State of the art and future perspectives in advanced CMOS technology

HH Radamson, H Zhu, Z Wu, X He, H Lin, J Liu… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The international technology roadmap of semiconductors (ITRS) is approaching the
historical end point and we observe that the semiconductor industry is driving …

A new technique for evaluating stacked nanosheet inner spacer TDDB reliability

T Shen, K Watanabe, H Zhou… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For stacked Nanosheet gate-all-around transistors, a new failure mode between the gate
and epitaxial source/drain (PC-Epi) is introduced in the Middle-Of-Line (MOL) intermetal …

Development of SiGe indentation process control to enable stacked Nanosheet FET technology

D Kong, D Schmidt, M Breton, J Frougier… - 2020 31st Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The methodology of measuring the lateral etch, or indentation, of SiGe nanosheets by using
optical scatterometry, x-ray fluorescence, and machine learning algorithms is presented and …

AFM characterization for gate-all-around (GAA) devices

M Breton, J Fullam, D Kong, D Schmidt… - … Process Control for …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
As development of stacked Nanosheet Gate All-Around (GAA) transistor continues as the
candidate technology for future nodes, several key process points remain difficult to …