Patent classifications
H10D48/30
MEMORY, DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
A memory, a dynamic random access memory, and an electronic device are provided. The memory may be a 3D memory, and includes: a substrate; a plurality of memory cell columns distributed in a first direction perpendicular to the substrate, wherein each memory cell column includes a plurality of memory cell stacked in the first direction; each memory cell includes a transistor and a capacitor; the transistor comprises a semiconductor layer and a gate, and the semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor layer and a cylindrical second semiconductor layer arranged on the sidewall of the first semiconductor layer. Other structures of the transistor and capacitor have the same definition as those in the description.
Methods of fabricating semiconductor fins by double sidewall image transfer patterning through localized oxidation enhancement of sacrificial mandrel sidewalls
A method of fabricating semiconductor fins, including, patterning a film stack to produce one or more sacrificial mandrels having sidewalls, exposing the sidewall on one side of the one or more sacrificial mandrels to an ion beam to make the exposed sidewall more susceptible to oxidation, oxidizing the opposite sidewalls of the one or more sacrificial mandrels to form a plurality of oxide pillars, removing the one or more sacrificial mandrels, forming spacers on opposite sides of each of the plurality of oxide pillars to produce a spacer pattern, removing the plurality of oxide pillars, and transferring the spacer pattern to the substrate to produce a plurality of fins.
FABRICATION OF FINS USING VARIABLE SPACERS
A method of fabricating semiconductor fins, including, patterning a film stack to produce one or more sacrificial mandrels having sidewalls, exposing the sidewall on one side of the one or more sacrificial mandrels to an ion beam to make the exposed sidewall more susceptible to oxidation, oxidizing the opposite sidewalls of the one or more sacrificial mandrels to form a plurality of oxide pillars, removing the one or more sacrificial mandrels, forming spacers on opposite sides of each of the plurality of oxide pillars to produce a spacer pattern, removing the plurality of oxide pillars, and transferring the spacer pattern to the substrate to produce a plurality of fins.
Method of forming epitaxial buffer layer for finFET source and drain junction leakage reduction and semiconductor device having reduced junction leakage
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.
METHOD OF FORMING EPITAXIAL BUFFER LAYER FOR FINFET SOURCE AND DRAIN JUNCTION LEAKAGE REDUCTION
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.
RECESS LINER FOR SILICON GERMANIUM FIN FORMATION
Semiconductor device fabrication method and structures are provided having a substrate structure which includes a silicon layer at an upper portion. The silicon layer is recessed in a first region of the substrate structure and remains unrecessed in a second region of the substrate structure. A protective layer having a first germanium concentration is formed above the recessed silicon layer in the first region, which extends along a sidewall of the unrecessed silicon layer of the second region. A semiconductor layer having a second germanium concentration is disposed above the protective layer in the first region of the substrate structure, where the first germanium concentration of the protective layer inhibits lateral diffusion of the second germanium concentration from the semiconductor layer in the first region into the unrecessed silicon layer in the second region of the substrate structure.
FABRICATION OF FINS USING VARIABLE SPACERS
A method of fabricating semiconductor fins, including, patterning a film stack to produce one or more sacrificial mandrels having sidewalls, exposing the sidewall on one side of the one or more sacrificial mandrels to an ion beam to make the exposed sidewall more susceptible to oxidation, oxidizing the opposite sidewalls of the one or more sacrificial mandrels to form a plurality of oxide pillars, removing the one or more sacrificial mandrels, forming spacers on opposite sides of each of the plurality of oxide pillars to produce a spacer pattern, removing the plurality of oxide pillars, and transferring the spacer pattern to the substrate to produce a plurality of fins.
Method to controllably etch silicon recess for ultra shallow junctions
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming a germanium including material on source and drain region portions of a silicon containing fin structure, and annealing to drive germanium into the source and drain region portions of the fin structure. The alloyed portions of fin structures composed of silicon and germanium are then removed using a selective etch. After the alloyed portions of the fin structures are removed, epitaxial source and drain regions are formed on the remaining portions of the fin structure.
DUAL-GATE TRENCH IGBT WITH BURIED FLOATING P-TYPE SHIELD
A method of manufacturing an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) device comprising 1) preparing a semiconductor substrate with an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type supported on the semiconductor substrate of a second conductivity type; 2) applying a gate trench mask to open a first trench and second trench followed by forming a gate insulation layer to pad the trench and filling the trench with a polysilicon layer to form the first trench gate and the second trench gate; 3) implanting dopants of the first conductivity type to form an upper heavily doped region in the epitaxial layer; and 4) forming a planar gate on top of the first trench gate and apply implanting masks to implant body dopants and source dopants to form a body region and a source region near a top surface of the semiconductor substrate.
Carbon nanostructure device fabrication utilizing protect layers
Hall effect devices and field effect transistors are formed incorporating a carbon-based nanostructure layer such as carbon nanotubes and/or graphene with a sacrificial metal layer formed there over to protect the carbon-based nanostructure layer during processing.