SILICON GERMANIUM AND SILICON FINS ON OXIDE FROM BULK WAFER

Patent №

US 10,074,577

Granted

2018-09-11

Filed 2016

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15220150

A method for forming fins includes growing a SiGe layer and a silicon layer over a surface of a bulk Si substrate, patterning fin structures from the silicon layer and the SiGe layer and filling between the fin structures with a dielectric fill. Trenches are formed to expose end portions of the fin structures. A first region of the fin structures is blocked off. The SiGe layer of the fin structures of a second region is removed by selectively etching the fin structures from the end portions to form voids, which are filled with dielectric material. The silicon layer of the fin structures is exposed. The SiGe layer in the first region is thermally oxidized to drive Ge into the silicon layer to form SiGe fins on an oxide layer in the first region and silicon fins on the dielectric material in the second region.

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Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 392630171

STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.

assignment · 394820599

Assignors

LOUBET, NICOLAS

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