摘要:
ANOTHER IN SELECTED AREAS. CRITICAL ALIGNMENTS BETWEEN MASKS AND SUBSEQUENT DIFFUSIONS ARE VOIDED. THE METHOD OF THE INVENTION MAY BE USED TO CREATE ALL TYPES OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, ESPECIALLY FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS AND CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES EITHER SEPARATELY OR SIMULTANEOUSLY ON THE SAME BODY.
INTERCONNECTED, BUT SELF-ISOLATING CONDUCTIVE LINES ON DIFFERENT LEVELS ARE ACHIEVED ON MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES. LAYERS OF INSULATING SEMICONDUCTORS MATERIAL ARE SEPARATED IN SELECTED AREAD BY DEPOSITS OF A DIELECTRIC DIFFUSION BARRIER MATERIAL AND DOPANTS TO RENDER THE LAYERS CONDUCTIVE ARE DIFFUSED THEREIN. THE DEPOSITS OF THE BURIED BARRIER MATERIAL ACT AS A DIFFUSION MASK AS TO PREVENT THE DIFFUSED DOPANTS FROM PENETRATING INTO SELECTED AREAS OF THE UNDERLYING SEMICONDUCTIVE LAYER A NON-CONLEAVE IN THE UNDERLYING SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS A NON-CONDUCTIVE REGION. THIS CAUSES PORTIONS OF THE LAYERS OF INSULATING MATERIAL TO BE RENDERED CONDUCTIVE, WHILE STILL MAINTAINING THEIR INSULATING CHARACTERISTICS IN SELECTED REGIONS, THEREBY ELECTRICALLY SEPARATING THE LAYERS ONE FORM
摘要:
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed, which may improve the operating performance of a multi-gate transistor in a highly scaled integrated circuit device. The semiconductor device includes a first active fin unit protruding on a first region of a semiconductor substrate and extending along a first direction. The first active fin unit includes at least one first active fin having left and right profiles, which are symmetric to each other about a first center line perpendicular to a top surface of the semiconductor substrate on a cut surface perpendicular to the first direction. A second active fin unit protrudes on a second region of the semiconductor substrate and includes two second active fins, each having a left and right profiles, which are asymmetric to each other about a second center line perpendicular to the top surface of the semiconductor substrate on a cut surface.
摘要:
A semiconductor device of the technology includes a first diffusion section (22), a second diffusion section (21), a channel section (23), a gate section (24), and a stress application section (31, 32, or 33). In a semiconductor layer (10) having a groove (10A), the first diffusion section (22) is formed at or in the vicinity of a bottom of the groove (10A), the second diffusion section (21) is formed at an upper end of the groove (10A), and the channel section (23) is formed between the first diffusion section (22) and the second diffusion section (21). The gate section (24) is buried in the groove (10A) at a position opposing the channel section (23). The stress application section (31, 32, or 33) applies one of compressive stress and tensile stress to the channel section (23) in a normal direction to the semiconductor layer (10).
摘要:
Large area, fast frame rate, charge coupled devices (CCDs) are provided. Interline transfer CCDs can have interleaved pinned photodiodes and vertical shift registers. The interline transfer CCDs are ideal for producing high frame rate video images from a continuous light source. The photodiodes transfer charge indicative of the previous video frame to an adjacent vertical shift register with little or no lag, while light from the current video frame is integrating in the photodiodes. The charge signals only have to travel a short distance from a photodiode to an adjacent vertical shift register. The charge signals indicative of each video frame are then shifted out of the vertical shift registers. Each vertical shift register has a doping gradient that increases the charge transfer rate. All of these factors provide a fast and efficient video frame rate, even in a large area CCD.
摘要:
A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor body (1) having a surface (2) provided with a first insulating layer (3). On this layer is disposed a pattern of conductor strips (4) coated with insulation strips (5) with projecting edges (6). Under the edges (6), the conductor strips (4) are coated with insulating tracks (8) which fill the spaces under the edges (6) and which at least at the area where they adjoin the first insulating layer (3) can be etched selectively with respect to this layer (3). As a material for the conductor strips (4) use may be made of materials other than polycrystalline silicon, such as tungsten, molybdenum and silicides. The thickness of the first insulating layer (3) is affected to a very small extent during the manufacture of the device, while its depth remains unchanged.
摘要:
A method is described for the fabrication of charge-coupled devices by the formation of a thin film lamellar metallic eutectic and subsequent selective removal of one of the eutectic phases to form one of the spaced gate arrays of such devices.
摘要:
In an exemplary embodiment, after underetching a first polysilicon layer beneath spaced SiO.sub.2 cover layers to produce pairs of confronting SiO.sub.2 overhangs with gaps therebetween, and providing an insulating layer at the end faces of the spaced poly-Si-1 electrodes formed from the first polysilicon layer, a second polysilicon layer is produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) so as to fill the cavities beneath the SiO.sub.2 overhangs via the gaps between each pair of confronting overhangs. The second polysilicon layer is then etched away so as to leave intervening self-adjusting, nonoverlapping poly-Si-2 electrodes formed from the second polysilicon layer with surfaces terminating for example slightly below the upper surfaces of the SiO.sub.2 cover layers. For a center-to-center spacing of poly-Si-1 electrodes of six microns, the SiO.sub.2 overhangs may have an extent (e.g. 0.7 microns) about equal to the electrode layer thickness (e.g. 0.8 microns).
摘要:
A uniphase, buried-channel, semiconductor charge transfer device wherein a portion of each cell includes an inversion layer, or "virtual electrode" at the semiconductor surface, shielding that region from any gate-induced change in potential. Each cell is comprised of four regions (I, II, III, IV) wherein the characteristic impurity profile of each region determines the maximum potential generated therein for the gate "on" and gate "off" conditions. Clocking the gate causes the potential maxima in regions I and II to cycle above and below the fixed potential maxima in regions III and IV beneath the virtual electrode. Directionality of charge transfer is thereby achieved, since the potential maximum for region II (.phi..sub.max II) remains greater than for region I (.phi..sub.max I) and .phi..sub.max IV>.phi..sub.max III, for both gate conditions. A self-aligned process for fabrication is provided, including a number of ion implant stages to fix the required impurity profiles in each cell for generating the correct potential profiles for charge propagation. CCD imagers, memory devices, an analog processors are contemplated systems wherein the invention is to be implemented.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing charge transfer devices in which an asymmetrical potential well in the direction of charge transfer is formed by the shape of narrower portions of a transfer channel which is bordered by highly doped channel stoppers. Impurities are diffused through a first mask into a polycrystalline silicon layer on the surface of a semiconductor substrate to construct transfer electrodes of highly doped polycrystalline layer. Then impurities are diffused into a semiconductor substrate through openings bordering on one edge with a first mask to form the highly doped portions to make the narrower portions of the transfer channel to assure that the edges of the transfer electrode and the edge of the narrower portion are aligned.
摘要:
The invention relates to a charge transfer device (C.T.D.) with polycrystalline silicon electrodes which are provided on a nitride layer. The nitride layer has apertures between the polyelectrodes. Electrodes of a second metallization layer, for example, of aluminium, are provided via said apertures. The charge storage capacities per surface unit (and with equal voltages) can be made equal by subjecting the device for a short period of time to an oxidation treatment prior to providing the Al electrodes so that the oxide layer in the apertures can become thicker than below the Si electrodes.