US 12,349,379 B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture
Zhi-Chang Lin, Zhubei (TW); Shih-Cheng Chen, New Taipei (TW); Lo-Heng Chang, Hsinchu (TW); Jung-Hung Chang, Yuanlin (TW); and Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Zhubei (TW)
Assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/881,866.
Application 17/881,866 is a division of application No. 16/872,058, filed on May 11, 2020, granted, now 11,450,754.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/927,582, filed on Oct. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0384619 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H10D 30/62 (2025.01); H10D 30/01 (2025.01); H10D 30/67 (2025.01); H10D 84/01 (2025.01); H10D 84/03 (2025.01); H10D 64/01 (2025.01)
CPC H10D 30/024 (2025.01) [H10D 30/014 (2025.01); H10D 30/62 (2025.01); H10D 30/6219 (2025.01); H10D 30/6735 (2025.01); H10D 84/0151 (2025.01); H10D 84/0158 (2025.01); H10D 84/038 (2025.01); H10D 64/018 (2025.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a first nanostructure and a second nanostructure overlying a fin over a semiconductor substrate;
an isolation region adjacent the fin;
a first inner spacer located between the first nanostructure and the semiconductor substrate;
a first spacer material in contact with the first inner spacer;
a first source/drain region over an upper surface of the first spacer material, wherein the first source/drain region contacts both the first spacer material and the first inner spacer;
a first gate electrode surrounding the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure;
a second gate electrode adjacent the first gate electrode and having a longitudinal axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the first gate electrode; and
a dielectric structure extending through the second gate electrode and into the fin, a bottommost surface of the dielectric structure being above a bottom of the first spacer material, the dielectric structure comprising:
a first layer having a bottom surface on a top surface of the isolation region; and
a second layer adjacent the first layer, the second layer extending into the fin.