A semiconductor device includes a first substrate. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of metallization layers formed over the first substrate. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of via structures formed over the plurality of metallization layers. The semiconductor device includes a second substrate attached to the first substrate through the plurality of via structures. The semiconductor device includes a first conductive line disposed in a first one of the plurality of metallization layers. The first conductive line, extending along a first lateral direction, is connected to at least a first one of the plurality of via structures that is in electrical contact with a first through via structure of the second substrate, and to at least a second one of the plurality of via structures that is laterally offset from the first through via structure.

A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising alternating conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers, each of the tiers individually comprising a conductive structure and an insulative structure, strings of memory cells vertically extending through the stack structure, the strings of memory cells comprising a channel material vertically extending through the stack structure, and conductive rails laterally adjacent to the conductive structures of the stack structure. The conductive rails comprise a material composition that is different than a material composition of the conductive structures of the stack structure. Related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.

A transistor is provided. The transistor includes a substrate, a first diffusion region, a first contact structure, a second diffusion region, a second contact structure, and a gate structure. The first diffusion region is in the substrate. The first contact structure is over the substrate electrically coupling the first diffusion region. The first contact structure includes a first conductive material. The second diffusion region is in the substrate. The second contact structure is in the substrate electrically coupling the second diffusion region. The second contact structure includes a second conductive material different from the first conductive material. The gate structure is between the first contact structure and the second contact structure.

A semiconductor structure includes a first source-drain region; a second source-drain region; at least one channel region coupling the first and second source-drain regions; and a gate adjacent the at least one channel region. A bottom dielectric isolation region is located inward of the gate. First and second bottom silicon regions are respectively located inward of the first and second source-drain regions. A back side contact projects through the second bottom silicon region into the second source-drain region.

A semiconductor device and a logic device formed of the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first field effect transistor (FET), disposed on a semiconductor substrate, and including vertically separated first channel structures formed as thin sheets each having opposite major planar surfaces facing toward and away from the semiconductor substrate; and a second FET, disposed on the semiconductor substrate and overlapped with the first FET. A conductive type of the second FET is complementary to a conductive type of the first FET. Second channel structures of the second FET are separately arranged along a lateral direction, and formed as thin walls.

A semiconductor device includes a backside contact, a shallow trench isolation (STI), and a backside dielectric trench isolation (BDTI) below the STI. A top surface of the BDTI is connected to the STI on a backside of a high voltage region of the semiconductor device, a bottom surface of the BDTI is connected to a backside power interconnect, and the BDTI isolates a backside contact from a substrate.

A semiconductor device includes a shallow trench isolation (STI), a first doped region under the STI, an N-well region connected to the first doped region and the STI on a first side, a P-well region connected to the first doped region and the STI on a second side, a backside contact. A dopant concentration of the first doped region is higher than the dopant concentration of the N-well region and the dopant concentration of the P-well region.

A semiconductor device is provided including a backside deep trench capacitor present in a deep trench device region and electrically connected to a source/drain region of a transistor and to a backside back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) structure. In some embodiments, the semiconductor device can also include a logic device region including at least one logic transistor that is located adjacent to the deep trench device region.

A method of forming a portion of a gate-all-around field-effect transistor (GAA FET). includes forming a bottom source/drain (S/D) recess through fin-shaped columns from a top S/D recess into a substrate, wherein each of the fin-shaped columns comprises a bottom high germanium (Ge) layer on the substrate and a stack of alternating channel layers and sacrificial layers over the bottom high Ge layer, forming an S/D epitaxial (epi) layer within the bottom S/D recess, selectively removing the bottom high Ge layer to the sacrificial layers, and forming a bottom cavity between the substrate and the stack of alternating channel layers and sacrificial layers, and forming a bottom dielectric layer in the bottom cavity.

A package substrate is disclosed. The package substrate includes a die package in the package substrate located at least partially underneath a location of a power delivery interface in a die that is coupled to the surface of the package substrate. Connection terminals are accessible on a surface of the die package to provide connection to the die that is coupled to the surface of the package substrate. Metal-insulator-metal layers inside the die package are coupled to the connection terminals.