A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first stacked nanostructure and a second stacked nanostructure formed over a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first gate structure formed over the first stacked nanostructure, and the first gate structure includes a first portion of a gate dielectric layer and a first portion of a filling layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a second gate structure formed over the second stacked nanostructure, and the second gate structure includes a second portion of the gate dielectric layer and a second portion of the filling layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a first isolation layer between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, wherein the first isolation layer has an extending portion which is formed in a recess between the gate dielectric layer and the filling layer.

A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes nanostructures stacked over a substrate and spaced apart from one another, gate dielectric layers wrapping around the nanostructures respectively, nitride layers wrapping around the gate dielectric layers respectively, oxide layers wrapping around the nitride layers respectively, work function layers wrapping around the oxide layers respectively, and a metal fill layer continuously surrounding the work function layers.

A semiconductor structure and method for forming the semiconductor are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a first electrode comprising a first portion, a second portion, and a sheet portion connecting the first portion to the second portion. A ferroelectric material is over the sheet portion. A second electrode is over the ferroelectric material.

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is described. The method includes forming a nanosheet stack on a substrate, the nanosheet stack includes nanosheet channel layers. A gate is formed around the nanosheet channel layers of the nanosheet stack. A strained material is formed along a sidewall surface of the gate. The strained material is configured to create strain in the nanosheet channel layers of the nanosheet stack.

The present disclosure relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly, to high voltage extended drain MOSFET (EDMOS) devices in a high-k metal gate (HKMG) and methods of manufacture. A structure of the present disclosure includes a plurality of extended drain MOSFET (EDMOS) devices on a high voltage well with a split-gate dielectric material including a first gate dielectric material and a second gate dielectric material, the second gate dielectric material including a thinner thickness than the first gate dielectric material, and a high-k dielectric material on the split-gate dielectric material.

A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor fin protruding from the substrate, where the semiconductor fin includes semiconductor layers stacked in a vertical direction, a gate stack engaging with channel regions of the semiconductor fin, and source/drain (S/D) features disposed adjacent to the gate stack in S/D regions of the semiconductor fin. In the present embodiments, the gate stack includes a first portion disposed over the semiconductor layers and a second portion disposed between the semiconductor layers, where the first portion includes a work-function metal (WFM) layer and a metal fill layer disposed over the WFM layer and the second portion includes the WFM layer but is free of the metal fill layer.

Semiconductor devices and methods are provided. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first nanostructures directly over a first portion of a substrate and second nanostructures directly over a second portion of the substrate, n-type source/drain features coupled to the first nanostructures and p-type source/drain features coupled to the second nanostructures, and an isolation structure disposed between the first portion of the substrate and the second portion of the substrate. The isolation structure includes a first smiling region in direct contact with the first portion of the substrate and having a first height. The isolation structure also includes a second smiling region in direct contact with the second portion of the substrate and having a second height, the first height is greater than the second height.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductors, and provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, an NMOS transistor, and a PMOS transistor. The NMOS transistor includes a first dielectric layer, a first work function layer, and a first conductive layer that are stacked in sequence. The PMOS transistor includes a second dielectric layer, a second work function layer, and a second conductive layer that are stacked in sequence.

A semiconductor device includes a PMOS region and a NMOS region on a substrate, a first fin-shaped structure on the PMOS region, a first single diffusion break (SDB) structure in the first fin-shaped structure, a first gate structure on the first SDB structure, and a second gate structure on the first fin-shaped structure. Preferably, the first gate structure and the second gate structure are of different materials and the first gate structure disposed directly on top of the first SDB structure is a polysilicon gate while the second gate structure disposed on the first fin-shaped structure is a metal gate in the PMOS region.

A device includes a substrate, a semiconductor channel over the substrate, and a gate structure over and laterally surrounding the semiconductor channel. The gate structure includes a first dielectric layer over the semiconductor channel, a first work function metal layer over the first dielectric layer, a first protection layer over the first work function metal layer, a second protection layer over the first protection layer, and a metal fill layer over the second protection layer.