US 7,601,610 B2
Method for manufacturing a high integration density power MOS device
Giuseppe Arena, Catania (Italy); Giuseppe Ferla, Acicastello (Italy); and Marco Camalleri, Catania (Italy)
Assigned to STMicroelectronics, S.r.L., Agrate Brianza (Italy)
Filed on Nov. 21, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/285,742.
Claims priority of application No. MI2004A2243 (IT), filed on Nov. 19, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0138537 A1, Jun. 29, 2006
Int. Cl. H01L 21/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 438—448  [438/449; 438/532; 438/634; 438/646; 438/655; 257/E21.016; 257/E21.022; 257/E21.576] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A process for the realization of a high integration density power MOS device, comprising the steps of:
providing a doped semiconductor substrate with a first type of conductivity;
forming, on the substrate, a semiconductor layer with lower conductivity;
forming, on said semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer of thickness comprised between 300 and 1300 nm;
depositing, on said dielectric layer, a hard mask layer;
masking the hard mask layer by means of a masking layer;
etching the hard mask layers and the underlying dielectric layer for defining a plurality of hard mask portions to protect said dielectric layer;
removing the masking layer;
isotropically and laterally etching said dielectric layer forming lateral cavities in said dielectric layer below said hard mask portions;
forming a gate oxide of thickness comprised between 15 and 150 nm;
depositing a conductor material in said cavities and above the same to form a recess spacer wherein said recess spacer serves as gate electrode, which is totally aligned with a gate structure comprising said thick dielectric layer and said gate oxides;
providing a masking, by positioning a resist layer, of the regions which will lead signal transmission conductive layers, above said thick dielectric layer; and
anisotropically etching the conductor layer and removing said resist layer, said anisotropically etching of said conductor layer defining, in a simultaneous way, said recess spacer and said signal transmission conductive layer.