摘要:
A method for manufacturing a high performance bipolar device and the resulting structure which has a very small emitter-base spacing is described. The small emitter-base spacing, reduces the base resistance compared to earlier device spacing and thereby improves the performance of the bipolar device. The method involves providing a silicon semiconductor body having regions of monocrystalline silicon isolated from one another by isolation regions and a buried subcollector therein. A base region is formed in the isolated monocrystalline silicon. A mask is formed on the surface of the silicon body covering those regions designated to be the emitter and collector reach-through regions. A doped polycrystalline silicon layer is then formed through the mask covering the base region and making ohmic contact thereto. An insulating layer is formed over the polysilicon layer. The mask is removed from those regions designated to be the emitter and collector reach-through regions. The emitter junction is then formed in the base region and the collector reach-through formed to contact the buried subcollector. Electrical contacts are made to the emitter and collector. The doped polycrystalline silicon layer is the electrical contact to the base regions.
摘要:
A method for making a high performance bipolar transistor characterized by self-aligned emitter and base regions and minimized base and emitter contact spacing. The disclosed method comprises forming a recessed oxide-isolated structure having opposite conductivity epitaxial layer and substrate. Multiple layered mass of alternating silicon nitride and silicon dioxide layers are placed over the base region and over the collector reach-through region. Polycrystalline silicon is deposited between the mesas. The mesas are undercut-etched to expose the extrinsic base region which is ion implanted. Then, the mesas are removed to expose the emitter and intrinsic base regions as well as the collector reach-through regions. The latter exposed regions are ion implanted appropriately. Contacts are made directly to the emitter and collector reach-through regions and indirectly via the polysilicon to the base region.
摘要:
A method is given for fabricating vertical NPN and PNP structures on the same semiconductor body. The method involves providing a monocrystalline semiconductor substrate having regions of monocrystalline silicon isolated from one another by isolation regions. Buried regions are formed overlapping the juncture of the substrate and epitaxial layer and are located in at least one of the regions of isolated monocrystalline silicon. The P base region in the NPN designated regions and a P reach-through in the PNP designated regions are formed simultaneously. The emitter region in the NPN regions and base contact region in the PNP regions are then formed simultaneously. The P emitter region in the PNP regions is then implanted by suitable ion implantation techniques. A Schottky Barrier collector contact in the PNP regions are formed. Electrical contacts are then made to the PNP and NPN transistor elements. A PNP device may be fabricated without the formation of an NPN device if it is so desired.
摘要:
A dynamic memory cell uses a low barrier Schottky contact at a drain region to eliminate the need for an external gating diode. The drain is separated from source and injector regions by a heavily doped N+ reach through region extending to a heavily doped N+ blanket semiconductor. Holes injected into one of the separated regions are trapped by high-low junctions and are detected by sensing the source-drain current.
摘要:
A process is described which permits the fabrication of very narrow base width bipolar transistors in selected areas of an integrated circuit chip and bipolar transistors of wider base width on other selected areas of the same integrated circuit chip. The ability to selectively vary the transistor characteristics from one region of an integrated circuit chip to another provides a degree of freedom for design of integrated circuits which is valuable. The bipolar transistors on an integrated circuit chip are processed up to the point of emitter formation using conventional techniques. But, prior to the emitter formation, the base area which is to be the emitters of the selected region having the very narrow base transistors is dry etched using reactive ion etching. The existing silicon nitride/silicon dioxide layers with the emitter opening therein are used as the etching mask for this reactive ion etching procedure. Once the etching is completed to the desired depth, the normal processing is resumed to form the emitter and rest of the metallization.
摘要:
A specially designed module and integrated circuit chip therefor which permits the sharing of module EC pads between chip receiver and driver circuits. The chip has a direct normal input line to each receiver circuit therein and a direct normal output line from each driver circuit therein along with signal lines from each of those circuits to various EC pads. The chip further includes a switching and control circuit for switching the receiver circuits and driver circuits between their normal and EC lines to effect an electronic delete function. In a preferred embodiment, a majority of the EC pads are switchably connected via the switching and control circuit to different sets of three adjacent receiver circuits, driver circuits, or a combination thereof. The design permits the use of approximately half the EC pads normally required for a module, while permitting EC connections to be made in most cases to three adjacent receiver or driver circuits simultaneously.
摘要:
A method and resulting structure for making contact to a narrow width PN junction region in any desired semiconductor body is described. A substantially vertical conformal conductive layer is formed over the desired PN junction region. The body is heated at a suitable temperature to cause a dopant to diffuse from the vertical conductive layer into the semiconductor body to form the narrow width PN junction region. A substantially horizontal conductive layer makes contact to the substantially vertical layer so as to have the horizontal conductive layer in electrical contact to the PN junction region. Electrical contact can be made to the horizontal conductive layer at any convenient location. A lateral PNP transistor is one type of very small device that can be made using the method of the present invention.
摘要:
Disclosed are a programmable, random logic device array, and a method of forming such a device. The device comprises a substrate, and a semiconductor layer above the substrate. That semiconductor layer, in turn, includes a first region of a first semiconductor type, an array of spaced apart second regions of a second semiconductor type, and a plurality of space-charge regions. Each of the space charge regions extends around a respective one of the second regions and separates that one of the second regions from the first region of the semiconductor layer. The programmable, random, logic device array further comprises first and second sets of contacts. The first set of contacts are in electrical contact with areas of said first region of the semiconductor layer, and the second set of contacts are in electrical contact with the second regions.
摘要:
A thin-layer metallization structure in which the final gold layer is deposited by evaporation with the surface onto which it is evaporated maintained at an elevated temperature. By evaporating the uppermost gold layer of the structure at an elevated substrate temperature, the gold atoms have a higher mobility, causing the deposited gold to spread over the edge of the structure and cover the otherwise exposed edges, including the edge at the copper interface.
摘要:
A direct distribution wiring system is provided which facilitates the effecting of repair or engineering change in a Multi-chip module (MCM) while eliminating the need for redistribution and/or buried connections between IC attachment pads and engineering change pads, thus eliminating the need for patterned conductor layers corresponding to such functions. The operation of the MCM is improved by the wiring system allowing the reduction of lumped capacitances by disconnection of defective conductors, accomplished by providing severable connectors in a direct distribution structure, as well as the elimination of redistribution wiring layers and increased IC density on the MCM. Full potential fault coverage as well as full discretion in reversible engineering changes is provided by forming all elements of the wiring system on the surface of the device.