Titanium Silicide on Si:P With Precontact Amorphization Implantation Treatment: Contact Resistivity Approaching $1 \times 10^{-9}$ Ohm-cm2

In recent CMOS technology, extreme shrinking of contact area at source/drain regions raises serious concerns of high metal/semiconductor contact resistance. Confronting this problem, we introduce a precontact amorphization implantation plus Ti silicidation technique (PCAI + TiSix) and achieve ultralow contact resistivity (ρc) of (1.3 - 1.5) × 10-9 Ω · cm2 on Si:P. This PCAI + TiSix technique utili...