摘要:
The present invention is characterized by an electron microscope which intermittently applies an electron beam to a sample and detects a secondary electron signal, wherein an arbitrarily defined detection time (T2) shorter than the pulse width (Tp) of the applied electron beam is selected, and a secondary electron image is formed using the secondary electron signal acquired during the detection time. Consequently, it is possible to reflect necessary sample information including the internal structure and laminated interface of the sample in the contrast of an image and prevent unnecessary information from being superimposed on the image, thereby making it possible to obtain the secondary electron image with improved sample information selectivity and image quality.
摘要:
A memory controller includes a first error detection code generator for generating a first error detection code for data received from a host, a controller to write the data and the first error detection code to nonvolatile memory and to read the data and the first error detection code from the nonvolatile memory, an error detector to perform an error detection based on the data and the first error detection code that are read from the nonvolatile memory, a second error detection code generator to generate a second detection error code based on the data read from the nonvolatile memory, and a mismatch code generator to generate a mismatch code signaling the presence of an error in the data, wherein either the second error detection code or the mismatch code is selected based on the error detection and sent to the host.
摘要:
A semiconductor device is provided which is capable of suppressing a reduction in electron mobility in a channel region formed in a strained silicon layer. A strained silicon layer is formed over a p type silicon-germanium layer formed over a semiconductor substrate. The strained layer has a thickness adjusted to be thicker than the critical film thickness at which no misfit dislocation occurs. Accordingly, misfit dislocations occur in the vicinity of the interface between the strained silicon layer and silicon-germanium layer.
摘要:
Provided is a technology capable of suppressing a reduction in electron mobility in a channel region formed in a strained silicon layer. A p type strained silicon layer is formed over a p type silicon-germanium layer formed over a semiconductor substrate. The p type strained layer has a thickness adjusted to be thicker than the critical film thickness at which no misfit dislocation occurs. Accordingly, misfit dislocations occur in the vicinity of the interface between the p type strained silicon layer and p type silicon-germanium layer. At a position which is below the end of a gate electrode and at which misfit dislocations occur, the impurity concentration of the n type strained silicon layer and n type silicon-germanium layer is 1×1019 cm−3 or less.
摘要:
A semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same is provided in which the driving current of a pMOSFET is increased, through a scheme formed easily using an existing silicon process. A pMOSFET is formed with a channel in a direction on a (100) silicon substrate. A compressive stress is applied in a direction perpendicular to the channel by an STI.
摘要:
Configurations of a light signal communication apparatus and an optical communication system suitable for speeding-up of the transmission of information based on a light signal and an increase in the capacity for the information transmission are disclosed. On the light signal transmitting side, excitation light is supplied to an active medium in accordance with a transmission signal to cause induced emission within the active medium, thereby generating signal light. The excitation light causes spontaneously-emitted light to fall on a semiconductor layer, and a voltage pulse corresponding to transmission information is applied to modulate the refractive index of the semiconductor layer, thereby Bragg-reflecting a specific wavelength component, after which it is sent to the active medium as the excitation light. The Bragg reflection and induced emission incident to it exhibit excellent response to a voltage signal having a pulse width of 1×10−9 seconds or less. It is therefore possible to implement an optical communication system having a transmission rate up to 100 Gb/s with one light signal.
摘要:
A first thin film is formed on one surface of an insulating base, and a second thin film having a thermal conductivity higher than the first thin film is formed on the first thin film. An amorphous semiconductor thin film having a higher thermal conductivity than the second thin film is formed on at least the second thin film. The amorphous semiconductor thin film is changed to a polycrystalline semiconductor thin film through laser annealing. The provision of the second thin film results in larger and uniform crystal grain diameters and less proturberances in the polycrystalline semiconductor thin film.
摘要:
A side mirror driving apparatus having a side mirror swingably attached to a housing and a driving apparatus supported by the housing. The driving apparatus includes a gear driven by an electric motor and the mirror is operatively linked with the gear by means of a lift lever so that the mirror is inclined in an up-and downward direction and/or left-and rightward direction. At a side of a rear surface of the gear, there is provided a set position stopping device, so that the mirror can be automatically returned to its initial position.
摘要:
A device is disclosed for positioning the slide of a press to compensate for insufficiencies of the stroke. A predetermined preload is first adjusted to the slide to take up clearances which may be present between the various moving parts of the press, dies and material to be processed. A slide preload compensating amount is then additionally adjusted to the slide equivalent to the amount of deformation of compression which the slide and frame will undergo during a working stroke. Therefore, the vertical position of the slide is established with the insufficiencies of the stroke eliminated. The device comprises in combination a worm mechanism having a worm shaft for adjusting the vertical position of said slide, an oil pressure motor for driving said worm mechanism, a torque limiter through which the driving force from said oil pressure motor is transmitted to said worm mechanism and a rotary pulse generator adapted to be rotated by said worm shaft of the worm mechanism and in which the rotation of the oil pressure motor is controlled by a servo valve adapted to be actuated at a value obtainable from the comparison between a pulse amount generated from said rotary pulse generator and a pulse corresponding to a predetermined frame deformation compensating amount and by an electromagnetic valve adapted to control the rotation direction of the oil pressure motor.
摘要:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of manufacturing an SOI wafer at low cost and with high yield. It is another object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device including also bulk type MISFETs used as high voltage regions and a method of manufacturing the same without using complicated processes and increasing the size of a semiconductor chip.The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises selectively epitaxially growing a single-crystal Si layer and continuously performing the epitaxial growth without bringing a substrate temperature increased during the growth to room temperature even once. An epitaxially grown surface is then etched and planarized. The substrate temperature is then cooled down to the room temperature.