This application discloses an NMOS device and an integrated circuit. The NMOS device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate oxide layer, and a gate. The semiconductor substrate includes a P well, a source region, a drain region, a first LDD region, and a second LDD region. The first LDD region and the second LDD region each include a first ion injection region and a second ion injection region. The first ion injection region is formed by injecting a first ion, and the first ion includes a P ion. The second ion injection region is formed by injecting a second ion into the first ion injection region, and the second ion includes a Ge ion.

A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. In one embodiment, a method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a sacrificial gate structure over a portion of a semiconductor fin, forming a gate spacer on opposing sides of the sacrificial gate structure, forming an amorphized region in the semiconductor fin not covered by the sacrificial gate structure and the gate spacer, wherein the amorphized region has an amorphous-crystalline interface having a first roughness, forming a stressor layer over the amorphized region, wherein the formation of the stressor layer recrystallizes the amorphous-crystalline interface from the first roughness to a second roughness that is less than the first roughness, and subjecting the amorphized region to an annealing process to recrystallize the amorphized region to a crystalline region, and the crystalline region comprising a dislocation.

A CFET includes a fin that has a bottom channel portion, a top channel portion, and a channel isolator between the bottom channel portion and the top channel portion. The CFET further includes a source and drain stack that has a bottom source or drain (S/D) region connected to the bottom channel portion, a top S/D region connected to the top channel portion, a source-drain isolator between the bottom S/D region and the top S/D region. The CFET further includes a spacer foot physically connected to a base sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region and a buried S/D contact that is physically connected to an upper sidewall portion of the bottom S/D region. The CFET may further include a common gate around the bottom channel portion, around the top channel portion, and around the channel isolator.

A method for fabricating p-type field effect transistor (FET) includes the steps of first providing a substrate, forming a pad layer on the substrate, forming a well in the substrate, performing an ion implantation process to implant germanium ions into the substrate to form a channel region, and then conducting an anneal process to divide the channel region into a top portion and a bottom portion. After removing the pad layer, a gate structure is formed on the substrate and a lightly doped drain (LDD) is formed adjacent to two sides of the gate structure.

A semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure are provided. In some embodiments, a method is provided. The method includes following operations. A sacrificial gate structure is formed over a fin structure. The sacrificial gate structure includes a sacrificial gate layer and a sacrificial dielectric layer. The sacrificial gate layer is removed to form a gate trench exposing the sacrificial dielectric layer. A doped region is formed in the fi structure covered by the sacrificial dielectric layer. The sacrificial dielectric layer, a portion of the doped region and a portion of the fin structure are removed from the gate trench. An interfacial layer is formed over the fin structure in the gate trench.

In an intermediate region surrounding a periphery of an active region, a gate polysilicon wiring layer is provided on a gate insulating film at a front surface of a semiconductor substrate, via a field oxide film. An inner end portion of the gate polysilicon wiring layer faces a p-type region of a surface region at the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, via only the gate insulating film. In the intermediate region, at corners thereof facing corners of the active region, a low carrier lifetime region containing a carrier lifetime killer is provided so as to overlap the p-regions and, in a depth direction, face the gate polysilicon wiring layer, whereby the lifetime of the minority carriers of the corner portions of the intermediate region is shorter than the lifetime of the minority carriers of linear portions of the intermediate region.

Provided is a semiconductor device provided with an IGBT, comprising: a semiconductor substrate having upper and lower surfaces, throughout which bulk donors are distributed; a hydrogen peak including a local maximum arranged 25 μm or more away from the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate in a depth direction, at which a hydrogen chemical concentration shows a local maximum value; an upper tail where the hydrogen chemical concentration decreases in a direction from the local maximum toward the upper surface; and a lower tail where the hydrogen chemical concentration decreases in a direction from the local maximum toward the lower surface more gradually than the upper tail; and a first high concentration region having a donor concentration higher than a bulk donor concentration and including a region extending for 4 μm or more in a direction from the local maximum of the hydrogen peak toward the upper surface.

A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate having a first and a second side, and including a donor layer with a doping concentration profile in a depth direction from the first to the second side. The donor layer includes: a first peak, situated at a first distance from the first side of said substrate; a first region adjacent to the first peak and extending in the depth direction from the first peak toward the first side, a second peak in said doping concentration profile, situated at a second distance from the first side of said substrate. Said second distance is less than said first distance and greater than zero; and a second region adjacent to the second peak and extending in the depth direction from the second peak toward the first side of the substrate, which has a doping concentration which is substantially uniform.

An integrated circuit (IC) structure includes an active device over a bulk semiconductor substrate, and an isolation structure around the active device in the bulk semiconductor substrate. The active device includes a semiconductor layer having a center region, a first end region laterally spaced from the center region by a first trench isolation, a second end region laterally spaced from the center region by a second trench isolation, a gate over the center region, and a source/drain region in each of the first and second end regions. The isolation structure includes: a polycrystalline isolation layer under the active device, a third trench isolation around the active device, and a porous semiconductor layer between the first trench isolation and the polycrystalline isolation layer and between the second trench isolation and the polycrystalline isolation layer.

A method for manufacturing a film, notably monocrystalline, on a flexible sheet, comprises the following steps: providing a donor substrate, forming an embrittlement zone in the donor substrate so as to delimit the film, forming the flexible sheet by deposition over the surface of the film, and detaching the donor substrate along the embrittlement zone so as to transfer the film onto the flexible sheet.