Abstract:
A shadow mask method to fabricate electrodes with nanometer scale separation utilizes nanotubes (NTs). Metal wires with gaps are made by incorporating multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) or single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) (or bundles thereof) into a tri-layer electron beam lithography process. The simple, highly controllable, and scaleable method can be used to make gaps with widths between 1 and 100 nm. Electronic transport measurements performed on individual SWNTs bridge nanogaps smaller than 30 nm. Metallic SWNTs exhibit quantum dot behavior with an 80 meV charging energy and a 20 meV energy level splitting. Semiconducting SWNTs show an anomalous field effect transistor behavior.
Abstract:
System on Chip (SoC) solutions integrating an RFIC with a PMIC using a transistor technology based on group III-nitrides (III-N) that is capable of achieving high Ft and also sufficiently high breakdown voltage (BV) to implement high voltage and/or high power circuits. In embodiments, the III-N transistor architecture is amenable to scaling to sustain a trajectory of performance improvements over many successive device generations. In embodiments, the III-N transistor architecture is amenable to monolithic integration with group IV transistor architectures, such as planar and non-planar silicon CMOS transistor technologies. Planar and non-planar HEMT embodiments having one or more of recessed gates, symmetrical source and drain, regrown source/drains are formed with a replacement gate technique permitting enhancement mode operation and good gate passivation.
Abstract:
Methods of forming hetero-layers with reduced surface roughness and bulk defect density on non-native surfaces and the devices formed thereby are described. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a substrate having a top surface with a lattice constant and depositing a first layer on the top surface of the substrate. The first layer has a top surface with a lattice constant that is different from the first lattice constant of the top surface of the substrate. The first layer is annealed and polished to form a polished surface. A second layer is then deposited above the polished surface.
Abstract:
Embodiments include epitaxial semiconductor stacks for reduced defect densities in III-N device layers grown over non-III-N substrates, such as silicon substrates. In embodiments, a metamorphic buffer includes an AlxIn1-xN layer lattice matched to an overlying GaN device layers to reduce thermal mismatch induced defects. Such crystalline epitaxial semiconductor stacks may be device layers for HEMT or LED fabrication, for example. System on Chip (SoC) solutions integrating an RFIC with a PMIC using a transistor technology based on group III-nitrides (III-N) capable of achieving high Ft and also sufficiently high breakdown voltage (BV) to implement high voltage and/or high power circuits may be provided on the semiconductor stacks in a first area of the silicon substrate while silicon-based CMOS circuitry is provided in a second area of the substrate.
Abstract translation:实施例包括用于在诸如硅衬底的非III-N衬底上生长的III-N器件层中的缺陷密度降低的外延半导体堆叠。 在实施例中,变质缓冲器包括与上覆GaN器件层匹配的Al x In 1-x N层晶格以减少热失配引起的缺陷。 这种结晶外延半导体叠层可以是用于例如HEMT或LED制造的器件层。 使用基于能够实现高Ft的III族氮化物(III-N)的晶体管技术并且还具有足够高的击穿电压(BV)来实现高电压和/或高电平的片上系统(SoC)解决方案集成RFIC与PMIC 电源电路可以设置在硅衬底的第一区域中的半导体堆叠上,而硅基CMOS电路设置在衬底的第二区域中。
Abstract:
Transistors for high voltage and high frequency operation. A non-planar, polar crystalline semiconductor body having a top surface disposed between first and second opposite sidewalls includes a channel region with a first crystalline semiconductor layer disposed over the first and second sidewalls. The first crystalline semiconductor layer is to provide a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within the channel region. A gate structure is disposed over the first crystalline semiconductor layer along at least the second sidewall to modulate the 2DEG. First and second sidewalls of the non-planar polar crystalline semiconductor body may have differing polarity, with the channel proximate to a first of the sidewalls. The gate structure may be along a second of the sidewalls to gate a back barrier. The polar crystalline semiconductor body may be a group III-nitride formed on a silicon substrate with the (1010) plane on a (110) plane of the silicon.
Abstract:
Non-planar semiconductor devices having group III-V material active regions with multi-dielectric gate stacks are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a hetero-structure disposed above a substrate. The hetero-structure includes a three-dimensional group III-V material body with a channel region. A source and drain material region is disposed above the three-dimensional group III-V material body. A trench is disposed in the source and drain material region separating a source region from a drain region, and exposing at least a portion of the channel region. A gate stack is disposed in the trench and on the exposed portion of the channel region. The gate stack includes first and second dielectric layers and a gate electrode.
Abstract:
A trench comprising a portion of a substrate is formed. A nucleation layer is deposited on the portion of the substrate within the trench. A III-N material layer is deposited on the nucleation layer. The III-N material layer is laterally grown over the trench. A device layer is deposited on the laterally grown III-N material layer. A low defect density region is obtained on the laterally grown material and is used for electronic device fabrication of III-N materials on Si substrates.
Abstract:
Transistors or transistor layers include an InAlN and AlGaN bi-layer capping stack on a 2DEG GaN channel, such as for GaN MOS structures on Si substrates. The GaN channel may be formed in a GaN buffer layer or stack, to compensate for the high crystal structure lattice size and coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch between GaN and Si. The bi-layer capping stack an upper InAlN layer on a lower AlGaN layer to induce charge polarization in the channel, compensate for poor composition uniformity (e.g., of Al), and compensate for rough surface morphology of the bottom surface of the InAlN material. It may lead to a sheet resistance between 250 and 350 ohms/sqr. It may also reduce bowing of the GaN on Si wafers during growth of the layer of InAlN material, and provide a AlGaN setback layer for etching the InAlN layer in the gate region.
Abstract:
Non-planar semiconductor devices having group III-V material active regions with multi-dielectric gate stacks are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a hetero-structure disposed above a substrate. The hetero-structure includes a three-dimensional group III-V material body with a channel region. A source and drain material region is disposed above the three-dimensional group III-V material body. A trench is disposed in the source and drain material region separating a source region from a drain region, and exposing at least a portion of the channel region. A gate stack is disposed in the trench and on the exposed portion of the channel region. The gate stack includes first and second dielectric layers and a gate electrode.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to the field of fabricating microelectronic devices. In at least one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to forming an isolated nanowire, wherein isolation structure adjacent the nanowire provides a substantially level surface for the formation of microelectronic structures thereon.