Location-controlled-grain Technique for Monolithic 3D BEOL FinFET Circuits

Abstract

A location-controlled-grain technique is presented for fabricating BEOL monolithic 3D FinFET ICs over SiO2. The grain-boundary free Si FinFETs thus fabricated exhibit steep sub-threshold swing (<70mV/dec.), high driving currents (n-type: 363 µA/µm and p-type: $385\ \mu \mathrm{A}/\mu \mathrm{m}$), and high Ion/Ioff (>10⁶). According to simulation, the thickness of the interlayer dielectric plays an important role and shall be thicker than 250nm so that the sequential pulse laser crystallization process does not heat the bottom devices and interconnects to more than 400 °C.