H01L29/78642

SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME
20230009047 · 2023-01-12 ·

A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing same. The semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor base, including a logical device region and a memory region; a bit line located in the memory region and an electrical contact layer located in the logical device region, which are disposed in a same layer; a first semiconductor channel located on the bit line and a second semiconductor channel located on the electrical contact layer, which are disposed in a same layer; a word line and a gate disposed in a same layer; a capacitor structure, in contact with a second doped region of the first semiconductor channel; an electrical connection structure, in contact with the fourth doped region of the second semiconductor channel; and a dielectric layer, located between the bit line and the word line, and on a side of the word line away from the semiconductor base.

PARALLEL STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
20230215865 · 2023-07-06 ·

A method of manufacturing a parallel structure of semiconductor devices includes: disposing a semiconductor stack, which includes source/drain layers disposed vertically in sequence and channel layers therebetween, on a substrate; patterning the semiconductor stack into a predetermined shape to define an active region; forming gate stacks around at least part of peripheries of the channel layers; forming an isolation layer on peripheries of the active region and the gate stack; forming first to third conductive channels on a sidewall of the isolation layer; determining the pre-determined shape and a shape of the gate stacks, such that one of the source/drain layers on two sides of the channel layer passes through the isolation layer to contact the first conductive channel, while the other one passes through the isolation layer to contact the second conductive channel, and the gate stack passes through the isolation layer to contact the third conductive channel.

Transistors comprising at least one of GaP, GaN, and GaAs

A transistor comprises a pair of source/drain regions having a channel region there-between. A transistor gate construction is operatively proximate the channel region. The channel region comprises a direction of current flow there-through between the pair of source/drain regions. The channel region comprises at least one of GaP, GaN, and GaAs extending all along the current-flow direction. Each of the source/drain regions comprises at least one of GaP, GaN, and GaAs extending completely through the respective source/drain region orthogonal to the current-flow direction. The at least one of the GaP, the GaN, and the GaAs of the respective source/drain region is directly against the at least one of the GaP, the GaN, and the GaAs of the channel region. Each of the source/drain regions comprises at least one of elemental silicon and metal material extending completely through the respective source/drain region orthogonal to the current-flow direction. Other embodiments are disclosed.

DEVICE WITH VERTICAL NANOWIRE CHANNEL REGION
20230215917 · 2023-07-06 ·

The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a device with a vertical nanowire channel region and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a bottom source/drain region; a top source/drain region; a gate structure extending between the bottom source/drain region and the top source/drain region; and a vertical nanowire in a channel region of the gate structure.

Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing the same and electronic device including the device

There are provided a semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device including the device. According to an embodiment, the semiconductor device may include a substrate, and a first device and a second device formed on the substrate. Each of the first device and the second device includes a first source/drain layer, a channel layer and a second source/drain layer stacked on the substrate in sequence, and also a gate stack surrounding a periphery of the channel layer. The channel layer of the first device and the channel layer of the second device are substantially co-planar.

Memory cell comprising a transistor that comprises a pair of insulator-material regions and an array of transistors

A transistor comprises a pair of source/drain regions having a channel there-between. A transistor gate construction is operatively proximate the channel. The channel comprises Si.sub.1-yGe.sub.y, where “y” is from 0 to 0.6. At least a portion of each of the source/drain regions comprises Si.sub.1-xGe.sub.x, where “x” is from 0.5 to 1. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.

Semiconductor memory device

A semiconductor memory device includes a bit line extending in a first direction, a channel pattern on the bit line, the channel pattern including first and second vertical portions facing each other and a horizontal portion connecting the first and second vertical portions, first and second word lines provided on the horizontal portion and between the first and second vertical portions and extended in a second direction crossing the bit line, and a gate insulating pattern provided between the first word line and the channel pattern and between the second word line and the channel pattern.

Vertical metal oxide semiconductor channel selector transistor and methods of forming the same

A device structure includes at least one selector device. Each selector device includes a vertical stack including, from bottom to top, a bottom electrode, a metal oxide semiconductor channel layer, and a top electrode and located over a substrate, a gate dielectric layer contacting sidewalls of the bottom electrode, the metal oxide semiconductor channel layer, and the top electrode, and a gate electrode formed within the gate dielectric layer and having a top surface that is coplanar with a top surface of the top electrode. Each top electrode or each bottom electrode of the at least one selector device may be contacted by a respective nonvolatile memory element to provide a one-selector one-resistor memory cell.

Array of vertical transistors, an array of memory cells comprising an array of vertical transistors, and a method used in forming an array of vertical transistors

A method used in forming an array of vertical transistors comprises forming laterally-spaced vertical projections that project upwardly from a substrate in a vertical cross-section. The vertical projections individually comprise an upper source/drain region, a lower source/drain region, and a channel region vertically there-between. First gate insulator material is formed along opposing sidewalls of the channel region in the vertical cross-section. One of (a) or (b) is formed over opposing sidewalls of the first gate insulator material in the vertical cross-section, where (a): conductive gate lines that are horizontally elongated through the vertical cross-section; and (b): sacrificial placeholder gate lines that are horizontally elongated through the vertical cross-section. The one of the (a) or the (b) laterally overlaps the upper source/drain region and the lower source/drain region. The first gate insulator material has a top that is below a top of the channel region and has a bottom that is above a bottom of the channel region. An upper void space is laterally between the one of the (a) or the (b) and both of the upper source/drain region and the channel region. A lower void space is laterally between the one of the (a) or the (b) and both of the lower source/drain region and the channel region. Second gate insulator material is formed in the upper and lower void spaces. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.

Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies

Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having first and second pillars of semiconductor material laterally offset from one another. The pillars have source/drain regions and channel regions vertically offset from the source/drain regions. Gating structures pass across the channel regions, and extend along a first direction. An insulative structure is over regions of the first and second pillars, and extends along a second direction which is crosses the first direction. Bottom electrodes are coupled with the source/drain regions. Leaker-device-structures extend upwardly from the bottom electrodes. Ferroelectric-insulative-material is laterally adjacent to the leaker-device-structures and over the regions of the bottom electrodes. Top-electrode-material is over the ferroelectric-insulative-material and is directly against the leaker-device-structures. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.