A fine-line CMOS technology that uses p+polysilicon/silicide gates for NMOS and PMOS devices

We have developed a fine-line CMOS technology that uses a single-type, p
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polycide (polysilicon/silicide) gate for both NMOS and PMOS transistors. This approach eliminates the problems encountered when using n- and p-type polysilicon gate for NMOS and PMOS transistors that have a common polycide gate. For the n- and p-type polysilicon gates under silicide structure, it has been found that extremely rapid lateral impurity diffusion occurs in the TaSi
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upper layer of the polycide gate structure Such impurity diffusion alters the work functions of the adjacent NMOS and PMOS devices. With p
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-polycide gates for both types of devices, the PMOS device is a "surface-channel" type, and the NMOS device is a (normally off) "buried-channel" type The PMOS device is less prone to punchthrough at short channel lengths than the NMOS device; however, the NMOS device performance benefits from the mobility enhancement of the buried-channel structure. We will highlight here the relativity advantages and disadvantages of the surface-and buried-channel NMOS devices. We describe the I-V characteristics of p
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-polycide gate NMOS and PMOS transistors having 175Å thick gate oxide, threshold voltages of ±0.7V and electrical channel lengths of 1.0µm.