Abstract:
An insulated-gate field-effect transistor (100, 100V, 140, 150, 150V, 160, 170, 170V, 180, 180V, 190, 210, 210W, 220, 220U, 220V, 220W, 380, or 480) has a hypoabrupt vertical dopant profile below one (104 or 264) of its source/drain zones for reducing the parasitic capacitance along the pn junction between that source/drain zone and adjoining body material (108 or 268). In particular, the concentration of semiconductor dopant which defines the conductivity type of the body material increases by at least a factor of 10 in moving from that source/drain zone down to an underlying body-material location no more than 10 times deeper below the upper semiconductor surface than that source/drain zone. The body material preferably includes a more heavily doped pocket portion (120 or 280) situated along the other source/drain zone (102 or 262). The combination of the hypoabrupt vertical dopant profile below the first-mentioned source/drain zone, normally serving as the drain, and the pocket portion along the second-mentioned source/drain zone, normally serving as the source, enables the resultant asymmetric transistor to be especially suitable for high-speed analog applications.
Abstract:
A semiconductor junction varactor utilizes gate enhancement for enabling the varactor to achieve a high ratio of maximum capacitance to minimum capacitance.
Abstract:
The formation of vertical trench DMOS devices can be added to existing integrated BCD process flows in order to improve the efficiency of the BCD devices. The formation of this trench DMOS varies from existing approaches used with discrete trench DMOS devices, in that only two extra mask steps are added to the existing BCD process, instead of the 10 or so mask steps used in existing discrete trench DMOS processes. Further, the location of these additional heat cycles in the BCD process steps can be placed so as to have minimal impact on the other components created in the process. Utilizing an integrated trench device in a BCD process can offer at least a factor-of-two RDS(ON) area advantage over a planar counterpart.
Abstract:
Short-channel threshold voltage roll-off and punchthrough in an IGFET (40 or 42) having a channel zone (64 or 84) situated in body material (50) are alleviated by arranging for the net dopant concentration in the channel zone to longitudinally reach a local surface minimum at a location between the IGFET's source/drain zones (60 and 62 or 80 and 82) and by arranging for the net dopant concentration in the body material to reach a local subsurface maximum more than 0.1 &mgr;m deep into the body material but not more than 0.4 &mgr;m deep into the body material.
Abstract:
To furnish an IGFET (120 or 122) with an asymmetrically doped channel zone (144 or 164), a mask (212) is provided over a semiconductor body and an overlying electrically insulated gate electrode (148P or 168P). Ions of a semiconductor dopant species are directed toward an opening (213) in the mask from two different angular orientations along paths that originate laterally beyond opposite respective opening-defined sides of the mask. The location and shape of the opening are controlled so that largely only ions impinging from one of the angular orientations enter the intended location for the channel zone. Ions impinging from the other angular orientation are shadowed by the mask from entering the channel zone location. Although the ions impinging from this other angular orientation do not significantly dope the channel zone location, they normally enter the semiconductor body elsewhere, e.g., the intended location for the channel zone of another IGFET.
Abstract:
An asymmetric insulated-gate field-effect transistor is configured in an asymmetric lightly doped drain structure that alleviates hot-carrier effects and enables the source characteristics to be decoupled from the drain characteristics. The transistor has a multi-part channel formed with an output portion, which adjoins the drain zone, and a more heavily doped input portion, which adjoins the source zone. The drain zone contains a main portion and more lightly doped extension that meets the output channel portion. The drain extension extends at least as far below the upper semiconductor surface as the main drain portion so as to help reduce hot-carrier effects. The input channel portion is situated in a threshold body zone whose doping determines the threshold voltage. Importantly, the provision of a lightly doped source extension is avoided so that improving the drain characteristics does not harm the source characteristics, and vice versa. In fabricating complementary versions of the transistor, the threshold body zone of one transistor can be formed at the same time as the drain extension of a complementary transistor, and vice versa.
Abstract:
A structure containing multiple field-effect transistors (60 and 150) is fabricated from a semiconductor body having material (82) of a specified conductivity type. Semiconductor dopant of the specified conductivity type is introduced, typically simultaneously, (a) into part of a first channel zone of the material of the specified conductivity type to define a threshold channel portion (66) more heavily doped than a main channel portion (65) and (b) into substantially all of a second channel zone of the material of the specified conductivity type. First and second gate electrodes (69 and 141) are provided respectively above, and insulatingly spaced apart from, the first and second channel zones. Semiconductor dopant of the opposit conductivity type is introduced into the semiconductor body to define (a) a pair of first source/drain zones (63/64 and 75/76) laterally separated by the first channel zone and (b) a pair of second source/drain zones (133/134 and 135/136) laterally separated by the second channel zone.
Abstract:
A pair of complementary CJIGFETs (100 and 160) are created from a body of semiconductor material (102 and 104). Each CJIGFET is formed with (a) a pair of laterally separated source/drain zones (112 and 114 or 172 and 174) situated along the upper surface of the semiconductor body, (b) a channel region (110 or 170) extending between the source/drain zones, and (c) a gate electrode (118 or 178) overlying, and electrically insulated from, the channel region. The gate electrode of each CJIGFET has a Fermi energy level within 0.3 ev of the middle of the energy band gap of the semiconductor material. One of the transistors typically conducts current according to a field-induced-channel mode while the other transistor conducts current according to a metallurgical-channel mode. The magnitude of the threshold voltage for each CJIGFET is normally no more than 0.5 V.
Abstract translation:由半导体材料体(102和104)产生一对互补CJIGFET(100和160)。 每个CJIGFET形成有(a)沿着半导体主体的上表面定位的一对横向分离的源极/漏极区(112和114或172和174),(b)沟槽区(110或170) 源极/漏极区,和(c)覆盖并且与沟道区电绝缘的栅电极(118或178)。 每个CJIGFET的栅电极在半导体材料的能带隙的中间具有0.3ev以内的费米能级。 一个晶体管通常根据场致感沟道模式导通电流,而另一晶体管根据冶金通道模式导通电流。 每个CJIGFET的阈值电压幅值通常不超过0.5 V.
Abstract:
Each of a pair of complementary insulated-gate field-effect transistors is manufactured in an asymmetric lightly doped drain structure that enables the source characteristics to be decoupled from the drain characteristics. Each transistor has a multi-part channel formed with an output portion, which adjoins the drain zone, and a more heavily doped input portion, which adjoins the source zone. The drain zone of each transistor contains a main portion and a more lightly doped extension that meets the output channel portion. The drain extension of each transistor typically extends at least as far below the upper semiconductor surface as the main drain portion so as to help reduce hot-carrier effects. The input channel portion of each transistor is situated in a threshold body zone whose doping determines the threshold voltage. Importantly, the provision of lightly doped source extensions is avoided so that improving the drain characteristics does not harm the source characteristics, and vice versa. In fabricating the complementary transistor structure, the threshold body zone of each transistor is formed at the same time as the drain extension of the other transistor.
Abstract:
Parts of the emitter and base of a vertical bipolar transistor adjoin a field-isolation region to form a walled-emitter structure. The transistor is furnished with extra doping in the collector and, optionally, in the base. The extra collector doping is provided along collector-base junction below the intrinsic base to create a special collector zone spaced laterally apart from the field-isolation region. The presence of the special collector zone causes the intrinsic base to be thinner, thereby raising the cutoff frequency and overall current gain. The extra base doping is provided in the intrinsic base along the field-isolation region to improve the transistor's breakdown voltage and leakage current characteristics.