Abstract:
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit package or arrangement includes providing a carrier having a surface topography of projections or recesses for supporting individual semiconductor circuit chips having conversely matching bottom surface topographies to permit self-aligned positioning of the chip on the carrier. Chips are provided such that top faces of neighboring chips lie substantially in planes separated by a distance of greater than 0.0 .mu.m. The carrier is arranged and dimensioned such that the neighboring chips are separated by a gap G or spacing in a range of 1 .mu.m
Abstract:
A storage latch comprising a gate insulating layer over the substrate, shallow trenches formed through the insulating layer and in the substrate to provide device insulation; and doped regions in the substrate between the shallow trenches. The doped regions define sources and drains. Gate stacks are formed over regions of oxide adjacent the doped regions. A planarized insulator is formed between the gate stacks. Openings are provided in the planarized insulator for contacts to the doped regions and the gate stacks. Conductive material fills the openings to form contacts for the doped regions and for the gate stacks. A patterned layer of conductive material on the planarized insulator connects selected ones of the contacts for wiring portions of the latch. A six device SRAM cell comprises a deep isolation trench formed in the substrate; a first latch including two transistors formed of p-type material on a first side of the trench; a second latch including two transistors formed of n-type material on a second side of the trench opposite the first side of the trench, and connection means for electrically cross wiring the transistors of the first latch to the transistors of the second latch. In forming the latch a self-aligned process for separately forming contacts to diffusion regions and gate stacks on the semiconductor substrate is used.
Abstract:
Shallow junctions of a first conductivity type in a semiconductor of the opposite conductivity type are fabricated by doping the substrate with a dopant of an opposite conductivity type than the first conductivity type to preamorphize portions of the substrate. The dopant of the opposite conductivity type must have a molecular weight that is higher than the molecular weight of the substrate. The substrate is then doped with the dopant of the first conductivity type to form the shallow junctions.
Abstract:
An integrated, self-aligned trench-transistor structure including trench CMOS devices and vertical "strapping transistors" wherein the shallow trench transistors and the strapping trench-transistors are built on top of buried source junctions. A p- epitaxial layer is grown on a substrate and contains an n-well, an n+ source and a p+ source regions. Shallow trenches are disposed in the epitaxial layer and contain n+ polysilicon or metal, such as tungsten, to provide the trench CMOS gates. A gate contact region connects the trenches and the n+ polysilicon or metal in the trenches. The n+ polysilicon or metal in the trenches are isolated by a thin layer of silicon dioxide on the trench walls of the gates. The p+ drain region, along with the filled trench gate element and the p+ source region, form a vertical p-channel (PMOS) trench-transistor. The n+ drain region, along with filled trench gate element and the n+ source form a vertical n-channel (NMOS) transistor. The PMOS and NMOS trench transistors are isolated by shallow trench isolation regions and an oxide layer.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for modeling and/or improving operational performance of an energy system includes providing a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to manipulate equipment icons into an energy system model representation, using modular, piece-wise linear equipment models to simulate non-linear behavior of equipment represented by the manipulated equipment icons to solve an energy system model represented by the manipulation, and displaying a solution of the energy system model.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for operating combined cycle electrical generating plants is provided. The method includes simulating the electrical power plant performance, simulating the steam utilizing process plant performance, parameterizing plant equipment and plant performance using the power plant and process plant simulation results, and solving parameterized simultaneous equations and constraints with an objective function to determine parameter settings that facilitate enhancing an efficiency of the combined cycle electrical generating/steam-utilizing process plant.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for modeling and/or improving operational performance of an energy system includes providing a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to manipulate equipment icons into an energy system model representation, using modular, piece-wise linear equipment models to simulate non-linear behavior of equipment represented by the manipulated equipment icons to solve an energy system model represented by the manipulation, and displaying a solution of the energy system model.
Abstract:
A method and structure for forming patterned SOI regions and bulk regions is described wherein a silicon containing layer over an insulator may have a plurality of selected thickness' and wherein bulk regions may be suitable to form DRAM's and SOI regions may be suitable to form merged logic such as CMOS. Ion implantation of oxygen is used to formed patterned buried oxide layers at selected depths and mask edges may be shaped to form stepped oxide regions from one depth to another. Trenches may be formed through buried oxide end regions to remove high concentrations of dislocations in single crystal silicon containing substrates. The invention overcomes the problem of forming DRAM with a storage capacitor formed with a deep trench in bulk Si while forming merged logic regions on SOI.
Abstract:
A two-MOSFET device memory cell, based on conventional SOI complementary metal oxide technology, in which charge is stored on the body of a first MOSFET, with a second MOSFET connected to the body for controlling the charge in accordance with an information bit. Depending on the stored charge, the body of the first MOSFET is in depletion or non-depletion condition. A reference voltage connected to the gate of the first MOSFET causes a bipolar current flow in response to a pulsed voltage on the first MOSFET's source when the MOSFET is in a non-depletion condition, due to a temporary forward bias of the source to body junction. The bipolar current substantially adds to the field-effect current, thereby multiplying the effective charge read from the first MOSFET.