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.

Disclosed is a semiconductor structure and method of forming the semiconductor structure. Specifically, the semiconductor structure can include a first semiconductor fin extending from a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor structure can further include an isolation region on the semiconductor substrate adjacent to a lower portion of the first semiconductor fin. The first semiconductor fin can, for example, be incorporated into a single-fin fin-type semiconductor device, such as a single-fin fin-type field effect transistor (FINFET). The isolation region can include at least one shallow trench isolation (STI) structure positioned laterally between and immediately adjacent to sections of a deep trench isolation (DTI) structure. With this alternating DTI-STI-DTI configuration, overall shrinkage of isolation material of the isolation region during anneals is reduced and, thus, so are stress-induced crystalline defects in the first semiconductor fin. Also disclosed are methods for forming such a semiconductor structure.

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method for same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate provided with: a plurality of first active structures, a first isolation structure isolating each of the first active structures, a second active structure, and second isolation structures; where each of the plurality of first active structures extends along a first direction, and the plurality of first active structures include first active segments and second active segments; the second active structure is in direct contact with the second active segments, a plurality of first trenches are opened within the second active structure in an extension direction of the first active structures, and the first trenches are located between the second active segments and an active boundary; and the second isolation structures are filled within the first trenches.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a first side, a second side, a sidewall connected to the first and second sides, and at least one protrusion protruded from the second side, devices disposed at the first side of the semiconductor substrate, and an interconnect structure disposed over the first side of the semiconductor substrate and electrically coupled to the devices. The protrusion and the semiconductor substrate are made of a same material

A method includes providing a substrate having a first semiconductor material; creating a mask that covers an nFET region of the substrate; etching a pFET region of the substrate to form a trench; epitaxially growing a second semiconductor material in the trench, wherein the second semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material; and patterning the nFET region and the pFET region to produce a first fin in the nFET region and a second fin in the pFET region, wherein the first fin includes the first semiconductor material and the second fin includes a top portion over a bottom portion, wherein the top portion includes the second semiconductor material, and the bottom portion includes the first semiconductor material.

A method for forming a semiconductor device structure includes forming fin base structures over a first region and a second region of a substrate and channel layers over the fin base structures. The distances between the fin structures in the first region and the second region are different. The method also includes filling an isolation material between the fin base structures and recessing the isolation material to form a first isolation structure in the first region and a second isolation structure in the second region. The method also includes depositing a hard mask layer over the first isolation structure and the second isolation structure. The thicknesses of the hard mask layer in the first region and the second region are different, and the top surfaces of the hard mask layer in the first region and the second region are substantially at the same level.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, an element isolation portion that is formed at the semiconductor layer and that defines an element region in the semiconductor layer, and a first contact that is formed in a linear shape along the element isolation portion in a plan view and that is electrically connected to the element isolation portion. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor substrate supporting the semiconductor layer and a buried layer formed so as to be contiguous to the semiconductor layer, and the element isolation portion may reach the semiconductor substrate through the buried layer from a front surface of the semiconductor layer.

Embodiments disclosed herein include a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure may include a first transistor device on a substrate, a second transistor device on the substrate, and a power rail between the first transistor device and the second transistor device. The power rail may include a first section with a first critical dimension (CD), a second section with a second CD, and a third section with a third CD.

A method for manufacturing raised strip-shaped active areas is disclosed, including: step 1: performing etching on a semiconductor substrate to form patterning raised strip-shaped structures and shallow trenches; step 2: forming a second dielectric layer which fills the shallow trenches and extends to a surface of the first hard mask layer on top surfaces of the raised strip-shaped structures; step 3: performing the first CMP on second dielectric layer, the first CMP stops at a surface of a first hard mask layer; step 4: performing planarization adjustment on a top surface of the second dielectric layer through second wet etching to reduce a height difference of the top surface of the second dielectric layer in different areas; step 5: removing the first hard mask layer; and step 6: performing third dry etching to reduce the top surface of the second dielectric layer to below the top surface of each raised strip-shaped structure.

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first shallow trench isolation structure in a first region of a substrate and second shallow trench isolation structures in a second region of the substrate. The method also includes forming a mask layer over the substrate, the first shallow trench isolation structure, and the second shallow trench isolation structures. The method further includes etching the mask layer and second shallow trench isolation structures in the second region sequentially to form a semiconductor protrusion between the second shallow trench isolation structures.