Patent classifications
H01L27/11898
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE
A semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal substrate and plurality of logic circuits, where the first single crystal substrate has a device area, where the device area is significantly larger than a reticle size, where the plurality of logic circuits include an array of processors, where the plurality of logic circuits include a first logic circuit, a second logic circuit, and third logic circuit, where the plurality of logic circuits include switching circuits to support replacing the first logic circuit and the second logic circuit by the third logic circuit; and a second single crystal substrate, where the second single crystal substrate is disposed atop the first single crystal substrate.
3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds, where the bonded includes metal to metal bonds, and where at least one of the first transistors controls power delivery to at least one of the second transistors.
3D integrated circuit
A 3D integrated circuit, the circuit including: a first wafer including a first crystalline substrate, a plurality of first transistors, and first copper interconnecting layers, where the first copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of first transistors; and a second wafer including a second crystalline substrate, a plurality of second transistors, and second copper interconnecting layers, where the second copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of second transistors; where the second wafer is bonded face-to-face on top of the first wafer, where the bonded includes copper to copper bonding; and where the second crystalline substrate has been thinned to a thickness of less than 5 micro-meters.
3D semiconductor device and structure with memory
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including logic circuits, the logic circuits include a plurality of first single crystal transistors and a first metal layer; a second level including a plurality of second transistors, where the second level includes memory cells including the plurality of second transistors; a second metal layer atop the second level; where the plurality of second transistors are junction-less transistors, where at least one of the plurality of second transistors includes polysilicon, where the memory cells are structured as a plurality of at least sixteen sub-arrays, where each of the sub-arrays is independently controlled, where at least one of the plurality of at least sixteen sub-arrays is at least partially atop at least one of the logic circuits, and where the at least one of the logic circuits is designed to control at least one of the plurality of at least sixteen sub-arrays.
3D semiconductor memory device and structure
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors and at least one metal layer, where the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of first logic gates including the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of second transistors atop the at least one metal layer; a plurality of third transistors atop the second transistors; a top metal layer atop the third transistors; and a memory array including wordlines, where the memory array includes at least four rows by four columns of memory mini arrays, where each of the mini arrays includes at least four rows by four columns of memory cells, and where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or at least one of the third transistors.
3D semiconductor device and structure
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level, which includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; a plurality of connection paths, where the paths provide connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions and metal to metal bond regions, where the second level includes at least one memory array, and where the third layer includes crystalline silicon; and a heat removal path from the first layer or the third layer to an external surface of the device.
METHOD FOR PROCESSING A 3D INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND STRUCTURE
A method for processing a 3D integrated circuit, the method including: providing a first level including a first wafer, the first wafer including a first crystalline substrate, a plurality of first transistors, and first copper interconnecting layers, where the first copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of first transistors; processing a second level including a second wafer, the second wafer including a second crystalline substrate, a plurality of second transistors, and second copper interconnecting layers, where the second copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of second transistors; then forming a bonded structure by bonding the second level to the first level, where the bonding includes metal to metal bonding, where the bonding includes oxide to oxide bonding; and then performing a lithography process to define dice lines for the bonded structure; and etching the dice lines.
3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second transistors are horizontally oriented and each include a High-k metal gate, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second transistors are horizontally oriented, where the second transistors are raised source drain extension transistors, where the second level includes a memory array, where the first level includes control circuits to control data written to the memory array, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second transistors are horizontally oriented, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds, where the device includes at least a first logic circuit and a second logic circuit, and where the device includes a control function adapted to use the second logic circuit as a redundancy for the first logic circuit so to overcome a fault in the first logic circuit.