Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for forming semiconductor structures including resistors between gates on self-aligned gate edge architecture. A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor fin extending in a first direction, and a second semiconductor fin adjacent to the first semiconductor fin, extending in the first direction. A first gate structure is disposed proximal to a first end of the first semiconductor fin and over the first semiconductor fin in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, and a second gate structure is disposed proximal to a second end of the first semiconductor fin and over the first semiconductor fin in the second direction. A first structure comprising isolation material is centered between the first and second semiconductor fins. A second structure comprising resistive material is disposed in the first structure, the second structure extending at least between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
Abstract:
Memory cells having isolated charge sites and methods of fabricating memory cells having isolated charge sites are described. In an example, a nonvolatile charge trap memory device includes a substrate having a channel region, a source region and a drain region. A gate stack is disposed above the substrate, over the channel region. The gate stack includes a tunnel dielectric layer disposed above the channel region, a first charge-trapping region and a second charge-trapping region. The regions are disposed above the tunnel dielectric layer and separated by a distance. The gate stack also includes an isolating dielectric layer disposed above the tunnel dielectric layer and between the first charge-trapping region and the second charge-trapping region. A gate dielectric layer is disposed above the first charge-trapping region, the second charge-trapping region and the isolating dielectric layer. A gate electrode is disposed above the gate dielectric layer.
Abstract:
Techniques and circuitry are disclosed for efficiently implementing programmable memory array circuit architectures, including both non-volatile and volatile memories. The memory circuitry employs an antifuse scheme that includes an array of 1T bitcells, wherein each bitcell effectively contains one gate or transistor-like device that provides both an antifuse element and a selector device for that bitcell. In particular, the bitcell device has asymmetric trench-based source/drain contacts such that one contact forms a capacitor in conjunction with the spacer and gate metal, and the other contact forms a diode in conjunction with a doped diffusion area and the gate metal. The capacitor serves as the antifuse element of the bitcell, and can be programmed by breaking down the spacer. The diode effectively provides a Schottky junction that serves as a selector device which can eliminate program and read disturbs from bitcells sharing the same bitline/wordline.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for forming a planar-like transistor device on a fin-based field-effect transistor (finFET) architecture during a finFET fabrication process flow. In some embodiments, the planar-like transistor can include, for example, a semiconductor layer which is grown to locally merge/bridge a plurality of adjacent fins of the finFET architecture and subsequently planarized to provide a high-quality planar surface on which the planar-like transistor can be formed. In some instances, the semiconductor merging layer can be a bridged-epi growth, for example, comprising epitaxial silicon. In some embodiments, such a planar-like device may assist, for example, with analog, high-voltage, wide-Z transistor fabrication. Also, provision of such a planar-like device during a finFET flow may allow for the formation of transistor devices, for example, exhibiting lower capacitance, wider Z, and/or fewer high electric field locations for improved high-voltage reliability, which may make such devices favorable for analog design, in some instances.
Abstract:
Low leakage non-planar access transistors for embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) and methods of fabricating low leakage non-planar access transistors for eDRAM are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor fin disposed above a substrate and including a narrow fin region disposed between two wide fin regions. A gate electrode stack is disposed conformal with the narrow fin region of the semiconductor fin, the gate electrode stack including a gate electrode disposed on a gate dielectric layer. The gate dielectric layer includes a lower layer and an upper layer, the lower layer composed of an oxide of the semiconductor fin. A pair of source/drain regions is included, each of the source/drain regions disposed in a corresponding one of the wide fin regions.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for providing on-chip capacitance using through-body-vias (TBVs). In accordance with some embodiments, a TBV may be formed within a semiconductor layer, and a dielectric layer may be formed between the TBV and the surrounding semiconductor layer. The TBV may serve as one electrode (e.g., anode) of a TBV capacitor, and the dielectric layer may serve as the dielectric body of that TBV capacitor. In some embodiments, the semiconductor layer serves as the other electrode (e.g., cathode) of the TBV capacitor. To that end, in some embodiments, the entire semiconductor layer may comprise a low-resistivity material, whereas in some other embodiments, low-resistivity region(s) may be provided just along the sidewalls local to the TBV, for example, by selective doping in those location(s). In other embodiments, a conductive layer formed between the dielectric layer and the semiconductor layer serves as the other electrode (e.g., cathode) of the TBV capacitor.
Abstract:
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a non-planar fm 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 fmFET. Other embodiments are described herein.
Abstract:
Non-planar semiconductor devices having self-aligned fins with top blocking layers and methods of fabricating non-planar semiconductor devices having self-aligned fins with top blocking layers are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor fin disposed above a semiconductor substrate and having a top surface. An isolation layer is disposed on either side of the semiconductor fin, and recessed below the top surface of the semiconductor fin to provide a protruding portion of the semiconductor fin. The protruding portion has sidewalls and the top surface. A gate blocking layer has a first portion disposed on at least a portion of the top surface of the semiconductor fin, and has a second portion disposed on at least a portion of the sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The first portion of the gate blocking layer is continuous with, but thicker than, the second portion of the gate blocking layer. A gate stack is disposed on the first and second portions of the gate blocking layer.
Abstract:
A high-voltage transistor structure is provided that includes a self-aligned isolation feature between the gate and drain. Normally, the isolation feature is not self-aligned. The self-aligned isolation process can be integrated into standard CMOS process technology. In one example embodiment, the drain of the transistor structure is positioned one pitch away from the active gate, with an intervening dummy gate structure formed between the drain and active gate structure. The dummy gate structure is sacrificial in nature and can be utilized to create a self-aligned isolation recess, wherein the gate spacer effectively provides a template for etching the isolation recess. This self-aligned isolation forming process eliminates a number of the variation and dimensional constraints attendant non-aligned isolation forming techniques, which in turn allows for smaller footprint and tighter alignment so as to reduce device variation. The structure and forming techniques are compatible with both planar and non-planar transistor architectures.
Abstract:
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a non-planar transistor comprising a fin, the fin including a source region having a source region width and a source region height, a channel region having a channel region width and a channel region height, a drain region having a drain width and a drain height, and a gate dielectric formed on a sidewall of the channel region; wherein the apparatus includes at least one of (a) the channel region width being wider than the source region width, and (b) the gate dielectric including a first gate dielectric thickness at a first location and a second gate dielectric thickness at a second location, the first and second locations located at an equivalent height on the sidewall and the first and second gate dielectrics thicknesses being unequal to one another. Other embodiments are described herein.