Abstract:
An integrated circuit structure includes a first semiconductor fin extending horizontally in a length direction and including a bottom portion and a top portion above the bottom portion, a bottom transistor associated with the bottom portion of the first semiconductor fin, a top transistor above the bottom transistor and associated with the top portion of the first semiconductor fin, and a first vertical diode. The first vertical diode includes: a bottom region associated with at least the bottom portion of the first semiconductor fin, the bottom region including one of n-type and p-type dopant; a top region associated with at least the top portion of the first semiconductor fin, the top region including the other of n-type and p-type dopant; a bottom terminal electrically connected to the bottom region; and a top terminal electrically connected to the top region at the top portion of the first semiconductor fin.
Abstract:
In various embodiments, the disclosure describes transistors having non-vertical gates. In one embodiment, the non-vertical gates can have a curved or wide angle gate in order to reduce the electric field crowing on the drain side of the gate edge and/or portions having comers and thereby reduce leakage current in the transistor. In one embodiment, the non- vertical gate can be generated by one or more etching steps (for example, isotropic etching steps) of an underlying channel during the fabrication of a transistor having the non- vertical gate. In one embodiment, the non-vertical gate can be generated by one or more directional etching steps that may expose various facets having predetermined orientations of a source and/or drain associated with the transistor.
Abstract:
Solid-state assemblies including dielectric lining layers having localized charges are provided. Processes to form the solid-state assemblies also are provided. The solid-state assemblies can included in CMOS transistors, where first dielectric lining layers having localized charges of positive polarity can be adjacent to the PMOS member and a second dielectric lining layers having localized charges of positive polarity can be adjacent to an NMOS member. The first dielectric lining layers can be adjacent to a first gate electrode of the CMOS transistor, and the second dielectric lining can be adjacent to a second gate electrode of the CMOS transistor. The first dielectric lining layers and the second dielectric lining layers can improve, at least in part, the performance of the CMOS transistor by attracting mobile carriers into respective transport channels of the PMOS member and the NMOS member.
Abstract:
Tunneling Field Effect Transistors (TFETs) are promising devices in that they promise significant performance increase and energy consumption decrease due to a steeper subthreshold slope (for example, smaller sub-threshold swing). In various embodiments, vertical fin-based TFETs can be fabricated in trenches, for example, silicon trenches. In another embodiment, vertical TFETs can be used on different material systems acting as a substrate and/or trenches (for example, Si, Ge, III-V semiconductors, GaN, and the like). In one embodiment, the tunneling direction in the channel of the vertical TFET can be perpendicular to the Si substrates. In one embodiment, this can be different than the tunneling direction in the channel of later TFETs. In an embodiment, the disclosed vertical TFET can have a channel that includes the functionality of a drain. In an embodiment, the channel can be unintentionally doped (UID).
Abstract:
Group III-V semiconductor devices having asymmetric source and drain structures and their methods of fabrication are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a gallium arsenide layer on a substrate. A channel structure is on the gallium arsenide layer. The channel structure includes indium, gallium and arsenic. A source structure is at a first end of the channel structure and a drain structure is at a second end of the channel structure. The drain structure has a wider band gap than the source structure. A gate structure is over the channel structure.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are tri-gate transistor arrangements, and related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, a transistor arrangement may include a fin stack shaped as a fin extending away from a base, and a subfin dielectric stack. The fin includes a subfin portion and a channel portion, the subfin portion being closer to the base than the channel portion. The subfin dielectric stack includes a transistor dielectric material, and a fixed charge liner material disposed between the transistor dielectric material and the subfin portion of the fin.
Abstract:
An embodiment includes a transistor comprising: first, second, and third layers each including a group III-V material; a channel included in the second layer, which is between the first and third layers; and a gate having first and second gate portions; wherein (a)(i) the first and third layers are doped, (a)(ii) the channel is between the first and second gate portions and the second gate portion is between the channel and a substrate, (a)(iii) a first axis intersects the first, second, and third layers but not the first gate portion, and (a)(iv) a second axis, parallel to the first axis, intersects the first and second gate portions and the channel. Other embodiments are described herein.
Abstract:
A subfin leakage problem with respect to the silicon-germanium (SiGe)/shallow trench isolation (STI) interface can be mitigated with a halo implant. A halo implant is used to form a highly resistive layer. For example, a silicon substrate layer 204 is coupled to a SiGe layer, which is coupled to a germanium (Ge) layer. A gate is disposed on the Ge layer. An implant is implanted in the Ge layer that causes the layer to become more resistive. However, an area does not receive the implant due to being protected (or covered) by the gate. The area remains less resistive than the remainder of the Ge layer. In some embodiments, the resistive area of a Ge layer can be etched and/or an undercuttage (etch undercut or EUC) can be performed to expose the unimplanted Ge area of the Ge layer.
Abstract:
An embodiment includes a field effect transistor, comprising: a source region comprising a first III-V material doped to a first conductivity type; a drain region comprising a second III-V material doped to a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type; a gate electrode disposed over a channel region comprising a third III-V material; and a first spacer, between the channel and drain regions, comprising a fourth III-V material having a charge carrier-blocking band offset from the third III-V material. Other embodiments are described herein.
Abstract:
An embodiment includes a system comprising: a switching device that includes a fin; and a source contact on a source, a gate contact on a channel, and a drain contact on a drain; wherein the gate contact includes: (a)(i) a first layer that includes oxygen, the first layer directly contacting the fin, (a)(ii) a second layer that includes a dielectric material, (c) a third layer that includes at least one of aluminum, titanium, ruthenium, zirconium, hafnium, tantalum, niobium, vanadium, thorium, barium, magnesium, cerium, and lanthanum, and (a)(iii) a fourth layer that includes a metal, wherein (b)(i) the source contact, the gate contact, and the drain contact are all on the fin, and (b)(ii) the second layer is between the first and fourth layers. Other embodiments are described herein.