Radiation hardened NMOS devices suitable for application in NMOS, CMOS, or BiCMOS integrated circuits, and methods for fabricating them. A device includes a p-type silicon substrate, a field oxide surrounding a moat region on the substrate tapering through a Bird's Beak region to a gate oxide within the moat region, a heavily-doped p-type guard region underlying at least a portion of the Bird's Beak region and terminating at the inner edge of the Bird's Beak region, a gate included in the moat region, and n-type source and drain regions spaced by a gap from the inner edge of the Bird's Beak and guard regions. A variation of minor alterations to the conventional moat and n-type source/drain masks. The resulting devices have improved radiation tolerance while having a high breakdown voltage and minimal impact on circuit density.

The present disclosure relates to a superjunction device and a semiconductor structure having the same. The superjunction device includes a body region of a second conduction type, a drain region of a first conduction type, a drift region located between said body region and said drain region. The drift region includes first regions of a first conduction type and second regions of a second conduction type arranged alternately along a direction being perpendicular to the direction from the body region to the drain region, and a plurality of trench gate structures, each of them comprising a trench extending into said drift region from an upper surface of said body region and a gate electrode in said trench surrounded by a first dielectric layer filling said trench, and a source region of a first conduction type embedded into said body region. There is no source region along at least 10% of the total interface length between the first dielectric layer and the body region.

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device has a first region formed of semiconductor and a second region formed of semiconductor which borders the first region. An electrode is formed to be in ohmic-connection with the first region. A third region is formed to sandwich the first region. A first potential difference is produced between the first and the second regions in a thermal equilibrium state, according to a second potential difference between the third region and the first region.

Provided are a semiconductor device having a charged punch-through stopper (PTS) layer to reduce punch-through and a method of manufacturing the same. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device may include a fin structure formed on a substrate; an isolation layer formed on the substrate, wherein a portion of the fin structure above the isolation layer acts as a fin of the semiconductor device; a charged PTS layer formed on side walls of a portion of the fin structure beneath the fin; and a gate stack formed on the isolation layer and intersecting the fin. The semiconductor device may be an n-type device or a p-type device. For the n-type device, the PTS layer may have net negative charges, and for the p-type device, the PTS layer may have net positive charges.

A method of performing an early PTS implant and forming a buffer layer under a bulk or fin channel to control doping in the channel and the resulting bulk or fin device are provided. Embodiments include forming a recess in a substrate; forming a PTS layer below a bottom surface of the recess; forming a buffer layer on the bottom surface and on side surfaces of the recess; forming a channel layer on and adjacent to the buffer layer; and annealing the channel, buffer, and PTS layers.

A compound semiconductor device includes: a GaN-based channel layer; a barrier layer of nitride semiconductor above the channel layer; and a cap layer of nitride semiconductor above the barrier layer, wherein the cap layer includes: a first region doped with Fe; and a second region above the first region, a concentration of Fe in the second region being lower than a concentration of Fe in the first region.

A method of forming a punch through stop region that includes forming isolation regions of a first dielectric material between adjacent fin structures and forming a spacer of a second dielectric material on sidewalls of the fin structure. The first dielectric material of the isolation region may be recessed with an etch process that is selective to the second dielectric material to expose a base sidewall portion of the fin structures. Gas phase doping may introduce a first conductivity type dopant to the base sidewall portion of the fin structure forming a punch through stop region underlying a channel region of the fin structures.

A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes forming a silicon layer by epitaxial growth over a semiconductor substrate having a first area and a second area; forming a first gate oxide film by oxidizing the silicon layer; removing the first gate oxide film from the second area, while maintaining the first gate oxide film in the first area; thereafter, increasing a thickness of the first gate oxide film in the first area and simultaneously forming a second gate oxide film by oxidizing the silicon layer in the second area; and forming a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode over the first gate oxide film and the second gate oxide film, respectively, wherein after the formation of the first and second gate electrodes, the silicon layer in the first area is thicker than the silicon layer in the second area.

A method is provided for fabricating a FinFET. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a hard mask layer on the semiconductor substrate, wherein a position of the hard mask layer may corresponds to a position of subsequently formed fin; forming a doping region in the semiconductor substrate by using the hard mask layer as a mask to perform an anti-punch-through ion implantation process; forming an anti-punch-through region by performing an annealing process onto the doping region, such that impurity ions in the doping region diffuse into the semiconductor substrate under the hard mask layer; and forming a trench by using the hard mask layer as a mask to etch the semiconductor substrate and the doping region, wherein the semiconductor substrates between the adjacent trenches constitutes a fin.

A metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor includes a substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the surface of the substrate layer, a metal gate disposed on the gate insulating layer and having at least one plug hole, at least one dielectric plug disposed in the plug hole, and two diffusion regions disposed at two sides of the metal gate in the substrate. The metal gate is configured to operate under an operation voltage greater than 5 v.