A semiconductor device including a gate structure on a channel region portion of a fin structure, and at least one of an epitaxial source region and an epitaxial drain region on a source region portion and a drain region portion of the fin structure. At least one of the epitaxial source region portion and the epitaxial drain region portion include a first concentration doped portion adjacent to the fin structure, and a second concentration doped portion on the first concentration doped portion. The second concentration portion has a greater dopant concentration than the first concentration doped portion. An extension dopant region extending into the channel portion of the fin structure having an abrupt dopant concentration gradient of n-type or p-type dopants of 7 nm per decade or greater.

Occurrence of short-channel characteristics and parasitic capacitance of a MOSFET on a SOI substrate is prevented.

A sidewall having a stacked structure obtained by sequentially stacking a silicon oxide film and a nitride film is formed on a side wall of a gate electrode on the SOI substrate. Subsequently, after an epitaxial layer is formed beside the gate electrode, and then, the nitride film is removed. Then, an impurity is implanted into an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate with using the gate electrode and the epitaxial layer as a mask, so that a halo region is formed in only a region of the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate which is right below a vicinity of both ends of the gate electrode.

A method of manufacturing a super junction MOSFET, which includes a parallel pn layer including a plurality of pn junctions and in which an n-type drift region and a p-type partition region interposed between the pn junctions are alternately arranged and contact each other, a MOS gate structure on the surface of the parallel pn layer, and an n-type buffer layer in contact with an opposite main surface. The impurity concentration of the buffer layer is equal to or less than that of the n-type drift region. At least one of the p-type partition regions in the parallel pn layer is replaced with an n region with a lower impurity concentration than the n-type drift region.

A semiconductor device including a gate structure on a channel region portion of a fin structure, and at least one of an epitaxial source region and an epitaxial drain region on a source region portion and a drain region portion of the fin structure. At least one of the epitaxial source region portion and the epitaxial drain region portion include a first concentration doped portion adjacent to the fin structure, and a second concentration doped portion on the first concentration doped portion. The second concentration portion has a greater dopant concentration than the first concentration doped portion. An extension dopant region extending into the channel portion of the fin structure having an abrupt dopant concentration gradient of n-type or p-type dopants of 7 nm per decade or greater.

A method of forming an integrated DMOS transistor/EEPROM cell includes forming a first mask over a substrate, forming a drift implant in the substrate using the first mask to align the drift implant, simultaneously forming a first floating gate over the drift implant, and a second floating gate spaced apart from the drift implant, forming a second mask covering the second floating gate and covering a portion of the first floating gate, forming a base implant in the substrate using an edge of the first floating gate to self-align the base implant region, and simultaneously forming a first control gate over the first floating gate and a second control gate over the second floating gate. The first floating gate, first control gate, drift implant, and base implant form components of the DMOS transistor, and the second floating gate and second control gate form components of the EEPROM cell.

A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a SiC layer having a first plane and a second plane, a gate insulating film provided on the first plane, a gate electrode provided on the gate insulating film, a first SiC region of a first conductivity type provided in the SiC layer, a second SiC region of a second conductivity type provided in the first SiC region, a third SiC region of the first conductivity type provided in the second SiC region, and a fourth SiC region of the first conductivity type provided between the second SiC region and the gate insulating film, the fourth SiC region interposed between the second SiC regions, and the fourth SiC region provided between the first SiC region and the third SiC region.

In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a silicon carbide (SiC) device can include a gate dielectric, a first doped region having a first conductivity type, a source, a body region of the first conductivity type, and a second doped region having a second conductivity type. The second doped region can have a first portion and a second portion. The first portion can be disposed between the first doped region and the body region and the second portion can be disposed between the first doped region and the gate dielectric. The first portion of the second doped region can have a width less than a width of the first doped region.

A power semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate and at least a first layer or region formed above the substrate. The silicon carbide substrate has a pattern of pits formed thereon. The device further comprising an ohmic metal disposed at least in the pits to form low-resistance ohmic contacts.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate defining a major surface. The device further includes a first region including at least a first pillar of a first conductivity type extending in a vertical orientation with respect to the major surface. The device further includes a second region of the first conductivity type. The first pillar includes a higher doping concentration than the second region. The device further includes a Schottky contact coupled to the second region.

Occurrence of short-channel characteristics and parasitic capacitance of a MOSFET on a SOI substrate is prevented. A sidewall having a stacked structure obtained by sequentially stacking a silicon oxide film and a nitride film is formed on a side wall of a gate electrode on the SOI substrate. Subsequently, after an epitaxial layer is formed beside the gate electrode, and then, the nitride film is removed. Then, an impurity is implanted into an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate with using the gate electrode and the epitaxial layer as a mask, so that a halo region is formed in only a region of the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate which is right below a vicinity of both ends of the gate electrode.