A high-voltage nitride device which can avoid vertical breakdown and has a high breakdown voltage includes: a silicon substrate; a nitride epitaxial layer, prepared on the silicon substrate; a positive electrode and a negative electrode, both of which are contacted with the nitride epitaxial layer; and at least one spatial isolation area, formed in a region between the silicon substrate and the nitride epitaxial layer vertically and between the positive electrode and the negative electrode horizontally.

A nitride semiconductor device includes an electron transit layer (103) that is formed of a nitride semiconductor, an electron supply layer (104) that is formed on the electron transit layer (103), that is formed of a nitride semiconductor whose composition is different from the electron transit layer (103) and that has a recess (109) which reaches the electron transit layer (103) from a surface, a thermal oxide film (111) that is formed on the surface of the electron transit layer (103) exposed within the recess (109), a gate insulating film (110) that is embedded within the recess (109) so as to be in contact with the thermal oxide film (111), a gate electrode (108) that is formed on the gate insulating film (110) and that is opposite to the electron transit layer (103) across the thermal oxide film (111) and the gate insulating film (110), and a source electrode (106) and a drain electrode (107) that are provided on the electron supply layer (104) at an interval such that the gate electrode (108) intervenes therebetween.

A transistor device includes a channel, a first source/drain region positioned on a first side of the channel, a second source/drain region positioned on a second side of the channel opposite the first side of the channel, and a tunnel barrier disposed between the channel and the first source/drain region, the tunnel barrier adapted to suppress band-to-band tunneling while the transistor device is in an off state.

Three-dimensional integration can overcome scaling limitations by increasing transistor density in volume rather than area. To provided gate-all-around field-effect-transistor devices with different threshold voltages and doping types on the same substrate, methods are provided for growing adjacent nanosheet stacks having channels with different doping profiles. In one example, a first nanosheet stack is formed having channels with first doping characteristics. Then the first nanosheet stack is etched, and a second nanosheet stack is formed in plane with the first nanosheet stack. The second nanosheet stack has channels with different doping characteristics. This process can be repeated for additional nanosheet stacks. In another example, the formation of the nanosheet stacks with channels having different doping characteristics is performed by restricting layer formation to predefined locations using a patterned layer (e.g., a conformal oxide layer) that limits epitaxial growth to exposed regions of the substrate where the patterned layer is etched away.

A semiconductor structure includes: a channel layer; an active layer over the channel layer, wherein the active layer is configured to form a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) to be formed in the channel layer along an interface between the channel layer and the active layer; a gate electrode over a top surface of the active layer; and a source/drain electrode over the top surface of the active layer; wherein the active layer includes a first layer and a second layer sequentially disposed therein from the top surface to a bottom surface of the active layer, and the first layer possesses a higher aluminum (Al) atom concentration compared to the second layer. An HEMT structure and an associated method are also disclosed.

An embodiment includes a device comprising: first and second fins adjacent one another and each including channel and subfin layers, the channel layers having bottom surfaces directly contacting upper surfaces of the subfin layers; wherein (a) the bottom surfaces are generally coplanar with one another and are generally flat; (b) the upper surfaces are generally coplanar with one another and are generally flat; and (c) the channel layers include an upper material and the subfin layers include a lower III-V material different from the upper III-V material. Other embodiments are described herein.

The characteristics of a semiconductor device are enhanced. In a semiconductor device (MISFET) having a gate electrode GE formed on a nitride semiconductor layer CH via a gate insulating film GI, the gate insulating film GI is configured to have a first gate insulating film (oxide film of a first metal) GIa formed on the nitride semiconductor layer CH and a second gate insulating film (oxide film of a second metal) GIb. And, the second metal (e.g., Hf) has lower electronegativity than the first metal (e.g., Al). By thus making the electronegativity of the second metal lower than the electronegativity of the first metal, a threshold voltage (Vth) can be shifted in a positive direction. Moreover, the gate electrode GE is configured to have a first gate electrode (nitride film of a third metal) GEa formed on the second gate insulating film GIb and a second gate electrode (fourth metal) GEb. This prevents the diffusion of oxygen to the gate insulating film GI, and variations in the threshold voltage (Vth) can be reduced.

A III-N semiconductor channel is compositionally graded between a transition layer and a III-N polarization layer. In embodiments, a gate stack is deposited over sidewalls of a fin including the graded III-N semiconductor channel allowing for formation of a transport channel in the III-N semiconductor channel adjacent to at least both sidewall surfaces in response to a gate bias voltage. In embodiments, a gate stack is deposited completely around a nanowire including a III-N semiconductor channel compositionally graded to enable formation of a transport channel in the III-N semiconductor channel adjacent to both the polarization layer and the transition layer in response to a gate bias voltage.

A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming a metal oxide material on a III-V semiconductor channel region or a germanium containing channel region; and treating the metal oxide material with an oxidation process. The method may further include depositing of a hafnium containing oxide on the metal oxide material after the oxidation process, and forming a gate conductor atop the hafnium containing oxide. The source and drain regions are on present on opposing sides of the gate structure including the metal oxide material, the hafnium containing oxide and the gate conductor.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a p-doped layer including a doped III-V material on the substrate. An n-type material is formed on or in the p-doped layer. The n-type layer includes ZnO. An aluminum contact is formed in direct contact with the ZnO of the n-type material to form an electronic device.