A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface protruding from the first surface of the substrate; a gate oxide layer disposed on the second surface of the substrate; and a first spacer disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and contacting the substrate and the gate oxide layer.

Techniques herein include methods for fabricating complete field effect transistors having an upright or vertical orientation. The methods can utilize epitaxial growth to provide fine control over material deposition and thickness of said material layers. The methods can provide separate control of channel doping in either NMOS and/or PMOS transistors. All of a source, channel, and drain can be epitaxially grown in an opening into a dielectric layer stack, with said doping executed during said epitaxial growth.

A method of processing a power semiconductor device includes: providing a semiconductor body with a trench extending into the semiconductor body along an extension direction and including an insulator; providing a monolithic electrode zone within the trench; and removing a section of the monolithic electrode zone within the trench to divide the monolithic electrode zone into at least a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure arranged separately and electrically insulated from each other.

The present invention relates to a thin film transistor, a thin film transistor array panel, and a manufacturing method thereof. A thin film transistor according to an exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes: a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer positioned on or under the gate electrode; a channel region overlapping the gate electrode, the gate insulating layer interposed between the channel region and the gate electrode; and a source region and a drain region, facing each other with respect to the channel region, positioned in the same layer as the channel region, and connected to the channel region, wherein the channel region, the source region, and the drain region comprise an oxide semiconductor, and wherein a carrier concentration of the source region and the drain region is larger than a carrier concentration of the channel region.

An exemplary FET includes a base and first and second stacked layer groups each having a nonconductive layer and a semiconductive layer adjacent the nonconductive layer. Source and drain electrodes are in low resistance contact with the semiconductive layers. First and second parallel trenches extend vertically between the source and drain electrodes to create access to first and second edges, respectively, of the layers. A 3-dimensional ridge is defined by the layers between the first and second trenches. A continuous conductive side gate extends generally perpendicular to the trenches and engages the first edges, the top of the ridge and the second edges. A gate electrode is disposed in low resistance contact with the conductive side gate. The figure of merit for the FET increases as the number of layer groups increases. A plurality of parallel spaced apart ridges, all engaged by the same side gate, can be utilized.

Provided is a structure of a vertical field effect transistor (VFET) device which includes: a fin structure protruding from a substrate, and having an H-shape in a plan view; a gate including a fin sidewall portion formed on sidewalls of the fin structure, and a field gate portion extended from the fin sidewall portion and filling a space inside a lower half of the fin structure; a gate contact landing on the field gate portion at a position inside the lower half of the fin structure; a bottom epitaxial layer comprising a bottom source/drain (S/D) region, and formed below the fin structure; a power contact landing on the bottom epitaxial layer, and configured to receive a power signal; a top S/D region formed above the fin structure; and a top S/D contact landing on the top S/D region.

Provided is a manufacturing method for an array substrate, which relates to the technical field of displaying and comprises the steps of: S1: forming a pattern which comprises a first gate electrode (2) on a substrate (1); S2: forming a second gate electrode (4) above the first gate electrode (2) on the substrate (1) after step S1, and conducting oxidation treatment on the surface of the second gate electrode (4) to form a gate-insulating layer, the first gate electrode (2) and the second gate electrode (4) forming a gate electrode together; and S3: forming a layer-level structure of a pattern which comprises an active layer, source and drain electrodes, a data line, a passivation layer and a pixel electrode on the substrate after step S2. Also provided are an array substrate and a display device.

A GaN transistor with polysilicon layers for creating additional components for an integrated circuit and a method for manufacturing the same. The GaN device includes an EPI structure and an insulating material disposed over EPI structure. Furthermore, one or more polysilicon layers are disposed in the insulating material with the polysilicon layers having one or more n-type regions and p-type regions. The device further includes metal interconnects disposed on the insulating material and vias disposed in the insulating material layer that connect source and drain metals to the n-type and p-type regions of the polysilicon layer.

A property of a semiconductor device (high electron mobility transistor) is improved. A semiconductor device having a buffer layer, a channel layer, an electron supply layer, a mesa type cap layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate insulating film covering the cap layer, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, is configured as follows. The cap layer and the gate electrode are separated from each other by the gate insulating film, and side surfaces of the cap layer, the side surfaces being closer to the drain electrode and the source electrode, have tapered shapes. For example, a taper angle (θ1) of the side surface of the cap layer (mesa portion) is equal to or larger than 120 degrees. By this configuration, a TDDB life can be effectively improved, and variation in an ON-resistance can be effectively suppressed.

This disclosure provides apparatuses and methods of manufacturing apparatuses including thin film transistors (TFTs) and storage capacitors. An apparatus can include a substrate, a TFT, a storage capacitor adjacent to the TFT, and a common electrode. The storage capacitor can be substantially transparent to increase aperture ratio of a display device. The storage capacitor can include an insulating layer between a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode. The TFT can include a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor, source and drain electrodes, and a dielectric layer. The oxide semiconductor can be formed out of the same layer as the first transparent electrode, and the common electrode can be formed out of the same layer as the oxide semiconductor or the source and drain electrodes.