A nitride semiconductor device includes a SiC substrate having a hexagonal crystal structure and including a main surface inclined with respect to a c-plane at an off-angle from 2 to 6 in a specific crystal direction, a nitride semiconductor layer located on the main surface of the SiC substrate and including an electron transit layer and an electron supply layer, and a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode located on the nitride semiconductor layer. The main surface is parallel to a first direction, a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a third direction coinciding with the specific crystal direction in plan view. The source electrode and the drain electrode are separated in the first direction. The gate electrode extends in the second direction between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The first direction intersects the third direction at an angle of 9015.

A structure includes a substrate, a first transistor on the substrate and a second transistor on the substrate. The second transistor is spaced apart from the first transistor by an isolation region. At least one stress-inducing liner is over the first transistor and the second transistor. An opening extends through at least one stress-inducing liner over at least the isolation region, and a dielectric layer is in at least a portion of the opening. The structure allows for local enhanced high-pressure deuterium (HPD) passivation, which increases threshold voltage of the transistors and improves hot carrier injection with no additional masking. A method of forming the structure is also provided.

Disclosed herein are switching or other active FET configurations that implement a branch design with one or more interior FETs of a main path coupled in parallel with one or more auxiliary FETs of an auxiliary path. Such designs include a circuit assembly for performing a switching function that includes a branch with a plurality of auxiliary FETs coupled in series and a main FET coupled in parallel with an interior FET of the plurality of auxiliary FETs. The body nodes of the FETs can be interconnected and/or connected to a body bias network. The body nodes of the FETs can be connected to body bias networks to enable individual body bias voltages to be used for individual or groups of FETs.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer and including first transistors which each includes a single crystal channel; a first metal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; a second level including second transistors, first memory cells including at least one second transistor, and overlaying the second metal layer; a third level including third transistors and overlaying the second level; a fourth level including fourth transistors, second memory cells including at least one fourth transistor, and overlaying the third level, where at least one of the second transistors includes a metal gate, where the first level includes memory control circuits which control writing to the second memory cells, and at least one Phase-Lock-Loop (PLL) circuit or at least one Digital-Lock-Loop (DLL) circuit.

The present invention discloses a field effect transistor device with a blocking region, which aims to address the problem of short channel effects of a field effect transistor in the prior art. The field effect transistor device includes an active layer, the active layer including a source region, a drain region and a channel region located between the source region and the drain region, wherein the channel region is provided with a carrier blocking region. The carrier blocking region serves to block carriers moving from the source region to the drain region when the device is turned off.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated chip. The integrated chip comprises a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor layer is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. An insulating structure is buried between the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer. The insulating structure has a first region and a second region. The insulating structure has a first thickness in the first region of the insulating structure, and the insulating structure has a second thickness different than the first thickness in the second region of the insulating structure.

A high-voltage switching device that can be fabricated in a standard low-voltage process, such as CMOS, and more specifically SOI CMOS. Embodiments include integrated circuits that combine, in a unitary structure, a FET device and an integrated, co-fabricated modulated resistance region (MRR) controlled by one or more Voltage-Drop Modulation Gates (VDMGs). The VDMGs are generally biased independently of the gate of the FET device, and in such a way as to protect each VDMG from excessive and potentially destructive voltages. In a first embodiment, an integrated circuit high voltage switching device includes a transistor structure including a source, a gate, and an internal drain; an MRR connected to the internal drain of the transistor structure; at least one VDMG that controls the resistance of the MRR; and a drain electrically connected to the MRR. Each VDMG at least partially depletes the MRR upon application of a bias voltage.

A semiconductor device includes a transistor including source/drain regions and a gate, the gate having a gate body. An etch stop layer is over the source/drain regions but not over the gate body. An interconnect layer is over the transistor and includes a dielectric layer. A cavity extends partially through the interconnect layer above the gate, and a portion of the dielectric layer is over the gate body and defines a bottom of the cavity. The cavity provides a mechanism to reduce both on-resistance and off-capacitance for applications such as radio frequency switches.

A composite substrate includes a supporting substrate layer, a buried layer and a growth substrate layer stacked in sequence. The buried layer is provided with a plurality of grooves at least partially penetrating the buried layer, the supporting substrate layer includes a charge trapping region beneath the plurality of grooves, and on a plane where the supporting substrate layer is located, shapes of projections of the charge trapping region and a corresponding groove overlap. The charge trapping region is arranged on the supporting substrate layer, and the charge trapping region is used to deplete charges of the supporting substrate layer, so as to increase resistivity of the composite substrate, reducing an impact of crosstalk; and the buried layer is provided with grooves, which may attenuate a stress transmitted from the growth substrate layer to the supporting substrate layer, so as to enhance a mechanical strength of the composite substrate.

A dielectric layer is on top of a first semiconductor stack. The first semiconductor stack is compressively strained. A second semiconductor stack is on top of the dielectric layer. The second semiconductor stack is tensely strained.