摘要:
A CMOS EPROM, EEPROM or inverter device includes an nFET device with a thin gate dielectric layer and a pFET device juxtaposed with the nFET device with a thick gate dielectric layer and a floating gate electrode. The thick gate dielectric layer is substantially thicker than the thin gate dielectric layer. A common drain node connected both FET devices has no external connection in the case of a memory device and has an external connection in the case of an inverter. There are external circuit connections to the source regions of both FET devices and to the gate electrode of the nFET device. The pFET and nFET devices can be planar, vertical or FinFET devices.
摘要:
A method is provided to fabricate a semiconductor device, where the method includes providing a substrate comprised of crystalline silicon; implanting a ground plane in the crystalline silicon so as to be adjacent to a surface of the substrate, the ground plane being implanted to exhibit a desired super-steep retrograde well (SSRW) implant doping profile; annealing implant damage using a substantially diffusionless thermal annealing to maintain the desired super-steep retrograde well implant doping profile in the crystalline silicon and, prior to performing a shallow trench isolation process, depositing a silicon cap layer over the surface of the substrate. The substrate may be a bulk Si substrate or a Si-on-insulator substrate. The method accommodates the use of an oxynitride gate stack structure or a high dielectric constant oxide/metal (high-K/metal) gate stack structure. The various thermal processes used during fabrication are selected/controlled so as to maintain the desired super-steep retrograde well implant doping profile in the crystalline silicon.
摘要:
A method of determining one or more transistors within a particular circuit to be respectively replaced with a hardened transistor includes: identifying, as not requiring hardening, one or more transistors; identifying, as candidates for hardening, each transistor in the circuit not previously identified as not requiring hardening; and employing the hardened transistor in place of a transistor identified as a candidate for hardening. The circuit is a latch and the transistor is an SOI CMOS FET. The transistor is also an SOI transistor. The series transistor includes first and second series-connected transistors having a shared source/drain region whereby a drain of the first series-connected transistor is merged with a source of the second series-connected transistor.
摘要:
A method is provided to fabricate a semiconductor device, where the method includes providing a substrate comprised of crystalline silicon; implanting a ground plane in the crystalline silicon so as to be adjacent to a surface of the substrate, the ground plane being implanted to exhibit a desired super-steep retrograde well (SSRW) implant doping profile; annealing implant damage using a substantially diffusionless thermal annealing to maintain the desired super-steep retrograde well implant doping profile in the crystalline silicon and, prior to performing a shallow trench isolation process, depositing a silicon cap layer over the surface of the substrate. The substrate may be a bulk Si substrate or a Si-on-insulator substrate. The method accommodates the use of an oxynitride gate stack structure or a high dielectric constant oxide/metal (high-K/metal) gate stack structure. The various thermal processes used during fabrication are selected/controlled so as to maintain the desired super-steep retrograde well implant doping profile in the crystalline silicon.
摘要:
A decoupling capacitor is provided for a semiconductor device and may include a first low dielectric insulator layer and a low resistance conductor formed into at least two interdigitized patterns on the surface of the first low dielectric insulator in a single interconnect plane. A high dielectric constant material may be provided between the two patterns. A circuit for testing a plurality of these capacitors is also provided which includes a charge monitoring circuit, a coupling circuit and a control circuit.
摘要:
A decoupling capacitor is provided for a semiconductor device and may include a first low dielectric insulator layer and a low resistance conductor formed into at least two interdigitized patterns on the surface of the first low dielectric insulator in a single interconnect plane. A high dielectric constant material may be provided between the two patterns. A circuit for testing a plurality of these capacitors is also provided which includes a charge monitoring circuit, a coupling circuit and a control circuit.
摘要:
A decoupling capacitor is provided for a semiconductor device and may include a first low dielectric insulator layer and a low resistance conductor formed into at least two interdigitized patterns on the surface of the first low dielectric insulator in a single interconnect plane. A high dielectric constant material may be provided between the two patterns. A circuit for testing a plurality of these capacitors is also provided which includes a charge monitoring circuit, a coupling circuit and a control circuit.
摘要:
A process for fabricating Ultra Large Scale Integrated (ULSI) circuits in Silicon On Insulator (SOI) technology in which the device structures, which can be bipolar, FET, or a combination, are formed in vertical silicon sidewalls having insulation under and in back thereof so as to create SKI device structures. The silicon sidewall device SOI structures, when fabricated, take the form of cells with each cell having a plurality of either bipolar devices, FET devices, or a combination of these devices, such as collectors, emitters, bases, sources, drains, and gates interconnected within the planes of the regions of the devices in the cells and can be interconnected within the planes of the regions of devices in adjacent cells. Further, the interconnections to adjacent cells can be made from the back of the silicon sidewalls.
摘要:
An electronic switch circuit switches out bad decoupling capacitors on a high speed integrated circuit chip. The circuit comprises a control device that operates in the subthreshold or off device state to detect leakage in a decoupling capacitor. This control device operates in a low impedance state if the capacitor is good and in a high impedance sate if the capacitor is bad. A feedback circuit is connected from an internal node of the capacitor to a gate of the control device so that once a state of the capacitor is detected it can be stored on the gate of the control device. A single external signal source shared by a group of capacitors activates the control device to detect leakage in the capacitor. The circuit operates to switch out capacitors that fail during normal operation.
摘要:
A high performance lateral transistor may be fabricated by first providing a monocrystalline semiconductor body having a principal surface and where the desired transistor is a PNP transistor, a buried N+ region with an N+ reach-through connecting the buried region to said principal surface. The collector region of the transistor is formed into the surface by blanket diffusing P type impurities into the desired region. An insulating layer is formed upon the top surface of the semiconductor body. An opening is made in the insulating layer where the groove or channel-emitter contact is desired. An etching of a substantially vertical walled groove into the monocrystalline semiconductor body using the patterned insulating layer as the etching mask. An N base diffusion is carried out to produce as N region around the periphery of the opening in the body. Oxygen is then ion implanted into the bottom of the groove to form a silicon dioxide region at the bottom of the groove. The P+ polycrystalline silicon layer is then formed on the surface which will in turn fill the groove with this material. The heating of the structure forms the P+ emitter region around the side edges of the P+ polycrystalline silicon filled groove. The P+ polycrystalline layer is the emitter contact, the N+ reach-through connected through the buried N+ region is the base contact and the collector contact is made to the P-type collector region.