A display device, includes: a pixel connected to a scan line and a data line crossing the scan line, wherein the pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to control a driving current supplied to the light emitting element according to a data voltage received from the data line, and a first switching transistor configured to apply the data voltage of the data line to the driving transistor according to a scan signal applied to the scan line; wherein the driving transistor includes a first active layer including an oxide semiconductor and a first oxide layer on the first active layer and including an oxide semiconductor; and wherein the first switching transistor includes a second active layer on the first active layer and including the same oxide semiconductor as the first oxide layer.

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 having source/drain regions; at least one isolation structure within the source/drain regions in a substrate material; and semiconductor material on a surface of the at least one isolation structure in the source/drain regions.

A tilted nanowire structure is provided which has an increased gate length as compared with a horizontally oriented semiconductor nanowire at the same pitch. Such a structure avoids complexity required for vertical transistors and can be fabricated on a bulk semiconductor substrate without significantly changing/modifying standard transistor fabrication processing.

Provided are a thin film transistor array substrate and an electronic device including the same. The thin film transistor array substrate includes a first active layer disposed on a substrate, a first gate insulating film disposed on the first active layer, a first gate electrode disposed on the first gate insulating film to overlap a part of the first active layer, a first insulating film disposed on the first gate electrode, a second active layer disposed on the first insulating film to overlap the first active layer and the first gate electrode, a second gate insulating film disposed on the second active layer, and a second gate electrode disposed on the second gate insulating film to overlap a part of the second active layer. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode overlap each other, and thus it is possible to reduce an area occupied by transistors.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer over the substrate, a gate insulating layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, a metal oxide layer over the gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode over the metal oxide layer. A first side surface of the metal oxide protrudes from a second side surface of the gate electrode in a plan view.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a recess therein that is partially filled with at least two semiconductor active regions. The recess has sidewalls and a bottom that are sufficiently lined with corresponding substrate insulating layers that the at least two semiconductor active regions are electrically isolated from the substrate, which surrounds the sidewalls and bottom of the recess. A sidewall insulating layer is provided, which extends as a partition between first and second ones of the at least two semiconductor active regions, such that the first and second ones of the at least two semiconductor active regions are electrically isolated from each other. First and second gate electrodes are provided in the first and second active regions, respectively.

A thin film transistor substrate can include a buffer layer on a base substrate and having a first buffer layer and a second buffer layer; a semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer; a gate insulating film on the semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode spaced apart from the semiconductor layer, at least a part of the gate electrode overlapping with the semiconductor layer. The base substrate, the first buffer layer, the second buffer layer, the semiconductor layer, the gate insulating film and the gate electrode are sequentially stacked, and a surface oxygen concentration of the first buffer layer is higher than a surface oxygen concentration of the second buffer layer.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs), a proximity sensor disposed under the display and including a plurality of light emitting units, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the display and the proximity sensor. The light generated from the proximity sensor may have a lower energy than the work function of silicon included in the plurality of TFTs of the display.

A semiconductor device with a small variation in characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator, a transistor over the first insulator, a second insulator over the transistor, a third insulator over the second insulator, a fourth insulator over the third insulator, and an opening region. The opening region includes the second insulator, the third insulator over the second insulator, and the fourth insulator over the third insulator. The third insulator includes an opening reaching the second insulator. The fourth insulator is in contact with a top surface of the second insulator inside the opening.

A method includes forming a semiconductor substrate having an oxide layer embedded therein, forming a multi-layer (ML) stack including alternating channel layers and non-channel layers over the semiconductor substrate, forming a dummy gate stack over the ML, forming an S/D recess in the ML to expose the oxide layer, forming an epitaxial S/D feature in the S/D recess, removing the non-channel layers from the ML to form openings between the channel layers, where the openings are formed adjacent to the epitaxial S/D feature, and forming a high-k metal gate stack (HKMG) in the openings between the channel layers and in place of the dummy gate stack.