Abstract:
The present invention relates to a Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET), which utilizes angle implantation and amorphization to form asymmetric source and drain regions. The TFET further comprises a silicon germanium alloy epitaxial source region with a conductivity opposite that of the drain.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET). which utilizes angle implantation and amorphization to form asymmetric source and drain regions. The IFET further includes a silicon germanium alloy epitaxial source region with a conductivity opposite that of the drain.
Abstract:
A method to form an ultra-shallow junction is described. In one embodiment, a replacement gate process is utilized to enable the overlap of a gate electrode over the regions of a semiconductor substrate where tip extensions reside. In another embodiment, a sacrificial spacer is utilized in conjunction with the replacement gate process. In one embodiment, an initial gate electrode is formed with a gate length smaller than the desired final gate length and is subsequently replaced with an expanded gate electrode having the desired gate length.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device is described. That semiconductor device comprises a high-k gate dielectric layer that is formed on a substrate that applies strain to the high-k gate dielectric layer, and a metal gate electrode that is formed on the high-k gate dielectric layer.
Abstract:
A contact architecture for nanoscale channel devices having contact structures coupling to and extending between source or drain regions of a device having a plurality of parallel semiconductor bodies. The contact structures being able to contact parallel semiconductor bodies having sub-lithographic pitch.
Abstract:
A capacitor includes a substrate (110, 210), a first electrically insulating layer (120, 220) over the substrate, and a fin (130, 231) including a semiconducting material (135) over the first electrically insulating layer. A first electrically conducting layer (140, 810) is located over the first electrically insulating layer and adjacent to the fin. A second electrically insulating layer (150, 910) is located adjacent to the first electrically conducting layer, and a second electrically conducting layer (160, 1010) is located adjacent to the second electrically insulating layer. The first and second electrically conducting layers together with the second electrically insulating layer form a metal-insulator-metal stack that greatly increases the capacitance area of the capacitor. In one embodiment the capacitor is formed using what may be referred to as a removable metal gate (RMG) approach.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for forming a logic device, including forming an n-type semiconductor device over a silicon (Si) substrate that includes an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs)-based stack including a first buffer layer, a second buffer layer formed over the first buffer layer, a first device layer formed over the second buffer layer. Further, the method may include forming a p-type semiconductor device over the Si substrate from the InGaAs-based stack and forming an isolation between the n-type semiconductor device and the p-type semiconductor device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
A multi-body thickness (MBT) field effect transistor (FET) comprises a silicon body formed on a substrate. The silicon body may comprise a wide section and a narrow section between the wide section and the substrate. The silicon body may comprise more than one pair of a wide section and a narrow section, each pair being located at a different height of the silicon body. The silicon body is surrounded by a gate material on three sides. The substrate may be a bulk silicon substrate or a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The MBT-FET combines the advantages of a wide fin device and a narrow fin device.
Abstract:
A nanotube transistor, such as a carbon nanotube transistor, may be formed with a top gate electrode and a spaced source and drain. Conduction along the transistor from source to drain is controlled by the gate electrode. Underlying the gate electrode are at least two nanotubes. In some embodiments, the substrate may act as a back gate.
Abstract:
A method to form a strain-inducing semiconductor region is described. In one embodiment, formation of a strain-inducing semiconductor region laterally adjacent to a crystalline substrate results in a uniaxial strain imparted to the crystalline substrate, providing a strained crystalline substrate. In another embodiment, a semiconductor region with a crystalline lattice of one or more species of charge-neutral lattice-forming atoms imparts a strain to a crystalline substrate, wherein the lattice constant of the semiconductor region is different from that of the crystalline substrate, and wherein all species of charge-neutral lattice-forming atoms of the semiconductor region are contained in the crystalline substrate.