A SiO.sub.2 layer is disposed in the bottom portion of a Si pillar and on an i-layer substrate. A gate HfO.sub.2 layer 11b is disposed so as to surround the side surface of the Si pillar, and a gate TiN layer is disposed so as to surround the HfO.sub.2 layer. P.sup.+ layers are disposed that contain an acceptor impurity at a high concentration, serve as a source and a drain, and are simultaneously or separately formed by a selective epitaxial crystal growth method on the exposed side surface of the bottom portion of and on the top portion of the Si pillar. Thus, an SGT is formed on the i-layer substrate.

The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer having a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) configuration, the method including providing a semiconductor starting wafer, the semiconductor starting wafer having a base substrate, a semiconductor layer formed over the base substrate and a buried insulating material layer formed between the semiconductor substrate and the base substrate, exposing the semiconductor starting wafer to a first oxidization process, wherein an oxide surface region is formed by oxidizing an upper surface region of the semiconductor layer, thinning the oxide surface region, exposing the semiconductor starting wafer to a second oxidization process, wherein a thickness of the oxide surface region is locally increased, and removing the oxide surface region, wherein the semiconductor layer is exposed.

A method of forming a vertical fin field effect transistor having a consistent channel width, including forming one or more vertical fin(s) on the substrate, wherein the one or more vertical fin(s) have a tapered profile, oxidizing the one or more vertical fin(s) to form an oxide by consuming at least a portion of the vertical fin material, and removing the oxide from the one or more vertical fin(s), wherein the one or more vertical fin(s) include a tapered upper portion, a tapered lower portion and a straight channel portion there between.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming a film containing a predetermined element on a substrate by supplying a precursor containing the predetermined element to the substrate having a first temperature in a process chamber, changing a temperature of the substrate to a second temperature higher than the first temperature under an atmosphere containing a first oxygen-containing gas in the process chamber, and oxidizing the film while maintaining the temperature of the substrate at the second temperature under an atmosphere containing a second oxygen-containing gas in the process chamber.

A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer formed, on a substrate, of a nitride semiconductor; a second semiconductor layer formed, on the first semiconductor layer, of a nitride semiconductor; a source electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; a drain electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; a metal oxide film formed, between the source electrode and the drain electrode, on the second semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode formed on the metal oxide film. The metal oxide film includes AlO.sub.x and InO.sub.x. AlO.sub.x/InO.sub.x in the metal oxide film is greater than or equal to 3.

A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a silicon carbide layer, a gate electrode, and a silicon oxide layer disposed between the silicon carbide layer and the gate electrode, a number of single bonds between carbon atoms being larger than that of double bonds between carbon atoms in the silicon oxide layer.

A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors arranged along a common semiconductor layer. Each of the plurality of memory cell transistors comprises a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region formed in the common semiconductor layer; a gate stack formed on a portion of the common semiconductor layer between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region; and an electrical floating portion in the portion of the common semiconductor layer, a charge state of the electrical floating portion being adapted to adjust a threshold voltage and a channel conductance of the memory cell transistor. The plurality of memory cell transistors connected in series with each other along the common semiconductor layer provide a memory string.

A nitride semiconductor device includes an electron transit layer (103) that is formed of a nitride semiconductor, an electron supply layer (104) that is formed on the electron transit layer (103), that is formed of a nitride semiconductor whose composition is different from the electron transit layer (103) and that has a recess (109) which reaches the electron transit layer (103) from a surface, a thermal oxide film (111) that is formed on the surface of the electron transit layer (103) exposed within the recess (109), a gate insulating film (110) that is embedded within the recess (109) so as to be in contact with the thermal oxide film (111), a gate electrode (108) that is formed on the gate insulating film (110) and that is opposite to the electron transit layer (103) across the thermal oxide film (111) and the gate insulating film (110), and a source electrode (106) and a drain electrode (107) that are provided on the electron supply layer (104) at an interval such that the gate electrode (108) intervenes therebetween.

A method of preparing a single crystal semiconductor handle wafer in the manufacture of a semiconductor-on-insulator device is provided. The single crystal semiconductor handle wafer is prepared to comprise a charge trapping layer, which is oxidized. The buried oxide layer in the resulting semiconductor-on-insulator device comprises an oxidized portion of the charge trapping layer and an oxidized portion of the single crystal semiconductor device layer.

The present disclosure is generally related to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to a dielectric material formed in semiconductor devices. The present disclosure provides methods for forming a dielectric material layer by a cyclic spin-on coating process. In an embodiment, a method of forming a dielectric material on a substrate includes spin-coating a first portion of a dielectric material on a substrate, curing the first portion of the dielectric material on the substrate, spin-coating a second portion of the dielectric material on the substrate, and thermal annealing the dielectric material to form an annealed dielectric material on the substrate.