In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor material layer separated from a second semiconductor material layer by an insulating layer. A source region and a drain region are disposed in the first semiconductor material layer and spaced apart. A gate electrode is disposed over the first semiconductor material layer between the source region and the drain region. A first doped region having a first doping type is disposed in the second semiconductor material layer, where the gate electrode directly overlies the first doped region. A second doped region having a second doping type different than the first doping type is disposed in the second semiconductor material layer, where the second doped region extends beneath the first doped region and contacts opposing sides of the first doped region.

A microelectronic device including an analog MOS transistor. The analog transistor has a body well having a first conductivity type in a semiconductor material of a substrate of the microelectronic device. The body well extends deeper in the substrate than a field relief dielectric layer at the top surface of the semiconductor material. The analog transistor has a drain well and a source well having a second, opposite, conductivity type in the semiconductor material, both contacting the body well. The drain well and the source well extend deeper in the substrate than the field relief dielectric layer. The analog transistor has a gate on a gate dielectric layer over the body well. The drain well and the source well extend partway under the gate at the top surface of the semiconductor material.

A non-volatile memory cell includes a p-channel non-volatile transistor having a source and a drain defining a channel and a gate overlying the channel and an n-channel non-volatile transistor having a source and a drain defining a channel and a gate overlying the channel. In at least one of the p-channel non-volatile transistor and the n-channel non-volatile transistor, a lightly-doped drain region extends from the drain into the channel.

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including a diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (DMOS) transistor, an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, and a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor includes forming separation regions in a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate insulating film, forming a DMOS gate electrode on the gate insulating film, forming a first mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate, performing a first ion implantation process, forming a second mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate, performing a second ion implantation process, forming a third mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate and performing a third ion implantation process into the semiconductor substrate, and forming a fourth mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate and performing a fourth ion implantation process.

A semiconductor device can be reduced in size. The semiconductor device has a first conductivity type p type well layer extending in the X direction of the main surface of a semiconductor substrate; a reference potential wire coupled with the p type well layer, and extending in the X direction; first and second active regions arranged on the opposite sides of the reference potential wire in the Y direction; and a gate electrode layer extending in the Y direction in such a manner as to cross with the first and second active regions . Then, the gate electrode layer has a first gate electrode of a second conductivity type at the crossing part with the first active region, a second gate electrode of the second conductivity type at the crossing part with the second active region, and a non-doped electrode between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode.

The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a first active region, a second active region, a third active region, and a fourth active region in the semiconductor substrate; and forming a middle-voltage P well region (MVPW) in each of the first active region and the second region simultaneously and forming a middle-voltage N well (MVNW) region in each of the third active region and the fourth active region simultaneously.

A semiconductor die that may include a substrate; an epitaxial layer; a metal layer; a first transistor; and a metal via that surrounds the first transistor, extends between the metal layer and the substrate, and penetrates the substrate.

A method includes providing a substrate having a first and a second plurality of fins with a first at least one dielectric material disposed thereon, removing upper portions of the first dielectric material to expose upper portions of the first and the second plurality of fins, removing the first dielectric material from the lower portions of the second plurality of fins to expose lower portions of the second plurality of fins, depositing a second at least one dielectric material on at least the upper and the lower exposed portions of the second plurality of fins and on the upper exposed portions of first plurality of fins, removing the second dielectric material to expose upper portions of the first and the second plurality of fins, and wherein the first dielectric material is different from the second dielectric material. The resulting structure may be operable for use as nFETs and pFETs.

A device includes a vertical transistor comprising a first buried layer over a substrate, a first well over the first buried layer, a first gate in a first trench, wherein the first trench is formed partially through the first buried layer, and wherein a dielectric layer and the first gate are in the first trench, a second gate in a second trench, wherein the second trench is formed partially through the first buried layer, and wherein the second trench is of a same depth as the first trench, a first drain/source region and a second drain/source region formed on opposite sides of the first trench and a first lateral transistor comprising a second buried layer formed over the substrate, a second well over the second buried layer and drain/source regions over the second well.

An integrated circuit device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first transistor in the first region, the first transistor being an N-type transistor and including a first silicon-germanium layer on the substrate, and a first gate electrode on the first silicon-germanium layer, and a second transistor in the second region and including a second gate electrode, the second transistor not having a silicon-germanium layer between the substrate and the second gate electrode.