Ultra-Shallow Junction Formation by Non-Melt Laser Spike Annealing and its Application to Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Devices in 65-nm Node

Abstract

We activated source/drain junctions of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) by simply replacing rapid thermal annealing (RTA) in the conventional production flow by non-melt laser spike annealing (LSA). We did not form any additional layers, unlike the conventional laser annealing. The 50-nm gate CMOS devices thus formed had overwhelmingly better Vth roll-offs and larger drain currents compared to those formed by RTA. We found that the LSA-devices without offset spacers had better performance than those with offset spacers, and that the optimization of the overlap length between the gate and source/drain extensions was important due to the minimal lateral diffusion during the sub-millisecond annealing of LSA.