A semiconductor device, the device including: a first silicon layer including a first single crystal silicon layer and a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer disposed over the first single crystal silicon layer; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer; a second level including a plurality of second transistors, the second level disposed over the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer disposed over the second level; a fifth metal layer disposed over the fourth metal layer; and a via disposed through the second level, where the via has a diameter of less than 450 nm, where the via includes tungsten, and where a typical thickness of the fifth metal layer is greater than a typical thickness of the second metal layer by at least 50%.

Embodiments herein describe techniques for an integrated circuit (IC). The IC may include a lower device layer that includes a first transistor structure, an upper device layer above the lower device layer including a second transistor structure, and an isolation wall that extends between the upper device layer and the lower device layer. The isolation wall may be in contact with an edge of a first gate structure of the first transistor structure and an edge of a second gate structure of the second transistor structure, and may have a first width to the edge of the first gate structure at the lower device layer, and a second width to the edge of the second gate structure at the upper device layer. The first width may be different from the second width. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

A semiconductor device is provided, including a buried oxide layer, having a first side and a second side. A silicon-based device layer is disposed on the first side of the buried oxide layer. The silicon-based device layer includes a first interconnection structure. A semiconductor-based device layer is disposed on the second side of the buried oxide layer. The semiconductor-based device layer includes a second interconnection structure.

A semiconductor device having a standard cell, includes a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a first gate-all-around field effect transistor (GAA FET) disposed over a substrate, and a second GAA FET disposed above the first GAA FET. The first power supply line and the second power supply line are located at vertically different levels from each other.

A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device, including a peripheral circuit structure including a first metal pad and a cell array structure disposed on the peripheral circuit structure and including a second metal pad. The peripheral circuit structure may include a first substrate including a first peripheral circuit region and a second peripheral circuit region, first contact plugs, second contact plugs, and a first passive device on and electrically connected to the second contact plugs. The cell array structure may include a second substrate disposed on the peripheral circuit structure, the second substrate including a cell array region and a contact region. The cell array structure may further include gate electrodes and cell contact plugs. The first passive device is vertically between the gate electrodes and the second contact plugs and includes a first contact line. The first metal pad and the second metal pad may be connected by bonding manner.

Embodiments disclosed herein include a semiconductor device. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a first transistor strata. The first transistor strata comprises a first backbone, a first transistor adjacent to a first edge of the first backbone, and a second transistor adjacent to a second edge of the first backbone. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device further comprises a second transistor strata over the first transistor strata. The second transistor strata comprises a second backbone, a third transistor adjacent to a first edge of the second backbone, and a fourth transistor adjacent to a second edge of the second backbone.

A static random access memory (SRAM) structure is provided. The structure includes a plurality of SRAM bit cells on a substrate. Each SRAM bit cell includes at least six transistors including at least two NMOS transistors and at least two PMOS transistors. Each of the at least six transistors being lateral transistors with channels formed from nano-sheets grown by epitaxy. The at least six transistors positioned in two decks in which a second deck is positioned vertically above a first deck relative to a working surface of the substrate, wherein at least one NMOS transistor and at least one PMOS transistor share a common vertical gate. A first inverter formed using a first transistor positioned in the first deck and a second transistor positioned in the second deck. A second inverter formed using a third transistor positioned in the first deck and a fourth transistor positioned in the second deck. A pass gate is located in either the first deck or the second deck.

Integrated circuit devices may include a lower transistor and an upper transistor stacked on a substrate and may include a conductive contact. The upper transistor may include an upper source/drain region that overlaps a lower source/drain region of the lower transistor. The conductive contact may contact a side surface of the upper source/drain region and may overlap a center portion of the lower source/drain region. The side surface of the upper source/drain region may include a protrusion and a recess.

A method of forming an electrical connection between a buried power rail (BPR) of an unfinished complementary field effect transistor (CFET) and a source or drain epitaxial growth of a lower level of the CFET is provided. The method includes performing silicon epitaxial growth in a lower level of the CFET, adding a contact material to a portion of an exposed portion of the silicon epitaxial growth in the lower level, the exposed portion of the silicon epitaxial growth being located in a vertical slot of the unfinished CFET structure, adding a conductive material within a vertical channel, the conductive material being in contact with the added contact material and the BPR to form an electrical connection between the portion of the exposed portion of the silicon epitaxial growth and the BPR and etching back a portion of the added conductive material within the vertical channel.

A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a first substrate; a plurality of first transistors on the first substrate; a second substrate on the plurality of first transistors; a plurality of second transistors on the second substrate; and an interconnection portion electrically connecting the plurality of first transistors and the plurality of second transistors. Each of the plurality of first transistors includes a first gate insulating film on the first substrate and having a first hydrogen content. Each of the plurality of second transistors includes a second gate insulating film on the second substrate and having a second hydrogen content. The second hydrogen content is greater than the first hydrogen content.