A lateral diffusion metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device includes a first fin-shaped structure on a substrate, a shallow trench isolation (STI) adjacent to the first fin-shaped structure, a first gate structure on the first fin-shaped structure, a spacer adjacent to the first gate structure, and a contact field plate adjacent to the first gate structure and directly on the STI. Preferably, a sidewall of the spacer is aligned with a sidewall of the first fin-shaped structure.

A transistor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first major surface, a cell field, and an edge termination region laterally surrounding the cell field. The cell field includes elongate trenches that extend from the first major surface into the semiconductor substrate and that are positioned substantially parallel to one another such that one or more inner elongate trenches are arranged between two outermost elongate trenches and elongate mesas, each elongate mesa being formed between neighbouring elongate trenches. The elongate mesas include a drift region, a body region on the drift region and a source region on the body region. In a top view, one or both of the outermost elongate trenches has a different contour from the one or more inner elongate trenches.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a metal nitride layer above the semiconductor substrate. The metal nitride layer forms at least one interface region with the semiconductor substrate. The at least one interface region includes a first portion of the semiconductor substrate, a first portion of the metal nitride layer, and an interface between the first portion of the semiconductor substrate and the first portion of the metal nitride layer. A concentration of nitrogen content at the first portion of the metal nitride layer is higher than a concentration of nitrogen content at a second portion, of the metal nitride layer, outside the interface region. A distribution of nitrogen content throughout the metal nitride layer may have a maximum concentration at the first portion of the metal nitride layer. Alternatively and/or additionally, a method for producing such a semiconductor device is provided herein.

A semiconductor device includes a source region, a drain region, and a gate insulating film formed on a substrate, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, a first insulating film pattern formed to extend from the source region to a part of a top surface of the gate electrode, and a spacer formed on a side surface of the gate electrode in a direction of the drain region.

In some embodiments, an integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit may include an inner ring-shaped isolation structure that is disposed in a semiconductor substrate. Further, the inner-ring shaped isolation structure may demarcate a device region. An inner ring-shaped well is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and surrounds the inner ring-shaped isolation structure. A plurality of dummy gates are arranged over the inner ring-shaped well. Moreover, the plurality of dummy gates are arranged within an interlayer dielectric layer.

The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes: forming a bit line over a substrate; forming a first spacer layer over and conformal to the bit line; forming a sacrificial layer over and conformal to the first spacer layer; forming a second spacer layer over and conformal to the sacrificial layer; forming a mask layer covering a lower portion of the second spacer layer; removing an upper portion of the second spacer layer; removing the sacrificial layer; and forming a third spacer layer over the first spacer layer and the second spacer layer. thereby forming a first air gap surrounded by the lower portion of the second spacer layer.

An integrated circuit (IC) chip includes a via contact plug extending inside a through hole passing through a substrate and a device layer, a via contact liner surrounding the via contact plug, a connection pad liner extending along a bottom surface of the substrate, a dummy bump structure integrally connected to the via contact plug, and a bump structure connected to the connection pad liner. A method of manufacturing an IC chip includes forming an under bump metallurgy (UBM) layer inside and outside the through hole and forming a first connection metal layer, a second connection metal layer, and a third connection metal layer. The first connection metal layer covers the UBM layer inside the through hole, the second connection metal layer is integrally connected to the first connection metal layer, and the third connection metal layer covers the UBM layer on the connection pad liner.

A semiconductor device includes first and second trenches, and a first layer provided therebetween, in a principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, a second layer in contact with and sandwiching the first trench with the first layer, a third layer provided under the second layer and in contact with the second layer and the first trench, a fourth layer provided under and in contact with the third layer but separated from the first trench, and a fifth layer provided in the principal surface and sandwiching the second trench with the first layer. The second and fourth layers are semiconductors of a first conductivity type, and the first, third, and fifth layers are semiconductors of a second conductivity type. A gate trench electrode is provided inside the first trench via the insulating film, and an emitter trench electrode is provided inside the second trench via the insulating film.

A method comprises embedding a semiconductor structure in a molding compound layer, depositing a plurality of photo-sensitive material layers over the molding compound layer, developing the plurality of photo-sensitive material layers to form a plurality of openings, wherein a first portion and a second portion of an opening of the plurality of openings are formed in different photo-sensitive material layers and filling the first portion and the second portion of the opening with a conductive material to form a first via in the first portion and a first redistribution layer in the second portion.

A field effect transistor includes a substrate, a passivation layer on the substrate forming a passivated substrate, wherein the passivation layer is inert to XeF.sub.2, and a graphene lateral heterostructure field effect transistor (LHFET) on the passivated substrate.