Abstract:
Example embodiments disclose transistors, methods of manufacturing the same, and electronic devices including transistors. An active layer of a transistor may include a plurality of material layers (oxide layers) with different energy band gaps. The active layer may include a channel layer and a photo sensing layer. The photo sensing layer may have a single-layered or multi-layered structure. When the photo sensing layer has a multi-layered structure, the photo sensing layer may include a first material layer and a second material layer that are sequentially stacked on a surface of the channel layer. The first layer and the second layer may be alternately stacked one or more times.
Abstract:
Provided are a thin film transistor and a method of manufacturing the same. The thin film transistor may include a gate; a channel layer; a source and a drain, the source and the drain being formed of metal; and a metal oxide layer, the metal oxide layer being formed between the channel layer and the source and the drain. The metal oxide layer may have a gradually changing metal content between the channel layer and the source and the drain.
Abstract:
Antifuse structures, antifuse arrays, methods of manufacturing, and methods of operating the same are provided. An antifuse structure includes bitlines formed as first diffusing regions within a semiconductor substrate, an insulation layer formed on the bitlines, and wordlines formed on the insulation layer. An antifuse array includes a plurality of antifuse structures arranged in an array.
Abstract:
Provided are an inverter, a method of manufacturing the inverter, and a logic circuit including the inverter. The inverter may include a first transistor and a second transistor having different channel layer structures. A channel layer of the first transistor may include a lower layer and an upper layer, and a channel layer of the second transistor may be the same as one of the lower layer and the upper layer. At least one of the lower layer and the upper layer may be an oxide layer. The inverter may be an enhancement/depletion (E/D) mode inverter or a complementary inverter.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of fabricating a ZnO thin film structure and a ZnO thin film transistor (TFT), and a ZnO thin film structure and a ZnO thin film transistor. The method of fabricating a ZnO thin film structure may include forming a ZnO thin film on a substrate in an oxygen atmosphere, forming oxygen diffusion layers of a metal having an affinity for oxygen on the ZnO thin film and heating the ZnO thin film and the oxygen diffusion layers to diffuse oxygen of the ZnO thin film into the oxygen diffusion layers.
Abstract:
A ferroelectric capacitor having a three-dimensional structure, a nonvolatile memory device having the same, and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The ferroelectric capacitor may include a trench-type lower electrode, at least one layer formed around the lower electrode, a ferroelectric layer (PZT layer) formed on the lower electrode and the at least one layer and an upper electrode formed on the ferroelectric layer. The at least one layer may be at least one insulating interlayer and the at least one layer may also be at least one diffusion barrier layer. The at least one layer may be formed of an insulating material excluding SiO2 or may have a perovskite crystal structure excluding Pb.
Abstract:
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may be a complementary device including a p-type oxide TFT and an n-type oxide TFT. The semiconductor device may be a logic device such as an inverter, a NAND device, or a NOR device.
Abstract:
Example embodiments provide a transistor and a method of manufacturing the same. The transistor may include a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor and a gate having a three-dimensional structure. A plurality of the transistors may be stacked in a perpendicular direction to a substrate. At least some of the plurality of transistors may be connected to each other.
Abstract:
Provided is a thin film transistor that includes a substrate on which an insulating layer is formed, a gate formed on a region of the insulating layer, a gate insulating layer formed on the insulating layer and the gate, a channel region formed on the gate insulating layer on a region corresponding to the location of the gate, a source and a drain respectively formed by contacting either side of the channel region; and a passivation layer formed of a compound made of a group II element and a halogen element on the channel region.
Abstract:
Off-axis projection optics that includes first and second mirrors positioned off-axis and sharing a confocal point that are arranged to reduce linear astigmatism. If a distance between an object plane and the first mirror is l1, an incident angle of light coming from the object plane to the first mirror is i1, a distance between the first mirror and the confocal point is l1′, a distance between the confocal point and the second mirror is l2, an incident angle of light coming from the first mirror to the second mirror is i2, and a distance between the second mirror and an image plane is l2′, the off-axis projection optics may satisfy the following equation: l 1 ′ + l 1 l 1 tan i 1 = l 2 ′ + l 2 l 2 tan i 2 .