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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form an n-type impurity region composed of carriers of ultra-shallow and high concentration in a Ge semiconductor layer.SOLUTION: A semiconductor device comprises: a semiconductor substrate having one conductivity type of n type or p type; a pair of impurity diffusion regions that are selectively provided on a surface of the semiconductor substrate and have a different conductivity type from the one conductivity type; a gate insulating layer that is sandwiched between the pair of the impurity diffusion regions and is provided on the semiconductor substrate; and a gate electrode provided on the gate insulating layer. A portion of the pair of the impurity diffusion regions has the same conductivity type as the impurity containing the substrate and has a higher impurity concentration than that of the substrate.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device equipped with MISFET which provides the longest life. SOLUTION: The semiconductor device is provided with MISFET having: a semiconductor substrate 1 which has a semiconductor region 2 formed thereon; a source region 5a and a drain region 5b formed separately from each other in the semiconductor region; a gate insulating film 10 having a metal oxide layer 12 which is formed on a semiconductor region 3 between the source region and the drain region and which contains metal and oxygen; and a gate electrode 16 formed on the gate insulating film. The metal contained in the metal oxide layer is at least one chosen from Hf and Zr. Further, at least one element chosen from the elements Ru, Cr, Os, V, Fe, Tc, Nb, Ta is added to the metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer has a charge trap which captures or emits a charge formed by the addition of the element. The density of the element in the metal oxide layer ranges from 1×10 15 cm -3 to 2.96×10 20 cm -3 . The charge trap is distributed so that it has a peak in the semiconductor region side rather than the center of the metal oxide layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a tunnel insulation film capable of reducing leakage current in a low electric field even if film thickness (EOT) converted to an oxide film is thinned and also increasing the leakage current in a high electric field. SOLUTION: A memory element is provided, which comprises a semiconductor substrate 1, a source region 2a and a drain region 2b formed separately on the semiconductor substrate, a first insulation film 3 formed on the semiconductor substrate between the source region and the drain region, containing insulation layers 8 and 9 having a site formed by adding an element different from that of a base material for capturing and emitting electrons and having different dielectric constants with the site for capturing and emitting the electrons at a level higher than a Fermi level of the material constituting the semiconductor substrate, a charge storage film 4 formed on the first insulation film, a second insulation film 5 formed on the charge storage film and a control gate electrode 6 formed on the second insulation film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resistance changing element capable of reducing the variation of operating voltage upon forming. SOLUTION: A resistance changing film 4, in which a metal oxide or a metallic oxynitride containing at least either one of Zr and Hf as a principal constituent is provided with fluorite structure, and a pair of first and second electrodes 2, 6 provided so as to pinch the resistance changing film are provided. The crystal structure of the resistance changing film is provided with Bevan cluster in a part or the whole of it and when V shows a vacancy, in which negative ion is not existing in a negative ion site in the fluorite type crystal structure, M shows the metallic element of the metal oxide or the metallic oxynitride and S shows the maximum octahedron type cavity site in the fluorite type crystal structure, the direction of array of a straight chain type continuous chain of (-S-V-M-V-S-) in the unit cell of the Bevan cluster is provided with the direction of crystal substantially orthogonal to the principal surface of the film. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device having a tunnel insulating film, capable of reducing leakage current in a low electric field even if thinning EOT and also capable of increasing the leakage current of holes in a high electric field. SOLUTION: The device includes a storage element having: a semiconductor substrate 1; a source region 2a and a drain region 2b separately formed in the semiconductor substrate; and a first insulating layer 3 formed on an area between the source region and the drain region of the semiconductor substrate; a charge storage film 4 formed on the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed on the charge storage film; and a control gate electrode 6 formed on the second insulating film, wherein the first insulating film 3 includes a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer which is formed on the first insulating layer, has a dielectric constant higher than that of the first insulating layer, and has a first site for capturing or emitting holes, formed by being doped with an element that is different from that of a base material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a stack gate structure comprising a floating gate electrode and a control gate electrode that are laminated, which is improved in tunnel insulating film and inter-electrode insulating film. SOLUTION: The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a floating gate electrode 12 which is selectively formed above a main surface of a first conduction type semiconductor substrate 10 via a tunnel insulating film 11; a control electrode 14 formed above the floating gate electrode 12 via an inter-electrode insulating film 13; and a second conduction type source/drain region 15 formed on the main surface of the substrate 10 in correspondence with respective gate electrodes 12, 14, wherein the tunnel insulating film 11 is a dielectric film containing at least two kinds of metallic elements (Al, Hf) and oxygen, with the composition of the metallic elements continuously varying with respect to the direction of the film thickness and having a symmetrical distribution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus that improves interfacial characteristics of an insulating film having a metal element. SOLUTION: The method includes a step of forming a structure wherein a lower layer, a Ge layer, a Ge oxide layer, and an upper layer are stacked in order, and a step of removing the Ge oxide layer and Ge layer using a heat treatment to bond the upper layer and the lower layer directly to each other. The upper layer or the lower layer is formed of an insulator having a metal element. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a leakage current even in either high electric field of both a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and to inhibit the leakage current in a wide electric-field range from a low electric field to a high electric field difficult in a single high dielectric film. SOLUTION: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory comprises a floating gate electrode 12 selectively formed on the main surface of a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate 10 through a tunnel insulating film 11, and a control gate electrode 14 formed on the floating gate electrode 12 through an inter-electrode insulating film 13. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory further has second conductivity type source-drain regions 15 formed on the main surface of the substrate in response to each gate electrode 12 and 14. In the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, the inter-electrode insulating film 13 has three layers or more of a laminated structure composed of two kinds or more of high dielectric materials 13a, 13b and 13c. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device constituted of an insulating film composed of a nitrogen-containing metal silicate film, of which crystallization can be inhibited, which has a sufficiently high dielectric constant and a leakage current from which is made lower than that from an oxide film. SOLUTION: The semiconductor device has a substrate (50), an insulating film (90) containing a metal, Si, N and 0 and an electrode (180) formed on the insulating film. Metal-N bonds contained in the insulating film are made larger than the sum of metal-metal bonds and metal-Si bonds. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI