摘要:
Segmented semiconductor nanowires are manufactured by removal of material from a layered structure of two or more semiconductor materials in the absence of a template. The removal takes place at some locations on the surface of the layered structure and continues preferentially along the direction of a crystallographic axis, such that nanowires with a segmented structure remain at locations where little or no removal occurs. The interface between different segments can be perpendicular to or at angle with the longitudinal direction of the nanowire.
摘要:
Segmented semiconductor nanowires are manufactured by removal of material from a layered structure of two or more semiconductor materials in the absence of a template. The removal takes place at some locations on the surface of the layered structure and continues preferentially along the direction of a crystallographic axis, such that nanowires with a segmented structure remain at locations where little or no removal occurs. The interface between different segments can be perpendicular to or at angle with the longitudinal direction of the nanowire.
摘要:
Segmented semiconductor nanowires are manufactured by removal of material from a layered structure of two or more semiconductor materials in the absence of a template. The removal takes place at some locations on the surface of the layered structure and continues preferentially along the direction of a crystallographic axis, such that nanowires with a segmented structure remain at locations where little or no removal occurs. The interface between different segments can be perpendicular to or at angle with the longitudinal direction of the nanowire.
摘要:
Segmented semiconductor nanowires are manufactured by removal of material from a layered structure of two or more semiconductor materials in the absence of a template. The removal takes place at some locations on the surface of the layered structure and continues preferentially along the direction of a crystallographic axis, such that nanowires with a segmented structure remain at locations where little or no removal occurs. The interface between different segments can be perpendicular to or at angle with the longitudinal direction of the nanowire.
摘要:
A method of patterning magnetic devices and sensors by double etching, which includes forming a layer of dielectric on a substrate; depositing a thin adhesion layer and a thin seed layer; applying a thin resist frame to pattern a structure; cleaning the metal surface to prepare for plating; electroplating to fill up the structure and the uncovered field area, which uses a paddle cell with a permanent magnet providing magnetic field to induce magnetic orientation; stripping the resist frame; etching the seed layer/adhesion layer exposed below the resist frame down to the dielectric surface; etching the rest of magnetic materials and the seed layer using electrolytic etching in the field; etching the adhesion layer in the field, and repeating the steps for building structures with multiple levels.
摘要:
Alternative additives that can be used in place of isopropyl alcohol in aqueous alkaline etchant solutions for texturing a surface of a single-crystalline silicon substrate are provided. The alternative additives do not have volatile constituents, yet can be used in an aqueous alkaline etchant solution to provide a pyramidal shaped texture surface to the single-crystalline silicon substrate that is exposed to such an etchant solution. Also provided is a method of forming a textured silicon surface. The method includes immersing a single-crystalline silicon substrate into an etchant solution to form a pyramid shaped textured surface on the single-crystalline silicon substrate. The etchant solution includes an alkaline component, silicon (etched into the solution as a bath conditioner) and glycerol or ethylene glycol as an additive. The textured surface of the single-crystalline silicon substrate has (111) faces that are now exposed.
摘要:
A cost-effective and simple method of fabricating strained semiconductor-on-insulator (SSOI) structures which avoids epitaxial growth and subsequent wafer bonding processing steps is provided. In accordance with the present invention, a strain-memorization technique is used to create strained semiconductor regions on a SOI substrate. The transistors formed on the strained semiconductor regions have higher carrier mobility because the Si regions have been strained. The inventive method includes (i) ion implantation to create a thin amorphization layer, (ii) deposition of a high stress film on the amorphization layer, (iii) a thermal anneal to recrystallize the amorphization layer, and (iv) removal of the stress film. Because the SOI substrate was under stress during the recrystallization process, the final semiconductor layer will be under stress as well. The amount of stress and the polaity (tensile or compressive) of the stress can be controlled by the type and thickness of the stress films.
摘要:
A trench is formed by an anisotropic etch in a semiconductor material layer employing a masking layer, which can be gate spacers. In one embodiment, an adsorbed fluorine layer is provided at a cryogenic temperature only on vertical sidewalls of the semiconductor structure including the sidewalls of the trench. The adsorbed fluorine layer removes a controlled amount of the underlying semiconductor material once the temperature is raised above the cryogenic temperature. The trench can be filled with another semiconductor material to generate stress in the semiconductor material layer. In another embodiment, the semiconductor material is laterally etched by a plasma-based etch at a controlled rate while a horizontal portion of a contiguous oxide liner prevents etch of the semiconductor material from the bottom surface of the trench.
摘要:
A trench is formed by an anisotropic etch in a semiconductor material layer employing a masking layer, which can be gate spacers. In one embodiment, an adsorbed fluorine layer is provided at a cryogenic temperature only on vertical sidewalls of the semiconductor structure including the sidewalls of the trench. The adsorbed fluorine layer removes a controlled amount of the underlying semiconductor material once the temperature is raised above the cryogenic temperature. The trench can be filled with another semiconductor material to generate stress in the semiconductor material layer. In another embodiment, the semiconductor material is laterally etched by a plasma-based etch at a controlled rate while a horizontal portion of a contiguous oxide liner prevents etch of the semiconductor material from the bottom surface of the trench.
摘要:
A method for layer transfer using a boron-doped silicon germanium (SiGe) layer includes forming a boron-doped SiGe layer on a bulk silicon substrate; forming an upper silicon (Si) layer over the boron-doped SiGe layer; hydrogenating the boron-doped SiGe layer; bonding the upper Si layer to an alternate substrate; and propagating a fracture at an interface between the boron-doped SiGe layer and the bulk silicon substrate. A system for layer transfer using a boron-doped silicon germanium (SiGe) layer includes a bulk silicon substrate; a boron-doped SiGe layer formed on the bulk silicon substrate, such that the boron-doped SiGe layer is located underneath an upper silicon (Si) layer, wherein the boron-doped SiGe layer is configured to propagate a fracture at an interface between the boron-doped SiGe layer and the bulk silicon substrate after hydrogenation of the boron-doped SiGe layer; and an alternate substrate bonded to the upper Si layer.