US 12,132,108 B2
Dual gate structures for semiconductor devices
Po-Chih Su, New Taipei (TW); Ruey-Hsin Liu, Hsin-Chu (TW); Pei-Lun Wang, Hsinchu County (TW); Jia-Rui Lee, Kaohsiung (TW); and Jyun-Guan Jhou, Taoyuan (TW)
Assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/876,795.
Application 17/876,795 is a division of application No. 17/141,462, filed on Jan. 5, 2021, granted, now 11,894,459.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/055,779, filed on Jul. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0384647 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 29/78 (2006.01); H01L 29/40 (2006.01); H01L 29/49 (2006.01); H01L 29/66 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 29/7835 (2013.01) [H01L 29/401 (2013.01); H01L 29/402 (2013.01); H01L 29/4916 (2013.01); H01L 29/4966 (2013.01); H01L 29/4991 (2013.01); H01L 29/66484 (2013.01); H01L 29/66545 (2013.01); H01L 29/66553 (2013.01); H01L 29/66659 (2013.01); H01L 29/7831 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor structure, comprising:
a substrate;
a channel region disposed in the substrate;
a source region adjacent to the channel region;
a drain region disposed in the substrate;
a drift region adjacent to the drain region;
a dual gate structure, comprising:
a continuous gate dielectric layer disposed directly on the channel region and the drift region;
a first gate stack disposed on the gate dielectric and overlapping with the channel region and the drift region; and
a second gate stack disposed on the gate dielectric, non-overlapping with the channel region, and overlapping with the drift region;
an inner spacer disposed between the first and second gate stacks and in physical contact with the continuous gate dielectric layer:
a first outer spacer disposed along a sidewall of the first gate stack and in physical contact with the channel region; and
a second outer spacer disposed along a sidewall of the second gate stack and in physical contact with the drift region.