摘要:
The present invention provides a metal stack structure that stabilizes the flatband voltage and threshold voltages of material stacks that include a Si-containing conductor and a Hf-based dielectric. This present invention stabilizes the flatband voltages and the threshold voltages by introducing a rare earth metal-containing layer into the material stack that introduces, via electronegativity differences, a shift in the threshold voltage to the desired voltage. Specifically, the present invention provides a metal stack comprising: a hafnium-based dielectric; a rare earth metal-containing layer located atop of, or within, said hafnium-based dielectric; an electrically conductive capping layer located above said hafnium-based dielectric; and a Si-containing conductor.
摘要:
A method (and resultant structure) of forming a semiconductor structure, includes forming a mixed rare earth oxide on silicon. The mixed rare earth oxide is lattice-matched to silicon.
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An apparatus for conducting heat from a computer component to a heat sink. The invention may include a thermal interface material (TIM). The invention may further include a seal or gasket that at least partially encloses the TIM. The gasket may facilitate retaining the TIM within its sidewall, and thus in place on or near a computer component. Generally, the gasket may be placed between the computer component (or a silicon board or other material upon which the computer component is located) and a heat sink. An insert may be placed within the gasket and define an aperture. The chip seats in the aperture and thus is spatially located with respect to the insert. The TIM abuts both the computer component and a heat sink. A desiccant may be located within the gasket and absorb any moisture diffusing or migrating through the gasket.
摘要:
An insulating interlayer for use in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) that prevents unwanted shifts in threshold voltage and flatband voltage is provided. The insulating interlayer is located between a gate dielectric having a dielectric constant of greater than 4.0 and a Si-containing gate conductor. The insulating interlayer of the present invention is any metal nitride, that optionally may include oxygen, that is capable of stabilizing the threshold and flatband voltages. In a preferred embodiment, the insulating interlayer is aluminum nitride or aluminum oxynitride and the gate dielectric is hafnium oxide, hafnium silicate or hafnium silicon oxynitride. The present invention is particularly useful in stabilizing the threshold and flatband voltage of p-type field effect transistors.
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A device and a method of forming the device, includes selective area deposition of a ferromagnetic material on a substrate. The substrate surface is partially covered with material having a crystal structure having at least one symmetry relation with the crystal structure of the ferromagnetic material
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A structure includes a metal nitride film of the form MN, where M is selected from the group consisting of Ga, In, AlGa, AlIn, and AlGaIn. The structure has at least one electrically conductive metal region that is formed within and from the metal nitride film by a thermal process driven by absorption of light having a predetermined wavelength. Single films comprised of AlN are also within the scope of this invention, wherein an Al trace or interconnect is formed by laser radiation of wavelength 248 nm so as to contact circuitry that exists under the film. Multilayered stacks of films are also within the scope of the teachings of this invention. In this case each film layer may be separately deposited and then illuminated to selectively form the desired electrical connection(s), which may also connect to conductive feature(s) in an underlying layer, or a plurality of metal nitride layers are stacked bottom to top in order of increasing electronic band gap energy value, and then the conductive features are written into selective ones of the layers by controlling the wavelength of the light to be absorbed in a desired layer. The teachings of this invention can be employed to fabricate fuses and anti-fuses enabling selective circuit customization, test and repair. Also disclosed is a technique for forming electrical resistors in a metal nitride layer by adjusting the electrical resistance of the metallization formed from the metal nitride film layer.
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This invention provides phase change media for optical storage based on semiconductors of nitrides of the column III metals. The surface of thin films of these wide bandgap semiconductors may be metallized (by desorption of the nitrogen) by irradiating with photons of energy equal to, or greater than the band gap of these materials, and with power densities beyond a critical threshold value. As a consequence of such writable metallization, these materials are excellent candidates for write once, read many times storage media since the differences in the reflectivity between the metal and its corresponding wide gap nitride are very large. Furthermore, once the nitrogen is desorbed, the written metallic phase can no longer revert back to the nitride phase and hence the media is stable and is truly a write-once system. Additional advantages offered by these materials over present day phase change media include higher differences in reflectivity contrast and suitability for use with short wavelength laser diodes (460 nm and lower) which are expected to be introduced into optical recording technology in the next 5 years. The band gap of alloys of nitrides of column III metals can be tuned by changing the relative fractions of the column III metals to continuously vary the band gap so as to be compatible with lasers having photon energies within the range. The low absorptivity and hence high transmissitivity, at the appropriate recording wavelength, of the starting phase also offers the potential application of these materials in a multiple-recording-layer format.
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In one aspect, an interposer assembly for housing a photovoltaic device includes a frame, formed from an electrically insulating material, having a center opening with a shape/size complementary to a shape/size of the photovoltaic device thus permitting the photovoltaic device to fit within the center opening in the frame when the photovoltaic device is housed in the assembly; a beam shield on the frame having a cup-shaped inner cavity to aid in routing of light to the photovoltaic device, wherein a side of the beam shield facing the frame has one or more recesses present therein; and one or more interposer connectors positioned between the frame and the beam shield such that the interposer connectors fit within the recesses in the beam shield, and wherein a portion of each of the interposer connectors extends into the center opening of the frame.
摘要:
Photovoltaic devices and techniques for enhancing efficiency thereof are provided. In one aspect, a photovoltaic device is provided. The photovoltaic device comprises a photocell having a photoactive layer and a non-photoactive layer adjacent to the photoactive layer so as to form a heterojunction between the photoactive layer and the non-photoactive layer; and a plurality of high-aspect-ratio nanostructures on one or more surfaces of the photoactive layer. The plurality of high-aspect-ratio nanostructures are configured to act as a scattering media for incident light. The plurality of high-aspect-ratio nanostructures can also be configured to create an optical resonance effect in the incident light.
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A transportable photovoltaic system includes a plurality of photovoltaic devices, a composite frame to which the plurality of photovoltaic devices are affixed, and a base structure to which the composite frame is movably attached through at least one variable-angle mount structure. The orientation of the frame and the light concentrating elements relative to the base structure can be altered employing the at least one variable-angle mount structure. The frame and the plurality of photovoltaic devices can be assembled prior to shipping, and the base structure can be manufactured on site. The transportable photovoltaic system is not affixed to ground or other fixture, but can be picked up at any time during the operational lifetime. The transportable photovoltaic system can be rapidly deployed with little or no site preparation requirement other than generally level ground, and can be retracted to a lower exposure position to avoid storm and/or hazardous conditions.