Method of forming CMOS having simultaneous formation of halo regions of PMOS and part of source/drain of NMOS

Claim 2

A semiconductor processing method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate and defining first source/drain region locations and second source/drain region locations within the substrate; providing a first conductivity-type dopant in the first source/drain region locations to form first source/drain regions in the first source/drain region locations; providing a second conductivity-type dopant in the second source/drain region locations to form second source/drain regions in the second source/drain region locations, one of the first and second conductivity types being p-type and the other of the first and second conductivity types being n-type; covering either the first source/drain region locations or is the second source/drain region locations with a masking layer, while leaving the other of the first source/drain region locations and the second source/drain region locations uncovered; and with the masking layer in place, implanting a dopant into the covered region locations and uncovered region locations to form graded junction regions in the covered region locations and halo regions in the uncovered region locations.

Claim 3

A semiconductor processing method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate, the substrate having a p-type region and an n-type region; defining NMOS source/drain region locations in the p-type region and PMOS source/drain region locations in the n-type region; providing n-type dopant in the NMOS source/drain region locations to form NMOS source/drain regions in the NMOS source/drain region locations; providing p-type dopant in the PMOS source/drain region locations to form PMOS source/drain regions in the PMOS source/drain region locations; covering either the NMOS source/drain region locations or the PMOS source/drain region locations with a masking layer, while leaving the other of the NMOS source/drain region locations and the PMOS source/drain region locations uncovered; and with the masking layer in place, implanting a dopant into the covered region locations and uncovered region locations to form graded junction regions in the covered region locations and halo regions in the uncovered region locations.

Claim 4

A semiconductor processing method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate, the substrate having a p-type region and an n-type region; defining NMOS source/drain region locations in the p-type region and PMOS source/drain region locations in the n-type region; providing n-type dopant in the NMOS source/drain region locations to form NMOS source/drain regions in the NMOS source/drain region locations; providing p-type dopant in the PMOS source/drain region locations to form PMOS source/drain regions in the PMOS source/drain region locations; covering either the NMOS source/drain region locations or the PMOS source/drain region locations with a masking layer, while leaving the other of the NMOS source/drain region locations and the PMOS source/drain region locations uncovered; and with the masking layer in place, implanting a dopant into the covered region locations and uncovered region locations to form graded junction regions in the covered region locations and halo regions in the uncovered region locations.

Claim 5

The method of claim 1 wherein the covered region locations are the NMOS source/drain region locations.

Claim 6

The method of claim 1 wherein the covered region locations are the PMOS source/drain region locations.

Claim 7

A semiconductor processing method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate, the substrate having a p-type region and an n-type region; providing a pair of transistors formed proximate the p-type region and n-type region, respectively; the transistor formed proximate the p-type region being an NMOS transistor and comprising n-type doped source/drain regions; the transistor formed proximate the n-type region being an PMOS transistor and comprising p-type doped source/drain regions; covering an entirety of one of the p-type and n-type regions with a masking layer, while leaving at least a portion of the other of the p-type and n-type regions uncovered; and with the masking layer in place, implanting a dopant into the entirely covered region and uncovered portion; the implanted dopant being utilized as graded junction regions for the transistor proximate the entirely covered region, and being utilized as halo regions for the transistor proximate the uncovered portion.

Claim 8

A semiconductor processing method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate, the substrate having a p-type region and an n-type region; providing a pair of transistors formed proximate the p-type region and n-type region, respectively; the transistor formed proximate the p-type region being an NMOS transistor and comprising n-type doped source/drain regions; the transistor formed proximate the n-type region being an PMOS transistor and comprising p-type doped source/drain regions; covering an entirety of one of the p-type and n-type regions with a masking layer, while leaving at least a portion of the other of the p-type and n-type regions uncovered; and with the masking layer in place, implanting a dopant into the entirely covered region and uncovered portion; the implanted dopant being utilized as graded junction regions for the transistor proximate the entirely covered region, and being utilized as halo regions for the transistor proximate the uncovered portion.

Claim 9

The method of claim 5 wherein the entirely covered region is the n-type region.

Claim 10

The method of claim 5 wherein the entirely covered region is the p-type region.

Claim 11

A semiconductor processing method comprising: defining an NMOS region location and a PMOS region location of a semiconductor substrate; defining NMOS source/drain region locations within the NMOS region location and PMOS source/drain region locations within the PMOS region location; forming a transistor gate over the NMOS region location; providing an n-type dopant within the NMOS source/drain region locations to form NMOS source/drain regions; forming a transistor gate over the PMOS region location; providing a p-type dopant within the PMOS source/drain region locations to form PMOS source/drain regions; forming an implant masking layer over either the NMOS source/drain region locations or the PMOS source/drain region locations and not over the other of the NMOS source/drain region locations and the PMOS source/drain region locations; and implanting a common dopant into the covered source/drain region locations and uncovered source/drain region locations to form graded junction regions in the covered region locations and halo implant regions in the uncovered region locations.

Claim 12

A semiconductor processing method comprising: defining an NMOS region location and a PMOS region location of a semiconductor substrate; defining NMOS source/drain region locations within the NMOS region location and PMOS source/drain region locations within the PMOS region location; forming a transistor gate over the NMOS region location; providing an n-type dopant within the NMOS source/drain region locations to form NMOS source/drain regions; forming a transistor gate over the PMOS region location; providing a p-type dopant within the PMOS source/drain region locations to form PMOS source/drain regions; forming an implant masking layer over either the NMOS source/drain region locations or the PMOS source/drain region locations and not over the other of the NMOS source/drain region locations and the PMOS source/drain region locations; and implanting a common dopant into the covered source/drain region locations and uncovered source/drain region locations to form graded junction regions in the covered region locations and halo implant regions in the uncovered region locations.

Claim 13

The method of claim 8 wherein the forming of either the PMOS source/drain regions or the NMOS source/drain regions comprises: after forming the implant masking layer, implanting either the n-type dopant or the p-type dopant into the uncovered source/drain region locations to form either the PMOS source/drain regions or the NMOS source/drain regions; the implant masking layer preventing the implanted dopant from entering the covered source/drain region locations.

Claim 14

The method of claim 8 wherein the implant masking layer is over at least one of the NMOS gate and the PMOS gate.

Claim 15

The method of claim 8 wherein the covered region locations are the NMOS source/drain region locations and the common dopant is phosphorus.

Claim 16

The method of claim 8 wherein the covered region locations are the PMOS source/drain region locations and the common dopant is boron.

Claim 17

The method of claim 8 wherein the forming the transistor gates comprises: forming a gate layer over the NMOS and PMOS region locations; and patterning the gate layer over one of the NMOS and PMOS region locations to form one of the transistor gates while leaving the gate layer not patterned for gate formation over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations.

Claim 18

The method of claim 8 wherein the step of forming an implant masking layer comprises forming a layer of silicon dioxide to a thickness of from about 500 Angstroms to about 2000 Angstroms.

Claim 19

A semiconductor processing method comprising: defining an NMOS region location and a PMOS region location of a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate layer over the NMOS and PMOS region locations; patterning the gate layer over one of the NMOS and PMOS region locations to form a first transistor gate while leaving the gate layer not patterned for gate formation over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations; forming first source/drain regions within the substrate operatively adjacent the first transistor gate; forming insulative spacers adjacent to the first transistor gate, the insulative spacers having a spacer width; forming an implant masking layer over the first transistor gate, the first source/drain regions, the insulative spacers adjacent the first transistor gate, and the unpatterned gate layer over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations; patterning the unpatterned gate layer and the implant masking layer during the same lithographic and etch sequence to form a second transistor gate over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations, and to form an isolated segment of the implant masking layer overlying the second transistor gate; implanting a first dopant into the first source/drain regions through the implant masking layer and into the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations to form first implant regions adjacent the second transistor gate and to form second implant regions adjacent the first transistor gate, the second implant regions as implanted being spaced from the first transistor gate by about a sum of the spacer width and the implant masking layer thickness; and subsequent to patterning the gate layer and implant masking layer over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations, implanting a second dopant into said other region location to form second source/drain regions adjacent the second transistor gate; the implant masking layer preventing the second dopant from entering the first source/drain regions.

Claim 20

A semiconductor processing method comprising: defining an NMOS region location and a PMOS region location of a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate layer over the NMOS and PMOS region locations; patterning the gate layer over one of the NMOS and PMOS region locations to form a first transistor gate while leaving the gate layer not patterned for gate formation over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations; forming first source/drain regions within the substrate operatively adjacent the first transistor gate; forming insulative spacers adjacent to the first transistor gate, the insulative spacers having a spacer width; forming an implant masking layer over the first transistor gate, the first source/drain regions, the insulative spacers adjacent the first transistor gate, and the unpatterned gate layer over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations; patterning the unpatterned gate layer and the implant masking layer during the same lithographic and etch sequence to form a second transistor gate over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations, and to form an isolated segment of the implant masking layer overlying the second transistor gate; implanting a first dopant into the first source/drain regions through the implant masking layer and into the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations to form first implant regions adjacent the second transistor gate and to form second implant regions adjacent the first transistor gate, the second implant regions as implanted being spaced from the first transistor gate by about a sum of the spacer width and the implant masking layer thickness; and subsequent to patterning the gate layer and implant masking layer over the other of the NMOS and PMOS region locations, implanting a second dopant into said other region location to form second source/drain regions adjacent the second transistor gate; the implant masking layer preventing the second dopant from entering the first source/drain regions.

Claim 21

The method of claim 15 wherein the first source/drain regions are NMOS source/drain regions and the first dopant is phosphorus.

Claim 22

The method of claim 15 wherein the first source/drain regions are PMOS source/drain regions and the first dopant is boron.

Claim 23

The method of claim 15 further comprising subjecting the substrate to thermal conditions subsequent to implanting the first dopant, the thermal conditions being effective to provide the second implant regions deeper within the substrate than the first source/drain regions.

Claim 24

A semiconductor processing method of forming complementary NMOS and PMOS field effect transistors on a substrate, and of forming graded junction regions between the active diffusion area of the NMOS transistor and the substrate, the method comprising the following steps: defining an NMOS region location and a PMOS region location of a semiconductor substrate; providing a gate layer over the NMOS and PMOS region locations, the gate layer comprising polysilicon; patterning the gate layer over the NMOS region location to form an NMOS gate while leaving the gate layer not patterned for gate formation of a PMOS field effect transistor over the PMOS region location; providing NMOS source and drain regions within the substrate operatively adjacent the NMOS gate; providing insulative spacers adjacent to the NMOS gate, the insulative spacers having a spacer width; providing an implant masking layer to a desired thickness over the NMOS gate, the NMOS source region, the NMOS drain region, the gate layer over the PMOS region location of the semiconductor substrate, and the insulative spacers adjacent the NMOS gate; patterning the gate layer and the implant masking layer over the PMOS region location during the same lithographic and etch sequence to form a PMOS gate over the PMOS region location of the semiconductor substrate and to form an isolated segment of the implant masking layer which overlies the PMOS gate; blanket ion implanting phosphorus into the NMOS region location through the implant masking layer and into the PMOS region location to form phosphorus halo implant regions for the PMOS field effect transistor and to form graded junction regions for the NMOS field effect transistor, the graded junction regions as implanted being spaced from the NMOS gate by about a sum of the spacer width and the implant masking layer thickness; and subsequent to patterning the gate layer and implant masking layer over the PMOS region location, ion implanting p-type material into the PMOS region location of the substrate operatively adjacent the PMOS gate at a selected implant energy level to form source and drain regions for the PMOS transistor; the selected implant energy level being sufficiently low to effectively use the implant masking layer as a mask to p-type implanting into the NMOS source and drain regions.

Claim 25

A semiconductor processing method of forming complementary NMOS and PMOS field effect transistors on a substrate, and of forming graded junction regions between the active diffusion area of the NMOS transistor and the substrate, the method comprising the following steps: defining an NMOS region location and a PMOS region location of a semiconductor substrate; providing a gate layer over the NMOS and PMOS region locations, the gate layer comprising polysilicon; patterning the gate layer over the NMOS region location to form an NMOS gate while leaving the gate layer not patterned for gate formation of a PMOS field effect transistor over the PMOS region location; providing NMOS source and drain regions within the substrate operatively adjacent the NMOS gate; providing insulative spacers adjacent to the NMOS gate, the insulative spacers having a spacer width; providing an implant masking layer to a desired thickness over the NMOS gate, the NMOS source region, the NMOS drain region, the gate layer over the PMOS region location of the semiconductor substrate, and the insulative spacers adjacent the NMOS gate; patterning the gate layer and the implant masking layer over the PMOS region location during the same lithographic and etch sequence to form a PMOS gate over the PMOS region location of the semiconductor substrate and to form an isolated segment of the implant masking layer which overlies the PMOS gate; blanket ion implanting phosphorus into the NMOS region location through the implant masking layer and into the PMOS region location to form phosphorus halo implant regions for the PMOS field effect transistor and to form graded junction regions for the NMOS field effect transistor, the graded junction regions as implanted being spaced from the NMOS gate by about a sum of the spacer width and the implant masking layer thickness; and subsequent to patterning the gate layer and implant masking layer over the PMOS region location, ion implanting p-type material into the PMOS region location of the substrate operatively adjacent the PMOS gate at a selected implant energy level to form source and drain regions for the PMOS transistor; the selected implant energy level being sufficiently low to effectively use the implant masking layer as a mask to p-type implanting into the NMOS source and drain regions.