Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe semiconductor devices with ruthenium phosphorus thin films and further describe the processes to deposit the thin films. The thin films may be deposited in a gate stack of a transistor device or in an interconnect structure. The processes to deposit the films may include chemical vapor deposition and may include ruthenium precursors. The precursors may contain phosphorus. A co-reactant may be used during deposition. A co-reactant may include a phosphorus based compound. A gate material may be deposited on the film in a gate stack. The ruthenium phosphorus film may be a metal diffusion barrier and an adhesion layer, and the film may be a work function metal for some embodiments. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Abstract:
In described examples, a vertically oriented BARITT diode (108) is formed in an integrated circuit (100). The BARITT diode (108) has a source (126) proximate to a top surface of a substrate (102) of the integrated circuit (100), a drift region (128) immediately below the source (126) in semiconductor material of the substrate (102), and a collector (130) in the semiconductor material of the substrate (102) immediately below the drift region (128). A dielectric isolation structure (132) laterally surrounds the drift region (128), extending from the source (126) to the collector (130). The source (126) may optionally include a silicon germanium layer or may optionally include a Schottky barrier contact.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to non-planar inductive electrical elements in semiconductor package lead frames. A non-planar inductive element is formed from a lead frame in a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package also includes at least one semiconductor die coupled to the lead frame. The non-planar inductive element could be formed by deforming portions of a patterned planar lead frame blank to form the non-planar inductive element in a deformed lead frame blank. The deformed lead frame blank and the at least one semiconductor die could then be packaged into a semiconductor package. A setting tool could be used to deform the lead frame blank. A configurable lead frame blank could be configurable into any of a variety of inductive elements, through interconnection of lead frame segments using wire bonds, for example.
Abstract:
A fuel dispenser comprising a touchpad that includes a capacitive sensor made from diffusing indium tin oxide on a transparent plastic support and laminated between two panes of glass, a display adjacent to one of the glass panes, and circuitry operatively connected to the sensor and the display. The touchpad is configured to output data representative of any capacitive coupling effects detected by the sensor.
Abstract:
A gas-phase detection system based on detecting optochemical and optoelectrochemical signals. The sensing platform is particularly powerful for detection of nitrogen oxides at low ppbV concentrations. The optochemical analysis is based on the color development due to a chemical reaction taking place in an optimized material. The electrochemical analysis can be based on the doping level or redox potential changes of an electrochemical sensor; and optoelectrochemical detection can be based on a combination of the electrochemical and optoelectrochemical methodologies. Each independent signal can be simultaneously detected, increasing the reliability of detection.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating thin DITO or SITO touch sensor panels with a thickness less than a minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. In one embodiment, a sandwich of two thin glass sheets is formed such that the combined thickness of the glass sheets does not drop below the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment when thin film process is performed on the surfaces of the sandwich during fabrication. The sandwich may eventually be separated to form two thin SITO/DITO panels. In another embodiment, the fabrication process involves laminating two patterned thick substrates, each having at least the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. One or both of the sides of the laminated substrates are then thinned so that when the substrates are separated, each is a thin DITO/SITO panel having a thickness less than the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating thin DITO or SITO touch sensor panels with a thickness less than a minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. In one embodiment, a sandwich of two thin glass sheets is formed such that the combined thickness of the glass sheets does not drop below the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment when thin film process is performed on the surfaces of the sandwich during fabrication. The sandwich may eventually be separated to form two thin SITO/DITO panels. In another embodiment, the fabrication process involves laminating two patterned thick substrates, each having at least the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment. One or both of the sides of the laminated substrates are then thinned so that when the substrates are separated, each is a thin DITO/SITO panel having a thickness less than the minimum thickness tolerance of existing manufacturing equipment.
Abstract:
An insulated-gate field-effect transistor (100, 100V, 140, 150, 150V, 160, 170, 170V, 180, 180V, 190, 210, 210W, 220, 220U, 220V, 220W, 380, 480, 500, 510, 530, or 540) has a hypoabrupt vertical dopant profile below one (104, 264, or 564) of its source/drain zones for reducing the parasitic capacitance along the pn junction between that source/drain zone and adjoining body material (108, 268, or 568). In particular, the concentration of semiconductor dopant which defines the conductivity type of the body material increases by at least a factor of 10 in moving from that source/drain zone down to an underlying body-material location no more than 10 times deeper below the upper semiconductor surface than that source/drain zone. The body material preferably includes a more heavily doped pocket portion (120, 280, or 580) situated along the other source/drain zone (102, 262, or 562). The combination of the hypoabrupt vertical dopant profile below the first- mentioned source/drain zone, normally serving as the drain, and the pocket portion along the second- mentioned source/drain zone, normally serving as the source, enables the resultant asymmetric transistor to be especially suitable for high-speed analog applications.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating an electronic device, comprising wafer bonding a first semiconductor material to a III -nitride semiconductor, at a temperature below 550 0C, to form a device quality heterojunction between the first semiconductor material and the Ill-nitride semiconductor, wherein the first semiconductor material is different from the Ill-nitride semiconductor and is selected for superior properties, or preferred integration or fabrication characteristics in the injector region as compared to the Ill-nitride semiconductor.
Abstract:
A method for ensuring the structural integrity of III-nitride opto-electronic or opto-mechanical air-gap nano-structured devices, comprising (a) performing ion beam implantation in a region of the III-nitride opto-electronic and opto-mechanical air-gap nano-structured device and (b) performing a bandgap selective photo-electro-chemical (PEC) etch on the III-nitride opto-electronic and opto-mechanical air-gap nano-structured device. The method also comprises the suitable design of distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) structures for the PEC etching and the ion-beam treatment, the suitable design of photonic crystal distributed Bragg reflector (PCDBR) structures for PEC etching and the ion-beam treatment, the suitable placement of protection layers to prevent the ion-beam damage to optical activity and PEC etch selectivity, and a suitable annealing treatment for curing the material quality after the ion-beam treatment.