A method of forming a fin field effect transistor (finFET) having fin(s) with reduced dimensional variations, including forming a dummy fin trench within a perimeter of a fin pattern region on a substrate, forming a dummy fin fill in the dummy fin trench, forming a plurality of vertical fins within the perimeter of the fin pattern region, including border fins at the perimeter of the fin pattern region and interior fins located within the perimeter and inside the bounds of the border fins, wherein the border fins are formed from the dummy fin fill, and removing the border fins, wherein the border fins are dummy fins and the interior fins are active vertical fins.

Described herein are integrated circuit devices with metal-oxide semiconductor channels and carbon source and drain (S/D) contacts. S/D contacts conduct current to and from the semiconductor devices, e.g., to the source and drain regions of a transistor. Carbon S/D contacts may be particularly useful with semiconductor devices that use certain channel materials, such as indium gallium zinc oxide.

Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells each having a floating body for storing, reading and writing data as volatile memory. The device includes a floating gate or trapping layer for storing data as non-volatile memory, the device operating as volatile memory when power is applied to the device, and the device storing data from the volatile memory as non-volatile memory when power to the device is interrupted.

Described herein are integrated circuit (IC) devices that include devices that include fin-based field-effect transistors (FinFETs) integrated over gate-all-around (GAA) transistors. The GAA transistors may serve to provide high-performance compute logic, and may be relatively low-voltage transistors, while FinFETs may be more suitable than GAA transistors for providing high-voltage transistors, and, therefore, may serve to provide peripheral logic for backend memory arrays implemented over the same support structure over which the GAA transistors and the FinFETs are provided. Such an arrangement may address the fundamental voltage incompatibility by integrating a mix of FinFETs and GAA transistors in stacked complimentary FET (CFET) architecture to enable embedded 1T-1X based memories.

Described is a low power, high-density a 1T-1C (one transistor and one capacitor) memory bit-cell, wherein the capacitor comprises a pillar structure having ferroelectric material (perovskite, improper ferroelectric, or hexagonal ferroelectric) and conductive oxides as electrodes. In various embodiments, one layer of the conductive oxide electrode wraps around the pillar capacitor, and forms the outer electrode of the pillar capacitor. The core of the pillar capacitor can take various forms.

A method for producing a 3D semiconductor device including: providing a first level, the first level including a first single crystal layer; forming first alignment marks and control circuits in and/or on the first level, where the control circuits include first single crystal transistors and at least two interconnection metal layers; forming at least one second level disposed above the control circuits; performing a first etch step into the second level; forming at least one third level disposed on top of the second level; performing additional processing steps to form first memory cells within the second level and second memory cells within the third level, where each of the first memory cells include at least one second transistor, where each of the second memory cells include at least one third transistor, performing bonding of the first level to the second level, where the bonding includes oxide to oxide bonding.

The disclosed technology generally relates to ferroelectric materials and semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor memory devices incorporating doped polar materials. In one aspect, a semiconductor device comprises a capacitor which in turn comprises a polar layer comprising a base polar material doped with a dopant. The base polar material includes one or more metal elements and one or both of oxygen or nitrogen. The dopant comprises a metal element that is different from the one or more metal elements and is present at a concentration such that a ferroelectric switching voltage of the capacitor is different from that of the capacitor having the base polar material without being doped with the dopant by more than about 100 mV. The capacitor stack additionally comprises first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer. The capacitor stack further comprises first and second barrier metal layers on respective ones of the first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer

The present invention relates generally to semiconductors, and more particularly, to a structure and method of minimizing shorting between epitaxial regions in small pitch fin field effect transistors (FinFETs). In an embodiment, a dielectric region may be formed in a middle portion of a gate structure. The gate structure be formed using a gate replacement process, and may cover a middle portion of a first fin group, a middle portion of a second fin group and an intermediate region of the substrate between the first fin group and the second fin group. The dielectric region may be surrounded by the gate structure in the intermediate region. The gate structure and the dielectric region may physically separate epitaxial regions formed on the first fin group and the second fin group from one another.

A transistor (e.g., TFT) includes a source region and a drain region located within an insulating matrix layer, a U-shaped channel plate contacting sidewalls of the source region and the drain region, a U-shaped gate dielectric contacting inner sidewalls of the U-shaped semiconducting metal oxide plate, and a gate electrode contacting inner sidewalls of the U-shaped gate dielectric.

A semiconductor memory device includes: a conductive line stack including a plurality of first conductive lines that are stacked over a substrate in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate; conductive pads extending laterally from edge portions of the first conductive lines, respectively; and contact plugs coupled to the conductive pads, respectively.