Abstract:
A substrate including a handle substrate (10), a lower insulator layer (20), a buried semiconductor layer (30L), an upper insulator layer (40L), and a top semiconductor layer (50L) is provided. Semiconductor fins (32) can be formed by patterning a portion of the buried semiconductor layer (30L) after removal of the upper insulator layer (40L) and the top semiconductor layer (50L) in a fin region, while a planar device region is protected by an etch mask. A disposable fill material portion (59) is formed in the fin region, and a shallow trench isolation structure (41) can be formed in the planar device region. The disposable fill material portion (59) is removed, and gate stacks for a planar field effect transistor and a fin field effect transistor can be simultaneously formed. Alternately, disposable gate structures and a planarization dielectric layer can be formed, and replacement gate stacks can be subsequently formed.
Abstract:
An apparatus including a device including a channel material having a first lattice structure on a well of a well material having a matched lattice structure in a buffer material having a second lattice structure that is different than the first lattice structure. A method including forming a trench in a buffer material; forming an n-type well material in the trench, the n-type well material having a lattice structure that is different than a lattice structure of the buffer material; and forming an n-type transistor. A system including a computer including a processor including complimentary metal oxide semiconductor circuitry including an n-type transistor including a channel material, the channel material having a first lattice structure on a well disposed in a buffer material having a second lattice structure that is different than the first lattice structure, the n-type transistor coupled to a p-type transistor.
Abstract:
Strained gate-all-around semiconductor devices formed on globally or locally isolated substrates are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. An insulating structure is disposed above the semiconductor substrate. A three-dimensional channel region is disposed above the insulating structure. Source and drain regions are disposed on either side of the three-dimensional channel region and on an epitaxial seed layer. The epitaxial seed layer is composed of a semiconductor material different from the three-dimensional channel region and disposed on the insulating structure. A gate electrode stack surrounds the three-dimensional channel region with a portion disposed on the insulating structure and laterally adjacent to the epitaxial seed layer.
Abstract:
Device structures, design structures, and fabrication methods for passive devices that may be used as electrostatic discharge protection devices in fin-type field-effect transistor integrated circuit technologies. A device structure is formed that includes a well (12) of a first conductivity type in a device region (22) and a doped region (52) of a second conductivity in the well. The device region is comprised of a portion of a device layer (14) of a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate (10). The doped region and a first portion of the well (57) define a junction (65). A second portion of the well (61) is positioned between the doped region (62) and an exterior sidewall (23) of the device region. Another portion of the device layer may be patterned to form fins for fin-type field-effect transistors.
Abstract:
L'invention concerne un point mémoire constitué d'un bâtonnet semiconducteur dont les extrémités sont fortement dopées pour constituer des régions de source et de drain (101, 102) et dont la partie centrale comprend, entre les régions de source et de drain, une région de type N (104) entourée sur la plus grande partie de sa périphérie d'une région de type P quasi intrinsèque (105), la région de type P étant elle-même entourée d'une grille isolée (107).
Abstract:
A method of fabricating semiconductor devices includes providing a semiconducting substrate. The method also includes defining a heavily doped region at a surface of the semiconducting substrate in at least one area of the semiconducting substrate, where the heavily doped region includes a heavily doped layer having a doping concentration greater than a doping concentration of the semiconducting substrate. The method also includes forming an additional layer of semiconductor material on the semiconducting substrate, the additional layer comprising a substantially undoped layer. The method further includes applying a first removal process to the semiconducting substrate to define an unetched portion and an etched portion, where the unetched portion defines a fin structure, and the etched portion extends through the additional layer, and then isolating the fin structure from other structures.
Abstract:
Roughly described, an integrated circuit device has formed on a substrate a plurality of transistors including a first subset of at least one transistor and a second subset of at least one transistor, wherein all of the transistors in the first subset have one underlap distance and all of the transistors in the second subset have a different underlap distance. The transistors in the first and second subsets preferably have different threshold voltages, and preferably realize different points on the high performance/low power tradeoff.
Abstract:
According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a process for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a channel layer (104), providing a mask (106)on the channel layer, epitaxially growing a contact layer (108) in contact with the channel layer, epitaxially growing a support layer (110) on the contact layer, wherein the support layer is arranged to be etched at a higher rate than the contact layer, forming a trench extending through the support layer by removing the mask, and providing a conductor (118) in the trench. There is also provided an intermediate product for the manufacture of a semiconductor device.
Abstract:
An integrated fin-based field effect transistor (FinFET) and method of fabricating such devices on a bulk wafer with EPI-defined fin heights over shallow trench isolation (STI) regions. The FinFET channels overlie the STI regions within the semiconductor bulk, while the fins extend beyond the STI regions into the source and drain regions which are implanted within the semiconductor bulk. With bulk source and drain regions, reduced external FinFET resistance is provided, and with the fins extending into the bulk source and drain regions, improved thermal properties is provided over conventional silicon on insulator (SOI) devices.