact contacts and draw emitter with described emitter region.
Further improve is that the implantation dosage that adopts the autoregistration injection technology to inject described germanium or carbon impurity in described outer base area is: 1e15cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy is: 2kev~10kev.
Further improve is that the implantation dosage that adopts the autoregistration injection technology to inject described the first p type impurity in described outer base area is: 1e15cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy is: 2kev~10kev, implanted dopant are boron or boron fluoride.
Further improve and be, described deep hole contact forms by being filled in titanium in deep hole and titanium nitride metal level and tungsten layer; The thickness of the titanium layer of described titanium and titanium nitride metal level is that the thickness of 100 dusts~500 dusts, titanium nitride layer is 50 dusts~500 dusts.
Further improve and be, after described deep hole forms, before described titanium and titanium nitride metal level and described tungsten layer fill, also be included in and carry out the step that N-type impurity is injected in autoregistration in described deep hole, the concentration of the N-type impurity that autoregistration is injected satisfies the condition that forms ohmic contact between described deep hole contact and described counterfeit buried regions that makes.
Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor of the present invention can reduce the horizontal proliferation of the p type impurity of outer base area, thereby can reduce the width of outer base area by inject germanium or carbon impurity in outer base area, improves the maximum oscillation frequency of device.
Embodiment
As shown in Figure 1, be embodiment of the present invention Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor device architecture schematic diagram.Embodiment of the present invention Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor is formed on silicon substrate 501, the isolation structure that active area is described active area by 503 isolation of shallow slot field oxygen be shallow trench isolation from.Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor comprises:
One collector region 514 is comprised of a N-type ion implanted region that is formed in described active area.The N-type ion implanted region of described collector region 514 can adopt bolus injection, also can adopt repeatedly injection formation, and the impurity of injection is arsenic or phosphorus, and the energy of injection and dosage are determined by the puncture voltage of described Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor.
One counterfeit buried regions 502 is comprised of the N-type ion implanted region of oxygen 503 bottoms, described shallow slot field that are formed at described active area week side; Described counterfeit buried regions 502 also is diffused in described active area and forms with the bottom of described collector region 514 and contacts.In embodiments of the present invention, can be in contact with one another the formation buried regions after the described counterfeit buried regions 502 of all sides of described active area is diffused into described active area; When the size of described active area than ambassador described active area week side 502 diffusions of described counterfeit buried regions after can not form contact in described active area the time, can the described counterfeit buried regions 502 of all sides of described active area be coupled together the formation buried regions by ion implantation technology.The implantation dosage that the N-type foreign ion of described counterfeit buried regions 502 injects is 1e14cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy 2KeV~50KeV, implanted dopant are phosphorus.Be formed with deep hole contact 504 in the described shallow slot field at described counterfeit buried regions 502 tops oxygen 503, described deep hole contact 504 contacts and draws collector electrode with described counterfeit buried regions 502.Described deep hole contact 504 forms by being filled in titanium in deep hole and titanium nitride metal level and tungsten layer; The thickness of the titanium layer of described titanium and titanium nitride metal level is that the thickness of 100 dusts~500 dusts, titanium nitride layer is 50 dusts~500 dusts.Bottom in described deep hole contact 504 is formed with the N-type impurity that autoregistration is injected, and the concentration of the N-type impurity that this autoregistration is injected satisfies described deep hole contact 504 and 502 conditions that form ohmic contact of described counterfeit buried regions of making.
One base 511 is comprised of the P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer that is formed on described active area and extend on the described shallow slot field oxygen 503 of described active area week side.Described base 511 forms with described collector region 514 and contacts.The contact area of described base 511 and described collector region 514 is by the base window definition, described base window forms after by dielectric layer silica 513 and polysilicon 508 etchings, and described base window is positioned at described active area top and more than or equal to the size of described active area.The part that described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer extends to oxygen 503 tops, described shallow slot field is also polysilicon structure and is superimposed upon on described polysilicon 508.
One emitter region 510 is comprised of the N-type polysilicon that is formed at 511 tops, described base.Described emitter region 510 and described base 511 contact; The contact area of described emitter region 510 and described base 511 is defined by emitter window.Described emitter window forms after by dielectric layer 509 etchings, and the thickness of described dielectric layer 509 is determined by the emitter region width; Described dielectric layer 509 can be mono-layer oxidized silicon, can be also the double-layer structure of silica and silicon nitride composition or the double-layer structure of silica and polysilicon composition.Described emitter window is positioned at described active area top and less than the size of described active area.
The top of described emitter region 510 extends on the described dielectric layer 509 of described emitter window outside, and the size of the described emitter region 510 after extension is also less than the size of described active area; Be formed with monox lateral wall 512 on the side of described emitter region 510.Be formed with Metal Contact 506 at the top of described emitter region 510, this Metal Contact 506 contacts and draws emitter with described emitter region 510.Take the outer ledge of described emitter region 510 as the boundary, the outer ledge of emitter region described in the embodiment of the present invention 510 is the outer ledge of described monox lateral wall 512, described base 511 is divided into intrinsic base region and outer base area, and the outer ledge that described intrinsic base region is positioned at described emitter region 510 is take the described base in, the described intrinsic base region outside as outer base area; Include the germanium of autoregistration injection or the first p type impurity of carbon impurity and autoregistration injection in described outer base area, the doped region of the doped region of described germanium or carbon impurity and described the first p type impurity is all take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the autoregistration border, and described germanium or carbon impurity are used for suppressing the diffusion of described the first p type impurity.The implantation dosage that the autoregistration of described germanium or carbon impurity is injected is: 1e15cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy is: 2kev~10kev.The implantation dosage that the autoregistration of described the first p type impurity is injected is: 1e15cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy is: 2kev~10kev, implanted dopant are boron or boron fluoride.After having injected germanium or carbon impurity in described outer base area, the diffusion zone of the boron in described outer base area or boron fluoride impurity reduces, thereby can reduce the width of outer base area, and the maximum oscillation frequency (Fmax) of device is provided at last.
The part that extends to oxygen 503 tops, described shallow slot field of described outer base area is polysilicon structure and is superimposed upon on described polysilicon 508, and this part also represents with polysilicon 508.Be formed with Metal Contact 506 at the top of described outer base area, this Metal Contact 506 contacts and draws base stage with described outer base area.After the polycrystalline substance of device forms, also be formed with an interlayer film 505, this interlayer film 505 covers the polycrystalline substance of device and and metal layer at top isolation.Described Metal Contact 506 has been passed described interlayer film 505, and described interlayer film 505 and described shallow slot field oxygen 503 have been passed in described deep hole contact 504.Be formed with the figure of metal level 507 on described interlayer film 505, described metal level 507 be connected Metal Contact 506, described deep hole contact 504 and contact and realize that emitter, base stage and collector electrode be connected connection.
As shown in Fig. 2 A to Fig. 2 H, it is the structural representation in each step of manufacture method of embodiment of the present invention Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor.The manufacture method of embodiment of the present invention Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor comprises the steps:
Step 1, as shown in Fig. 2 A, form hard mask layer on silicon substrate, described hard mask layer is comprised of ground floor oxide-film 517, second layer nitride film 518 and the 3rd layer of oxide-film 519 of being formed at successively on described silicon substrate.Adopt chemical wet etching technique described hard mask layer to be etched in the figure of shallow trench and active area, protected by described hard mask layer on wherein said active area, the described hard mask layer on described shallow trench is removed; Take described hard mask layer as mask, described silicon substrate is carried out etching and form shallow trench.
When the gross thickness of described hard mask layer will satisfy the follow-up counterfeit buried regions Implantation that carries out, ion can not penetrate described hard mask layer and enter into described active area.Be preferably, the thickness of described ground floor oxide-film 517 is 100 dusts~300 dusts, and the thickness of second layer nitride film 518 is 200 dusts~500 dusts, and the thickness of the 3rd layer of oxide-film 519 is 300 dusts~800 dusts.
Step 2, as shown in Fig. 2 A, adopt thermal oxidation technology to form a liner oxide film on the surface of described shallow trench, then adopt deposit HTO (High Temperature Oxidation on described liner oxide film, high-temperature oxydation) oxide layer 516, and the side that described liner oxide film and described HTO oxide layer 516 is dry-etched in described shallow trench forms inside wall 520.
Described Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor energy and cmos device are integrated on same described silicon substrate 501 together; after forming described inside wall 520; adopt chemical wet etching technique that the formation zone of described Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor 515 is opened with photoresist, other zone covers and protects with described photoresist 515.
Then carrying out the N-type Implantation in the bottom of described shallow trench forms counterfeit buried regions 502.The implantation dosage that the N-type foreign ion of described counterfeit buried regions 502 injects is 1e14cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy 2KeV~50KeV, implanted dopant are phosphorus.
Step 3, as shown in Fig. 2 B, adopt wet-etching technology to remove the 3rd layer of oxide-film 519 of described hard mask layer, the ground floor oxide-film 517 and the second layer nitride film 518 that pass described hard mask layer carry out N-type Implantation formation collector region 514 in described active area; The N-type ion implanted region of described collector region 514 can adopt bolus injection, also can adopt repeatedly injection formation, and the impurity of injection is arsenic or phosphorus, and the energy of injection and dosage are determined by the puncture voltage of described Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor.The bottom of described collector region 514 forms with described counterfeit buried regions 502 and contacts.
Remove described photoresist 515.As shown in Fig. 2 C, adopt high-density plasma (HDP) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique to fill HDP oxide layer formation shallow slot field oxygen 503 in described shallow trench.Afterwards, adopt CMP (Chemical Mechanical Polishing) process that described hard mask layer is removed.After heat-treating, in embodiments of the present invention, after being diffused into described active area, the described counterfeit buried regions 502 of all sides of described active area can be in contact with one another the formation buried regions; When the size of described active area than ambassador described active area week side 502 diffusions of described counterfeit buried regions after can not form contact in described active area the time, can the described counterfeit buried regions 502 of all sides of described active area be coupled together the formation buried regions by ion implantation technology.
If the described Ge-Si heterojunction bipolar transistor of the embodiment of the present invention and other cmos device are integrated on same described silicon substrate 501 together, at this moment can carry out the manufacture craft of relevant cmos device in the zone that forms described cmos device, comprise the making, the making of metal-oxide-semiconductor side wall of grid oxygen, grid etc.
Step 4, as shown in Fig. 2 D, dielectric layer deposited silica 513 and polysilicon 508 on described silicon substrate 501, the thickness of described dielectric layer silica 513 are that the thickness of 100 dusts~500 dusts, described polysilicon 508 is 200 dusts~1500 dusts.
Adopt chemical wet etching technique to carry out etching to described dielectric layer silica 513 and described polysilicon 508 and form the base window.Described base window is positioned at described active area top and more than or equal to the size of described active area.Described base window exposes the described collector region 514 of its bottom.
As shown in Fig. 2 E, form a P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer 511 in the positive deposit of described silicon substrate 501, described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer 511 is positioned on described active area and extends on the described shallow slot field oxygen 503 of described active area week side, forms base 511 by described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer 511.Described base 511 forms with described collector region 514 and contacts, and the contact area of described base 511 and described collector region 514 is by described base window definition.The part that described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer 511 extends to oxygen 503 tops, described shallow slot field is also polysilicon structure and is superimposed upon on described polysilicon 508.
Described P type germanium and silicon epitaxial layer 511 is made of trilamellar membrane in embodiments of the present invention, this trilamellar membrane is followed successively by from lower to upper silicon transition zone, germanium silicon layer and silicon covering layer from described surfaces of active regions and forms, described silicon transition zone and described silicon covering layer are all intrinsic silicon, are mixed with boron impurity in described germanium silicon layer.The thickness of each of trilamellar membrane layer and the boron concentration of described germanium silicon layer and the characteristic requirements that germanium concentration has device determine.
Step 5, as shown in Fig. 2 F, in the positive dielectric layer deposited 509 of described silicon substrate 501, described dielectric layer 509 is positioned on described base 511 and described polysilicon 508.The thickness of described dielectric layer 509 is determined by the emitter region width; Described dielectric layer 509 can be mono-layer oxidized silicon, can be also the double-layer structure of silica and silicon nitride composition or the double-layer structure of silica and polysilicon composition.
Adopt chemical wet etching technique to carry out etching to described dielectric layer 509 and form emitter window.Described emitter window is positioned at described active area top and less than the size of described active area.Described emitter window is exposed the described base 511 of its bottom.
As shown in Fig. 2 F, form a N-type polysilicon 510 in the positive deposit of described silicon substrate 501, doped N-type impurity in place during 510 deposit of described N-type polysilicon is after deposit is completed, adopt ion implantation technology to inject N-type impurity, the implantation dosage of this injection is greater than 1e15cm again
-21e16cm
-2, implanted dopant is phosphorus or arsenic, Implantation Energy is determined according to the thickness of described N-type polysilicon 510.
As shown in Fig. 2 G, adopt chemical wet etching technique to carry out etching to described N-type polysilicon 510 and form emitter region 510.Described emitter region 510 and described base 511 contact; The contact area of described emitter region 510 and described base 511 is defined by emitter window.The top of described emitter region 510 extends on the described dielectric layer 509 of described emitter window outside, and the size of the described emitter region 510 after extension is also less than the size of described active area.
Take the outer ledge of described emitter region 510 as the boundary, described base 511 is divided into intrinsic base region and outer base area, and the outer ledge that described intrinsic base region is positioned at described emitter region 510 is take the described base in, the described intrinsic base region outside as outer base area.
Step 6, as shown in Fig. 2 H, form monox lateral wall 512 on the side of described emitter region 510.At this moment, the outer ledge of described emitter region 510 extends to the outer ledge of described monox lateral wall 512.
Do not add reticle, adopt the autoregistration injection technology that described outer base area is adulterated, comprising: inject germanium or carbon impurity take the outer ledge of described emitter region 510 as the autoregistration edge in described outer base area; The implantation dosage that the autoregistration of described germanium or carbon impurity is injected is: 1e15cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy is: 2kev~10kev.
After described germanium or the autoregistration of carbon impurity are injected, inject the first p type impurity take the outer ledge of described emitter region as the autoregistration edge in described outer base area equally; The implantation dosage that the autoregistration of described the first p type impurity is injected is: 1e15cm
-2~1e16cm
-2, Implantation Energy is: 2kev~10kev, implanted dopant are boron or boron fluoride.
The described germanium of injection or carbon impurity can suppress the diffusion of described the first p type impurity before described the first p type impurity injects, the diffusion zone of boron in described outer base area or boron fluoride impurity is reduced, thereby can reduce the width of outer base area, the maximum oscillation frequency of device is provided at last.
Step 7, as shown in Figure 1, at positive deposit one interlayer film 505 of described silicon substrate 501, this interlayer film 505 covers the polycrystalline substance of device and is used to realize the polycrystalline substance of device and the isolation of metal layer at top.
Adopt chemical wet etching technique to form the contact hole that passes described interlayer film 505, and form the deep hole that passes described interlayer film 505 and described shallow slot field oxygen 503;
Carry out autoregistration and inject N-type impurity in described contact hole and described deep hole, the contact position place that the concentration of the N-type impurity that this autoregistration is injected satisfies the deep hole contact 504 that can make follow-up formation and Metal Contact 506 can form ohmic contact.
Filling titanium and titanium nitride metal level and tungsten layer in described contact hole and described deep hole forms respectively Metal Contact 506 and contacts 504 with deep hole.The thickness of the titanium layer of described titanium and titanium nitride metal level is that the thickness of 100 dusts~500 dusts, titanium nitride layer is 50 dusts~500 dusts.Described deep hole contact 504 contacts and draws collector electrode with described counterfeit buried regions 502; Described Metal Contact 506 at the top of described outer base area contacts and draws base stage with described outer base area; Described Metal Contact 506 at the top of described emitter region 510 contacts and draws emitter with described emitter region.
Be formed with the figure of metal level 507 on described interlayer film 505, described metal level 507 be connected Metal Contact 506, described deep hole contact 504 and contact and realize that emitter, base stage and collector electrode be connected connection.
Abovely by specific embodiment, the present invention is had been described in detail, but these are not to be construed as limiting the invention.In the situation that do not break away from the principle of the invention, those skilled in the art also can make many distortion and improvement, and these also should be considered as protection scope of the present invention.