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Bipolar transistors
npn or pnp silicon structure
Small current into very thin base layer controls
large currents between emitter and collector
Base currents limit integration density
Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors
nMOS and pMOS MOSFETS
Voltage applied to insulated gate controls current
between source and drain
Low power allows very high integration
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Oct
2010
Moores Law
1965: Gordon Moore plotted transistor on each chip
Fit straight line on semilog scale
Transistor counts have doubled every 26 months
1,000,000,000
Integration Levels
100,000,000
10,000,000
Transistors
Intel486
1,000,000
80286
100,000
Pentium 4
Pentium III
Pentium II
Pentium Pro
Pentium
SSI:
10 gates
Intel386
8086
10,000
1,000
8008
4004
LSI:
8080
10,000 gates
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Year
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Aluminum
Polysilicon
n+
Drain
n+
p-substrate
Field-Oxide
(SiO2)
p+ stopper
Bulk Contact
nMOS Transistor
Four terminals: gate, source, drain, body
Gate oxide body stack looks like a capacitor
Gate and body are conductors
SiO2 (oxide) is a very good insulator
Called metal oxide semiconductor (MOS)
capacitor
Source
Gate
Drain
Polysilicon
Even though gate is
SiO2
no longer made of metal
n+
n+
p
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bulk Si
nMOS Operation
Body is commonly tied to ground (0 V)
When the gate is at a low voltage:
P-type body is at low voltage
Source-body and drain-body diodes are OFF
No current flows, transistor is OFF
Source
Gate
Drain
Polysilicon
SiO2
n+
p
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n+
bulk Si
Gate
Drain
Polysilicon
SiO2
n+
p
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n+
bulk Si
pMOS Transistor
Similar, but doping and voltages reversed
Body tied to high voltage (VDD)
Gate low: transistor ON
Gate high: transistor OFF
Bubble indicates inverted behavior
Source
Gate
Drain
Polysilicon
SiO2
p+
p+
n
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bulk Si
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Transistors as Switches
We can view MOS transistors as electrically
controlled switches
Voltage at gate controls path from source to drain
d
nMOS
pMOS
g=1
d
OFF
ON
OFF
ON
s
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g=0
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CMOS Inverter
A
VDD
0
1
A
A
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GND
CMOS VLSI Design
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CMOS Inverter
A
VDD
0
1
OFF
A=1
Y=0
ON
A
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GND
CMOS VLSI Design
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CMOS Inverter
A
VDD
ON
A=0
Y=1
OFF
A
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GND
CMOS VLSI Design
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Y
A
B
15
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ON
A=0
B=0
ON
Y=1
OFF
OFF
16
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OFF
A=0
B=1
ON
Y=1
OFF
ON
17
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ON
A=1
B=0
OFF
Y=1
ON
OFF
18
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OFF
A=1
B=1
OFF
Y=0
ON
ON
19
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A
B
Y
20
A
B
C
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Inverter Cross-section
Typically use p-type substrate for nMOS transistors
Requires n-well for body of pMOS transistors
A
GND
VDD
SiO2
n+ diffusion
n+
n+
p substrate
nMOS transistor
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p+
p+
n well
p+ diffusion
polysilicon
metal1
pMOS transistor
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VDD
p+
n+
n+
p+
n+
n well
p substrate
substrate tap
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p+
well tap
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GND
VDD
nMOS transistor
pMOS transistor
well tap
substrate tap
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n-well
Polysilicon
Polysilicon
n+ diffusion
n+ Diffusion
p+ diffusion
p+ Diffusion
Contact
Contact
Metal
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Metal
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Fabrication Steps
Start with blank wafer
Build inverter from the bottom up
First step will be to form the n-well
Cover wafer with protective layer of SiO2 (oxide)
Remove layer where n-well should be built
Implant or diffuse n dopants into exposed wafer
Strip off SiO2
p substrate
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Oxidation
Grow SiO2 on top of Si wafer
900 1200 C with H2O or O2 in oxidation furnace
SiO2
p substrate
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Photoresist
Spin on photoresist
Photoresist is a light-sensitive organic polymer
Softens where exposed to light
Photoresist
SiO2
p substrate
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Lithography
Expose photoresist through n-well mask
Strip off exposed photoresist
Photoresist
SiO2
p substrate
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Etch
Etch oxide with hydrofluoric acid (HF)
Seeps through skin and eats bone; nasty stuff!!!
Only attacks oxide where resist has been exposed
Photoresist
SiO2
p substrate
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Strip Photoresist
Strip off remaining photoresist
Use mixture of acids called piranha etch
Necessary so resist doesnt melt in next step
SiO2
p substrate
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n-well
n-well is formed with diffusion or ion implantation
Diffusion
Place wafer in furnace with arsenic gas
Heat until As atoms diffuse into exposed Si
Ion Implanatation
Blast wafer with beam of As ions
Ions blocked by SiO2, only enter exposed Si
SiO2
n well
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Strip Oxide
Strip off the remaining oxide using HF
Back to bare wafer with n-well
Subsequent steps involve similar series of steps
n well
p substrate
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Polysilicon
Deposit very thin layer of gate oxide
< 20 (6-7 atomic layers)
Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) of silicon layer
Place wafer in furnace with Silane gas (SiH4)
Forms many small crystals called polysilicon
Heavily doped to be good conductor
Polysilicon
Thin gate oxide
p substrate
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n well
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Polysilicon Patterning
Use same lithography process to pattern polysilicon
Polysilicon
Polysilicon
Thin gate oxide
p substrate
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n well
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N-diffusion
Use oxide and masking to expose where n+ dopants
should be diffused or implanted
N-diffusion forms nMOS source, drain, and n-well
contact
p substrate
Oct 2010
n well
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N-diffusion (cont.)
Pattern oxide and form n+ regions
n+ Diffusion
n well
p substrate
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N-diffusion (cont.)
Historically dopants were diffused
Usually ion implantation today
But regions are still called diffusion
n+
n+
p substrate
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n+
n well
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N-diffusion (cont.)
Strip off oxide to complete patterning step
n+
n+
p substrate
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n+
n well
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P-Diffusion
Similar set of steps form p+ diffusion regions for
pMOS source and drain and substrate contact
p+ Diffusion
p+
n+
n+
p substrate
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p+
p+
n+
n well
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Contacts
Now we need to wire together the devices
Cover chip with thick field oxide
Etch oxide where contact cuts are needed
Contact
n+
n+
p+
p+
n+
n well
p substrate
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Metalization
Sputter on copper / aluminum over whole wafer
Pattern to remove excess metal, leaving wires
Metal
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Layout
Chips are specified with set of masks
Minimum dimensions of masks determine transistor
size (and hence speed, cost, and power)
Feature size f = distance between source and drain
Set by minimum width of polysilicon
Feature size scales ~X0.7 every 2 years both lateral
and vertical
Moores law
Normalize feature size when describing design rules
Express rules in terms of = f/2
E.g. = 0.3 m in 0.6 m process
Todays = 0.01 m (10 nanometer = 10-8 meter)
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Inverter Layout
Transistor dimensions specified as Width / Length
Minimum size is 4 / 2sometimes called 1 unit
In f = 0.01 m process, this is 0.04 m wide, 0.02
m long
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