摘要:
A light responsive semiconductor device includes a p-i-n structure incorporating a multiple quantum well structure buried within the intrinsic layer and an external resistance and voltage source serially connected across the device for adjusting a critical wavelength at which the light absorption characteristic of the device dramatically changes. By properly choosing the resistance and/or voltage, the photocurrent changes discontinuously at the critical wavelength and the photocurrent exhibits a hysteresis characteristic. A light responsive structure may include individual, serially aligned p-i-n devices or an integrated, unitary semiconductor body inculding a plurality of p-i-n devices.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser having an active layer of quantum well structure, where the resonator loss is enhanced thereby to conduct an oscillation at a high quantum level.
摘要:
A nitride semiconductor device with a p electrode having no resistance between itself and other electrodes, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A p electrode is formed of a first Pd film, a Ta film, and a second Pd film, which is an antioxidant film for preventing oxidation of the Ta film, and on a p-type contact layer of a nitride semiconductor. On the second Pd film, a pad electrode is formed. The second Pd film as an antioxidant film is formed on the entire upper surface of the Ta film which forms the p electrode, to prevent oxidation of the Ta film. This inhibits the resistance between the p electrode and the pad electrode, thereby preventing a failure in contact between the p electrode and the pad electrode and providing the low-resistance p electrode.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device provides a semiconductor device with a gallium-nitride-based semiconductor structure that allows long-term stable operation without degradation in device performance. After formation of an insulation film on a surface other than on a ridge surface, an oxygen-containing gas such as O2, O3, NO, N2O, or NO2 is supplied to oxidize a p-type GaN contact layer from the surface and to thereby form an oxide film on the surface of the p-type GaN contact layer. Then, a p-type electrode that establishes contact with the p-type GaN contact layer is formed by evaporation or sputtering on the oxide film and on the insulation film. Heat treatment is subsequently performed at temperatures between 400 and 700° C. in an atmosphere containing a nitrogen-containing gas such as N2 or NH3 or an inert gas such as Ar or He.
摘要:
A polysilicon nitride film is formed to cover a polysilicon gate. By heat treatment of the silicon nitride film in an oxygen atmosphere, a silicon oxinitride film is formed. By anisotropically etching the silicon oxinitride film and the silicon nitride film, a sidewall insulating film is formed. By epitaxial growth, selective silicon films of a prescribed film thickness are formed on source and drain regions. During this period, silicon islands are not deposited on the surface of sidewall insulating film. Consequently, a semiconductor device including a transistor of a superior electrical insulation can be obtained.
摘要:
A major object of the present invention is to provide an improved semiconductor device so as to be able to reduce gate electric field concentration at a channel edge, suppress decrease in the threshold during MOSFET operation and reduce the leakage current. A gate insulation film is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is formed on the semiconductor substrate with the gate insulation film therebetween. The dielectric constant of the gate insulation film is not uniform in the surface.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical element having a layer which exhibits a function of diffraction grating between a first cladding layer and a second cladding layer, wherein the layer which exhibits the function of diffraction grating consists of a superlattice layer in which crystal layers are periodically mixed to constitute a semiconductor grating layer.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device provides a semiconductor device with a gallium-nitride-based semiconductor structure that allows long-term stable operation without degradation in device performance. After formation of an insulation film on a surface other than on a ridge surface, an oxygen-containing gas such as O2, O3, NO, N2O, or NO2 is supplied to oxidize a p-type GaN contact layer from the surface and to thereby form an oxide film on the surface of the p-type GaN contact layer. Then, a p-type electrode that establishes contact with the p-type GaN contact layer is formed by evaporation or sputtering on the oxide film and on the insulation film. Heat treatment is subsequently performed at temperatures between 400 and 700° C. in an atmosphere containing a nitrogen-containing gas such as N2 or NH3 or an inert gas such as Ar or He.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided, which can reduce the contact resistance of an ohmic electrode to a p-type nitride semiconductor layer and can achieve long-term stable operation. In forming, in an electrode forming step, a p-type ohmic electrode of a metal film by successive lamination of a Pd film which is a first p-type ohmic electrode and a Ta film which is a second p-type ohmic electrode on a p-type GaN contact layer, the metal film is formed to include an oxygen atom. In the presence of an oxygen atom in the metal film, then in a heat-treatment step, the p-type ohmic electrode of the metal film is heat-treated in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen atom-containing gas.
摘要:
A method of producing a semiconductor device includes forming a gate electrode on a channel region on a surface of a semiconductor region of a semiconductor substrate, the channel region having a depth in the semiconductor substrate; forming a first pair of side wall spacers on opposite sides of the gate electrode; forming elevated semiconductor layers, each elevated semiconductor layer being elevated relative to the channel region, on regions outside of the pair of side wall spacers and in which source and drain regions of a first conductivity type are to be formed; removing the pair of first side wall spacers; and forming a pair of pocket injection regions of a second conductivity type by introducing, after the side wall spacers are removed, a dopant impurity producing the second conductivity type deeper in the semiconductor substrate than a region where the side wall spacers were formed, the pair of pocket injection regions respectively covering only a neighborhood of respective side surface parts of the channel region, where the source and drain regions are to be formed, forming respective pn junctions only between the neighborhood of the side surface parts and the pocket injection regions.