A method of forming a contact in a semiconductor device includes forming a first gate and a second gate on a substrate; removing an interlayer dielectric (ILD) material arranged between the first gate and the second gate to form a trench that extends from a surface of the first gate and a surface of the second gate to the substrate; depositing a liner along a sidewall of the trench and an endwall of the trench in contact with the substrate; depositing by a physical vapor deposition method (PVD) a layer of metal on a surface of the first gate and a surface of the second gate; and heating to reflow metal from the layer of metal on the surface of the first gate and the second gate into the trench and form the contact.

A semiconductor transistor device includes a substrate having an active area and a trench isolation region surrounding the active area, a gate oxide layer, a gate, a spacer on a sidewall of the gate, a doping region on one side of the gate, an insulating cap layer covering the gate, the spacer and the doping region, and a redistributed contact layer (RCL) on the insulating cap layer. The RCL extends from the active area to the trench isolation region. A contact plug is disposed above the trench isolation region and is electrically connected to the gate or the doping region through the RCL.

An object is to improve field effect mobility of a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor. Another object is to suppress increase in off current even in a thin film transistor with improved field effect mobility. In a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer, by forming a semiconductor layer having higher electrical conductivity and a smaller thickness than the oxide semiconductor layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and a gate insulating layer, field effect mobility of the thin film transistor can be improved, and increase in off current can be suppressed.

An SGT is produced by forming a first insulating film around a fin-shaped semiconductor layer, forming a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer in an upper portion of the fin-shaped layer, forming a second insulating film, a polysilicon gate electrode covering the second insulating film, and a polysilicon gate line, forming a diffusion layer in an upper portion of the fin-shaped layer and a lower portion of the pillar-shaped layer, forming a metal-semiconductor compound in an upper portion of the diffusion layer in the fin-shaped layer, depositing an interlayer insulating film, exposing and etching the polysilicon gate electrode and gate line, depositing a first metal, forming a metal gate electrode and a metal gate line, and forming a third metal sidewall on an upper side wall of the pillar-shaped layer. The third metal sidewall is connected to an upper surface of the pillar-shaped layer.

The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to transistor devices comprising multiple channels. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a transistor device comprises forming on the substrate a plurality of vertically repeating layer stacks each comprising a first layer, a second layer and a third layer stacked in a predetermined order, wherein each of the first, second and third layers is formed of silicon, silicon germanium or germanium and has a different germanium concentration compared to the other two of the first, second and third layers. The method additionally includes selectively removing the first layer with respect to the second and third layers from each of the layer stacks, such that a gap interposed between the second layer and the third layer is formed in each of the layer stacks. The method further includes selectively removing the second layer from each of the layer stacks with respect to the third layer, wherein removing the second layer comprises at least partially removing the second layer through the gap, thereby defining the channels comprising a plurality of vertically arranged third layers.

Sacrificial gate structures having an aspect ratio of greater than 5:1 are formed on a substrate. In some embodiments, each sacrificial gate structure straddles a portion of a semiconductor fin that is present on the substrate. An anchoring element is formed orthogonal to each sacrificial gate structure rendering the sacrificial gate structures mechanically stable. After formation of a planarization dielectric layer, each anchoring element can be removed and thereafter each sacrificial gate structure can be replaced with a functional gate structure.

A semiconductor device is provided and includes a semiconductor fin protruding from a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor fin includes plural pairs of semiconductor layers on the semiconductor substrate, each pair of semiconductor layers consists of a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type. The second semiconductor layer is stacked on and contacts the first semiconductor layer.

A fin-shaped field effect transistor includes a substrate and a gate. The substrate includes an active area, where the active area includes a fin structure having at least an extension part protruding from the fin structure. The gate is disposed over the fin structure and directly on the extension part. The present invention also provides a planar field effect transistor including a substrate and a gate. The substrate includes an active area, where the active area includes a frame area and a penetrating area penetrating through the frame area. The gate is disposed over the active area, where the gate is directly disposed on the penetrating area, and the frame area at least at a side of the gate constitutes a source/drain surrounding an isolation island.

A method of forming a fin field effect transistor (finFET), including forming a temporary gate structure having a sacrificial gate layer and a dummy gate layer on the sacrificial gate layer, forming a gate spacer layer on each sidewall of the temporary gate structure, forming a source/drain spacer layer on the outward-facing sidewall of each gate spacer layer, removing the dummy gate layer to expose the sacrificial gate layer, removing the sacrificial gate layer to form a plurality of recessed cavities, and forming a gate structure, where the gate structure occupies at least a portion of the plurality of recessed cavities.

A GaN transistor with polysilicon layers for creating additional components for an integrated circuit and a method for manufacturing the same. The GaN device includes an EPI structure and an insulating material disposed over EPI structure. Furthermore, one or more polysilicon layers are disposed in the insulating material with the polysilicon layers having one or more n-type regions and p-type regions. The device further includes metal interconnects disposed on the insulating material and vias disposed in the insulating material layer that connect source and drain metals to the n-type and p-type regions of the polysilicon layer.