Provided are techniques for generating fully depleted silicon on insulator (SOI) transistor with a ferroelectric layer. The techniques include forming a first multi-layer wafer comprising a semiconductor layer and a buried oxide layer, wherein the semiconductor layer is formed over the buried oxide layer. The techniques also including forming a second multi-layer wafer comprising the ferroelectric layer, and bonding the first multi-layer wafer to the second multi-layer wafer, wherein the bonding comprises a coupling between the buried oxide layer and the second multi-layer wafer.

Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a memory cell vertically above a substrate. The memory cell includes a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor at a lower device portion, and a transistor at an upper device portion above the lower device portion. The MIM capacitor includes a first plate, and a second plate separated from the first plate by a capacitor dielectric layer. The first plate includes a first group of metal contacts coupled to a metal electrode vertically above the substrate. The first group of metal contacts are within one or more metal layers above the substrate in a horizontal direction in parallel to a surface of the substrate. Furthermore, the metal electrode of the first plate of the MIM capacitor is also a source electrode of the transistor. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device including a thin film transistor with stable electric characteristics. In a semiconductor device including an inverted staggered thin film transistor whose semiconductor layer is an oxide semiconductor layer, a buffer layer is provided over the oxide semiconductor layer. The buffer layer is in contact with a channel formation region of the semiconductor layer and source and drain electrode layers. A film of the buffer layer has resistance distribution. A region provided over the channel formation region of the semiconductor layer has lower electrical conductivity than the channel formation region of the semiconductor layer, and a region in contact with the source and drain electrode layers has higher electrical conductivity than the channel formation region of the semiconductor layer.

A field effect transistor includes a substrate, a passivation layer on the substrate forming a passivated substrate, wherein the passivation layer is inert to XeF.sub.2, and a graphene lateral heterostructure field effect transistor (LHFET) on the passivated substrate.

The present embodiments provide a transparent electrode having a laminate structure of: a metal oxide layer having an amorphous structure and electroconductivity, and a metal nanowire layer; and further comprising an auxiliary metal wiring. The auxiliary metal wiring covers a part of the metal nanowire layer or of the metal oxide layer, and is connected to the metal nanowire layer.

Provided is a semiconductor structure with shared gated devices. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate and a bottom dielectric isolation (BDI) layer on top of the substrate. The structure further comprises a pFET region that includes a p-doped Source-Drain epitaxy material and a first nanowire matrix above the BDI layer. The structure further comprises an nFET region that includes a n-doped Source-Drain epitaxy material and a second nanowire matrix above the BDI layer. The structure further comprises a conductive gate material on top of a portion of the first nanowire matrix and the second nanowire matrix. The structure further comprises a vertical dielectric pillar separating the pFET region and the nFET region. The vertical dielectric pillar extends downward through the BDI layer into the substrate. The vertical dielectric pillar further extends upward through the conductive gate material to a dielectric located above the gate region.

Techniques for recovering the width of a top gate spacer in a field-effect transistor (FET) device are provided. In one aspect, a FET device includes: at least one gate; source/drain regions present on opposite sides of the at least one gate; gate spacers offsetting the at least one gate from the source/drain regions, wherein each of the gate spacers includes an L-shaped spacer alongside the at least one gate and a dielectric liner disposed on the L-shaped spacer; and at least one channel interconnecting the source/drain regions. A method of forming a FET device is also provided which includes recovering the width of the top gate spacer using the dielectric liner.

A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area disposed around the display area. The peripheral area includes a bending region and a contact region adjacent to the bending region. A first connection line includes a first portion disposed in the contact region, and a second portion disposed in both the bending region and the contact region, and including a first layer and a second layer. At least part of the second layer of the second portion overlaps the first layer of the second portion. In the contact region, the first layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first portion, and the second layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first layer of the second portion.

Disclosed herein are transistors with ferroelectric gates, and related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, a transistor may include a channel material, and a gate stack, and the gate stack may include a gate electrode material and a ferroelectric material between the gate electrode material and the channel material.

A two-dimensional semiconductor transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode, an organic dopant layer disposed on the gate insulating layer and comprising an organic material including electrons, a two-dimensional semiconductor layer disposed on the organic dopant layer, a source electrode disposed on the two-dimensional semiconductor layer, and a drain electrode disposed on the two-dimensional semiconductor layer and spaced apart from the source electrode. A hysteresis of the two-dimensional semiconductor transistor is reduced due to the two-dimensional semiconductor transistor including the organic dopant layer.