Abstract:
A semiconductor controlled rectifier (FIG. 4A) for an integrated circuit is disclosed. The semiconductor controlled rectifier comprises a first lightly doped region (100) having a first conductivity type (N) and a first heavily doped region (108) having a second conductivity type (P) formed within the first lightly doped region. A second lightly doped region (104) having the second conductivity type is formed proximate the first lightly doped region. A second heavily doped region (114) having the first conductivity type is formed within the second lightly doped region. A buried layer (101) having the first conductivity type is formed below the second lightly doped region and electrically connected to the first lightly doped region. A third lightly doped region (102) having the second conductivity type is formed between the second lightly doped region and the third heavily doped region. A fourth lightly doped region (400) having the second conductivity type is formed between the second lightly doped region and the third heavily doped region and electrically connected to the second and third lightly doped regions.
Abstract:
A CMOS integrated circuit containing an isolated n-channel DEMOS transistor and an isolated vertical PNP transistor has deep n-type wells and surrounding shallow n-type wells providing isolation from the p-type substrate. The isolated n-channel DEMOS transistor has an upper n-type layer providing an extended drain, and a lower p-type layer isolating the extended drain from the underlying deep n-type well. The isolated vertical PNP transistor has an upper n-type layer providing a base and a lower p-type layer providing a collector. A CMOS integrated circuit having opposite polarities of the transistors may be formed by appropriate reversals in dopant types.
Abstract:
Impurity atoms of a first type are implanted through a gate and a thin gate dielectric into a channel region that has substantially only the first type of impurity atoms at a middle point of the channel region to increase the average dopant concentration of the first type of impurity atoms in the channel region to adjust the threshold voltage of a transistor.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit and method having a deep collector vertical bipolar transistor with a first base tuning diffusion. A MOS transistor has a second base tuning diffusion. The first base tuning diffusion and the second base tuning diffusion are formed using the same implant.
Abstract:
A semiconductor controlled rectifier (FIG. 4A) for an integrated circuit is disclosed. The semiconductor controlled rectifier comprises a first lightly doped region (100) having a first conductivity type (N) and a first heavily doped region (108) having a second conductivity type (P) formed within the first lightly doped region. A second lightly doped region (104) having the second conductivity type is formed proximate the first lightly doped region. A second heavily doped region (114) having the first conductivity type is formed within the second lightly doped region. A buried layer (101) having the first conductivity type is formed below the second lightly doped region and electrically connected to the first lightly doped region. A third lightly doped region (102) having the second conductivity type is formed between the second lightly doped region and the third heavily doped region. A fourth lightly doped region (400) having the second conductivity type is formed between the second lightly doped region and the third heavily doped region and electrically connected to the second and third lightly doped regions.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit and method having a deep collector vertical bipolar transistor with a first base tuning diffusion. A MOS transistor has a second base tuning diffusion. The first base tuning diffusion and the second base tuning diffusion are formed using the same implant.
Abstract:
Impurity atoms of a first type are implanted through a gate and a thin gate dielectric into a channel region that has substantially only the first type of impurity atoms at a middle point of the channel region to increase the average dopant concentration of the first type of impurity atoms in the channel region to adjust the threshold voltage of a transistor.
Abstract:
An analog floating-gate electrode in an integrated circuit, and method of fabricating the same, in which trapped charge can be stored for long durations. The analog floating-gate electrode is formed in a polycrystalline silicon gate level, and includes portions serving as a transistor gate electrode, a plate of a metal-to-poly storage capacitor, and a plate of poly-to-active tunneling capacitors. A silicide-block film comprised of a layer of silicon dioxide underlying a top layer of silicon nitride blocks the formation of silicide cladding on the electrode, while other polysilicon structures in the integrated circuit, such as polysilicon-to-metal capacitors, are silicide-clad. Following silicidation, a capacitor dielectric is deposited over the remaining polysilicon structures, followed by formation of an upper metal plate.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit containing a MOS transistor and a DEMOS transistor of a same polarity may be formed by implanting dopants of a same conductivity type as source/drain regions of the MOS transistor and the DEMOS transistor through a gate of the MOS transistor and through a gate of the DEMOS transistor. The implanted dopants are blocked from a drain-side edge of the DEMOS transistor gate. The implanted dopants form a drain enhancement region under the DEMOS transistor gate in a drift region of an extended drain of the DEMOS transistor.
Abstract:
Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors with reduced subthreshold conduction, and methods of fabricating the same. Transistor gate structures are fabricated in these transistors of a shape and dimension as to overlap onto the active region from the interface between isolation dielectric structures and the transistor active areas. Minimum channel length conduction is therefore not available at the isolation-to-active interface, but rather the channel length along that interface is substantially lengthened, reducing off-state conduction.