摘要:
The present invention concerns a layered epitaxial structure for enhancement/depletion PHEMT devices, an enhancement/depletion PHEMT device and a method for manufacturing an enhancement/depletion PHEMT device that finds advantageous, but not exclusive, application in the manufacturing of integrated circuits operating at millimetre-wave and microwave frequencies.
摘要:
A semiconductor structure with an enhancement mode transistor device disposed in a first region and depletion mode transistor device disposed in a laterally displaced second region. An enhancement mode transistor device InGaP etch stop/Schottky contact layer is disposed over a channel layer; a first layer different from InGaP disposed on the InGaP layer; a depletion mode transistor device etch stop layer is disposed on the first layer; and a second layer disposed on the depletion mode transistor device etch stop layer. The depletion mode transistor device has a gate recess passing through the second layer and the depletion mode transistor device etch stop layer and terminating in the first layer. The enhancement mode transistor device has a gate recess passing through the second layer, the depletion mode transistor device etch stop layer, the first layer, and terminating in the InGaP layer.
摘要:
A Schottky barrier integrated circuit is disclosed, the circuit having at least one PMOS device or at least one NMOS device, at least one of the PMOS device or NMOS device having metal source-drain contacts forming Schottky barrier or Schottky-like contacts to the semiconductor substrate. The device provides a new distribution of mobile charge carriers in the bulk region of the semiconductor substrate, which improves device and circuit performance by lowering gate capacitance, improving effective carrier mobility, μ reducing noise, reducing gate insulator leakage, reducing hot carrier effect and improving reliability.
摘要:
A MISFEED device system and method of fabricating same are disclosed. The present invention utilizes Shotky barrier contacts (301, 302) for source and/or drain contact fabrication within the context of a MISFEED device structure to eliminate the requirement for halo/pocket implants and shallow source/drain extensions to control short channel effects. Additionally, the present invention unconditionally eliminates the parasitic bipolar gin associated with MISFEED fabrication, reduces manufacturing costs, tightens control of device performance parameters, and provides for superior device characteristics as compared to the prior art.
摘要:
The gate of a MOSFET is located in a lattice of trenches which define a plurality of cells. Most of the cells contain a MOSFET, but a selected number of the cells at predetermined locations in the lattice contain either a PN diode or a Schottky diode. The PN and Schottky diodes are connected in parallel with the channels in the MOSFET cells, with their anodes tied to the anode of the parasitic diodes in the MOSFET cells and their cathodes tied to the cathode of the parasitic diodes. When the MOSFET is biased in the normal direction (with the parasitic diode reverse-biased), the PN diodes provide a predictable breakdown voltage for the device and ensure that avalanche breakdown occurs at a location away from the trench gate where the hot carriers generated by the breakdown cannot damage the oxide layer which lines the walls of the trench. When the device is biased in the opposite direction, the Schottky diodes conduct and thereby limit charge storage at the PN junctions in the diode and MOSFET cells. This reduces the power loss in the MOSFET and improves the reverse recovery characteristics of the device when its bias is switched back to the normal direction.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit including therein a plurality of active devices (44a, 44b) comprises a semiconductor substrate (22), a first buffer layer (24) on the substrate, a second buffer layer (26) provided on the substrate and incorporating therein defects with a concentration level substantially larger than the concentration level of the defects in the first buffer layer; a device layer (36) provided on the second buffer layer and being provided with the active devices, and a plurality of unconductive, device isolation regions (38) formed between the active devices such that the device isolation region extends from an upper surface of the device layer toward the substrate at least beyond a lower surface of the device layer.
摘要:
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate (10), an active layer (14) formed on the semiconductor substrate, source and drain electrodes (19, 20) respectively formed on the active layer, a gate electrode (31) formed on the active layer between the source and drain electrodes and including a gate contact portion (31a) which makes contact with the active layer and has a thickness greater than those of the source and drain electrodes and an overgate portion (31b) which is connected to the gate contact portion and extends over at least a portion of one of the source and drain electrodes, a first insulator layer (32) formed on the active layer and covering the source and drain electrodes and the gate contact portion, a first contact hole in the first insulator layer through which the overgate portion connects to the one of the source and drain electrodes, a second insulator layer (34) formed on the first insulator layer and covering the overgate portion, a second contact hole in the second insulator layer at a position above the overgate portion, and an interconnection layer (36) formed on the second insulator layer and connected to the overgate portion via the second contact hole.
摘要:
The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a first transistor includes on one and the same substrate a first transistor having a first semiconductor layer with high-impurity density on which is provided a second semiconductor layer with low-impurity density, where the first semiconductor layer being of N type and having electron affinity greater than that of the second semiconductor layer, and is equipped with a control electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer and at least two ohmic electrodes that are electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer on both sides of the control electrode, and a second transistor having a third layer with low-impurity density provided on top of the second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, and is equipped with a control electrode provided on the third semiconductor layer and at least two ohmic electrodes that are electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer on both sides of the control electrode. Further, by setting the first semiconductor layers to be a P-type semiconductor havin the sum of the electron affinity and the energy gap smaller than the sum of the electron affinity and the energy gap of the second semiconductor layer, there can be obtained a semiconductor using holes as carriers. The semiconductor device described above can be manufactured by sequentially gorwing crystals of the first, second, and third semiconductor layers on the substrate, selectively removing the third semiconductor layer, forming the first transistor on the second semiconductor layer in the removed part, and forming the second transistor on the third semiconductor layer in the portion other than the removed part of the third semiconductor layer.
摘要:
Field effect transistors are manufactured using a substrate of compound semiconductor material by defining two gate areas which have their longitudinal dimensions so oriented with respect to the crystal axes of the substrate that the substrate material is more readily etchable through one of the gate areas than through the other gate area. The semiconductor material is etched through both the gate areas simultaneously with the same etchant, whereby gate recesses of different respective depths are formed in the substrate. Metal is deposited into the recesses.