Abstract:
A method of performing a ranging process between a base station and a mobile station in sleep mode in a wireless access system, wherein the base station provides the mobile station with an initial notification of a periodic ranging time that occurs during a sleep time interval and during which the mobile station is to perform the ranging process, the initial notification included in a first message indicating whether the mobile station should terminate sleep mode to receive downlink data, and wherein the base station provides the mobile station with subsequent notifications of periodic ranging times that occur during the sleep time interval, the subsequent notifications indicated in a second message, the second message transmitted to the mobile station as part of the ranging process such that the mobile station performs a plurality of ranging processes within the sleep time interval.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device isolation structure and a device isolation method in a semiconductor power IC. The device isolation structure according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor substrate including a high voltage region and a low voltage region; a trench overlapping the high voltage device region of the semiconductor substrate and an interfacing region formed between the high voltage device region and the low voltage device region; a fourth insulating film, a fifth insulating film, and a conductive film sequentially layered in the trench; a first insulating film pattern formed on the semiconductor substrate including the trench; and field insulating films respectively formed on the trench and on a portion of an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate which is exposed out of the first insulating film pattern. The present invention has several advantages concerning manufacturing costs and reliability, some of which being achieved by forming a thermal oxide film in an empty space of the conductive film by which oxygen is permeated thereinto and thus restraining breakdown from being generated between high voltage devices at a high voltage.
Abstract:
Wiring for a semiconductor device which is suitable for high density device packing, and a method for forming the same, are disclosed. The wiring includes: impurity regions formed in a substrate on both sides of an insulated gate electrode; a first conduction layer formed on the impurity regions; and a second conduction layer formed in contact with the first conduction layer on one side of the gate electrode. The method includes the steps of: forming impurity regions in a substrate on both sides of an insulated gate electrode; forming a first conduction layer on the impurity regions; and forming a second conduction layer in contact on one side of the gate electrode with the first conduction layer.
Abstract:
A memory cell structure for a semiconductor memory device and fabricating method thereof, which is suitable for DRAM memory devices of 256M or more capacity requiring a very high degree of integration, which comprises the steps of forming sequentially first and second random layers on a semiconductor substrate; patterning a first photoresist layer having a limited line width on the second random layer; patterning the second random layer using as a mask the patterned first photoresist layer; removing the first photoresist layer, and then patterning the second photoresist layer having the limited line width between the pattern of the second random layer; patterning the first random layer using as a mask the second photoresist layer which is so patterned so as to be placed between the pattern of the second random layer; and removing the second random layer and the second photoresist layer.
Abstract:
A CMOS fabrication method includes the steps of providing a substrate having a surface, forming a first conductive well adjacent to the surface of the substrate, forming a second conductive well adjacent to the surface of the substrate, a portion of the first conductive well overlapping a portion of the second conductive well, forming a field oxide in the overlapping portion of the first and second conductive wells forming a first gate over the first conductive well and a second gate over the second conductive well, masking the first conductive well and implanting second conductive impurities on the second conductive well and masking the second conductive well and implanting first conductive impurities on the first conductive well.
Abstract:
A method for forming a contact between a conductive layer and a portion of the substrate during manufacture of a semiconductor device is disclosed. The process includes the steps of: (a) covering a semiconductor substrate with an insulating layer, and forming a contact hole on the portion where a contact is to be formed; (b) forming a metal layer on the whole surface of the substrate, and implanting positive ions into the metal layer; and (c) heat-treating the whole substrate so as to form a silicide layer. The metals used are those which can react with silicon to form a silicide, and may be selected from high melting point metals including Co, Ti, Ta, Ni, Mo, and Hf. The ions used are ions including H+ or halogen element ions, and a heat treatment is carried out so that the implanted positive ions may spread on/in the grain boundaries, or that the positive ions may bond with dangling bonds. Further, a silicidation heat treatment is carried out so that the silicide would be formed on the portion where the metal and the silicon substrate contact together. These heat treatments may be carried out simultaneously. The heat treatment for the spreading of the positive ions is carried out at a low temperature of about 300.degree.-500.degree. C., while the heat treatment of the silicidation reaction is carried out at a proper temperature depending on the metal used.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device capacitor structure comprises a semiconductor substrate having an impurity diffusion region; an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and having a contact hole on the impurity diffusion region; a first lower electrode of a half ring type formed on the insulating film along an upper edge of the contact hole; a second lower electrode formed on a surface of the substrate exposed through the contact hole, a wall of the contact hole, and the first lower electrode; a dielectric layer formed on the first and second lower electrodes; and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric layer. This structure increases capacitance, thereby improving the characteristics and reliability of the device.
Abstract:
A process for forming an MOS semiconductor device having an LDD structure is disclosed, which may include the steps of: forming a first insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a conductive layer on the first insulating layer; forming a second insulating layer on the conductive layer; forming a third insulating layer on the second insulating layer; forming an etch inhibiting layer pattern for forming an over-sized gate on a relevant area of the second insulating layer; removing the second and third insulating layers and the conductive layer excluding the portions protected from the etch inhibiting layer, so as to form a stacked pattern consisting of the residual second insulating layer/the third insulating layer/the conductive layer; forming a first impurity ion buried layer on a relevant portion of the semiconductor substrate utilizing the stacked pattern for formation of a source/drain region; removing the etch inhibiting layer; removing an edge portion of the remaining second insulating layer of the stacked pattern for forming the final gate; removing the residual third insulating layer of the stacked pattern; etching the residual conductive layer by using the partly removed second insulating layer as the mask to form the final gate; forming a second impurity ion buried layer on the relevant portion of the semiconductor substrate for forming the LDD structure; forming a fourth insulating layer on the whole surface of the wafer; and activating the first and second ion buried layers.
Abstract:
A recess is formed (dug) into the surface of a substrate to form a gate channel in the recess, so that a monocrystalline source/drain region can be formed at a level higher than that of the channel. The process includes the steps of: (a) forming an insulating layer and an oxidation preventing layer on a semiconductor substrate, and removing the oxidation preventing layer of a channel region of the transistor by an etching process; (b) forming an oxide layer on the channel region of the transistor by thermally oxidizing the semiconductor substrate, removing the oxidation preventing layer, and carrying out a first ion implantation on the whole surface; (c) removing the oxide layer, and forming the channel of the transistor in the form of a recess so as for the recess to be positioned lower than the surface of the substrate; (d) forming a gate electrode in the recess; and (e) carrying out a second ion implantation on the whole surface, and carrying out a heat treatment to form a source/drain region.
Abstract:
In the method of present invention, an LDD MOSFET is formed without using a side wall spacer as an ion implantation inhibiting layer. The process includes the steps of: forming a first insulating layer, a conductive layer and an auxiliary layer upon a semiconductor substrate, removing relevant portions of the auxiliary layer to form an auxiliary layer pattern such as a gate pattern on the conductive layer; depositing a temporary layer on the auxiliary layer pattern and on the exposed conductive layer, and etching it back to form a temporary layer spacer on the side wall of the auxiliary layer pattern; removing relevant portions of the conductive layer utilizing the auxiliary layer pattern and the temporary layer spacer as a mask, and forming a high concentration first dopant buried layer within the semiconductor substrate; and removing the temporary layer spacer, forming a gate electrode by etching the conductive layer utilizing the auxiliary layer pattern as a mask, and forming a low concentration second dopant buried layer within the semiconductor substrate. Applications to form CMOS devices are also disclosed.