摘要:
A CMOS device and process are disclosed in which two types of N-channel MOS transistors are provided, one being formed in a P-well and one being formed outside the P-well where the relatively low doping concentration of P-type substrate serves as a channel defining region. This second type N-channel transistor an support higher junction voltages due to the lower p-type doping concentration than is possible for the first type N-channel transistor formed in the higher doping concentration P-well. A mask is provided to prevent boron doping in the substrate at the site of the high voltage transistor during the implantation step which defines the P-well.
摘要:
The microtips of charge emitting material, which define the cathode of the flat FED screen and face the grid of the screen, are tubular and have portions with a small radius of curvature. The microtips are obtained by forming openings in the dielectric layer separating the cathode connection layer from the grid layer, depositing a conducting material layer to cover the walls of the openings, and anisotropically etching the layer of conducting material to form inwardly-inclined surfaces with emitting tips. Subsequently, the portions of the dielectric layer surrounding the microtips are removed.
摘要:
A process for forming a microtip cathode structure on a field emission display panel which avoids the need of vacuum depositing a lift-off layer for the microtip deposition overstructure in specially equipped reactors to accomplish a deposition at a grazing angle, by co-patterening the lift-off layer together with an underlying metal grid layer using a succession of different etching steps through the openings of a grid definition mask. According to an embodiment, nickel is used as lift-off material and is either wet-etched or sputter-etched before performing a plasma etch of the underlying grid metal layer. According to an alternative embodiment, the masking resist layer is used as lift-off material.
摘要:
A process for forming low threshold voltage P-channel MOS transistors in semiconductor integrated circuits for analog applications, said circuits including high resistivity resistors formed in a layer of polycrystalline silicon and N-channel MOS transistors having active areas which have been obtained by implantation in a P-type well, comprises the steps of,providing a first mask over both said resistors and the semiconductor regions where the low threshold voltage P-channel transistors are to be formed,doping the polycrystalline layer uncovered by said first mask,providing a second mask for protecting the resistors and the semiconductor regions where said low threshold voltage P-channel transistors are to be formed, andN+ implanting the active areas of the N-channel transistors.
摘要:
A nonvolatile, EPROM type memory cell, formed using a p-channel MOS device instead of an n-channel MOS device as customary according to the prior art, offers several advantages: improved programming characteristics, a relatively low gate voltage for writing, a lower power dissipation and above all compatability with the great majority of CMOS fabrication processes. An explanation of such surprising characteristics may be attributed to more favorable conditions of electric field during programming, i.e. during charging of the floating gate, in respect to those existing in the case of the conventional n-channel memory cell.
摘要:
Matrix of memory cells formed using a method allowing for a self-alignment of the respective source region with the respective field oxide layer and the respective overlying polysilicon layer of each single cell of the matrix, the matrix including at least one first ROM memory cell suitable for permanently storing a first logic level, associated with a respective row and a respective column of the matrix, the first cell including a silicon substrate of a first conductivity type over which a first isolation region and a second isolation region are formed delimiting therebetween a longitudinal stripe, a gate element extending transversally through the stripe from at least one side of the first isolation region to at least one side of the second isolation region, a third region of a second conductivity type and a fourth region of a second conductivity type formed in the substrate along the stripe, and a field oxide region adapted to prevent the formation of a conductive channel in the substrate, and at least a second ROM cell for permanently storing a second logic level, identical to the first ROM memory cell but not provided with the field oxide region.
摘要:
Nonuniformities of luminance characteristics in a field emission display (FED) are compensated pixel by pixel by storing a matrix of correction values, determined by testing, and by applying a corrected drive signal through the relative column drive stages. The individual pixel's correction factor that is applied to the corresponding video signal may be stored in digital or analog form in a nonvolatile memory array. Various embodiments are described including the use of a second updatable RAM array wherein pixel's correction factors are calculated and stored at every power-on to provide an opportunity of trimming-up the luminance of the display for compensating long term decline of luminance due to the phosphors ageing process.
摘要:
A monolithic integrated circuit of either the MOS or CMOS type comprises an intermediate layer of polycrystalline silicon, a layer of a silicide of a refractory metal overlying said polycrystalline silicon layer, and regions of preset area and preset paths formed in the polycrystalline silicon layer and the silicide layer; the preset area regions and preset paths forming respectively high resistivity resistances and low resistivity interconnection lines for an intermediate connection level.
摘要:
A semiconductor substrate has active areas bounded by portions of an insulating layer. A thin layer of tunnel oxide is formed on the substrate and a first layer of conductive material is then deposited. Non-volatile memory cells are manufactured thereon by defining floating gate regions. The definition of these floating gate regions involves defining the first layer of conductive material in order to form a plurality of alternated stripes above pairs of active areas alternated by active areas lacking stripes. Spacers are then formed in the shelter of the side walls of the alternated stripes. A second layer of conductive material is then deposited together with the first layer of conductive material. The spacers are then selectively removed.
摘要:
Embodiments of this invention relate to a method for manufacturing isolation structures with different depths in a monolithically integrated semiconductor electronic device. An inventive method according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a first step of defining active areas on a semiconductor material substrate, a second step of forming isolation structures by realising trenches in said substrate and then filling them with field oxide, a third step of defining lithographically at least a first device area, and a fourth step of realising a digging in the substrate and in the field oxide of said first device area.