Disclosed herein are stacked transistors with dielectric between channel materials, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit structure may include stacked strata of transistors, wherein a dielectric material is between channel materials of adjacent strata, and the dielectric material is surrounded by a gate dielectric.

To provide a semiconductor device having a thin-film BOX-SOI structure and capable of realizing a high-speed operation of a logic circuit and a stable operation of a memory circuit. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor support substrate, an insulation layer having a thickness of at most 10 nm, and a semiconductor layer. In an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a first field-effect transistor including a first gate electrode and constituting a logic circuit is formed. Further, in the upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a second field-effect transistor including a second gate electrode and constituting a memory circuit is formed. At least three well regions having different conductivity types are formed in the semiconductor support substrate. In the presence of the well regions, a region of the semiconductor support substrate below the first gate electrode and a region of the semiconductor support substrate below the second gate electrode are electrically separated from each other.

On a semiconductor substrate having an SOI region and a bulk silicon region formed on its upper surface, epitaxial layers are formed in source and drain regions of a MOSFET formed in the SOI region, and no epitaxial layer is formed in source and drain regions of a MOSFET formed in the bulk silicon region. By covering the end portions of the epitaxial layers with silicon nitride films, even when diffusion layers are formed by implanting ions from above the epitaxial layers, it is possible to prevent the impurity ions from being implanted down to a lower surface of a silicon layer.

A capacitor includes an electrode implemented in an electrode well of a substrate. The electrode well has a net N-type dopant concentration. The capacitor includes an electrode implemented in a conductive structure located above the substrate. The electrodes are separated by a dielectric layer located between the electrodes. A first tub region having a net P-type conductivity dopant concentration is located below and laterally surrounds the electrode well and a second tub region having a net N-type conductivity dopant concentration is located below and laterally surrounds the first tub region and the electrode well.

Provided are a semiconductor device and method of forming the same. The semiconductor device includes active components and a first barrier pattern. The active components are on a substrate. Each of the active components includes base insulation patterns on the substrate, gate electrodes on the substrate and spaced apart from each other with the base insulation patterns interposed therebetween, a gate dielectric layer on the gate electrodes and the base insulation patterns, a channel pattern on the gate dielectric layer, source electrodes on the channel pattern and spaced apart from each other, a drain electrode on the channel pattern and between the source electrodes, and second insulation patterns between the source electrodes and the drain electrode. The first barrier pattern disposed on the gate dielectric layer surrounds the channel patterns, the source electrodes, the drain electrodes, and the second insulation patterns of each of the active components.

Methods, systems, and devices for single-crystal transistors for memory devices are described. In some examples, a cavity may be formed through at least a portion of one or more dielectric materials, which may be deposited above a deck of memory cells. The cavity may include a taper, such as a taper toward a point, or a taper having an included angle that is within a range, or a taper from a cross-sectional area to some fraction of the cross-sectional area, among other examples. A semiconductor material may be deposited in the cavity and above the one or more dielectric materials, and formed in a single crystalline arrangement based on heating and cooling the deposited semiconductor material. One or more portions of a transistor, such as a channel portion of a transistor, may be formed at least in part by doping the single crystalline arrangement of the semiconductor material.

A semiconductor device is provided that includes a base substrate, an insulating film on the base substrate, and an upper substrate on the insulating film. The insulating film includes a crystalline insulating material. A thickness of the insulating film is about 1 nm to about 1,000 nm, and a thickness of the upper substrate is about 1 nm to about 100 nm.

A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, a first plug and two metal lines. The substrate has a shallow trench isolation and an active area, and the gate structure is disposed on the substrate to cover a boundary between the active area and the shallow trench isolation. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate, to cover the gate structure, and the first plug is disposed in the first dielectric layer to directly in contact with a conductive layer of the gate structure and the active area. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer, with the first plug and the gate being entirely covered by the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. The two metal lines are disposed in the second dielectric layer.

A semiconductor structure for RF applications comprises: a first μTP GaN transistor on an SOI wafer or die; and a first resistor connected to the gate of said first transistor.

A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes: providing a device wafer and a carrier wafer, the device wafer including an SOI substrate comprising, stacked from the bottom upward, a lower substrate, a buried insulator layer and a semiconductor layer; bonding the device wafer at a front side thereof to the carrier wafer; removing at least the lower substrate through thinning the device wafer from a backside thereof, wherein the backside of the device wafer opposes the front side thereof; and providing a high-resistance substrate and bonding the device wafer at the backside thereof to the high-resistance substrate, the high-resistance substrate having a resistivity higher than that of the lower substrate. With the present disclosure, lower signal loss and improved signal linearity can be achieved while avoiding a significant cost increase.