A CFET includes a fin that has a bottom channel portion, a top channel portion, and a channel isolator between the bottom channel portion and the top channel portion. The CFET further includes a source and drain stack that has a bottom source or drain (S/D) region connected to the bottom channel portion, a top S/D region connected to the top channel portion, a source-drain isolator between the bottom S/D region and the top S/D region. The CFET further includes a spacer foot physically connected to a base sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region and a buried S/D contact that is physically connected to an upper sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region. The CFET may further include a common gate around the bottom channel portion, around the top channel portion, and around the channel isolator.

A semiconductor device includes an electronic circuit within a device layer; wherein the device layer is between a thin layer of wiring for signal connections having a first thickness and a thick layer of wiring for power having a second thickness, the second thickness being greater than the first thickness; a silicon layer above the device layer, the thin layer of wiring, and the thick layer of wiring; a first via connection from a top of the semiconductor device to the thin layer of wiring; a second via connection from the top of the semiconductor device to the thick layer of wiring; and a packaging substrate with a connection to the thick layer of wiring.

A semiconductor structure with backside through silicon vias (TSVs) is provided in the present invention, including a semiconductor substrate with a front side and a back side, multiple dummy pads set on the front side, multiple backside TSVs extending from the back side to the front side, wherein a number of the dummy pads are connected with the backside TSVs while other dummy pads are not connected with the backside TSVs, and a metal coating covering the back side and the surface of backside TSVs and connected with those dummy pads that connecting with the backside TSVs.

Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of first memory cell mats arranged in a first direction; a first voltage line supplied with a first voltage, the first voltage line extending in the first direction and being connected to a plurality of first vias each arranged over a corresponding one of even numbered ones of the plurality of first memory cell mats; and a second voltage line supplied with a second voltage different from the first voltage, the second voltage line extending in the first direction and being connected to a plurality of second vias each arranged over a corresponding one of odd numbered ones of the plurality of first memory cell mats.

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory system includes a substrate, a plurality of elements and an adhesive portion. The substrate has a multilayer structure in which wiring patterns are formed, and has a substantially rectangle shape in a planar view. The elements are provided and arranged along the long-side direction of a surface layer side of the substrate. The adhesive portion is filled in a gap between the elements and in a gap between the elements and the substrate, where surfaces of the elements are exposed.

A dual-sided embedded multi-die interconnect bridge provides power and source conduits from the bridge bottom at a silicon portion, in short paths to dice on a die side of an integrated-circuit package substrate. Signal traces are in a metallization on the silicon portion of the dual-sided EMIB. Power, ground and signal vias all emanate from the dual-sided embedded multi-die interconnect bridge, with power and ground entering the bridge from central regions of the silicon portion.

An integrated circuit structure includes a first and second power rail extending in a first direction and being located at a first level, a first and second set of conductive structures located at a second level and extending in a second direction, a first and second set of vias, and a first and second conductive structure located at a third level and extending in the second direction. The first set of vias coupling the first power rail to the first set of conductive structures. The second set of vias coupling the second power rail to the second set of conductive structures. The first conductive structure overlaps a first conductive structure of the first set of conductive structures and the second set of conductive structures. The second conductive structure overlaps a second conductive structure of the first set of conductive structures and the second set of conductive structures.

The present application discloses a semiconductor device with an inverter and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a gate structure positioned on the substrate; a first impurity region and a second impurity region respectively positioned on two sides of the gate structure and positioned in the substrate; a first contact positioned on the first impurity region and including a first resistance; a second contact positioned on the first impurity region and including a second resistance less than the first resistance of the first contact. The first contact is configured to electrically couple to a power supply and the second contact is configured to electrically couple to a signal output. The gate structure, the first impurity region, the second impurity region, the first contact, and the second contact together configure an inverter.

Disclosed are apparatus comprising a substrate and techniques for fabricating the same. The substrate may include a first metal layer having signal interconnects on a first side of the substrate. A second metal layer may include ground plane portions on a second side of the substrate. Conductive channels may be formed in the substrate and coupled to the ground plane portions. The conductive channels are configured to extend the ground plane portions towards the signal interconnects to reduce a distance from individual signal interconnects to individual conductive channels. The distance may be in a range of seventy-five percent to fifty percent of a substrate thickness between the first metal layer and the second metal layer.

Semiconductor devices including backside capacitors and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first transistor structure; a front-side interconnect structure on a front-side of the first transistor structure, the front-side interconnect structure including a front-side conductive line; a backside interconnect structure on a backside of the first transistor structure, the backside interconnect structure including a backside conductive line, the backside conductive line having a line width greater than a line width of the front-side conductive line; and a first capacitor structure coupled to the backside interconnect structure.