Abstract:
A FinFET device is fabricated using conventional planar MOSFET technology. The device is fabricated in a silicon layer overlying an insulating layer (e.g., SIMOX) with the device extending from the insulating layer as a fin. Double gates are provided over the sides of the channel to provide enhanced drive current and effectively suppress short channel effects. A plurality of channels can be provided between a source and a drain for increased current capacity. In one embodiment two transistors can be stacked in a fin to provide a CMOS transistor pair having a shared gate.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for detecting the position of a coordinate probe relative to a digitizing tablet, a sensing coil grid provided on a working region of the tablet includes a plurality of sensing coils, each of which is U-shaped and has a front section and a grounded rear section. The coils are arranged in parallel along an axis of the working region in an overlapping manner with the front sections of consecutive ones of the coils being arranged in succession, and with the rear sections of the coils also being arranged in succession. During the sequential scanning of the coils in order to detect the electric currents induced therein and to generate a grid signal when the coordinate probe is disposed on the working region, a phase selection circuit inverts one of front and rear half-cycles of the grid signal, depending on whether a front scanning or rear scanning operation is being performed, and a signal processing circuit detects the presence of a predetermined transition of the inverted signal from the phase selection circuit. The signal processing circuit generates a count output corresponding to time elapsed before the predetermined transition is detected, and the count output is converted by a processor into a coordinate of the coordinate probe along the axis of the working region of the tablet.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a CIGS thin film photovoltaic device includes forming a back contact layer on a substrate, forming an Se-rich layer on the back contact layer, forming a precursor layer on the Se-rich layer by depositing copper, gallium and indium resulting in a first interim structure, annealing or selenizing the first interim structure, thereby forming Cu/Se, Ga/Se or CIGS compounds along the interface between the back contact layer and the precursor layer and resulting in a second interim structure, and selenizing the second interim structure, thereby converting the precursor layer into a CIGS absorber layer on the back contact layer.
Abstract:
Sulfur-containing chalcogenide absorbers in thin film solar cell are manufactured by sequential sputtering or co-sputtering targets, one of which contains a sulfur compound, onto a substrate and then annealing the substrate. The anneal is performed in a non-sulfur containing environment and avoids the use of hazardous hydrogen sulfide gas. A sulfurized chalcogenide is formed having a sulfur concentration gradient.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a gate dielectric over the semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode over the gate dielectric; a source/drain region adjacent the gate dielectric; a silicide region on the source/drain region; a metal layer on top of, and physical contacting, the silicide region; an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) over the metal layer; and a contact opening in the ILD. The metal layer is exposed through the contact opening. The metal layer further extends under the ILD. The semiconductor structure further includes a contact in the contact opening.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, and an NMOS device at a surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the NMOS device comprises a Schottky source/drain extension region. The semiconductor structure further includes a PMOS device at the surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the PMOS device comprises a source/drain extension region comprising only non-metal materials. Schottky source/drain extension regions may be formed for both PMOS and NMOS devices, wherein the Schottky barrier height of the PMOS device is reduced by forming the PMOS device over a semiconductor layer having a low valence band.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and method for manufacturing a tensile strained NMOS and a compressive strained PMOS transistor pair, wherein a stressor material is sacrificial is disclosed. The method provides for a substrate, which includes a source/drain for an NMOS transistor, and a PMOS transistor. A first barrier layer is formed on the substrate and a first stressor material is formed on the first barrier layer. The first barrier layer is selectively removed from the PMOS transistor. The substrate is flash annealed and the remaining first stressor material and barrier layer is removed from the substrate.
Abstract:
A BiCMOS device with enhanced performance by mechanical uniaxial strain is provided. A first embodiment of the present invention includes an NMOS transistor, a PMOS transistor, and a bipolar transistor formed on different areas of the substrate. A first contact etch stop layer with tensile stress is formed over the NMOS transistor, and a second contact etch stop layer with compressive stress is formed over the PMOS transistor and the bipolar transistor, allowing for an enhancement of each device. Another embodiment has, in addition to the stressed contact etch stop layers, strained channel regions in the PMOS transistor and the NMOS transistor, and a strained base in the BJT.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic shielding composite includes a polymer and a plurality of carbon nanotubes disposed in the polymer in a form of carbon nanotube film structure. A method for making an electromagnetic shielding composite includes the steps of: (a) providing an array of carbon nanotubes; (b) drawing a carbon nanotube film from the array of carbon nanotubes; (c) providing a substrate, covering at least one carbon nanotube film on the substrate to form a carbon nanotube film structure; and (d) providing a polymer and combining the carbon nanotube film structure with the polymer to form an electromagnetic shielding composite.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure including a highly strained selective epitaxial top layer suitable for use in fabricating a strained channel transistor. The top layer is deposited on the uppermost of a series of one or more lower layers. The lattice of each layer is mismatched with the lattice of its subjacent layer by an amount not less than the lattice mismatch between the lowest layer of the series and a substrate on which it resides. A trench is formed in the uppermost series layer. The trench has rounded corners so that a dielectric material filling the trench conforms to the round corners. The rounded corners are produced by heating the uppermost series layer after trench formation.