New Large Angle Tilt Implanted Drain Structure: Surface Counter-Doped-Lightly Doped Drain for High Hot Carrier Reliability

Abstract

A new surface counterdoped-lightly doped drain (SCD-LDD) structure with large angle tilt (LAT) implantation is proposed in this study. This structure introduces an additional larger tilt angle and lower-energy BF2 implant after the n- implant, which counterdopes the n- surface concentration to achieve a gate/ n- fully overlapped, buried and sloped n- region inside the gate edge. As a result, the lateral electric fields inside the gate edge are reduced and pushed deeper into the substrate. In addition to a reduction in substrate current, this profile also suppresses hot carrier injection by driving the current away from the surface and the maximum electric field; then it shifts the avalanche region further into the bulk Si. This consequently produces a more effective enhancement of hot carrier reliability than that of conventional LDD's and controlled large-angle-tilt implanted drains (LATID's) for submicron VLSI circuits under 5 V operation. In conclusion, this SCD-LDD provides one more degree of freedom in optimizing the n- region doping profiles as a new LATID structure.