Abstract:
There is provided a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. Within the N-type semiconductor layer formed from a high resistance N-type substrate, the P-type well diffusion layer and P-type extraction layer are formed and are fixed to ground potential. Due thereto, a depletion layer spreading on the P-type well diffusion layer side does not reach the interlayer boundary between the P-type well diffusion layer and the buried oxide film. Hence, the potential around the surface of the P-type well diffusion layer is kept at a ground potential. Accordingly, when the voltages are applied to the backside of the N-type semiconductor layer and a cathode electrode, a channel region at the MOS-type semiconductor formed as a P-type semiconductor layer is not activated. Due thereto, leakage current that may occur independently of a control due to the gate electrode of a transistor can be suppressed.
Abstract:
There is provided a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. Within the N-type semiconductor layer formed from a high resistance N-type substrate, the P-type well diffusion layer and P-type extraction layer are formed and are fixed to ground potential. Due thereto, a depletion layer spreading on the P-type well diffusion layer side does not reach the interlayer boundary between the P-type well diffusion layer and the buried oxide film. Hence, the potential around the surface of the P-type well diffusion layer is kept at a ground potential. Accordingly, when the voltages are applied to the backside of the N-type semiconductor layer and a cathode electrode, a channel region at the MOS-type semiconductor formed as a P-type semiconductor layer is not activated. Due thereto, leakage current that may occur independently of a control due to the gate electrode of a transistor can be suppressed.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated device of the invention can enhance a radiation resistance. In an exemplary embodiment, the semiconductor integrated device includes a semiconductor supporting substrate, an insulation layer provided on the semiconductor supporting substrate, and a silicon thin film provided on the insulation layer. A predetermined region in the silicon thin film that is adjacent to the boundary between the insulation layer and the silicon thin film (i.e., boundary neighboring region) has an impurity-concentration-increased region. In this region, the impurity concentration becomes higher as the position approaches the boundary.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit production method prepares an SOI layer thickness database that correlates measurement data of each SOI layer thickness with each SOI substrate identification data. The production method extracts the measurement data for each SOI substrate from the SOI layer thickness database, and carries out layer thickness adjustment surface treatment for the SOI substrates based on these data. A semiconductor integrated circuit production device includes an SOI layer thickness database storage unit for storing the SOI layer thickness database, and a layer thickness adjustment conditions control unit for extracting the measurement data for each SOI substrate from the SOI layer thickness database and deciding conditions for the layer thickness adjustment surface treatment based on these data. The semiconductor integrated circuit production device also includes a surface treatment unit that adjusts SOI layer thickness by carrying out the surface treatment on the SOI layers in accordance with the decided conditions.
Abstract:
An LSI device includes a core region to which a first driving voltage is applied and an interface region to which a second driving voltage higher than the above first driving voltage is applied. The LSI device includes an SOI substrate and a device separation region for separating a SOI layer of the SOI substrate into the core region and the interface region. The thickness of the SOI layer of the core region is thinner than the thickness of the SOI layer of the interface region. The LSI device further includes first MOSFETs formed in the core region and in which the SOI layer of the core region is a fully depleted Si channel and second MOSFETs formed in the interface region and in which the SOI layer of the interface region is a fully depleted Si channel.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a resistor element formed in a semiconductor layer of an SOI substrate (Silicon On Insulator). The semiconductor device includes a low concentration impurity area formed in the semiconductor layer as the resistor element; a high concentration impurity area formed in the semiconductor layer as a resistor element wiring portion; and a silicide layer selectively formed on the high concentration impurity area. The high concentration impurity area includes one end portion contacting with an end portion of the low concentration impurity area, and the other end portion contacting with an impurity area of another element.
Abstract:
A sensor includes a substrate provided with a circuit element forming region and a photodiode forming region, the substrate having a silicon substrate, an insulating layer on the silicon substrate, and a silicon layer on the insulating layer; a photodiode in the silicon layer; a circuit element in the silicon layer; a first interlayer insulating film formed over the silicon layer; a first light-shielding film on the first interlayer film and having an opening in the photodiode forming region; and a first inter-region light-shielding plug arranged between the two regions, for connecting the silicon substrate and the first light-shielding film.
Abstract:
A fabrication process for a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device includes defining an active region in an 501 substrate, doping the entire active region with an impurity of a given conductive type, masking a main part of the active region, and doping the peripheral parts of the active region at least two additional times with an impurity of the same conductive type, preferably using different doping parameters each time. The additional, doping creates a channel stop in the peripheral parts of the active region, counteracting the tendency of the transistor threshold voltage to be lowered in the peripheral parts of the active region, thereby mitigating or eliminating the unwanted subthreshold hump often found in the transistor operating characteristics of, for example, fully depleted SOI devices.
Abstract:
A fabrication process for a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device includes defining an active region in an SOI substrate, doping the entire active region with an impurity of a given conductive type, masking a main part of the active region, and doping the peripheral parts of the active region at least two additional times with an impurity of the same conductive type, preferably using different doping parameters each time. The additional doping creates a channel stop in the peripheral parts of the active region, counteracting the tendency of the transistor threshold voltage to be lowered in the peripheral parts of the active region, thereby mitigating or eliminating the unwanted subthreshold hump often found in the transistor operating characteristics of, for example, fully depleted SOI devices.
Abstract:
Described here is a method of forming a thin-film portion for allowing electrons produced from a transmission electron microscope to pass therethrough at a portion to be observed of a semiconductor and effecting a predetermined etching process on the thin-film portion thereby to create a semiconductor sample for the transmission electron microscope. Prior to the execution of the etching process, grooves for reducing a stress introduced into the thin-film portion by the etching process are defined in the thin-film portion.