H01L29/78684

Isolated semiconductor layer stacks for a semiconductor device

In one aspect, a method of forming a semiconducting device can comprise forming, on a substrate surface, a stack comprising semiconductor material sheets and a bottom semiconductor nanosheet; forming a trench through the stack vertically down through the bottom semiconductor nanosheet, thereby separating the stack into two substacks; selectively removing the bottom semiconductor nanosheet, thereby forming a bottom space extending under the substacks; and filling the bottom space and the trench with a dielectric material to provide a bottom isolation and formation of a dielectric wall between the substacks.

Electronic device and method of manufacturing the same

Provided are electronic devices and methods of manufacturing the same. An electronic device may include a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate, a ferroelectric layer between the substrate and the gate electrode, and a carbon layer between the substrate and the ferroelectric layer. The carbon layer may have an sp.sup.2 bonding structure.

STACKED FET WITH DIFFERENT CHANNEL MATERIALS

A semiconductor device comprising at least one first gate all around channel having a horizontal physical orientation, wherein the at least one first gate all around channel is comprised of a first material, wherein the at least one first gate all around channel has a sidewall surface with (100) crystal orientation. At least one second gate all around channel having a vertical physical orientation, wherein the second channel is located above the at least one first gate all around channel, wherein the at least one second gate all around channel is comprised of a second material, wherein the at least one second gate all around channel has a sidewall surface with (110) crystal orientation. A gate metal enclosing the at least one first gate all around channel and the at least one second gate all around channel.

Method of forming transistor

According to another embodiment, a method of forming a transistor is provided. The method includes the following operations: providing a substrate; providing a source over the substrate; providing a channel connected to the source; providing a drain connected to the channel; providing a gate insulator adjacent to the channel; providing a gate adjacent to the gate insulator; providing a first interlayer dielectric between the source and the gate; and providing a second interlayer dielectric between the drain and the gate, wherein at least one of the formation of the source, the drain, and the channel includes about 20-95 atomic percent of Sn.

High performance MOSFETs having different device characteristics

The present disclosure describes a method for the formation of gate-all-around nano-sheet FETs with tunable performance. The method includes disposing a first and a second vertical structure with different widths over a substrate, where the first and the second vertical structures have a top portion comprising a multilayer nano-sheet stack with alternating first and second nano-sheet layers. The method also includes disposing a sacrificial gate structure over the top portion of the first and second vertical structures; depositing an isolation layer over the first and second vertical structures so that the isolation layer surrounds a sidewall of the sacrificial gate structure; etching the sacrificial gate structure to expose each multilayer nano-sheet stack from the first and second vertical structures; removing the second nano-sheet layers from each exposed multilayer nano-sheet stack to form suspended first nano-sheet layers; forming a metal gate structure to surround the suspended first nano-sheet layers.

Devices comprising crystalline materials and related systems

A method includes forming a semiconductor structure. The structure includes a first material, a blocking material, a second material in an amorphous form, and a third material in an amorphous form. The blocking material is disposed between the first material and the second material. At least the second material and the third material each comprise silicon and/or germanium. The structure is exposed to a temperature above a crystallization temperature of the third material and below a crystallization temperature of the second material. Semiconductor structures, memory devices, and systems are also disclosed.

Semiconductor device and method

In an embodiment, a method includes: forming a first recess and a second recess in a substrate; growing a first epitaxial material stack in the first recess, the first epitaxial material stack including alternating layers of a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material, the layers of the first epitaxial material stack being undoped; growing a second epitaxial material stack in the second recess, the second epitaxial material stack including alternating layers of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, a first subset of the second epitaxial material stack being undoped, a second subset of the second epitaxial material stack being doped; patterning the first epitaxial material stack and the second epitaxial material stack to respectively form first nanowires and second nanowires; and forming a first gate structure around the first nanowires and a second gate structure around the second nanowires.

Transistors on heterogeneous bonding layers

Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device over a semiconductor substrate. A first bonding layer is above the semiconductor substrate. One or more nanowires are formed above the first bonding layer to be a channel layer. A gate electrode is around a nanowire, where the gate electrode is in contact with the first bonding layer and separated from the nanowire by a gate dielectric layer. A source electrode or a drain electrode is in contact with the nanowire, above a bonding area of a second bonding layer, and separated from the gate electrode by a spacer, where the second bonding layer is above and in direct contact with the first bonding layer.

Semiconductor structure and method of forming the same
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A semiconductor structure includes the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack formed over the first region and the second region of a substrate, respectively. The first and second semiconductor stacks extend in the first direction and are spaced apart from each other in the second direction. Each of the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack includes channel layers and a gate structure. The channel layers are formed above the substrate and are spaced apart from each other in the third direction. The gate structure includes the gate dielectric layers formed around the respective channel layers, and the gate electrode layer formed on the gate dielectric layers to surround the channel layers. The number of channel layers in the first semiconductor stack is different from the number of channel layers in the second semiconductor stack.

Field effect transistor, method of fabricating field effect transistor, and electronic device

A field effect transistor (FET), a method of fabricating a field effect transistor, and an electronic device, the field effect transistor comprises: a source and a drain, the source being made of a first graphene film; a channel disposed between the source and the drain, and comprising a laminate of a second graphene film and a material layer having semiconductor properties, the second graphene film being formed of bilayer graphene; and a gate disposed on the laminate and electrically insulated from the laminate.