Abstract:
There is provided a method of fabricating an SOI wafer, the method including: a) preparing a bonded SOI substrate that has a buried oxide layer and an SOI layer formed in this sequence on a circular plate shaped support, and at a peripheral edge portion of the support substrate, has a silicon island region in which the SOI layer is not well formed with scattered defective silicon layer; b) etching a silicon island region defective silicon layer to remove the defective silicon layer scattered in the silicon island region by dry etching; and c) etching a silicon island region buried oxide layer to remove the buried oxide layer in the silicon island region by wet etching.
Abstract:
An SOI type semiconductor device having a silicon substrate and a buried oxide layer formed on the silicon substrate includes an internal circuit formed in a first region having at least one FD type transistor having a SOI structure, the internal circuit performing a function of the semiconductor device and a protection circuit formed in a second region having at least one PD type transistor having a SOI structure, the protection circuit protecting the internal circuit from electro static damage.
Abstract:
A fabrication process for a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device includes defining an active region in an 501 substrate, doping the entire active region with an impurity of a given conductive type, masking a main part of the active region, and doping the peripheral parts of the active region at least two additional times with an impurity of the same conductive type, preferably using different doping parameters each time. The additional, doping creates a channel stop in the peripheral parts of the active region, counteracting the tendency of the transistor threshold voltage to be lowered in the peripheral parts of the active region, thereby mitigating or eliminating the unwanted subthreshold hump often found in the transistor operating characteristics of, for example, fully depleted SOI devices.
Abstract:
A fabrication process for a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device includes defining an active region in an SOI substrate, doping the entire active region with an impurity of a given conductive type, masking a main part of the active region, and doping the peripheral parts of the active region at least two additional times with an impurity of the same conductive type, preferably using different doping parameters each time. The additional doping creates a channel stop in the peripheral parts of the active region, counteracting the tendency of the transistor threshold voltage to be lowered in the peripheral parts of the active region, thereby mitigating or eliminating the unwanted subthreshold hump often found in the transistor operating characteristics of, for example, fully depleted SOI devices.
Abstract:
A plan-view sample of an integrated circuit is prepared for transmission electron microscopy by marking a faulty circuit element, lapping the upper surface of the sample to a mirror finish, lapping the lower surface to reduce the thickness of the entire sample, and further processing the lower surface by lapping or dimpling, combined with ion milling as necessary, to thin the sample in the vicinity of the fault. A sample prepared in this way affords a wide view, and can be tilted at large angles. A known thickness of a particular type of layer in the sample can be left by holding the sample at a predetermined angle while the sample is lapped.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an SOI substrate which includes a semiconductor base; a semiconductor layer formed over the semiconductor base; and a buried insulating film which is disposed between the semiconductor base and the semiconductor layer, so as to electrically isolate the semiconductor layer from the semiconductor base, where the buried insulating film contains a nitride film.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having plural light receiving elements, and having an amplifying element, the method including: a) forming an active region on the semiconductor substrate for configuring the amplifying element; b) forming a light receiving element region on the semiconductor substrate for forming the plural light receiving elements, with the active region acting as a reference for positioning; c) implanting an impurity into the light receiving element region; d) repeating the process b) and the process c) a number of times that equals a number of diffusion layers in the light receiving element region; e) after implanting the impurity, performing a drive-in process to carry out drive in of the semiconductor substrate; and f) the process e), forming an amplifying element forming process by implanting an impurity in the active region.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device manufacturing method which sequentially forms a gate oxide film and gate electrode material over a semiconductor layer of an SOI substrate and patterns the material into gate electrodes. The method further comprises the steps of forming sidewalls made of an insulator to cover side surfaces of the gate electrode; ion-implanting into the semiconductor layer on both sides of the gate electrode to form drain/source regions; partially etching the sidewalls to expose upper parts of the side surfaces of the gate electrode; depositing a metal film to cover the tops of the drain/source regions and of the gate electrode and the exposed upper parts of the side surfaces of the gate electrode; and performing heat treatment on the SOI substrate to form silicide layers respectively in the surfaces of the gate electrode and of the drain/source regions.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having plural light receiving elements, and having an amplifying element, the method including: a) forming an active region on the semiconductor substrate for configuring the amplifying element; b) forming a light receiving element region on the semiconductor substrate for forming the plural light receiving elements, with the active region acting as a reference for positioning; c) implanting an impurity into the light receiving element region; d) repeating the process b) and the process c) a number of times that equals a number of diffusion layers in the light receiving element region; e) after implanting the impurity, performing a drive-in process to carry out drive in of the semiconductor substrate; and f) the process e), forming an amplifying element forming process by implanting an impurity in the active region.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor device of a silicon on insulator (SOI) structure having uniform transistor properties, a first distance between a gate electrode forming position of an N type transistor and an end of a P type semiconductor region is greater than a second distance between a gate electrode forming position of the P type transistor and an edge of the N type semiconductor region.