A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a substrate including a plurality of atomic steps that propagate along a first direction, and a transistor disposed on the substrate. The transistor includes a channel member extending a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a gate structure wrapping around the channel member.

A device includes a first nanostructure over a semiconductor substrate; a second nanostructure over the first nanostructure; a gate structure surrounding the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure; a first epitaxial region in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate structure, wherein the first epitaxial region is a first doped semiconductor material; and a second epitaxial region over the first epitaxial region, wherein the second epitaxial region is adjacent the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure, wherein the second epitaxial region is a second doped semiconductor material that is different from the first doped semiconductor material. In an embodiment, the first doped semiconductor material has a smaller doping concentration than the second doped semiconductor material.

A semiconductor structure includes N-type MBC transistors formed over a first region of a hybrid substrate and P-type MBC transistors formed over a second region of the hybrid substrate. The first region and the second region have top surfaces with different crystal orientations. Particularly, the first region for forming the N-type MBC transistors includes a top surface having a (100) crystal plane and the second region for forming P-type MBC transistors includes a top surface having a (110) crystal plane.

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide member. The silicon carbide member includes an operating region including at least one of a diode or a transistor, and a first element region including at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ar, V, Al and B. The first element region includes a first region and a second region. A first direction from the first region toward the second region is along a [1-100] direction of the silicon carbide member. The operating region is between the first region and the second region in the first direction. The first element region does not include a region overlapping the operating region in a second direction along a [11-20] direction of the silicon carbide member. Or the first element region includes a third region overlapping the operating region in the second direction.

A method includes etching a hybrid substrate to form a recess extending into the hybrid substrate. The hybrid substrate includes a first semiconductor layer having a first surface orientation, a dielectric layer over the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer having a second surface orientation different from the first surface orientation. After the etching, a top surface of the first semiconductor layer is exposed to the recess. A spacer is formed on a sidewall of the recess. The spacer contacts a sidewall of the dielectric layer and a sidewall of the second semiconductor layer. An epitaxy is performed to grow an epitaxy semiconductor region from the first semiconductor layer. The spacer is removed.

An embodiment relates to a device comprising a first section and a second section. The first section comprises a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) interface comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a first contact with a horizontal surface of a semiconductor substrate and the second portion comprises a second contact with a trench sidewall of a trench region of the semiconductor substrate. The second section comprises one of a second metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) interface and a metal region. The second MOS interface comprises a third contact with the trench sidewall of the trench region. The metal region comprises a fourth contact with a first conductivity type drift layer. The first section and the second section are located contiguously within the device along a lateral direction.

A semiconductor device 1 includes a silicon substrate 2, a drift layer 4 that is disposed on the silicon substrate 2 and constituted of a gallium oxide based semiconductor layer, and a buffer layer 3 that is interposed between the silicon substrate 2 and the drift layer 4. The buffer layer 3 is, for example, aluminum nitride (AlN). The buffer layer 3 is, for example, gallium oxide (Ga.sub.2O.sub.3).

Methods, transistors, and systems are discussed related to anisotropically etching back deposited epitaxial source and drain semiconductor materials for reduced lateral source and drain spans in the fabricated transistors. Such lateral width reduction of the source and drain materials enables improved transistor scaling and perturbation reduction in the resultant source and drain semiconductor materials.

A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same are proposed. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of hole-channel Group III nitride devices and a plurality of electron-channel Group III nitride devices. In the above, the hole-channel Group III nitride devices and the electron-channel Group III nitride devices are arranged in correspondence with each other. The electron-channel Group III nitride device has a fin-shaped channel, and a two-dimensional hole gas and/or a two-dimensional electron gas can be simultaneously formed at an interface between a compound semiconductor layer and a nitride semiconductor layer.

Embodiments include Multiple Gate Field-Effect Transistors (MuGFETs) and methods of forming them. In an embodiment, a structure includes a substrate, a fin, masking dielectric layer portions, and a raised epitaxial lightly doped source/drain (LDD) region. The substrate includes the fin. The masking dielectric layer portions are along sidewalls of the fin. An upper portion of the fin protrudes from the masking dielectric layer portions. A first spacer is along a sidewall of a gate structure over a channel region of the fin. A second spacer is along the first spacer. The raised epitaxial LDD region is on the upper portion of the fin, and the raised epitaxial LDD region adjoins a sidewall of the first spacer and is disposed under the second spacer. The raised epitaxial LDD region extends from the upper portion of the fin in at least two laterally opposed directions and a vertical direction.