US 12,484,293 B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture
Yu-Lien Huang, Jhubei (TW)
Assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Jul. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/362,254.
Application 18/362,254 is a division of application No. 17/446,255, filed on Aug. 27, 2021, granted, now 11,764,215.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/200,863, filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0378171 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H10D 84/83 (2025.01); H01L 21/311 (2006.01); H10D 64/01 (2025.01)
CPC H10D 84/83 (2025.01) [H01L 21/31116 (2013.01); H10D 64/01 (2025.01); H10D 64/015 (2025.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device, comprising:
a first active region and a second active region, on a substrate of the semiconductor device, that extend in a first direction;
a fin cut isolation region located between the first active region and the second active region;
a source or drain region in the first active region and the second active region;
a contact electrically connected to the source or drain region;
a shallow trench isolation (STI) layer adjacent to the first active region and the second active region;
a first gate region and a second gate region that extends in a second direction approximately perpendicular to the first direction;
a gate cut isolation region between the first gate region and the second gate region; and
at least one of:
a first boron nitride layer between the contact and a spacer associated with the contact,
a second boron nitride layer between the fin cut isolation region and the first active region and between the fin cut isolation region and the second active region, or
a third boron nitride layer between the gate cut isolation region and the first gate region and between the gate cut region and the second gate region.