A semiconductor packaging structure includes a chip, a first pin, a second pin, and a third pin. The chip includes a first surface, a second surface, a first power switch, and a second switch, and both the first power switch and the second switch include a first terminal and a second terminal. The second surface of the chip is opposite to the first surface of the chip. The first pin does not contact to the second pin. The first terminal of the first power switch of the chip is coupled to the first pin, and the second terminal of the first power switch of the chip is coupled to the third pin. The first terminal of the second power switch of the chip is coupled to the third pin, and the second terminal of the second power switch of the chip is coupled to the second pin.

A transistor includes a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode over a substrate and on opposite sides of a drain region, a first source region and the drain region on opposite sides of the first gate electrode, a second source region and the drain region on opposite sides of the second gate electrode, a first doped well formed under the first source region, a second doped well formed under the first source region, wherein the first doped well is embedded in the second doped well, and wherein a doping density of the first doped well is greater than a doping density of the second doped well and a body contact region adjacent to the first source region, wherein sidewalls of the body contact region are aligned with sidewalls of the first source region from a top view.

An element isolation trench is formed in a substrate and is formed along each side of a polygon in a planar view. A first trench is formed in the substrate and extends in a direction different from that of any side of the trench. A first-conductivity type region is formed on/over apart located on the side of an end of the first trench in the substrate. Accordingly, when an impurity region that extends in a depth direction in the substrate is formed by forming the trench in the substrate and diagonally implanting an impurity into the trench, the impurity is prevented from being implanted into a side face of a groove such as a groove for element isolation and so forth impurity implantation into the side face of which is not desired.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type. A gate structure is supported by a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a current carrying region (e.g., a drain region of an LDMOS transistor) is disposed in the semiconductor substrate at the surface. The device further includes a drift region of a second, opposite conductivity type disposed in the semiconductor substrate at the surface. The drift region extends laterally from the current carrying region to the gate structure. The device further includes a buried region of the second conductivity type disposed in the semiconductor substrate below the current carrying region. The buried region is vertically aligned with the current carrying region, and a portion of the semiconductor substrate with the first conductivity type is present between the buried region and the current carrying region.

An integrated circuit includes at least one transistor over a substrate, and a first guard ring disposed around the at least one transistor. The integrated circuit further includes a second guard ring disposed around the first guard ring. The integrated circuit further includes a first doped region disposed adjacent to the first guard ring, the first doped region having a first dopant type. The integrated circuit further includes a second doped region disposed adjacent to the second guard ring, the second doped region having a second dopant type.

An electrostatic discharge protection clamp includes a substrate and a first electrostatic discharge protection device over the substrate. The first electrostatic discharge protection device includes a buried layer over the substrate. The buried layer has a first region having a first doping concentration and a second region having a second doping concentration. The first doping concentration is greater than the second doping concentration. The first electrostatic discharge protection device includes a first transistor over the buried layer. The first transistor has an emitter coupled to a first cathode terminal of the electrostatic discharge protection clamp. The first electrostatic discharge protection device includes a second transistor over the buried layer. The second transistor has an emitter coupled to a first anode terminal of the electrostatic discharge protection clamp. A collector of the first transistor and a collector of the second transistor are over the first region of the buried layer.

First and second transistors with different electrical characteristics are supported by a substrate having a first-type dopant. The first transistor includes a well region within the substrate having the first-type dopant, a first body region within the well region having a second-type dopant and a first source region within the first body region and laterally offset from the well region by a first channel. The second transistor includes a second body region within the semiconductor substrate layer having the second-type dopant and a second source region within the second body region and laterally offset from material of the substrate by a second channel having a length greater than the length of the first channel. A gate region extends over portions of the first and second body regions for the first and second channels, respectively.

A semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a first region and a second region; a first fin-shaped structure on the first region and a second fin-shaped structure on the second region; a first bump on the first region; a first doped layer on the first fin-shaped structure and the bump; and a gate structure covering the bump.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of fins on the substrate, wherein the plurality of fins each include a fin channel region, first isolation regions on the substrate corresponding to active gate regions, a second isolation region on the substrate corresponding to a dummy gate region, wherein a height of the second isolation region is greater than a height of the first isolation regions, a plurality of active gate structures formed around the fins, and on the first isolation regions, and a dummy gate structure formed on the second isolation region.

A bulk SiGe FinFET which includes: a plurality of SiGe fins and a bulk semiconductor substrate, the SiGe fins extending from the bulk semiconductor substrate; the SiGe fins having a top portion and a bottom portion, a part of the bottom portion being doped to form a punchthrough stop; the bulk semiconductor substrate having a top portion in contact with the SiGe fins and comprising a gradient of germanium and silicon, and a bottom portion of silicon in contact with the top portion such that the gradient has a composition of SiGe at the top portion in contact with the SiGe fins that is the same composition of SiGe as in the SiGe fins, the proportion of germanium atoms in the gradient gradually decreasing and the proportion of silicon atoms in the gradient gradually increasing in the gradient until the top portion contacts the bottom portion.