A semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure includes a substrate with a first conductivity type and a laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device on the substrate, the LDMOS device includes a first well region on the substrate, and the first well region has a first conductivity type. A second well region with a second conductivity type, the second conductivity type is complementary to the first conductivity type, a source doped region in the second well region with the first conductivity type, and a deep drain doped region in the first well region, the deep drain doped region has the first conductivity type.

A semiconductor device with different gate structures and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The a method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a thermal oxide layer on top and side surfaces of the fin structure, forming a polysilicon structure on the thermal oxide layer, doping portions of the fin structure uncovered by the polysilicon structure to form doped fin portions, forming a nitride layer on the polysilicon structure and the thermal oxide layer, forming an oxide layer on the nitride layer, doping the nitride layer with halogen ions, forming a source/drain region in the fin structure and adjacent to the polysilicon structure, and replacing the polysilicon structure with a gate structure.

A semiconductor device polysilicon resistor formation method is provided. A third ion implantation and a fourth ion implantation are performed in a polysilicon resistor region, so that a high-resistance polysilicon resistor can be formed without an additional mask process.

A method includes forming a first and a second contact opening to reveal a first and a second source/drain region, respectively, forming a mask layer having a first and a second portion in the first and the second contact openings, respectively, forming a first and a second sacrificial ILD in the first and the second contact openings, respectively, removing the first sacrificial ILD from the first contact opening, filling a filler in the first contact opening, and etching the second sacrificial ILD. The filler protects the first portion of the mask layer from being etched. An ILD is formed in the second contact opening and on the second portion of the mask layer. The filler and the first portion of the mask layer are removed using a wet etch to reveal the first contact opening. A contact plug is formed in the first contact opening.

A method includes forming a bottom source/drain contact plug in a bottom inter-layer dielectric. The bottom source/drain contact plug is electrically coupled to a source/drain region of a transistor. The method further includes forming an inter-layer dielectric overlying the bottom source/drain contact plug. A source/drain contact opening is formed in the inter-layer dielectric, with the bottom source/drain contact plug exposed through the source/drain contact opening. A dielectric spacer layer is formed to have a first portion extending into the source/drain contact opening and a second portion over the inter-layer dielectric. An anisotropic etching is performed on the dielectric spacer layer, and a remaining vertical portion of the dielectric spacer layer forms a source/drain contact spacer. The remaining portion of the source/drain contact opening is filled to form an upper source/drain contact plug.

A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a gate structure, a first source/drain structure, and a contact structure. The gate structure has a gate dielectric layer over a first fin structure. The first source/drain structure is positioned in the first fin structure and adjacent to the gate structure. The first source/drain structure includes a first epitaxial layer in contact with the top surface of the first fin structure and a second epitaxial layer over the first epitaxial layer and extending above a bottom surface of the gate dielectric layer. The contact structure extends into the first source/drain structure. The top surface of the first fin structure is between a top surface and a bottom surface of the first source/drain structure.

The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a source region and a drain region disposed within an upper surface of a substrate. One or more dielectric materials are disposed within a trench defined by sidewalls of the substrate that surround the source region and the drain region. The one or more dielectric materials include one or more interior surfaces defining a recess within the one or more dielectric materials. A gate structure is disposed over the substrate between the source region and the drain region. The gate structure includes a first gate material over the upper surface of the substrate and a second gate material. The second gate material completely fills the recess as viewed along a cross-sectional view.

A semiconductor structure includes an isolation feature disposed over a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor fin disposed over the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the isolation feature, a source/drain (S/D) feature disposed over the semiconductor substrate and apart from the isolation feature, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer disposed over the isolation feature and the S/D feature, a first contact plug disposed in the ILD layer and over the isolation feature, a second contact plug disposed in the ILD layer and over the S/D feature, and a dielectric layer between surfaces of the first contact plug and the ILD layer and between a sidewall of the second contact plug and the ILD layer, where a bottom surface of the second contact plug is free of the dielectric layer.

The present application discloses a semiconductor device with an inverter and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a gate structure positioned on the substrate; a first impurity region and a second impurity region respectively positioned on two sides of the gate structure and positioned in the substrate; a first contact positioned on the first impurity region and including a first resistance; a second contact positioned on the first impurity region and including a second resistance less than the first resistance of the first contact. The first contact is configured to electrically couple to a power supply and the second contact is configured to electrically couple to a signal output. The gate structure, the first impurity region, the second impurity region, the first contact, and the second contact together configure an inverter.

The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to field effect transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: at least one gate structure comprising source/drain regions; and at least one isolation structure perpendicular to the at least one gate structure and within the source/drain regions.