3D semiconductor device and structure with bonding and memory cells preliminary class

    公开(公告)号:US12144190B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-12

    申请号:US18677553

    申请日:2024-05-29

    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where each of the first transistors includes a single crystal channel; a first metal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; and a second level including a plurality of second transistors and at least one third metal layer, where the second level overlays the first level, where at least one of the second transistors includes a transistor channel, where the second level includes a plurality of memory cells, where each of the plurality of memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors, where the device includes at least one Phase-Lock-Loop (“PLL”) circuit or at least one Digital-Lock-Loop (“DLL”) circuit, where the second level is directly bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes metal to metal bonds.

    MULTILEVEL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE WITH IMAGE SENSORS AND WAFER BONDING

    公开(公告)号:US20240371906A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-07

    申请号:US18778976

    申请日:2024-07-20

    Abstract: An integrated device, the device including: a first level including a first mono-crystal layer, the first mono-crystal layer including a plurality of single crystal transistors; an overlying oxide disposed on top of the first level; a second level including a second mono-crystal layer, the second level overlaying the oxide, where the second mono-crystal layer includes a plurality of image sensors, where the second level is bonded to the first level including an oxide to oxide bond; a plurality of pixel control circuits; a third level disposed underneath the first level, where the third level includes a plurality of third transistors, where the plurality of third transistors each include a single crystal channel; and a plurality of recessed channel transistors.

    Automation methods for 3D integrated circuits and devices

    公开(公告)号:US12093628B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-17

    申请号:US18208647

    申请日:2023-06-12

    CPC classification number: G06F30/392 G06F30/394

    Abstract: A method of designing a 3D Integrated Circuit including: partitioning at least one design into at least two levels, a first level and a second level; levels connection pads between the first level and the second level; providing placement data of the second level; performing a placement of the first level using a placer executed by a computer, where the placement of the first level is based on the placement of the levels connection pads, where the placer is part of a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool, where the first level includes first routing layers; performing a routing of the first level by routing layers using a router executed by a computer, where the router is a part of the CAD tool or a part of another CAD tool, where at least one metal routing layer is in-between the first level first transistors and the second level second transistors.

    3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE WITH METAL LAYERS

    公开(公告)号:US20240274523A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18623525

    申请日:2024-04-01

    CPC classification number: H01L23/49844 H01L23/481 H01L27/0688

    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a first silicon layer including a first single crystal silicon layer; first transistors with a single crystal channel and overlaid by a first metal layer; overlaid by a second metal layer; overlaid by a third metal layer; a second level with second transistors and including a metal gate, and then disposed over the third metal layer; the second level is overlaid by a third level with third transistors; and then overlaid by a fourth metal layer; fourth overlaid by a fifth metal layer; a via disposed through the second level; the device includes at least one temperature sensor; the fifth metal layer average thickness is greater than the third metal layer average thickness by at least 50%; at least one element within at least one of the second transistors has been processed independently of the third transistors.

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