The present disclosure relates to nitride based optoelectronic and electronic devices with Si CMOS. The disclosure provides a semiconductor device, comprising a sapphire substrate, and a laser region and a detector region deposed on the sapphire substrate. The laser is formed onto the substrate from layers of GaN, InGaN and optionally the AlGaN. The detector can be an InGaN detector. A waveguide may be interposed between the laser and detector regions coupling these regions. The semiconductor device allows integration of nitride base optoelectronic and electronic devices with Si CMOS. The disclosure also provides a method for making the semiconductor devices.

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are presented. In embodiments a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes forming a fin from a plurality of semiconductor materials, depositing a dummy gate over the fin, depositing a plurality of spacers adjacent to the dummy gate, removing the dummy gate to form an opening adjacent to the plurality of spacers, widening the opening adjacent to a top surface of the plurality of spacers, after the widening, removing one of the plurality of semiconductor materials to form nanowires, and depositing a gate electrode around the nanowires.

A trench comprising a portion of a substrate is formed. A nucleation layer is deposited on the portion of the substrate within the trench. A III-N material layer is deposited on the nucleation layer. The III-N material layer is laterally grown over the trench. A device layer is deposited on the laterally grown III-N material layer. A low defect density region is obtained on the laterally grown material and is used for electronic device fabrication of III-N materials on Si substrates.

A semiconductor device in which parasitic capacitance is reduced is provided. A first oxide insulating layer and a first oxide semiconductor layer are sequentially formed over a first insulating layer. A first conductive layer is formed over the first oxide semiconductor layer and etched to form a second conductive layer. The first oxide insulating layer and the first oxide semiconductor layer are etched with the second conductive layer as a mask to form a second oxide insulating layer and a second oxide semiconductor layer. A planarized insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer and the second conductive layer. A second insulating layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed by etching the planarized insulating layer and the second conductive layer. A third oxide insulating layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode layer are formed over the second oxide semiconductor layer.

A semiconductor device includes an n-channel, a p-channel, a first gate dielectric layer, a second gate dielectric layer, a first metal gate electrode and a second metal gate electrode. The n-channel and the p-channel are made of different materials. The first gate dielectric layer is present on at least opposite sidewalls of the n-channel. The second gate dielectric layer is present on at least opposite sidewalls of the p-channel. The first metal gate electrode is present on the first gate dielectric layer. The second metal gate electrode is present on the second gate dielectric layer. The first metal gate electrode and the second metal gate electrode are made of substantially the same material .

A method of fabricating an integrated circuit device may include forming a polishing stop layer and a semiconductor layer on a substrate, and selectively polishing the semiconductor layer from a surface which simultaneously exposes the polishing stop layer and the semiconductor layer, by using a slurry composition including a compound composition and polishing particles. The compound composition may include a sulfonate compound and a terminal amine group-including compound.

A method of manufacturing a substrate is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a first semiconductor substrate, which includes an at least partially processed CMOS device layer and a layer of first wafer material; bonding a handle substrate to the partially processed CMOS device layer and removing the layer of first wafer material; providing a second semiconductor substrate having a layer of second wafer material which is different to silicon; bonding the first and second semiconductor substrates to form a combined substrate by bonding the layer of second wafer material to the partially processed CMOS device layer; and removing the handle substrate from the combined substrate to expose at least a portion of the partially processed CMOS device layer.

Provided is an oxide with a novel crystal structure, an oxide with high crystallinity, or an oxide with low impurity concentration. An oxide has a hexagonal atomic arrangement in the case of a single crystal. The oxide has a homologous structure of indium, an element M (aluminum, gallium, yttrium, or tin), and zinc. The oxide has a lattice point group observed through an analysis of a first region in a transmission electron microscopy image of a top surface of the oxide. In a Voronoi diagram having a plurality of Voronoi regions obtained through a Voronoi analysis of the lattice point group, a proportion of hexagonal Voronoi regions is higher than or equal to 78% and lower than or equal to 100%.

The invention relates to a method for fabricating a semiconductor circuit comprising providing a semiconductor substrate; fabricating a first semiconductor device comprising a first semiconductor material on the substrate and forming an insulating layer comprising a cavity structure on the first semiconductor device. The cavity structure comprises at least one growth channel and the growth channel connects a crystalline seed surface of the first semiconductor device with an opening. Further steps include growing via the opening from the seed surface a semiconductor filling structure comprising a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material in the growth channel; forming a semiconductor starting structure for a second semiconductor device from the filling structure; and fabricating a second semiconductor device comprising the starting structure. The invention is notably also directed to corresponding semiconductor circuits.

In one aspect thereof the invention provides a structure that includes a substrate having a surface and a plurality of fins supported by the surface of the substrate. The plurality of fins are formed of Group IVA-based crystalline semiconductor material and are spaced apart and generally parallel to one another. In the structure at least some of the plurality of fins comprise an amorphous region forming a nanowire precursor structure that is located along a length of the fin where a Group III-V transistor is to be located. A method to fabricate the structure and other structures is also disclosed.