Troutman Sanders LLP
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. After depositing the metal gate electrode material, a layer of oxygen molecule catalyzing layer having a catalyzing function to the oxygen molecules is deposited, and afterwards, a low-temperature PMA annealing process is used to decompose the oxygen molecules in the annealing atmosphere into more active oxygen atoms. These oxygen atoms are diffused into the high-k gate dielectric film through the metal gate to supplement the oxygen vacancies in the high-k film, in order to alleviate oxygen vacancies in the high-k film and improve the quality of the high-k film. According to the present invention, the oxygen vacancies and defects of high-k gate dielectric film will be alleviated, and further, growth of SiOx interface layer having a low dielectric constant caused by the traditional PDA high temperature process may be prevented. Thereby, the EOT of the entire gate dielectric layer may be effectively controlled, and the MOS device may be continuously scaled. Meanwhile, the present invention further provides a semiconductor device obtained according to the above-mentioned method.
Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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