公开(公告)号：US6137128A

公开(公告)日：2000-10-24

申请号：US94383

申请日：1998-06-09

申请人： Steven John Holmes ,  Howard Leo Kalter ,  Sandip Tiwari ,  Jeffrey John Welser

发明人： Steven John Holmes ,  Howard Leo Kalter ,  Sandip Tiwari ,  Jeffrey John Welser

IPC分类号： H01L21/8242 ,  H01L27/108 ,  H01L29/94 ,  H01L29/76 ,  H01L31/119

CPC分类号： H01L27/10864 ,  H01L29/945 ,  H01L27/10823 ,  H01L27/1087

摘要： A densely packed array of vertical semiconductor devices, having pillars, deep trench capacitors, vertical transistors, and methods of making thereof are disclosed. The pillars act as transistor channels, and may be formed utilizing the application of hybrid resist over a block of semiconductor material. Drain doped regions are formed on the top of each pillar. The source doped regions and the plate doped regions are self-aligned and are created by diffusion in the trenches surrounding the pillars. The array has columns of bitlines and rows of wordlines. The capacitors are formed by isolating n.sup.+ polysilicon in trenches separating said pillars. The array is suitable for GBit DRAM applications because the deep trench capacitors do not increase array area. The array may have an open bitline architecture, where the plate region is common to all the storage nodes or a folded architecture with two wordlines that pass through each cell having stacked transistors, where one wordline is active and the other is passing for each cell.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种密集堆叠的垂直半导体器件阵列，具有支柱，深沟槽电容器，垂直晶体管及其制造方法。 支柱用作晶体管通道，并且可以利用在半导体材料块上施加混合抗蚀剂来形成。 在每个支柱的顶部形成漏极掺杂区域。 源掺杂区域和板掺杂区域是自对准的，并且通过在柱子周围的沟槽中的扩散而产生。 该阵列具有位线和字线行。 通过在分离所述柱的沟槽中隔离n +多晶硅来形成电容器。 该阵列适用于GBit DRAM应用，因为深沟槽电容器不增加阵列面积。 阵列可以具有开放的位线架构，其中板区域对于所有存储节点是公共的，或者具有两个字线的折叠结构，其中两个字线通过具有堆叠晶体管的每个单元，其中一个字线是活动的，而另一个字线通过每个单元。

公开(公告)号：US06316309B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-13

申请号：US09626332

申请日：2000-07-26

申请人： Steven John Holmes ,  Howard Leo Kalter ,  Sandip Tiwari ,  Jeffrey John Welser

发明人： Steven John Holmes ,  Howard Leo Kalter ,  Sandip Tiwari ,  Jeffrey John Welser

IPC分类号： H01L218242

CPC分类号： H01L27/10864 ,  H01L27/10823 ,  H01L27/1087 ,  H01L29/945

摘要： A densely packed array of vertical semiconductor devices, having pillars, deep trench capacitors, vertical transistors, and methods of making thereof are disclosed. The pillars act as transistor channels, and may be formed utilizing the application of hybrid resist over a block of semiconductor material. Drain doped regions are formed on the top of each pillar. The source doped regions and the plate doped regions are self-aligned and are created by diffusion in the trenches surrounding the pillars. The array has columns of bitlines and rows of wordlines. The capacitors are formed by isolating n+ polysilicon in trenches separating said pillars. The array is suitable for GBit DRAM applications because the deep trench capacitors do not increase array area. The array may have an open bitline architecture, where the plate region is common to all the storage nodes or a folded architecture with two wordlines that pass through each cell having stacked transistors, where one wordline is active and the other is passing for each cell.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种密集堆叠的垂直半导体器件阵列，具有支柱，深沟槽电容器，垂直晶体管及其制造方法。 支柱用作晶体管通道，并且可以利用在半导体材料块上施加混合抗蚀剂来形成。 在每个支柱的顶部形成漏极掺杂区域。 源掺杂区域和板掺杂区域是自对准的，并且通过在柱子周围的沟槽中的扩散而产生。 该阵列具有位线和字线行。 通过在分离所述柱的沟槽中隔离n +多晶硅来形成电容器。 该阵列适用于GBit DRAM应用，因为深沟槽电容器不增加阵列面积。 阵列可以具有开放的位线架构，其中板区域对于所有存储节点是公共的，或者具有两个字线的折叠结构，其中两个字线通过具有堆叠晶体管的每个单元，其中一个字线是活动的，而另一个字线通过每个单元。

公开(公告)号：US06583462B1

公开(公告)日：2003-06-24

申请号：US09702338

申请日：2000-10-31

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Rajarao Jammy ,  Thomas Kanarsky ,  Jeffrey John Welser ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Steven John Holmes ,  Mark Charles Hakey

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Rajarao Jammy ,  Thomas Kanarsky ,  Jeffrey John Welser ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Steven John Holmes ,  Mark Charles Hakey

IPC分类号： H01L27108

CPC分类号： H01L27/10864 ,  H01L27/10841 ,  H01L27/10867

摘要： A dynamic random access memory device formed in a substrate having a trench. The trench has a side wall, a top, a lower portion, and a circumference. The device includes a signal storage node including a metallic storage node conductor formed in the lower portion of the trench and isolated from the side wall by a node dielectric and a collar oxide above the node dielectric. Preferably, the trench has an aspect ratio of greater than 50. A buried strap is coupled to the storage node conductor and contacts a portion of the side wall of the trench above the collar oxide. A trench-top dielectric which is formed upon the buried strap has a trench-top dielectric thickness. A signal transfer device includes a first diffusion region extending into the substrate adjacent the portion of the trench side wall contacted by the buried strap, a gate insulator having a gate insulator thickness formed on the trench side wall above the first buried strap, wherein the gate insulator thickness is less than the trench-top dielectric thickness, and a gate conductor formed within the trench upon the trench-top dielectric and adjacent the gate insulator.

摘要翻译： 形成在具有沟槽的衬底中的动态随机存取存储器件。 沟槽具有侧壁，顶部，下部和圆周。 该装置包括信号存储节点，该信号存储节点包括形成在沟槽下部的金属存储节点导体，并通过节点电介质和节点电介质上方的环形氧化物与侧壁隔离。 优选地，沟槽具有大于50的纵横比。掩埋带耦合到存储节点导体并且接触环形氧化物上方的沟槽的侧壁的一部分。 形成在掩埋带上的沟槽电介质具有沟槽顶部的电介质厚度。 信号传送装置包括：第一扩散区域，其延伸到与所述掩埋带接触的所述沟槽侧壁的所述部分相邻的所述衬底;门绝缘体，其具有形成在所述第一掩埋带的上方的所述沟槽侧壁上的栅绝缘体厚度， 绝缘体厚度小于沟槽顶部电介质厚度，以及形成在沟槽顶部电介质并且邻近栅极绝缘体的沟槽内的栅极导体。

公开(公告)号：US08137893B2

公开(公告)日：2012-03-20

申请号：US12983297

申请日：2011-01-01

申请人： Sean David Burns ,  Matthew E. Colburn ,  Steven John Holmes ,  Wu-Song Huang

发明人： Sean David Burns ,  Matthew E. Colburn ,  Steven John Holmes ,  Wu-Song Huang

IPC分类号： G03F7/00 ,  G03F7/004 ,  G03F7/40

CPC分类号： G03F7/40 ,  Y10T428/24802

摘要： A new lithographic process comprises reducing the linewidth of an image while maintaining the lithographic process window, and using this process to fabricate pitch split structures comprising nm order (e.g., about 22 nm) node semiconductor devices. The process comprises applying a lithographic resist layer on a surface of a substrate and patterning and developing the lithographic resist layer to form a nm order node image having an initial line width. Overcoating the nm order node image with an acidic polymer produces an acidic polymer coated image. Heating the acidic polymer coated image gives a heat treated coating on the image, the heating being conducted at a temperature and for a time sufficient to reduce the initial linewidth to a subsequent narrowed linewidth. Developing the heated treated coating removes it from the image resulting in a free-standing trimmed lithographic feature on the substrate. Optionally repeating the foregoing steps further reduces the linewidth of the narrowed line. The invention also comprises a product produced by this process.

摘要翻译： 新的光刻工艺包括在保持光刻工艺窗口的同时降低图像的线宽，并且使用该工艺来制造包括nm阶（例如约22nm）的节点半导体器件的间距分裂结构。 该方法包括在基片的表面上施加平版印刷抗蚀剂层，并对平版印刷抗蚀剂层进行图形化和显影，以形成具有初始线宽的nm阶节点图像。 用酸性聚合物覆盖nm阶节点图像产生酸性聚合物涂层图像。 加热酸性聚合物涂覆的图像给图像上的热处理涂层，加热在足以将初始线宽降低到随后变窄的线宽的温度和时间内进行。 显影加热处理的涂层将其从图像中去除，从而在基底上产生独立的修整光刻特征。 可选地，重复前述步骤进一步减小了变窄线的线宽。 本发明还包括通过该方法生产的产品。

公开(公告)号：US07862982B2

公开(公告)日：2011-01-04

申请号：US12137743

申请日：2008-06-12

申请人： Sean David Burns ,  Matthew E. Colburn ,  Steven John Holmes ,  Wu-Song Huang

发明人： Sean David Burns ,  Matthew E. Colburn ,  Steven John Holmes ,  Wu-Song Huang

IPC分类号： G03F7/00 ,  G03F7/004 ,  G03F7/40

CPC分类号： G03F7/40 ,  Y10T428/24802

摘要： A new lithographic process comprises reducing the linewidth of an image while maintaining the lithographic process window, and using this process to fabricate pitch split structures comprising nm order (e.g., about 22 nm) node semiconductor devices. The process comprises applying a lithographic resist layer on a surface of a substrate and patterning and developing the lithographic resist layer to form a nm order node image having an initial line width. Overcoating the nm order node image with an acidic polymer produces an acidic polymer coated image. Heating the acidic polymer coated image gives a heat treated coating on the image, the heating being conducted at a temperature and for a time sufficient to reduce the initial linewidth to a subsequent narrowed linewidth. Developing the heated treated coating removes it from the image resulting in a free-standing trimmed lithographic feature on the substrate. Optionally repeating the foregoing steps further reduces the linewidth of the narrowed line. The invention also comprises a product produced by this process.

摘要翻译： 新的光刻工艺包括在保持光刻工艺窗口的同时降低图像的线宽，并且使用该工艺来制造包括nm阶（例如约22nm）的节点半导体器件的间距分裂结构。 该方法包括在基片的表面上施加平版印刷抗蚀剂层，并对平版印刷抗蚀剂层进行图形化和显影以形成具有初始线宽的nm阶节点图像。 用酸性聚合物覆盖nm阶节点图像产生酸性聚合物涂层图像。 加热酸性聚合物涂覆的图像给图像上的热处理涂层，加热在足以将初始线宽降低到随后变窄的线宽的温度和时间内进行。 显影加热处理的涂层将其从图像中去除，从而在基底上产生独立的修整光刻特征。 可选地，重复前述步骤进一步减小了变窄线的线宽。 本发明还包括通过该方法生产的产品。

公开(公告)号：US07829883B2

公开(公告)日：2010-11-09

申请号：US10777576

申请日：2004-02-12

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Peter H. Mitchell ,  Larry Alan Nesbit

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Peter H. Mitchell ,  Larry Alan Nesbit

IPC分类号： H01L29/06

CPC分类号： H01L51/057 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  G11C13/025 ,  H01L29/0665 ,  H01L29/0673 ,  H01L29/0676 ,  H01L29/125 ,  H01L29/66409 ,  H01L29/772 ,  H01L51/0048 ,  Y10S977/734

摘要： Carbon nanotube field effect transistors, arrays of carbon nanotube field effect transistors, device structures, and arrays of device structures. A stacked device structure includes a gate electrode layer and catalyst pads each coupled electrically with a source/drain contact. The gate electrode layer is divided into multiple gate electrodes and at least one semiconducting carbon nanotube is synthesized by a chemical vapor deposition process on each of the catalyst pads. The gate electrode has a sidewall covered by a gate dielectric and at least one semiconducting carbon nanotube adjacent to the sidewall of the gate electrode. Source/drain contacts are electrically coupled with opposite ends of the semiconducting carbon nanotube to complete the device structure. Multiple device structures may be configured either as a memory circuit or as a logic circuit.

摘要翻译： 碳纳米管场效应晶体管，碳纳米管场效应晶体管阵列，器件结构和器件结构阵列。 叠层器件结构包括栅极电极层和各个与源极/漏极接触电连接的催化剂焊盘。 栅电极层被分成多个栅极电极，并且通过化学气相沉积工艺在每个催化剂焊盘上合成至少一个半导体碳纳米管。 栅电极具有被栅极电介质覆盖的侧壁和与栅电极的侧壁相邻的至少一个半导体碳纳米管。 源极/漏极触点与半导体碳纳米管的相对端电耦合以完成器件结构。 多个器件结构可以被配置为存储器电路或逻辑电路。

公开(公告)号：US20100273298A1

公开(公告)日：2010-10-28

申请号：US12830510

申请日：2010-07-06

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Peter H. Mitchell

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Peter H. Mitchell

IPC分类号： H01L21/98

CPC分类号： H01L21/7685 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  H01L21/32051 ,  H01L21/76838 ,  H01L21/76876 ,  H01L21/76877 ,  H01L23/53276 ,  H01L51/0048 ,  H01L51/0052 ,  H01L2221/1094 ,  H01L2924/0002 ,  Y10S977/742 ,  Y10S977/762 ,  Y10S977/778 ,  Y10S977/842 ,  H01L2924/00

摘要： A conductive layer in an integrated circuit is formed as a sandwich having multiple sublayers, including at least one sublayer of oriented carbon nanotubes. The conductive layer sandwich preferably contains two sublayers of carbon nanotubes, in which the carbon nanotube orientation in one sublayer is substantially perpendicular to that of the other layer. The conductive layer sandwich preferably contains one or more additional sublayers of a conductive material, such as a metal. In one embodiment, oriented carbon nanotubes are created by forming a series of elongated parallel catalyst strips on a horizontal surface, and growing carbon nanotubes from the catalyst in the presence of a directional flow of reactant gases.

摘要翻译： 集成电路中的导电层形成为具有多个子层的夹层，包括至少一个定向碳纳米管子层。 导电层夹层优选包含两个碳纳米管子层，其中一个子层中的碳纳米管取向基本上垂直于另一层的碳纳米管取向。 导电层夹层优选地包含一种或多种另外的导电材料的子层，例如金属。 在一个实施方案中，定向碳纳米管通过在水平表面上形成一系列细长的平行催化剂条而形成，并且在有反应气体的定向流的存在下从催化剂生长碳纳米管。

公开(公告)号：US07750406B2

公开(公告)日：2010-07-06

申请号：US11877871

申请日：2007-10-24

申请人： Ethan Harrison Cannon ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  John Gerard Gaudiello ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Jack Allan Mandelman ,  William Robert Tonti

发明人： Ethan Harrison Cannon ,  Toshiharu Furukawa ,  John Gerard Gaudiello ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III ,  Jack Allan Mandelman ,  William Robert Tonti

IPC分类号： H01L23/62 ,  H01L29/94

CPC分类号： H01L21/76264

摘要： Design structure embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing a design in which the design structure includes devices formed in a hybrid substrate characterized by semiconductor islands of different crystal orientations. An insulating layer divides the islands of at least one of the different crystal orientations into mutually aligned device and body regions. The body regions may be electrically floating relative to the device regions.

摘要翻译： 设计结构体现在机器可读介质中，用于设计，制造或测试设计，其中设计结构包括以混合衬底形成的器件，其特征在于具有不同晶体取向的半导体岛。 绝缘层将至少一个不同晶体取向的岛分成相互排列的器件和体区。 身体区域可以相对于装置区域电浮动。

公开(公告)号：US07579272B2

公开(公告)日：2009-08-25

申请号：US11670778

申请日：2007-02-02

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger, III

IPC分类号： H01L21/4763

CPC分类号： H01L21/02115 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  H01L21/02282 ,  H01L21/3146 ,  H01L21/3185 ,  H01L21/76814 ,  H01L21/7682 ,  H01L21/76826 ,  H01L21/76831 ,  H01L21/76888 ,  H01L2221/1047

摘要： Methods of forming low-k dielectric layers for use in the manufacture of semiconductor devices and fabricating semiconductor structures using the low-k dielectric material. The low-k dielectric material comprises carbon nanostructures, like carbon nanotubes or carbon buckyballs, that are characterized by an insulating electronic state. The carbon nanostructures may be converted to the insulating electronic state either before or after a layer containing the carbon nanostructures is formed on a substrate. One approach for converting the carbon nanostructures to the insulating electronic state is fluorination.

摘要翻译： 形成用于制造半导体器件的低k电介质层并使用低k电介质材料制造半导体结构的方法。 低k介电材料包括碳纳米结构，如碳纳米管或碳​​棒球，其特征在于绝缘电子状态。 碳纳米结构可以在包含碳纳米结构的层在基底上形成之前或之后转变为绝缘电子状态。 将碳纳米结构转化为绝缘电子态的一种方法是氟化。

公开(公告)号：US20080227264A1

公开(公告)日：2008-09-18

申请号：US11926661

申请日：2007-10-29

申请人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger ,  Peter H. Mitchell ,  Larry Alan Nesbit

发明人： Toshiharu Furukawa ,  Mark Charles Hakey ,  Steven John Holmes ,  David Vaclav Horak ,  Charles William Koburger ,  Peter H. Mitchell ,  Larry Alan Nesbit

IPC分类号： H01L21/76

CPC分类号： H01L51/057 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  H01L51/0048 ,  Y10S977/70 ,  Y10S977/734 ,  Y10S977/742

摘要： Vertical device structures incorporating at least one nanotube and methods for fabricating such device structures by chemical vapor deposition. Each nanotube is grown by chemical vapor deposition catalyzed by a catalyst pad and encased in a coating of a dielectric material. Vertical field effect transistors may be fashioned by forming a gate electrode about the encased nanotubes such that the encased nanotubes extend vertically through the thickness of the gate electrode. Capacitors may be fashioned in which the encased nanotubes and the corresponding catalyst pad bearing the encased nanotubes forms one capacitor plate.

摘要翻译： 结合至少一个纳米管的垂直器件结构和通过化学气相沉积制造这种器件结构的方法。 每个纳米管通过由催化剂垫催化的化学气相沉积生长并且包裹在电介质材料的涂层中。 可以通过围绕封装的纳米管形成栅电极来形成垂直场效应晶体管，使得封装的纳米管垂直延伸穿过栅电极的厚度。 可以形成电容器，其中包裹的纳米管和带有封装的纳米管的相应的催化剂垫片形成一个电容器板。