Abstract:
Processes are provided for fabricating a substrate having a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) or silicon-on-nothing (SON) architecture, which are applicable to the manufacture of semiconductor devices, especially transistors such as those of the MOS, CMOS, BICMOS, and HCMOS types. In the fabrication processes, a multilayer stack is grown on a substrate by non-selective full-wafer epitaxy. The multilayer stack includes a silicon layer on a Ge or SiGe layer. Active regions are defined and masked, and insulating pads are formed so as to be located around the perimeter of each of the active regions at predetermined intervals and placed against the sidewalls of the active regions. The insulating trenches are etched, and the SiGe or Ge layer is laterally etched so as to form an empty tunnel under the silicon layer. The trenches are filled with a dielectric. In the case of an SOI archiutecture, the tunnel is filled with a dielectric.
Abstract:
An electronic device, such as an opto-electronic device and an integrated semiconductor memory device, includes at least one integrated memory point structure including a quantum well semiconductor area buried in the substrate of the structure and disposed under the insulated gate of a transistor. A biasing voltage source is adapted to bias the structure to enable charging or discharging of charges in the quantum well or outside the quantum well.
Abstract:
A method for making a MOS transistor includes forming a first gate within a silicon-on-insulator substrate, forming a semiconductor channel region transversely surmounting the first gate, and forming semiconductor drain and source regions on each side of the channel region. The semiconductor channel region and drain and source regions may be produced by epitaxy on an upper surface of the first gate. The channel region may be isolated from the upper surface of the first gate by forming a tunnel under the channel region and at least partially filling the tunnel with a first dielectric. The second gate is formed on the channel region and transverse to the channel region. The second gate may be separated from an upper surface of the channel region by a second dielectric.