摘要:
A vertical transistor (70) comprising a first semiconductor layer (14) of a first conductive type. A gate structure (32) of a second conductive type disposed on the first semiconductor layer (14). The gate structure (32) may include a plurality of gates (38) separated by channels (40). A second semiconductor layer (50) of the first conductive type may be disposed over the gate structure (32) and in the channels (40). An arresting element (36) may be disposed between and upper surface of the gates (38) and the second semiconductor layer (50). A void (52) may be formed in the second semiconductor layer (50) over the gate (38).
摘要:
A method of self aligning an emitter contact includes forming a base layer (18) on a portion of a collector layer (16). An interface layer (22) is formed on the base layer (18) such that a portion of the base layer (18) remains exposed. An emitter layer (24) is formed on the collector layer (16), the interface layer (22), and the exposed portion of the base layer (18). An emitter cap layer (26) is formed on the emitter layer (24) over the previously exposed area of the base layer (18). An insulating layer (28) is formed on the interface layer (22). An emitter contact (36) is formed on the emitter cap layer (26) at the previously exposed area of the base layer (18). The insulating layer (28) isolates the emitter contact (36) from the base layer (18) and a subsequently formed base contact (38). The insulating layer (28) ensures isolation between the emitter contact (36) and the base contact (38) despite misalignment of the emitter contact (36) during formation.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a semiplanar heterojunction bipolar transistor (10) includes forming a subcollector layer (12) and a collector layer (16) onto a substrate layer (14). A collector implant plug (18) is selectively implanted to connect the subcollector layer (12) to the surface of the heterojunction bipolar transistor (10). A second epitaxial growth process causes a base layer (22), an emitter layer (24), and an emitter cap layer (26) to form on the collector layer (16) and the collector implant plug (18). By this process, the base layer (22) is not exposed to subsequent harmful fabrication steps. A base plug region (28) is selectively implanted to connect the base layer (22) to the surface of the heterojunction bipolar transistor (10). A base contact (32) and an emitter contact (30) are selectively formed within the heterojunction region on the base plug region (28) and the emitter cap layer (26), respectively. Lateral parasitic diodes between the base contact (32) and the emitter contact (30) are etched away to isolate the base contact (32) from the emitter contact (30). The emitter cap layer (26), the emitter layer (24), and the base layer (22) are removed from the vicinity of the collector implant plug (18) to allow formation of the collector contact (34).
摘要:
This is a method of forming a vertical transistor device. The method comprises: forming a n-type source layer 12; forming a p+ carbon doped gate layer 14; forming a gate structure from the gate layer; and forming a n-type drain layer 16 over the gate structure to provide a buried carbon doped gate structure. The buried carbon doped gate structure provides a very small device with favorable on-resistance, junction capacitance, gate resistance, and gate driving voltage. Other devices and methods are also disclosed.
摘要:
Vertical buried emitter heterojunction bipolar transistors having greatly reduced emitter to base junction area and collector dimensions are fabricated in a gallium arsenide substrate to form an integrated circuit structure. The ability to scale these critical dimensions is made possible by forming a portion of the base along the side walls and bottom of a trench which has been etched in the upper two layers of a layered gallium arsenide structure. The base is formed by implanting beryllium into the surface of an upper layer, the trench sidewalls which are formed in an undoped layer, and the bottom of the trench which is an undoped layer formed on the buried emitter. A GaAs collector layer having reduced lateral dimensions is deposited in the trench and in part, on the surface of the layered structure. Since only a small portion of the base region (the bottom of the trench) is in direct contact with the heavily doped emitter layer, the emitter to base junction area can be significantly reduced. This in turn reduces the capacitance associated with this junction and correspondingly improves device operating speed. By forming a portion of the collector in the trench, the lateral dimensions of the transistor may be reduced and higher levels of device integration are made possible.
摘要:
Bipolar transistors and other electronic structures are fabricated on a gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate to form an integrated circuit device. This process is made possible by development of an ion implant technique which uses an acceptor material to create a P type region, boron or protons to create insulating regions, and silicon or selenium to create an N type region. The process avoids the difficult problems encountered in diffusion methods, and, due to the precise control available with the ion implant method, makes possible the fabrication of IC quality transistors consistently over a substrate. This same control enables the fabrication of integrated circuits with improved device packing density and reduced parasitic parameters.
摘要:
The invention relates to an improved substrate (100) using a layer (112) or region (130) of porous silicon that is created in the bulk silicon substrate material (110) to increase the resistivity of the substrate (100) thus making it suitable for passive component integration directly on the motherboard (200) or chip (230) and useful for high frequency applications due to its low loss, low dielectric properties. One or more passive components such as inductors (214), resistors (212) and capacitors (216) can be integrated on the device (140) over the porous silicon region (130). The high resistivity of the device makes it ideal for integration on a single platform using conventional wafer fab processes since loss at radio frequencies is comparably less when compared to a pure silicon substrate.
摘要:
An resonator circuit and an integrated circuit including the resonator circuit and method of making. A silicon substrate of a first conductivity type (1) is provided and an integrated circuit TFR circuit (23) is formed on a region of the substrate which includes a stack containing a plurality of alternately non-porous (3,7,11) silicon and porous (5,9,13) silicon layers. A method is provided to deposit layers with alternately opposite conductivity type and convert only one conductivity type but not the other into porous silicon materials. Each of these layers generally has the thickness which is one quarter of an acoutic wavelength of the resonator frequency. A noise isolator (17,19) is disposed along the sidewalls of the stack and extends into the substrate. A region of silicon (29) is disposed on the substrate and separated from the reflector by the noise isolator. At least one of an active and/or passive device (27) is disposed on or in said region of silicon. There can additionally or alternatively be at least one passive device disposed over the noise isolator (25) with an interconnect (21) interconnecting the resonator and the at least one of an active and/or passive device and the at least one passive device. The noise isolator can completely surrounds the stack. The noise isolator is preferably porous silicon.
摘要:
A voltage regulator (10) comprising a vertical channel transistor (12). The vertical channel transistor (12) may have a gate (16), a voltage input terminal (18), and a voltage output terminal (20). A reference voltage supply (14) may be coupled to the gate (16).
摘要:
An optical device for sensing properties in an environment such as the presence of a substance or chemical in the zone to be monitored using optical components integrated on a microchip base or substrate. A preferred embodiment introduces a method for fabricating a miniature microchip chemical sensor by integrating a GaAs LED 14 with a polyimide waveguide 48 and a silicon photosensor 16 on the same chip. Light 18 is emitted at the edge of the GaAs LED 14. A portion of the light propagates is detected by a PIN diode 16. A chemical sensitive material 50 is coated on top of a polyimide waveguide 48. When the gas or chemical to which the material is sensitive appears, the light transmitted from the polyimide to air increases, thus the total signal sensed by the photodetector decreases, whereby the change in light signal indicates detection.
摘要翻译:一种光学装置,用于使用集成在微芯片基座或基板上的光学元件在诸如物体或化学物质存在的环境中感测特性。 优选实施例通过在同一芯片上集成GaAs LED 14与聚酰亚胺波导48和硅光电传感器16来引入制造微型微芯片化学传感器的方法。 灯18在GaAs LED 14的边缘处发射。一部分光传播由PIN二极管16检测。化学敏感材料50涂覆在聚酰亚胺波导48的顶部。当气体或化学物质 材料敏感出现,从聚酰亚胺向空气传播的光线增加,光电探测器感测到的总信号减小,光信号变化表示检测。