Abstract:
A process for manufacturing an SOI wafer, including the steps of: forming, in a wafer of semiconductor material, cavities delimiting structures of semiconductor material; thinning out the structures through a thermal process; and completely oxidizing the structures.
Abstract:
A process for manufacturing an SOI wafer, including the steps of: forming, in a wafer of semiconductor material, cavities delimiting structures of semiconductor material; thinning out the structures through a thermal process; and completely oxidizing the structures.
Abstract:
A process for manufacturing a suspended structure of semiconductor material envisages the steps of: providing a monolithic body of semiconductor material having a front face; forming a buried cavity within the monolithic body, extending at a distance from the front face and delimiting, with the front face, a surface region of the monolithic body, said surface region having a first thickness; carrying out a thickening thermal treatment such as to cause a migration of semiconductor material of the monolithic body towards the surface region and thus form a suspended structure above the buried cavity, the suspended structure having a second thickness greater than the first thickness. The thickening thermal treatment is an annealing treatment.
Abstract:
A process for manufacturing an integrated differential pressure sensor includes forming, in a monolithic body of semiconductor material having a first face and a second face, a cavity extending at a distance from the first face and delimiting therewith a flexible membrane, forming an access passage in fluid communication with the cavity, and forming, in the flexible membrane, at least one transduction element configured so as to convert a deformation of the flexible membrane into electrical signals. The cavity is formed in a position set at a distance from the second face and delimits, together with the second face, a portion of the monolithic body. In order to form the access passage, the monolithic body is etched so as to form an access trench extending through it.
Abstract:
The microreactor is formed by a sandwich including a first body, an intermediate sealing layer and a second body. A buried channel extends in the first body and communicates with the surface of the first body through a first and a second apertures. A first and a second reservoirs are formed in the second body and are at least partially aligned with the first and second apertures. The sealing layer separates the first aperture from the first reservoir and the second aperture from the second reservoir, thereby avoiding contamination of liquids contained in the buried channel from the outside and from any adjacent buried channels. The sealing layer is perforated during use of the device, but a resilient plug can be used to reseal the device.
Abstract:
Zener diode with high stability in time and low noise for integrated circuits and provided in an epitaxial pocket insulated from the rest of a type N epitaxial layer grown on a substrate of type P semiconductor material. In said pocket are included a type N+ cathode region and a type P anode region enclosing it. The cathode region has a peripheral part surrounding a central part extending in the anode region less deeply than the peripheral part.
Abstract:
The breakdown characteristics of a lateral transistor integrated in an epitaxial layer of a first type of conductivity grown on a substrate of an opposite type of conductivity and comprising a drain region formed in said epitaxial layer, are markedly improved without recurring to critical adjustments of physical parameters of the integrated structure by forming a buried region having the same type of conductivity of the substrate and a slightly higher level of doping at the interface between the epitaxial layer and the substrate in a zone laying beneath the drain region of the transistor.
Abstract:
A vertical, isolated-collector transistor of the pnp type comprises an island doped similarly to the collector region and formed in the surface epitaxial layer of the transistor between that collector region and one of the isolation zones. That island extends in depth to penetrate a similarly doped intermediate region and short out the epitaxial layer included between the isolating layer and the collector region so as to suppress the effects of active parasitic junction components by holding a transistor and a silicon-controlled rectifier of parasitic types, as nesting within the structure of the vertical pnp transistor, in a cut-off state.
Abstract:
A power transistor with self-protection against direct secondary breakdown comprises a plurality of elementary transistors having their emitter terminals mutually connected and forming a common emitter terminal, collector terminals also mutually connected and forming a common collector terminal, and base terminals connected to at least one current source. Switches are furthermore provided selectively associated with some of the elementary transistors, preferably with one elementary transistor every two, and allowing operation of the associated elementary transistors in the saturation operating region and switching off the associated elementary transistors during high-voltage operation.
Abstract:
A buried-resistance semiconductor device is constructed by forming a P-type monocrystalline silicon substrate on which an epitaxial layer of silicon doped with type N impurities is grown, a portion of the epitaxial layer being insulated by a P-type insulating region extending from the substrate to the surface of the epitaxial layer. Two suitably-spaced terminals are secured to the surface of the epitaxial layer in the area bounded by the insulating region. Two separation regions extending into the surface layer are formed in the part of the epitaxial layer between the terminals, and a buried region extends from the substrate between the separation regions without being in contact with them. The three regions are of P-type material, and have an elongated shape and are bounded at the ends by the insulating region.