摘要:
A method is provided for fabricating a transistor. According to the method, a doped material layer is formed on a semiconductor layer, and dopant is diffused from the doped material layer into the semiconductor layer to form a graded dopant region in the semiconductor layer. The graded dopant region has a higher doping concentration near a top surface of the semiconductor layer and a lower doping concentration near a bottom surface of the semiconductor layer, with a gradual decrease in the doping concentration. The doped material layer is removed, and then a gate stack is formed on the semiconductor layer. Source and drain regions are formed adjacent to an active area that is in the semiconductor layer underneath the gate stack. The active area comprises at least a portion of the graded dopant region, and the source and drain regions and the active area have the same conductivity type.
摘要:
A method is provided to convert commercial microprocessors to radiation-hardened processors and, more particularly, a method is provided to modify a commercial microprocessor for radiation hardened applications with minimal changes to the technology, design, device, and process base so as to facilitate a rapid transition for such radiation hardened applications. The method is implemented in a computing infrastructure and includes evaluating a probability that one or more components of an existing commercial design will be affected by a single event upset (SEU). The method further includes replacing the one or more components with a component immune to the SEU to create a final device.