In situ fabrication of horizontal nanowires and device using same

    公开(公告)号:US11361965B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-14

    申请号:US17074486

    申请日:2020-10-19

    IPC分类号: H01L21/02 H01L29/20 H01L29/06

    摘要: Methods of in situ fabrication and formation of horizontal nanowires for a semiconductor device employ non-catalytic selective area epitaxial growth to selectively grow a semiconductor material in a selective area opening of predefined asymmetrical geometry. The selective area opening is defined in a dielectric layer to expose a semiconductor layer underlying the dielectric layer. The non-catalytic selective area epitaxial growth is performed at a growth temperature sufficient to also in situ form a linear stress crack of nanoscale width that is nucleated from a location in a vicinity of the selective area opening and that propagates in a uniform direction along a crystal plane of the semiconductor layer in both the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer as a linear nanogap template. The semiconductor material is further selectively grown to fill the linear nanogap template to in situ form the nanowire that is uniformly linear.

    Semiconductor device having in situ formed horizontal nanowire structure

    公开(公告)号:US10937650B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-02

    申请号:US16676341

    申请日:2019-11-06

    IPC分类号: H01L21/02 H01L29/20 H01L29/06

    摘要: Methods of in situ fabrication and formation of horizontal nanowires for a semiconductor device employ non-catalytic selective area epitaxial growth to selectively grow a semiconductor material in a selective area opening of predefined asymmetrical geometry. The selective area opening is defined in a dielectric layer to expose a semiconductor layer underlying the dielectric layer. The non-catalytic selective area epitaxial growth is performed at a growth temperature sufficient to also in situ form a linear stress crack of nanoscale width that is nucleated from a location in a vicinity of the selective area opening and that propagates in a uniform direction along a crystal plane of the semiconductor layer in both the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer as a linear nanogap template. The semiconductor material is further selectively grown to fill the linear nanogap template to in situ form the nanowire that is uniformly linear.

    Digital alloy based back barrier for P-channel nitride transistors

    公开(公告)号:US10651306B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-12

    申请号:US15687369

    申请日:2017-08-25

    发明人: Rongming Chu Yu Cao

    摘要: A III-nitride power handling device and the process of making the III-nitride power handling device are disclosed that use digital alloys as back barrier layer to mitigate the strain due to lattice mismatch between the channel layer and the back barrier layer and to provide increased channel conductivity. An embodiment discloses a GaN transistor using a superlattice binary digital alloy as back barrier comprising alternative layers of AlN and GaN. Other embodiments include using superlattice structures with layers of GaN and AlGaN as well as structures using AlGaN/AlGaN stackups that have different Aluminum concentrations. The disclosed device has substantially increased channel conductivity compared to traditional analog alloy back barrier devices.

    Lateral GaN PN junction diode enabled by sidewall regrowth

    公开(公告)号:US10283358B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US15980554

    申请日:2018-05-15

    发明人: Rongming Chu Yu Cao

    摘要: Lateral PN junctions and diodes and transistors comprising lateral PN junctions and methods used in making such devices are disclosed. A method of fabricating a lateral PN junction, can comprise: conformally growing p−GaN material on a n−GaN vertical surface extending vertically from an n−GaN horizontal surface on an n−GaN drift layer to form a first PN junction, wherein the n−GaN horizontal surface extends horizontally from the n−GaN vertical surface and the n−GaN horizontal surface has a layer of dielectric material formed on the n−GaN horizontal surface that extends from the p−GaN surface.

    DIGITAL ALLOY BASED BACK BARRIER FOR P-CHANNEL NITRIDE TRANSISTORS

    公开(公告)号:US20190067464A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-28

    申请号:US15687369

    申请日:2017-08-25

    发明人: Rongming CHU Yu Cao

    摘要: A III-nitride power handling device and the process of making the III-nitride power handling device are disclosed that use digital alloys as back barrier layer to mitigate the strain due to lattice mismatch between the channel layer and the back barrier layer and to provide increased channel conductivity. An embodiment discloses a GaN transistor using a superlattice binary digital alloy as back barrier comprising alternative layers of AlN and GaN. Other embodiments include using superlattice structures with layers of GaN and AlGaN as well as structures using AlGaN/AlGaN stackups that have different Aluminum concentrations. The disclosed device has substantially increased channel conductivity compared to traditional analog alloy back barrier devices.

    Digital alloy based back barrier for P-channel nitride transistors

    公开(公告)号:US10943998B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-09

    申请号:US16829865

    申请日:2020-03-25

    发明人: Rongming Chu Yu Cao

    摘要: A III-nitride power handling device and the process of making the III-nitride power handling device are disclosed that use digital alloys as back barrier layer to mitigate the strain due to lattice mismatch between the channel layer and the back barrier layer and to provide increased channel conductivity. An embodiment discloses a GaN transistor using a superlattice binary digital alloy as back barrier comprising alternative layers of AlN and GaN. Other embodiments include using superlattice structures with layers of GaN and AlGaN as well as structures using AlGaN/AlGaN stackups that have different Aluminum concentrations. The disclosed device has substantially increased channel conductivity compared to traditional analog alloy back barrier devices.

    Doped gate dielectric materials
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10903333B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-26

    申请号:US15663584

    申请日:2017-07-28

    摘要: A field effect transistor having at least a gate, source, and drain electrodes and a semiconductor channel for controlling transport of charge carriers between the source and drain electrodes, the gate being insulated from the channel by an dielectric, at least a portion of the dielectric disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor channel being doped or imbued with the an element which if doped or imbued into a semiconductor material would cause the semiconductor to be p-type. The p-type element used to dope or imbue the gate dielectric is preferably Mg.

    In situ fabrication of horizontal nanowires and device using same

    公开(公告)号:US10535518B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-14

    申请号:US15936255

    申请日:2018-03-26

    IPC分类号: H01L21/02 H01L29/20 H01L29/06

    摘要: Methods of in situ fabrication and formation of horizontal nanowires for a semiconductor device employ non-catalytic selective area epitaxial growth to selectively grow a semiconductor material in a selective area opening of predefined asymmetrical geometry. The selective area opening is defined in a dielectric layer to expose a semiconductor layer underlying the dielectric layer. The non-catalytic selective area epitaxial growth is performed at a growth temperature sufficient to also in situ form a linear stress crack of nanoscale width that is nucleated from a location in a vicinity of the selective area opening and that propagates in a uniform direction along a crystal plane of the semiconductor layer in both the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer as a linear nanogap template. The semiconductor material is further selectively grown to fill the linear nanogap template to in situ form the nanowire that is uniformly linear.