Planarized and silicided trench contact
First Claim
1. A power MOSFET comprising:
- a substrate comprising a first trench and a second trench extending from a top surface of the substrate, wherein the first trench is deeper than the second trench;
a source region, a channel region, and a drain region in the substrate and arranged vertically along at least a portion of a wall of the trench;
a gate structure that extends continuously in the first and second trenches, wherein a top surface of the gate structure does not extend above the top surface of the substrate, a first portion of the gate structure acts as a gate of a vertical device in the wall of the first trench, and a second portion of the gate structure forms a gate bus that includes a metal/silicide region and resides in the second trench; and
a gate contact that contacts the gate bus.
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Abstract
Power MOSFETs and fabrication processes for power MOSFETs use a continuous conductive gate structure within trenches to avoid problems arising from device topology caused when a gate bus extends above a substrate surface. The gate bus trench and/or gate structures in the device trenches can contain a metal/silicide to reduce resistance, where polysilicon layers surround the metal/silicide to prevent metal atoms from penetrating the gate oxide in the device trenches. CMP process can remove excess polysilicon and metal and planarize the conductive gate structure and/or overlying insulating layers. The processes are compatible with processes forming self-aligned or conventional contacts in the active device region.
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1. A power MOSFET comprising:
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a substrate comprising a first trench and a second trench extending from a top surface of the substrate, wherein the first trench is deeper than the second trench; a source region, a channel region, and a drain region in the substrate and arranged vertically along at least a portion of a wall of the trench; a gate structure that extends continuously in the first and second trenches, wherein a top surface of the gate structure does not extend above the top surface of the substrate, a first portion of the gate structure acts as a gate of a vertical device in the wall of the first trench, and a second portion of the gate structure forms a gate bus that includes a metal/silicide region and resides in the second trench; and a gate contact that contacts the gate bus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A power MOSFET comprising:
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a substrate comprising a first trench and a second trench extending from a top surface of the substrate; a source region, a channel region, and a drain region in the substrate and arranged vertically along at least a portion of a wall of the first trench; a gate insulator in the first trench along the wall containing the channel region; and a gate structure that extends continuously in the first and second trenches, wherein a first portion of the gate structure acts as a gate of a vertical device in the wall of the first trench, and a second portion of the gate structure that is in the second trench forms a gate bus, the first portion of the gate structure comprising; a metal/silicide region in the first trench; and polysilicon that is in the first trench and between the metal/silicide region and the gate insulator. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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