Disclosed examples include microelectronic devices, e.g. Integrated circuits. One example includes a microelectronic device including a nanosheet lateral drain extended metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor with source and drain regions having a first conductivity type extending into a semiconductor substrate having an opposite second conductivity type. A superlattice of alternating layers of nanosheets of a channel region and layers of gate conductor are separated by a gate dielectric, the superlattice extending between the source region and the drain region. A drain drift region of the first conductivity type extends under the drain region and a body region of the second type extends around the source region.

A microelectronic device, e.g. an integrated circuit, includes first and second doped semiconductor regions over a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor nanosheet layer is connected between the first and second semiconductor regions and has a bandgap greater than 1.5 eV. In some examples such a device is implemented as an LDMOS transistor. A method of forming the device includes forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type. A semiconductor nanosheet stack is formed within the trench, the stack including a semiconductor nanosheet layer and a sacrificial layer. Source and drain regions having an opposite second conductivity type are formed extending into the semiconductor nanosheet stack. The sacrificial layer between the source region and the drain region is removed, and the semiconductor nanosheet layer is annealed. A gate dielectric layer is formed on the semiconductor nanosheet layer, and a gate conductor is formed on the gate dielectric layer.

Semiconductor devices are provided. In one example, a semiconductor device includes: a substrate, a first circuit region and a second circuit region extending in a first direction, and a gate structure extending in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The gate structure further includes: two gate electrode sections respectively located in the first and second circuit regions, and a low-resistance section between and interconnecting the two gate electrode sections. The two gate electrode sections are configured as gate electrodes for two transistors respectively located in the first and second circuit regions. The two gate electrodes have a first width (W.sub.0) along the first direction, the low-resistance section has a second width (W) along the first direction, and a ratio of W to W.sub.0 (W/W.sub.0) is at least 1.1.

A super-steep switching device is provided. The super-steep switching device may include a substrate, a semiconductor channel on the substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are disposed on the semiconductor channel and spaced apart from each other, a gate electrode overlapping a portion of the semiconductor channel and not overlapping a remaining portion of the semiconductor channel, and an insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor channel and covering an entire surface of the semiconductor channel.

An object of the present invention is to further improve electric characteristics such as ON-resistance or an ON-breakdown voltage in a semiconductor device having a lateral MOS transistor. In a semiconductor device having a lateral MOS transistor, a buried electrode is formed at a part of an isolation insulating film located between a drain region and a gate electrode. The buried electrode includes a buried part. The buried part is formed from the surface of the isolation insulating film up to a depth corresponding to a thickness thinner than that of the isolation insulating film. The buried electrode is electrically coupled to the drain region.

A semiconductor device having a vertical drain extended MOS transistor may be formed by forming deep trench structures to define vertical drift regions of the transistor, so that each vertical drift region is bounded on at least two opposite sides by the deep trench structures. The deep trench structures are spaced so as to form RESURF regions for the drift region. Trench gates are formed in trenches in the substrate over the vertical drift regions. The body regions are located in the substrate over the vertical drift regions.

A semiconductor device includes a first planar semiconductor (e.g., silicon) layer, first and second pillar-shaped semiconductor (e.g., silicon) layers, a first gate insulating film, a first gate electrode, a second gate insulating film, a second gate electrode, a first gate line connected to the first and second gate electrodes, a first n-type diffusion layer, a second n-type diffusion layer, a first p-type diffusion layer, and a second p-type diffusion layer. A center line extending along the first gate line is offset by a first predetermined amount from a line connecting a center of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a center of the second pillar-shaped semiconductor layer.

A lateral superjunction MOSFET device includes multiple transistor cells connected to a lateral superjunction structure, each transistor cell including a conductive gate finger, a source region finger, a body contact region finger and a drain region finger arranged laterally within each transistor cell. Each of the drain region fingers, the source region fingers and the body contact region fingers is a doped region finger having a termination region at an end of the doped region finger. The lateral superjunction MOSFET device further includes a termination structure formed in the termination region of each doped region finger and including one or more termination columns having the same conductivity type as the doped region finger and positioned near the end of the doped region finger. The one or more termination columns extend through the lateral superjunction structure and are electrically unbiased.

A lateral double-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor includes a silicon semiconductor structure, first and second gate structures, and a trench dielectric layer. The first and second gate structures are disposed on the silicon semiconductor structure and separated from each other in a lateral direction. The trench dielectric layer is disposed in a trench in the silicon semiconductor structure and extends at least partially under each of the first and second gate structures in a thickness direction orthogonal to the lateral direction.

Semiconductor devices includes a thin epitaxial layer (nanotube) formed on sidewalls of mesas formed in a semiconductor layer. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer formed thereon and of the opposite conductivity type, and a first epitaxial layer formed on mesas of the second semiconductor layer. An electric field along a length of the first epitaxial layer is uniformly distributed.