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Abstract

Process sequences used to simultaneously form a first dielectric gate layer for a first group of MOSFET elements, and a second dielectric gate layer for a second group of MOSFET elements, with the thickness of the first dielectric gate layer different than the thickness of the second gate dielectric layer, has been developed. A first iteration of this invention entails a remote plasma nitridization procedure used to form a thin silicon nitride layer on a bare, first portion of a semiconductor substrate, while simultaneously forming a thin silicon oxynitride layer on the surface of a first silicon dioxide layer, located on second portion of the semiconductor substrate. A thermal oxidation procedure than results in the formation of a thin second silicon dioxide layer, on the first portion of the semiconductor substrate, underlying the thin silicon nitride layer, while the first silicon dioxide layer, underlying the silicon oxynitride component of the composite dielectric layer, only increases slightly in thickness. A second iteration of this invention features the formation of a silicon nitride--first silicon dioxide, composite gate layer, on a first portion of a semiconductor substrate, with the composite gate layer used to retard oxidation during a thermal oxidation procedure used growth to form a second silicon dioxide layer, on a second portion of the semiconductor substrate.

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