Patent 7232729 was granted and assigned to Spansion on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides a method of fabricating a doped semiconductor region comprising selectively implanting a first impurity to form a shallow heavily doped region. The method further comprises selectively implanting the first impurity to also form a deep more heavily doped region, disposed laterally within the shallow heavily doped region and vertically within and below the shallow heavily doped region. In an optional feature of the present invention, the method further comprises selectively implanting a second impurity, wherein the doping profile of the deep more heavily doped region is graded.