Silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator
Technical field
The present invention proposes silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator, belong to the technical field of microelectromechanical systems.
Background technology
Along with the develop rapidly of modern communications, the high performance oscillator of high stable has become one of critical component of decision systems performance quality.The application of oscillator is very wide, microprocessor, cell phone, tester equipment etc. all will use oscillator, particularly in military surveillance, and radar, in the communications field, need the carrier wave adopting signal source as day by day complicated base-band information, higher requirement is proposed to the stability of oscillator.Oscillator is at very operated at high frequencies, and what chip power-consumption problem can be caused to become is day by day obvious, and too high power consumption can propose higher requirement to the heat radiation of chip, and the performance of chip also can be made to be affected.Design for the low-power consumption of oscillator seems more and more important in the design of very lagre scale integrated circuit (VLSIC).
Cross coupled oscillator is because its superior phase noise performance, and monolithic inductance engenders in bipolar and CMOS technology, makes the cross coupled oscillator based on passive resonance element be able to extensive use.Conventional cross coupled oscillator is in large scale integrated circuit, and power problems is day by day obvious.Namely the present invention is a kind of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator with extremely low grid leakage current based on Si technological design, adopts the structure of movable grid, effectively can reduce grid leakage current thus reduce the power consumption of cross coupled oscillator.
Summary of the invention
Technical problem: the cross coupled oscillator that the object of this invention is to provide a kind of silica-based cantilever beam gate MOSFET, uses silica-based cantilever beam gate MOSFET to substitute traditional MOSFET.Traditional cross coupled oscillator forms stable oscillation stationary vibration latter two metal-oxide-semiconductor alternate conduction and cut-off.Traditional metal-oxide-semiconductor, when ending, because conventional MOS tube grid oxide layer is very thin, causes the field intensity in grid oxic horizon very large, usually can produce certain leakage current.In very lagre scale integrated circuit (VLSIC), the operating power consumption of oscillator can be increased owing to there is such leakage current.This leakage current can be made in the present invention to be effectively reduced.
Technical scheme: one of the present invention silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator is by the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube, second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube, LC resonant tank and constant-current source composition, cantilever beam grid NMOS tube in this cross coupled oscillator is produced on P type Si substrate, the grid of this first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube and the second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube relies on being supported and suspended on above gate oxide of anchor district to form cantilever beam grid, the Liang Gemao district polysilicon of cantilever beam grid is produced on gate oxide, cantilever beam grid envisaged underneath has pull-down electrode plate, pull-down electrode plate earthing, the N+ active area source electrode of the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube and the second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube to be connected together with lead-in wire by through hole and is connected with constant-current source, constant-current source other end ground connection, the N+ active area drain electrode of the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube is by anchor district, through hole is connected with the cantilever beam grid of lead-in wire with outstanding second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube, the N+ active area drain electrode of the second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube is by anchor district, through hole is connected with lead-in wire with the cantilever beam grid of the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube thus forms cross coupling structure, LC resonant tank is connected between the drain electrode of the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube and the second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube.
Silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator according to claim 1, it is characterized in that replacing traditional metal-oxide-semiconductor with having cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor, cantilever beam grid are the tops being supported and suspended on gate oxide relying on anchor district, form cantilever beam structure, make the threshold voltage of the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube and the second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube equal by design, and make the actuation voltage of cantilever beam grid equal with the second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube threshold voltage with the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube, voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is less than threshold voltage, cantilever beam grid are suspended in oxide layer, grid capacitance is now less, when voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is greater than threshold voltage, cantilever beam now pulls down to above oxide layer, thus make metal-oxide-semiconductor conducting, gate capacitance also increases, after this silica-based cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator produces stable oscillation stationary vibration, first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube and the second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube alternate conduction and shutoff, when cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor turns off, cantilever beam grid suspend, field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, grid leakage current is very little, relative to conventional MOS pipe, when ending, grid oxic horizon is very thin can produce certain grid leakage current, when cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor in this cross coupled oscillator turns off, cantilever beam grid suspend, field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, therefore this silica-based cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator grid leakage current operationally reduces greatly, thus the power consumption of this silica-based cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator is effectively reduced.
Design the threshold voltage of cross-linked cantilever beam grid MOS to pipe equal, the actuation voltage of design cantilever beam grid is equal with the threshold voltage of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor simultaneously.When voltage between grid and drop-down electric-shocking plate is greater than threshold voltage, cantilever beam now pulls down to above oxide layer, thus makes the conducting of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor.Voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is less than threshold voltage, and cantilever beam grid are suspended in oxide layer, and the field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, and leakage current reduces greatly.This cross coupled oscillator forms stable oscillation stationary vibration latter two cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor alternate conduction and cut-off.For conventional MOS pipe when ending; because grid oxic horizon is very thin; cause the field intensity in grid oxic horizon very large; usually certain DC leakage current can be produced; when cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor in the present invention ends; cantilever beam grid suspend, and the field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, and therefore the leakage current of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator reduces greatly.
The preparation method of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator comprises following step:
1) P type Si substrate is prepared;
2) initial oxidation, growth SiO
2layer, as the screen of doping;
3) whole oxide layers of silicon face are removed;
4) end oxide growth.The uniform oxide layer of one deck is grown, as resilient coating at smooth silicon face by thermal oxidation.
5) deposited silicon nitride, then photoetching and etch nitride silicon layer, remain with the silicon nitride in source region, and the silicon nitride of place is removed;
6) field oxidation.High-temperature thermal oxidation is carried out to silicon chip, grown required thick oxide layer in place;
7) remove silicon nitride and basal oxygen sheet, adopt dry etching technology by silicon chip surface silicon nitride and end oxygen all remove.
8) on silicon chip, apply one deck photoresist, photoetching and etching photoresist, remove the photoresist needing to make pull-down electrode plate 8 position.Then deposit one deck Al, removes the Al on photoresist and photoresist, forms pull-down electrode plate;
9) gate oxidation is carried out.Form the high-quality oxide layer of one deck;
10) ion implantation, the threshold voltage of adjustment NMOS;
11) utilize CVD technology deposit spathic silicon, photoetching gate figure and polysilicon lead-in wire figure, by dry etching technology etch polysilicon, retain the polysilicon of the position, anchor district 7 of input lead 4 and cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6.
12) form PMGI sacrifice layer by spin coating mode, then photoetching sacrifice layer, only retain the sacrifice layer below cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6;
13) evaporation growth Al;
14) apply photoresist, retain the photoresist above cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6;
15) anti-carve Al, form cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6;
16) apply photoresist, photoetching also etches the hand-hole of phosphorus, injects phosphorus, forms the active area 11 of NMOS tube;
17) through hole 12 and lead-in wire 13 is made;
18) discharge PMGI sacrifice layer, form the cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6 suspended;
The grid of the cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor of cross coupled oscillator is not in the present invention directly be attached in oxide layer, but be suspended in the top of oxide layer, form a cantilever beam structure, design the threshold voltage of cross-linked cantilever beam grid MOS to pipe equal, the actuation voltage of design cantilever beam grid is equal with the threshold voltage of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor simultaneously.When voltage between grid and drop-down electric-shocking plate is greater than threshold voltage, cantilever beam now pulls down to above oxide layer, thus makes the conducting of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor.Voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is less than threshold voltage, and cantilever beam grid are suspended in oxide layer, and the field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, and leakage current reduces greatly.This cross coupled oscillator formed after stable oscillation stationary vibration when, two cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor alternate conduction and cut-off.Relative to conventional MOS pipe when ending; because grid oxic horizon is very thin; cause the field intensity in grid oxic horizon very large; usually certain DC leakage current can be produced; when cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor in the present invention ends; cantilever beam grid suspend, and the field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, and therefore the leakage current of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator reduces greatly.
Beneficial effect: cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator of the present invention produces stable oscillation stationary vibration latter two cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor alternate conduction and cut-off.Relative to conventional MOS pipe when ending, because grid oxic horizon is very thin, causing the field intensity in grid oxic horizon very large, usually can produce certain grid leakage current.When cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor in the present invention ends, cantilever beam grid suspend, and the field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, and therefore the grid leakage current of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator reduces greatly.Thus the power consumption of the cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator in the present invention is effectively reduced.
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Fig. 1 is the vertical view of the present invention's silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator.
Fig. 2 be Fig. 1 silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator P-P ' to profile.
Fig. 3 be Fig. 1 silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator A-A ' to profile.
Fig. 4 is silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator schematic diagram.
Wherein have: the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube 1, second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube 2, P type Si substrate 3, input lead 4, gate oxide 5, cantilever beam grid 6, anchor district 7, cantilever beam bottom crown 8, through hole 9, lead-in wire 10, drain electrode 12, N+ active area, constant-current source 11, N+ active area source electrode 13, oxide layer 14.
Embodiment
Cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator of the present invention is made up of the first cantilever beam grid NMOS tube 1, second cantilever beam grid NMOS tube 2, LC resonant tank, constant-current source, two cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductors of this cross coupled oscillator are produced on P type Si substrate 3 to make, and its input lead 4 utilizes polysilicon 4 to make.The grid of the NMOS in the present invention is the top being suspended in gate oxide 5, forms cantilever beam grid 6.The Liang Gemao district 7 of cantilever beam grid 6 is produced on gate oxide.Be provided with pull-down electrode plate 8 below cantilever beam, the part of pull-down electrode plate 8 under cantilever beam grid 6 is wrapped up by silicon dioxide layer 5, pull-down electrode plate 8 ground connection.
The grid of the cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor of cross coupled oscillator is not in the present invention directly be attached in oxide layer, but is suspended in the top of oxide layer, forms a cantilever beam structure.Design the threshold voltage of cross-linked cantilever beam grid MOS to pipe equal, the actuation voltage of design cantilever beam grid is equal with the threshold voltage of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor simultaneously.When the cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor of cross coupled oscillator in the present invention works, the voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is less than threshold voltage, and cantilever beam grid are suspended in oxide layer, and grid capacitance is now less.When voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is greater than threshold voltage, cantilever beam now pulls down to above oxide layer, thus makes the conducting of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor, and gate capacitance also increases.Relative to conventional MOS pipe when ending; because grid oxic horizon is very thin; cause the field intensity in grid oxic horizon very large; usually certain grid leakage current can be produced; when cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor in the present invention ends; cantilever beam grid suspend, and the field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, and therefore the grid leakage current of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator reduces greatly.
The preparation method of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator comprises following step:
1) P type Si substrate 3 is prepared;
2) initial oxidation, growth SiO
2layer, as the screen of doping;
3) whole oxide layers of silicon face are removed;
4) end oxide growth.The uniform oxide layer of one deck is grown, as resilient coating at smooth silicon face by thermal oxidation.
5) deposited silicon nitride, then photoetching and etch nitride silicon layer, remain with the silicon nitride in source region, and the silicon nitride of place is removed;
6) field oxidation.High-temperature thermal oxidation is carried out to silicon chip, grown required thick oxide layer in place;
7) remove silicon nitride and basal oxygen sheet, adopt dry etching technology by silicon chip surface silicon nitride and end oxygen all remove.
8) on silicon chip, apply one deck photoresist, photoetching and etching photoresist, remove the photoresist needing to make pull-down electrode plate 8 position.Then deposit one deck Al, removes the Al on photoresist and photoresist, forms pull-down electrode plate;
9) gate oxidation is carried out.Form the high-quality oxide layer of one deck;
10) ion implantation, the threshold voltage of adjustment NMOS;
11) utilize CVD technology deposit spathic silicon, photoetching gate figure and polysilicon lead-in wire figure, by dry etching technology etch polysilicon, retain the polysilicon of the position, anchor district 7 of input lead 4 and cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6.
12) form PMGI sacrifice layer by spin coating mode, then photoetching sacrifice layer, only retain the sacrifice layer below cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6;
13) evaporation growth Al;
14) apply photoresist, retain the photoresist above cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6;
15) anti-carve Al, form cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6;
16) apply photoresist, photoetching also etches the hand-hole of phosphorus, injects phosphorus, forms the active area 11 of NMOS tube;
17) through hole 9 and lead-in wire 10 is made;
18) discharge PMGI sacrifice layer, form the cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor 6 suspended;
Difference with the prior art of the present invention is:
In the present invention, cross coupled oscillator and the maximum difference of traditional cross coupled oscillator are that the grid of cantilever beam gate MOSFET used is not be directly close to oxide layer, but rely on anchor district be supported and suspended in oxide layer, formed cantilever beam structure.Cross coupled oscillator in the present invention is by two cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductors, and LC resonant tank, constant-current source is formed.Design the threshold voltage of cross-linked cantilever beam grid MOS to pipe equal, the actuation voltage of design cantilever beam grid is equal with the threshold voltage of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor simultaneously.When the cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor of cross coupled oscillator in the present invention works, the voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is less than threshold voltage, and cantilever beam grid are suspended in oxide layer, and grid capacitance is now less.When voltage between grid and pull-down electrode plate is greater than threshold voltage, cantilever beam now pulls down to above oxide layer, thus makes the conducting of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor, and gate capacitance also increases.This cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator produces stable oscillation stationary vibration latter two cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor alternate conduction and cut-off.Relative to conventional MOS pipe when ending; because grid oxic horizon is very thin; cause the field intensity in grid oxic horizon very large; usually certain grid leakage current can be produced; when cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor in the present invention ends; cantilever beam grid suspend, and the field intensity in grid oxic horizon is smaller, and therefore the grid leakage current of cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator reduces greatly.
Namely the structure meeting above condition is considered as silica-based low-leakage current cantilever beam grid metal-oxide-semiconductor cross coupled oscillator of the present invention.