CEA-Leti Scientists Demonstrate CMOS Device Fabrication at 500?C
June 23, 2020
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VLSI 2020 Paper Details First Proof of Integration of FDSOI CMOS Devices Processed at 500°C, for Further 3D Monolithic Integration.
In an FDSOI CMOS processing breakthrough, CEA-Leti scientists have pushed fabrication thermal-process boundaries down to 500°C for CMOS integration, while showing strong performance gains especially in P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) logic devices.
The 500°C threshold is important because in 3D monolithic technologies (also called 3D sequential), fabricating the upper-level transistors at higher temperatures than that can damage the metal interconnects and the silicide of the bottom-level transistors. Using CEA-Leti’s CoolCube low-temperature process for top-level devices prevents deterioration of bottom-level transistors.
In addition, the CEA-Leti team demonstrated for the first time, ring oscillators and SRAM bitcells processed at 500°C, further paving the way for high-performance 3D monolithic CMOS integration, intended for advanced logic, RF, in-memory computing, AI, imaging, and display applications.
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