Abstract:
A monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip containing a plurality of transistors, including: a substrate; a first transistor on the substrate; and a second transistor integrally formed on the substrate with the first transistor, the second transistor having a different structure than the first transistor, wherein the first transistor includes a first material system and the second transistor includes a second material system different from the first material system. The monolithic IC chip may further include a third transistor integrally formed on the substrate with the first and second transistors. The first transistor may include gallium nitride (GaN) and the second and third transistors may include silicon carbide (SiC).
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure having compound semiconductor (CS) device formed in a compound semiconductor of the structure and an elemental semiconductor device formed in an elemental semiconductor layer of the structure. The structure includes a layer having an elemental semiconductor device is disposed over a buried oxide (BOX) layer. A selective etch layer is disposed between the BOX layer and a layer for a compound semiconductor device. The selective etch layer enables selective etching of the BOX layer to thereby maximize vertical and lateral window etch process control for the compound semiconductor device grown in etched window. The selective etch layer has a lower etch rate than the etch rate of the BOX layer.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a monolithically integrated silicon and group III-V device that includes a group III-V transistor (228) formed in a III-V semiconductor body disposed over a silicon substrate. At least one via extends through the III-V semiconductor body to couple at least one terminal of the group III-V transistor to a silicon device formed in the silicon substrate. The silicon device can be a Schottky diode (226), and the group III-V transistor can be a GaN HEMT. In one embodiment an anode of the Schottky diode is formed in the silicon substrate. In another embodiment, the anode of the Schottky diode is formed in a lightly doped epitaxial silicon layer (204) atop the silicon substrate. In one embodiment a parallel combination of the Schottky diode and the group III-V transistor is formed, while in another embodiment is series combination is formed.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure having a substrate, a seed layer over the substrate; a silicon layer disposed on the seed layer; a transistor device in the silicon layer; a III-V device disposed on the seed layer; and a plurality of electrical contacts, each one of the electrical contacts having a layer of TiN or TaN and a layer of copper or aluminum on the layer of TaN or TiN, one of the electrical contacts being electrically connected to the transistor and another one of the electrical contacts being electrically connected to the III-V device.
Abstract:
The integrated semiconductor substrate structure comprises a substrate (1), a GaN-heterostructure (20) and a semiconductor substrate layer (30). The GaN heterostructure (20) is present in a first device area (51) for definition of GaN-based devices, which heterostructure (20) is covered at least partially with a protection layer (8). The semiconductor substrate layer (30) is present in a second device area (52) for definition of CMOS devices. At least one of the GaN heterostructure (20) and the semiconductor substrate layer (30) is provided in at least one trench (14) in the substrate (1), so that the GaN heterostructure (20) and the semiconductor substrate layer (30) are laterally juxtaposed.
Abstract:
High quality epitaxial layers of compound semiconductor materials can be grown overlying large silicon wafers by first growing an accommodating buffer layer (24) on a silicon wafer (22). The accommodating buffer layer is a layer of monocrystalline oxide spaced apart from the silicon wafer by an amorphous interface layer (28) of silicon oxide. The amorphous interface layer dissipates strain and permits the growth of a high quality monocrystalline oxide accommodating buffer layer. The accommodating buffer layer is lattice matched to both the underlying silicon wafer and the overlying monocrystalline compound semiconductor layer (26). Any lattice mismatch between the accommodating buffer layer and the underlying silicon substrate is taken care of by the amorphous interface layer. Semiconductor devices may be formed in both the monocrystalline compound semiconductor layer and the silicon. Semiconductor devices (56, 68, 78, 92) may be formed in both the monocrystalline compound semiconductor layer and the silicon.
Abstract:
High quality epitaxial layers of compound semiconductor materials can be grown overlying large silicon wafers by first growing an accommodating buffer layer (24) on a silicon wafer (22). The accommodating buffer layer (24) is a layer of monocrystalline oxide spaced apart from the silicon wafer by an amorphous interface layer (28) of silicon oxide. The amorphous interface layer is preferably formed by oxygen diffusion through the oxide buffer and permits the growth of a high quality monocrystalline oxide accommodating buffer layer. The process further may comprise formation of template layers (28, 30) and a semiconducteur buffer layer (32). It's especially suited for cointegration of compound semiconducteur and Si SMOS devices.
Abstract:
A technique is described for the preparation of a thin film of a silicon nitride diffusion barrier to gallium on a silicon integrated circuit chip. The technique involves reacting nitrogen and silane in a ratio of 53:1 to 300:1 in a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition apparatus. The described technique is of interest for use in the monolithic integration of interconnected GaAs/AlGaAs double heterostructures, modulators and silicon MOSFET structures.