A transistor with small parasitic capacitance can be provided. A transistor with high frequency characteristics can be provided. A semiconductor device including the transistor can be provided. Provided is a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a first insulator, and a second insulator. The first conductor has a first region where the first conductor overlaps with the oxide semiconductor with the first insulator positioned therebetween; a second region where the first conductor overlaps with the second conductor with the first and second insulators positioned therebetween; and a third region where the first conductor overlaps with the third conductor with the first and second insulators positioned therebetween. The oxide semiconductor including a fourth region where the oxide semiconductor is in contact with the second conductor; and a fifth region where the oxide semiconductor is in contact with the third conductor.

Methods of manufacturing device assemblies, as well as associated semiconductor assemblies, devices, systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device assembly includes forming a semiconductor device assembly that includes a handle substrate, a semiconductor structure having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and an intermediary material between the semiconductor structure and the handle substrate. The method also includes removing material from the semiconductor structure to form an opening extending from the first side of the semiconductor structure to at least the intermediary material at the second side of the semiconductor structure. The method further includes removing at least a portion of the intermediary material through the opening in the semiconductor structure to undercut the second side of the semiconductor structure.

In a method of forming a two-dimensional material layer, a nucleation pattern is formed over a substrate, and a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) layer is formed such that the TMD layer laterally grows from the nucleation pattern. In one or more of the foregoing and following embodiments, the TMD layer is single crystalline.

A semiconductor device can include: a substrate having a first doping type; a first well region located in the substrate and having a second doping type, where the first well region is located at opposite sides of a first region of the substrate; a source region and a drain region located in the first region, where the source region has the second doping type, and the drain region has the second doping type; and a buried layer having the second doping type located in the substrate and below the first region, where the buried layer is incontact with the first well region, where the first region is surrounded by the buried layer and the first well region, and the first doping type is opposite to the second doping type.

A semiconductor device may include first channels on a first region of a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, second channels on a second region of the substrate and spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction, a first gate structure on the first region of the substrate and covering at least a portion of a surface of each of the first channels, and a second gate structure on the second region of the substrate and covering at least a portion of a surface of each of the second channels. The second channels may be disposed at heights substantially the same as those of corresponding ones of the first channels, and a height of a lowermost one of the second channels may be greater than a height of a lowermost one of the first channels.

Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first vertical arrangement of nanowires and a second vertical arrangement of nanowires above a substrate, the first vertical arrangement of nanowires having a greater number of active nanowires than the second vertical arrangement of nanowires, and the first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires having co-planar uppermost nanowires. The integrated circuit structure also includes a first vertical arrangement of nanoribbons and a second vertical arrangement of nanoribbons above the substrate, the first vertical arrangement of nanoribbons having a greater number of active nanoribbons than the second vertical arrangement of nanoribbons, and the first and second vertical arrangements of nanoribbons having co-planar uppermost nanoribbons.

A semiconductor body having a base carrier portion and a type III-nitride semiconductor portion is provided. The type III-nitride semiconductor portion includes a heterojunction and two-dimensional charge carrier gas. One or more ohmic contacts are formed in the type III-nitride semiconductor portion, the ohmic contacts forming an ohmic connection with the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. A gate structure is configured to control a conductive state of the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. Forming the one or more ohmic contacts comprises forming a structured laser-reflective mask on the upper surface of the type III-nitride semiconductor portion, implanting dopant atoms into the upper surface of the type III-nitride semiconductor portion, and performing a laser thermal anneal that activates the implanted dopant atoms.

There is disclosed the integration of a Schottky diode with a MOSFET, more in detail there is a free-wheeling Schottky diode and a power MOSFET on top of a buried grid material structure. Advantages of the specific design allow the whole surface area to be used for MOSFET and Schottky diode structures, the shared drift layer is not limited by Schottky diode or MOSFET design rules and therefore, one can decrease the thickness and increase the doping concentration of the drift layer closer to a punch through design compared to the state of the art. This results in higher conductivity and lower on-resistance of the device with no influence on the voltage blocking performance. The integrated device can operate at higher frequency. The risk for bipolar degradation is avoided.

A transistor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first major surface, a cell field including transistor cells, and an edge termination region laterally surrounding the cell field. Each transistor cell includes a drift region of a first conductivity type, a first body region of a second conductivity type on the drift region, a source region of the first conductivity type on the first body region and a gate electrode. The transistor device further includes an elongate source contact having opposing first and second distal ends, the elongate source contact being in contact with the source region, and a second body region of the second conductivity type positioned in the semiconductor substrate. The second body region has a lateral extent such that it is spaced part from the second distal end of the elongate source contact and extends laterally beyond the first distal end of the elongate source contact.

A semiconductor device includes a junction field effect transistor (JFET) including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode, and a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode. The JFET and the MOSFET are cascode-connected such that the source electrode of the JFET and the drain electrode of the MOSFET are electrically connected. A gate voltage dependency of the JFET or a capacitance ratio of a mirror capacitance of the MOSFET to an input capacitance of the MOSFET is adjusted in a predetermined range.