A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure on the substrate, and a gate contact in the gate structure. The gate structure includes a gate electrode extending in a first direction and a gate capping pattern on the gate electrode. The gate contact is connected to the gate electrode. The gate electrode includes a protrusion extending along a boundary between the gate contact and the gate capping pattern.

In certain aspects, a memory device includes a vertical transistor, a storage unit, and a bit line. The vertical transistor includes a semiconductor body extending in a first direction. The semiconductor body includes a doped source, a doped drain, and a channel portion. The storage unit is coupled to a first terminal. The first terminal is one of the source and the drain. The bit line extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and in contact with a second terminal. The second terminal is another one of the source and the drain that is formed on all sides of a protrusion of the semiconductor body. The bit line is separated from the channel portion of the semiconductor body by the second terminal.

A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a bonding layer in contact with a top surface of the substrate. At least one transistor contacts the bonding layer. The transistor includes at least one gate structure disposed on and in contact with a bottom surface of a semiconductor layer of the transistor. The semiconductor further includes a capacitor disposed adjacent to the transistor. The capacitor contacts the semiconductor layer of the transistor and extends down into the substrate. The method includes forming at least one transistor and then flipping the transistor. After the transistor has been flipped, the transistor is bonded to a new substrate. An initial substrate of the transistor is removed to expose a semiconductor layer. A capacitor is formed adjacent to the transistor and contacts with the semiconductor layer. A contact node is formed adjacent to the capacitor.

Methods of forming high voltage (111) silicon nano-structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a III-V device layer on (111) surface of a silicon fin structure, forming a 2DEG inducing polarization layer on the III-V device layer, forming a source/drain material on a portion of the III-V device layer on terminal ends of the silicon fin. A middle portion of the silicon fin structure between the source and drain regions may be removed, and backfilled with a dielectric material, and then a gate dielectric and a gate material may be formed on the III-V device layer.

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a dummy structure over a substrate, forming conductive features on opposite sides of the dummy gate structure, removing the dummy structure and a portion of the substrate beneath the dummy gate structure to form a trench, and filling the trench with a dielectric material.

Some embodiments include a transistor having a semiconductor material with a trench extending downwardly therein. The semiconductor material has a first post region on one side of the trench and a second post region on an opposing side of the trench. The semiconductor material has a narrow fin region along the bottom of the trench and extending between the first and second post regions. Each of the first and second post regions has a first thickness and the narrow fin region has a second thickness, with the second thickness being less than the first thickness. Gate dielectric material is along sidewalls of the first and second post regions, along a top of the narrow fin region, and along side surfaces of the narrow fin region. Gate material is over the gate dielectric material. First and second source/drain regions are within the first and second post regions.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer on a substrate, forming a stack of semiconductor layer structures on the first semiconductor layer, and etching the stack to form a fin structure. Each of the semiconductor layer structures includes a first insulator layer and a second semiconductor layer on the first insulator layer. The first and second semiconductor layers have the same semiconductor compound. The fin structure according to the novel method includes one or more insulator layers to achieve a higher on current/off current ratio, thereby improving the device performance relative to conventional fin structures without the insulator layers.

A semiconductor device, the device comprising: a plurality of transistors, wherein at least one of said plurality of transistors comprises a first single crystal source, channel, and drain, wherein at least one of said plurality of transistors comprises a second single crystal source, channel, and drain, wherein said second single crystal source, channel, and drain is disposed above said first single crystal source, channel, and drain, wherein at least one of said plurality of transistors comprises a third single crystal source, channel, and drain, wherein said third single crystal source, channel, and drain is disposed above said second single crystal source, channel, and drain, wherein at least one of said plurality of transistors comprises a fourth single crystal source, channel, and drain, and wherein said third single crystal channel is self-aligned to said fourth single crystal channel being processed following the same lithography step.

A semiconductor structure includes an array of fins extending horizontally across a substrate. A plurality of transistors are embedded in the fins. The transistors include a 1.sup.st S/D region and a 2.sup.nd S/D region defining a channel region therebetween. The transistors have a gate structure disposed over the channel region and extending perpendicular to the fins. An ILD layer is disposed over the structure. The ILD layer includes a plurality of TS trenches disposed over the 1.sup.st and 2.sup.nd S/D regions. The TS tranches extend parallel to the gate structures. A plurality of storage capacitors are disposed within the TS trenches. The storage capacitors include a 1.sup.st metal terminal electrically connected to one of the 1.sup.st and 2.sup.nd S/D regions, a 2.sup.nd metal terminal and a capacitor dielectric disposed therebetween. Each transistor is electrically connected to a single storage capacitor to form an eDRAM cell.

A method includes forming a gate stack on a middle portion of s semiconductor fin, and forming a first gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate stack. After the first gate spacer is formed, a template dielectric region is formed to cover the semiconductor fin. The method further includes recessing the template dielectric region. After the recessing, a second gate spacer is formed on the sidewall of the gate stack. The end portion of the semiconductor fin is etched to form a recess in the template dielectric region. A source/drain region is epitaxially grown in the recess.