NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUIT STRUCTURE AND METHOD TO FORM SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20200272880A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-27

    申请号:US16283887

    申请日:2019-02-25

    摘要: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a neuromorphic circuit structure including: a first vertically-extending neural node configured to generate an output signal based on at least one input to the first vertically-extending neural node; an interconnect stack adjacent the vertically-extending neural node, the interconnect stack including a first conducting line coupled to the first vertically-extending neural node and configured to receive the output signal, a second conducting line vertically separated from the first conducting line, and a memory via vertically coupling the first conducting line to the second conducting line; and a second vertically-extending neural node adjacent the interconnect stack, and coupled to the second conducting line for receiving the output signal from the first vertically-extending neural node.

    CAVITY FORMATION WITHIN AND UNDER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20190287847A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US15924444

    申请日:2018-03-19

    摘要: Structures with a cavity beneath semiconductor devices and methods associated with forming such substrates. A first semiconductor layer is formed on a first side of a first handle wafer. A device structure is formed that is arranged at least in part in the first semiconductor layer. After forming the device structure, the first handle wafer is thinned from a second side of the first handle wafer opposite to the first side of the first handle wafer in order to form a second semiconductor layer from the first handle wafer. After thinning the first handle wafer, a cavity is formed in the second semiconductor layer. The cavity is arranged in the second semiconductor layer beneath the device structure. A second handle wafer is attached to the second semiconductor layer to close the cavity.

    Shallow trench isolation formation without planarization

    公开(公告)号:US10163679B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-25

    申请号:US15609742

    申请日:2017-05-31

    摘要: Structures for shallow trench isolation regions and methods for forming shallow trench isolation regions. A trench is etched partially through a device layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate. A section of the device layer at a bottom of the trench is thermally oxidized to form a shallow trench isolation region in the trench. During the thermal oxidation, another region of the device layer may be concurrently oxidized over a partial thickness and, after removal of the oxide from this device layer region, used as a thinned silicon body. Prior to the thermal oxidation process, this device layer region may be implanted with an oxidation-retarding species that decreases its oxidation rate in comparison with the oxidation rate of the section of the device layer used to form the shallow trench isolation region.