公开(公告)号：US11610971B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-21

申请号：US16222976

申请日：2018-12-17

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Han Wui Then ,  Nidhi Nidhi ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Johann Rode ,  Paul Fischer ,  Walid Hafez

IPC分类号： H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/10 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L21/02 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L21/762 ,  H01L29/08 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/207

摘要： An integrated circuit structure comprises a base layer that includes a channel region, wherein the base layer and the channel region include group III-V semiconductor material. A polarization layer stack is over the base layer, wherein the polarization layer stack comprises a buffer stack, an interlayer over the buffer stack, a polarization layer over the interlayer. A cap layer stack is over the polarization layer to reduce transistor access resistance.

公开(公告)号：US11502191B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-15

申请号：US16275631

申请日：2019-02-14

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Johann Christian Rode ,  Nidhi Nidhi ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Han Wui Then ,  Walid M. Hafez

IPC分类号： H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/40

摘要： Disclosed herein are IC structures that implement field plates for III-N transistors in a form of electrically conductive structures provided in a III-N semiconductor material below the polarization layer (i.e., at the “backside” of an IC structure). In some embodiments, such a field plate may be implemented as a through-silicon via (TSV) extending from the back/bottom face of the substrate towards the III-N semiconductor material. Implementing field plates at the backside may provide a viable approach to changing the distribution of electric field at a transistor drain and increasing the breakdown voltage of an III-N transistor without incurring the large parasitic capacitances associated with the use of metal field plates provided above the polarization material. In addition, backside field plates may serve as a back barrier for advantageously reducing drain-induced barrier lowering.

公开(公告)号：US11450617B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-20

申请号：US16354241

申请日：2019-03-15

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Nidhi Nidhi ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC分类号： H01L23/552 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/207 ,  H01L23/66 ,  H01L29/20

摘要： IC structures that include transmission line structures to be integrated with III-N devices are disclosed. An example transmission line structure includes a transmission line of an electrically conductive material provided above a stack of a III-N semiconductor material and a polarization material. The transmission line structure further includes means for reducing electromagnetic coupling between the line and charge carriers present below the interface of the polarization material and the III-N semiconductor material. In some embodiments, said means include a shield material of a metal or a doped semiconductor provided over portions of the polarization material that are under the transmission line. In other embodiments, said means include dopant atoms implanted into the portions of the polarization material that are under the transmission line, and into at least an upper portion of the III-N semiconductor material under such portions of the polarization material.

公开(公告)号：US20200373297A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16419240

申请日：2019-05-22

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC分类号： H01L27/088 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/40 ,  H01L25/065 ,  H01L23/31 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L29/778

摘要： Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistor-based cascode arrangements that may simultaneously realize enhancement mode transistor operation and high voltage capability. In one aspect, an IC structure includes a source region, a drain region, an enhancement mode III-N transistor, and a depletion mode III-N transistor, where each of the transistors includes a first and a second source or drain (S/D) terminals. The transistors are arranged in a cascode arrangement in that the first S/D terminal of the enhancement mode III-N transistor is coupled to the source region, the second S/D terminal of the enhancement mode III-N transistor is coupled to the first S/D terminal of the depletion mode III-N transistor, and the second S/D terminal of the depletion mode III-N transistor is coupled to the drain region.

公开(公告)号：US10164115B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-25

申请号：US15127850

申请日：2014-06-27

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Neville L. Dias ,  Chia-Hong Jan ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Roman W. Olac-Vaw ,  Hsu-Yu Chang ,  Ting Chang ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Pei-Chi Liu

IPC分类号： H01L29/78 ,  H03D7/14 ,  H01L21/8234 ,  H01L27/088 ,  H01L29/06 ,  H01L29/08 ,  H01L29/10 ,  H01L21/84 ,  H01L27/12 ,  H03D7/16 ,  H01L29/417

摘要： An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a non-planar fin having first, second, and third portions each having major and minor axes and each being monolithic with each other; wherein (a) the major axes of the first, second, and third portions are parallel with each other, (b) the major axes of the first and second portions are non-collinear with each other, (c) each of the first, second, and third portions include a node of a transistor selected from the group comprising source, drain, and channel, (e) the first, second, and third portions comprise at least one finFET. Other embodiments are described herein.

公开(公告)号：US12089411B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-10

申请号：US16910020

申请日：2020-06-23

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Tanuj Trivedi ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Rohan Bambery ,  Daniel B. O'Brien ,  Christopher Alan Nolph ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Ting Chang

IPC分类号： H01L29/78 ,  H01L21/28 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/792 ,  H01L49/02 ,  H10B43/30

CPC分类号： H10B43/30 ,  H01L28/60 ,  H01L29/40117 ,  H01L29/66795 ,  H01L29/66833 ,  H01L29/7851 ,  H01L29/792

摘要： Embodiments disclosed herein include a semiconductor device and methods of forming such a device. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a substrate and a transistor on the substrate. In an embodiment, the transistor comprises a first gate electrode, where the first gate electrode is part of a first array of gate electrodes with a first pitch. In an embodiment, the first gate electrode has a first average grain size. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device further comprises a component cell on the substrate. In an embodiment, the component cell comprises a second gate electrode, where the second gate electrode is part of a second array of gate electrodes with a second pitch that is larger than the first pitch. In an embodiment, the second gate electrode has a second average grain size that is larger than the first average grain size.

公开(公告)号：US12027613B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-02

申请号：US16419179

申请日：2019-05-22

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC分类号： H01L29/778 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L23/31 ,  H01L25/065 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/51

CPC分类号： H01L29/7786 ,  H01L23/3128 ,  H01L24/09 ,  H01L24/17 ,  H01L25/0655 ,  H01L29/2003 ,  H01L29/517 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L2224/0401 ,  H01L2924/13064

摘要： Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistor arrangements that may reduce nonlinearity of off-state capacitance of the III-N transistors. In various aspects, III-N transistor arrangements limit the extent of access regions of the transistors, compared to conventional implementations, which may limit the depletion of the access regions. Due to the limited extent of the depletion regions of a transistor, the off-state capacitance may exhibit less variability in values across different gate-source voltages and, hence, exhibit a more linear behavior during operation.

公开(公告)号：US11715790B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-01

申请号：US16390819

申请日：2019-04-22

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Yang Cao ,  Han Wui Then ,  Johann Christian Rode ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Paul B. Fischer

IPC分类号： H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/49 ,  H01L29/45 ,  H01L21/02 ,  H01L29/808 ,  H01L29/10

CPC分类号： H01L29/7786 ,  H01L21/0254 ,  H01L21/02458 ,  H01L29/2003 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/452 ,  H01L29/49 ,  H01L29/4925 ,  H01L29/66462 ,  H01L29/7781 ,  H01L29/808 ,  H01L29/1066

摘要： Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistors implementing various means by which their threshold voltage it tuned. In some embodiments, a III-N transistor may include a doped semiconductor material or a fixed charge material included in a gate stack of the transistor. In other embodiments, a III-N transistor may include a doped semiconductor material or a fixed charge material included between a gate stack and a III-N channel stack of the transistor. Including doped semiconductor or fixed charge materials either in the gate stack or between the gate stack and the III-N channel stack of III-N transistors adds charges, which affects the amount of 2DEG and, therefore, affects the threshold voltages of these transistors.

公开(公告)号：US11527532B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-13

申请号：US16419240

申请日：2019-05-22

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC分类号： H01L29/66 ,  H01L27/088 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/40 ,  H01L23/31 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L25/065

摘要： Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistor-based cascode arrangements that may simultaneously realize enhancement mode transistor operation and high voltage capability. In one aspect, an IC structure includes a source region, a drain region, an enhancement mode III-N transistor, and a depletion mode III-N transistor, where each of the transistors includes a first and a second source or drain (S/D) terminals. The transistors are arranged in a cascode arrangement in that the first S/D terminal of the enhancement mode III-N transistor is coupled to the source region, the second S/D terminal of the enhancement mode III-N transistor is coupled to the first S/D terminal of the depletion mode III-N transistor, and the second S/D terminal of the depletion mode III-N transistor is coupled to the drain region.

公开(公告)号：US11094782B1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-17

申请号：US16795081

申请日：2020-02-19

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Tanuj Trivedi ,  Jeong Dong Kim ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Hsu-Yu Chang ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Ting Chang ,  Babak Fallahazad

IPC分类号： H01L29/06 ,  H01L29/10 ,  H01L27/088 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/08

摘要： Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first vertical arrangement of nanowires and a second vertical arrangement of nanowires above a substrate, the first vertical arrangement of nanowires having a greater number of active nanowires than the second vertical arrangement of nanowires, and the first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires having co-planar uppermost nanowires. The integrated circuit structure also includes a first vertical arrangement of nanoribbons and a second vertical arrangement of nanoribbons above the substrate, the first vertical arrangement of nanoribbons having a greater number of active nanoribbons than the second vertical arrangement of nanoribbons, and the first and second vertical arrangements of nanoribbons having co-planar uppermost nanoribbons.