Patent classifications
H01L27/0922
Non-planar transistors with channel regions having varying widths
Techniques are disclosed for non-planar transistors having varying channel widths (Wsi). In some instances, the resulting structure has a fin (or nanowires, nanoribbons, or nanosheets) comprising a first channel region and a second channel region, with a source or drain region between the first channel region and the second channel region. The widths of the respective channel regions are independent of each other, e.g., a first width of the first channel region is different from a second width of the second channel region. The variation in width of a given fin structure may vary in a symmetric fashion or an asymmetric fashion. In an embodiment, a spacer-based forming approach is utilized that allows for abrupt changes in width along a given fin. Sub-resolution fin dimensions are achievable as well.
Semiconductor Structure with an Epitaxial Layer Stack for Fabricating Back-side Contacts
An example includes a semiconductor structure including a semiconductor layer, front-side logic devices arranged in a front-side of the semiconductor layer, four epitaxial layers on a back-side of the semiconductor layer, where the four epitaxial layers include a first epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type, a second epitaxial layer of a second conductivity type, a third epitaxial layer of the second conductivity type, and a fourth epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type, a plurality of back-side contacts exposed at a back-side surface of the fourth epitaxial layer, where the plurality of back-side contacts include a set of first terminal contacts extending into and contacting the fourth epitaxial layer, a set of second terminal contacts extending into and contacting the second epitaxial layer, a set of first gate contacts extending into the third epitaxial layer, and a set of second gate contacts extending into the first epitaxial layer.
CARRIER MODIFICATION DEVICES FOR AVOIDING CHANNEL LENGTH REDUCTION AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING THE SAME
A disclosed transistor structure includes a gate electrode, an active layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, an insulating layer separating the gate electrode from the active layer, and a carrier modification device that reduces short channel effects by reducing carrier concentration variations in the active layer. The carrier modification device may include a capping layer in contact with the active layer that acts to increase a carrier concentration in the active layer. Alternatively, the carrier modification device may include a first injection layer in contact with the source electrode and the active layer separating the source electrode from the active layer, and a second injection layer in contact with the drain electrode and the active layer separating the drain electrode from the active layer. The first and second injection layers may act to reduce a carrier concentration within the active layer near the source electrode and the drain electrode.
Semiconductor Arrangement and Method of Manufacture
A semiconductor arrangement and method of manufacture is provided. In some embodiments, a semiconductor arrangement includes a collector region having a first surface coplanar with a first surface of a semiconductor layer, a drift region over a portion of the collector region and having a first surface coplanar with the first surface of the semiconductor layer, and a body region over the drift region. A body contact is in the body region. An emitter contact contacts the body contact and the body region. A collector contact contacts the first surface of the collector region. A first gate structure is adjacent the first surface of the drift region, the body region, and the body contact.
Structure and method for SRAM FinFET device
The present disclosure provides an embodiment of a fin-like field-effect transistor (FinFET) device. The device includes a first fin structure disposed over an n-type FinFET (NFET) region of a substrate. The first fin structure includes a silicon (Si) layer, a silicon germanium oxide (SiGeO) layer disposed over the silicon layer and a germanium (Ge) feature disposed over the SiGeO layer. The device also includes a second fin structure over the substrate in a p-type FinFET (PFET) region. The second fin structure includes the silicon (Si) layer, a recessed silicon germanium oxide (SiGeO) layer disposed over the silicon layer, an epitaxial silicon germanium (SiGe) layer disposed over the recessed SiGeO layer and the germanium (Ge) feature disposed over the epitaxial SiGe layer.
Complementary FET (CFET) buried sidewall contact with spacer foot
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.
IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
An imaging device which has a stacked-layer structure and can be manufactured easily is provided. The imaging device includes a signal processing circuit, a memory device, and an image sensor. The imaging device has a stacked-layer structure in which the memory device is provided above the signal processing circuit, and the image sensor is provided above the memory device. The signal processing circuit includes a transistor formed on a first semiconductor substrate, the memory device includes a transistor including a metal oxide in a channel formation region, and the image sensor includes a transistor formed on a second semiconductor substrate.
Semiconductor devices having gate electrodes and methods of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a first fin that protrudes from a substrate and extends in a first direction, a second fin that protrudes from the substrate and extends in the first direction, the first fin and the second fin being spaced apart, a gate line including a dummy gate electrode and a gate electrode, the dummy gate electrode at least partially covering the first fin, the gate electrode at least partially covering the second fin, the dummy gate electrode including different materials from the gate electrode, the gate line covering the first fin and the second fin, the gate line extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and a gate dielectric layer between the gate electrode and the second fin.
High voltage extended drain MOSFET (EDMOS) devices in a high-k metal gate (HKMG)
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly, to high voltage extended drain MOSFET (EDMOS) devices in a high-k metal gate (HKMG) and methods of manufacture. A structure of the present disclosure includes a plurality of extended drain MOSFET (EDMOS) devices on a high voltage well with a split-gate dielectric material including a first gate dielectric material and a second gate dielectric material, the second gate dielectric material including a thinner thickness than the first gate dielectric material, and a high-k dielectric material on the split-gate dielectric material.
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, FABRICATION METHOD FOR SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING SAME
Provided are a semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device, and an electronic apparatus including the semiconductor device. According to the embodiments, the semiconductor device may include: a vertical structure extending in a vertical direction relative to a substrate; and a nanosheet extending from the vertical structure and spaced apart from the substrate in the vertical direction, wherein the nanosheet includes a first portion in a first orientation, and at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the first portion is not parallel to a horizontal surface of the substrate.