A semiconductor region includes an isolating region which delimits a working area of the semiconductor region. A trench is located in the working area and further extends into the isolating region. The trench is filled by an electrically conductive central portion that is insulated from the working area by an isolating enclosure. A cover region is positioned to cover at least a first part of the filled trench, wherein the first part is located in the working area. A dielectric layer is in contact with the filled trench. A metal silicide layer is located at least on the electrically conductive central portion of a second part of the filled trench, wherein the second part is not covered by the cover region.

The electronic device having a Schottky diode includes first and second electrodes disposed on a semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from each other. A first semiconductor region is formed within the semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor region may include a first surface portion in contact with the second electrode, forming a Schottky diode with the second electrode. A second semiconductor region having the same conductivity-type as the first semiconductor region and overlapping the first electrode is formed within the semiconductor substrate. A third semiconductor region having a different conductivity-type from the first semiconductor region, and having a first portion and a second portion spaced apart from each other, is formed within the semiconductor substrate. An isolation region is disposed between the second and the third semiconductor regions. The isolation region includes a first isolation portion and a second isolation portion spaced apart from each other.

A system and method for fabricating on-die metal-insulator-metal capacitors capable of maintaining a similar capacitance for design reuse across multiple semiconductor fabrication processes are described. In various implementations, an integrated circuit includes multiple metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors. The MIM capacitors are formed between two signal nets. The integrated circuit includes multiple intermediate metal layers (or metal plates) formed between two signal nets. Subsequent semiconductor fabrication processes typically increase a number of metal plates that can be formed in the dielectric layer, such as an oxide layer, between two signal nets. To permit design reuse across multiple semiconductor fabrication processes, for a particular MIM capacitor designated to maintain a same capacitance, the additional metal plates for the particular MIM capacitor are formed as floating nets. Additionally, the same electrode plates of the particular MIM capacitor are used across the multiple semiconductor fabrication processes.

A semiconductor device having an integrated thin film metallic resistor device which is formed by a process which includes depositing a conformal layer of insulating material on a substrate, wherein the conformal layer of insulating layer is formed with an initial thickness T, applying a surface treatment to a surface of the conformal layer of insulating material to convert the surface of the conformal layer of insulating material to a layer of conductive metallic material of thickness T.sub.1, which is less than T, and forming device contacts to portions of the layer of conductive metallic material. The layer of conductive metallic material and the device contacts form a thin film metallic resistor device. As an example, the conformal layer of insulating material includes Ta.sub.3N.sub.5, and the layer of conductive metallic material that is formed by the surface treatment includes TaN.

A plurality of first wiring layers are arranged on a main surface of a substrate, a first insulating film is arranged on upper faces of the plurality of first wiring layers, a second insulating film is arranged on an upper face of the first insulating film, and a plurality of second wiring layers are arranged on the second insulating film. A metal resistive element layer is arranged just below at least one second wiring layer among the plurality of second wiring layers. A plurality of conductive layers extend from the plurality of second wiring layers respectively to the metal resistive element layer in a Z direction perpendicular to the main surface. The metal resistive element layer includes a metal wiring layer. At least one part of a side face of at least one conductive layer among the plurality of conductive layers is connected to the metal wiring layer.

Provided is a semiconductor device having a top-gate structure resistant to creation of parasitic capacitance between a low-resistance region formed in a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode, and also provided region method for manufacturing the same and a display device including the same.

A TFT (100) has a low-resistance region, a portion of which has a first length (L1) ranging from a first position (P1) corresponding to an end of a gate insulating film to a region below a gate electrode (40), and the first length is substantially equal to a second length (L2) ranging from the first position (P1) to a second position (P2) corresponding to an end of the gate electrode (40). Thus, the overlap between the gate electrode (40) and either a source region (20s) or a drain region (20d) can be reduced, resulting in diminished parasitic capacitance.

Some embodiments include a memory array which has rows of fins. Each fin has a first pedestal, a second pedestal and a trough between the first and second pedestals. A first source/drain region is within the first pedestal, a second source/drain region is within the second pedestal, and a channel region is along the trough between the first and second pedestals. Digit lines are electrically coupled with the first source/drain regions. Ferroelectric capacitors are electrically coupled with the second source/drain regions. Wordlines are along the rows of fins and overlap the channel regions. Conductive isolation lines are under the wordlines along the rows of fins.

Integrated circuits and methods of producing the same are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a first capacitor with a first gate overlying a first gate dielectric that in turn overlies a first channel. a second capacitor includes a second gate overlying a second gate dielectric that in turn overlies a second channel. The second gate dielectric has a different composition than the first gate dielectric. A capacitor interconnect is in electrical communication with the first capacitor and with the second capacitor.

A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor component that includes a substrate, where the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor component is configured to form a first capacitor with a top metal and a first bottom metal having a dielectric layer therebetween; and where the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor component is configured to form a second capacitor with the top metal and a second bottom metal having the dielectric layer therebetween. Additionally, the top metal, the dielectric layer, the first bottom metal, and the second bottom metal are arranged on the substrate.

An inductor is integrated into a multilevel wiring network of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The inductor includes a planar magnetic core and a conductive winding. The conductive winding turns around in generally spiral manner on the outside of the planar magnetic core. The conductive winding is piecewise constructed of wire segments and of VIAs. The wire segments pertain to at least two wiring planes and the VIAs are interconnecting the at least two wiring planes. Methods for such integration, and for fabricating laminated planar magnetic cores are also presented.