A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a source region and a drain region that are formed in the semiconductor layer and at an interval in a first direction, a gate insulating film that is formed such as to cover a channel region between the source region and the drain region, and a gate electrode that is formed on the gate insulating film and opposes the channel region across the gate insulating film. The gate insulating film has a major portion on which the gate electrode is formed and extension portions projecting outward from each of both sides of the major portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and leak current suppressing electrodes are formed on the extension portions.

The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure, including forming an inter dielectric layer over a first region and a second region of a substrate, wherein the second region is adjacent to the first region, forming a high-k material over the inter dielectric layer in the first region and the second region, forming an oxygen capturing layer over the high-k material in the first region, and applying oxidizing agent over the oxygen capturing layer.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor device including a gate electrode over a semiconductor substrate. An epitaxial source/drain layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and is laterally adjacent to the gate electrode. The epitaxial source/drain layer comprises a first dopant. A diffusion barrier layer is between the epitaxial source/drain layer and the semiconductor substrate. The diffusion barrier layer comprises a barrier dopant that is different from the first dopant.

The invention provides a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure includes a substrate, two shallow trench isolation structures are located in the substrate, a first region, a second region and a third region are defined between the two shallow trench isolation structures, the second region is located between the first region and the third region. Two thick oxide layers are respectively located in the first region and the third region and directly contact the two shallow trench isolation structures respectively, and a thin oxide layer is located in the second region, the thickness of the thick oxide layer in the first region is greater than that of the thin oxide layer in the second region.

A field effect transistor includes a source region and a drain region formed within and/or above openings in a dielectric capping mask layer overlying a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode. A source-side silicide portion and a drain-side silicide portion are self-aligned to the source region and to the drain region, respectively.

Methods of forming a strained channel device utilizing dislocations disposed in source/drain structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a thin silicon germanium material in a source/drain opening of a device comprising silicon, wherein multiple dislocations are formed in the silicon germanium material. A source/drain material may be formed on the thin silicon germanium material, wherein the dislocations induce a tensile strain in a channel region of the device.

Provided is a semiconductor device including; at least a semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode that is arranged directly or via another layer on the semiconductor layer, the semiconductor device being configured in such a manner as to cause a current to flow in the semiconductor layer at least in a first direction that is along with an interface between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, the semiconductor layer having a corundum structure, a direction of a c-axis in the semiconductor layer being the first direction.

The present disclosure provides a transistor device and a method for preparing the same. The transistor device includes an isolation structure disposed in a substrate, an active region disposed in the substrate and surrounded by the isolation structure, a first upper gate disposed over the active region and a portion of the isolation structure, a source/drain disposed at two sides of the gate, and a pair of first lower gates disposed under the first upper gate and isolated from the active region by the isolation structure. In some embodiments, the pair of first lower gates extend in a first direction, the first upper gate extends in a second direction, and the first direction and the second direction are different.

Embodiments include transistor devices and a method of forming the transistor devices. A transistor device includes a first dielectric over a substrate, and vias on a first metal layer, where the first metal layer is on an etch stop layer that is on the first dielectric. The transistor device also includes a second dielectric over the first metal layer, vias, and etch stop layer, where the vias include sidewalls, top surfaces, and bottom surfaces, and stacked transistors on the second dielectric and the top surfaces of the vias, where the sidewalls and top surfaces of the vias are positioned within a footprint of the stacked transistors. The stacked transistors include gate electrodes and first and second transistor layers. The first metal layer includes conductive materials including tungsten or cobalt. The footprint may include a bottom surface of the first transistor layer and a bottom surface of the gate electrodes.

An SOI wafer contains a compressively stressed buried insulator structure. In one example, the stressed buried insulator (BOX) may be formed on a host wafer by forming silicon oxide, silicon nitride and silicon oxide layers so that the silicon nitride layer is compressively stressed. Wafer bonding provides the surface silicon layer over the stressed insulator layer. Preferred implementations of the invention form MOS transistors by etching isolation trenches into a preferred SOI substrate having a stressed BOX structure to define transistor active areas on the surface of the SOI substrate. Most preferably the trenches are formed deep enough to penetrate through the stressed BOX structure and some distance into the underlying silicon portion of the substrate. The overlying silicon active regions will have tensile stress induced due to elastic edge relaxation.