An integrated circuit and method of forming the integrated circuit, including the steps of forming channels partially into a thickness of a semiconductor layer or through the thickness of the semiconductor layer and partially through a thickness of a substrate layer on which the semiconductor layer was formed. The method may then include underfilling or overfilling the channels with diamond. If underfilled, a remainder of the channels may be filled in with nucleation buffer layers or additional semiconductor material. If overfilled, the diamond may be selectively polished down to form a planar surface with the semiconductor layer. Next, the method may include forming an active device layer over the semiconductor material and diamond. The method may also include thinning the substrate layer down to the diamond and then placing a heat sink in physical contact with the diamond in the channel.

An integrated circuit and method of forming the integrated circuit, including the steps of forming channels partially into a thickness of a semiconductor layer or through the thickness of the semiconductor layer and partially through a thickness of a substrate layer on which the semiconductor layer was formed. The method may then include underfilling or overfilling the channels with diamond. If underfilled, a remainder of the channels may be filled in with nucleation buffer layers or additional semiconductor material. If overfilled, the diamond may be selectively polished down to form a planar surface with the semiconductor layer. Next, the method may include forming an active device layer over the semiconductor material and diamond. The method may also include thinning the substrate layer down to the diamond and then placing a heat sink in physical contact with the diamond in the channel.

A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first region and a second region; forming a first fin-shaped structure on the first region and a second fin-shaped structure on the second region; forming a first bump on the first region and a second bump on the second region; forming a first doped layer on the first fin-shaped structure and the first bump; and forming a second doped layer on the second fin-shaped structure and the second bump.

Semiconductor devices having germanium active layers with underlying diffusion barrier layers are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a gate electrode stack disposed above a substrate. A germanium active layer is disposed above the substrate, underneath the gate electrode stack. A diffusion barrier layer is disposed above the substrate, below the germanium active layer. A junction leakage suppression layer is disposed above the substrate, below the diffusion barrier layer. Source and drain regions are disposed above the junction leakage suppression layer, on either side of the gate electrode stack.

Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and a work function layer. The gate dielectric layer is between the semiconductor substrate and the work function layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a halogen source layer. The gate dielectric layer is between the semiconductor substrate and the halogen source layer.

In some examples, a transistor comprises a gallium nitride (GaN) layer; a GaN-based alloy layer having a top side and disposed on the GaN layer, wherein source, drain, and gate contact structures are supported by the GaN layer, and a first doped region positioned in a drain access region and extending from the top side into the GaN layer.

An electronic device includes a solid body of SiC having a surface and having a first conductivity type. A first implanted region and a second implanted region have a second conductivity type and extend into the solid body in a direction starting from the surface and delimit between them a surface portion of the solid body. A Schottky contact is on the surface and in direct contact with the surface portion. Ohmic contacts are on the surface and in direct contact with the first and second implanted regions. The solid body includes an epitaxial layer including the surface portion and a bulk portion. The surface portion houses a plurality of doped sub-regions which extend in succession one after another in the direction, are of the first conductivity type, and have a respective conductivity level higher than that of the bulk portion.

Provided is an RF switch device and a manufacturing method thereof and, more particularly, an RF switch device and a manufacturing method thereof that improve breakdown voltage characteristics and prevent an increase in the figure of merit (FoM) value, which has a trade-off relationship with the breakdown voltage characteristics, by decreasing the path along which holes move in a body region to a body contact by including a first (gate) electrode extending along a first direction between opposite ends of a second (gate) electrode extending in a second (orthogonal) direction.

Wide bandgap trench gate semiconductor devices are provided. In one example, a semiconductor device includes a wide bandgap semiconductor structure. The wide bandgap semiconductor structure includes a drift region of a first conductivity type and a well region of a second conductivity type. The semiconductor device includes a gate trench in the wide bandgap semiconductor structure. The gate trench extends through the well region into the drift region. The semiconductor device includes a buried gate structure in the gate trench. The buried gate structure includes a gate polysilicon layer and a gate silicide layer.

A manufacturing method for a P-type laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device includes: forming a N-type buried layer in a substrate, forming a P-type region located on the N-type buried layer, and forming a mask layer located on the P-type region; patterning the mask layer to form at least two injection windows; performing N-type ion implantation by the at least two injection windows; forming an oxide layer; removing the mask layer; performing P-type ion implantation on the P-type region to form a P-type doped region; diffusing the P-type doped region to form a drift region and two P-type well regions, diffusing the high-voltage N-well doped region to form a high-voltage N-type well region, and diffusing the low-voltage N-well doped region to form a low-voltage N-type well region; and forming a source doped region, a drain doped region, and a gate.