Abstract:
A semiconductor structure having a recess and a dielectric film is disposed on and in contract with the semiconductor. The dielectric film has an aperture therein. Portions of the dielectric film are disposed adjacent to the aperture and overhang underlying portions of the recess. An electric contact has first portions thereof disposed on said adjacent portions of the dielectric film, second portions disposed on said underlying portions of the recess, with portions of the dielectric film being disposed between said first portion of the electric contact and the second portions of the electric contact, and third portions of the electric contact being disposed on and in contact with a bottom portion of the recess in the semiconductor structure. The electric contact is formed by atomic layer deposition of an electrically conductive material over the dielectric film and through the aperture in such dielectric film.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure having a substrate (12) a seed layer (13) over the substrate; a silicon layer (22) disposed on the seed layer; a transistor device (27) in the silicon layer; a III-V device disposed on the seed layer; and a plurality of electrical contacts, each one of the electrical contacts having a layer (32) of TiN or TaN and a layer (34) of copper or aluminum on the layer of TaN or TiN, one of the electrical contacts being electrically connected to the transistor (27) and another one of the electrical contacts being electrically connected to the III-V device.
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure, comprising: a substrate (12); a seed layer (16) over an upper surface of the substrate (12); a semiconductor layer (20) disposed over the seed layer (16); a transistor device (22, 24) in the semiconductor layer (20); wherein the substrate (12) has an aperture (42) therein, such aperture (42) extending from a bottom surface of the substrate (12) and terminating on a bottom surface of the seed layer (16); and an opto-electric structure (44) disposed on the bottom surface of the seed layer (16).
Abstract:
A semiconductor structure having mesa structure comprising: a lower semiconductor layer; an upper semiconductor layer having a higher band gap than, and in direct contact with, the lower semiconductor layer to form a two-dimension electron gas (2DEG) region between the upper semiconductor layer. The 2DEG region has outer edges terminating at sidewalls of the mesa. An additional electron donor layer has a band gap higher than the band gap of the lower layer disposed on sidewall portions of the mesa structure and on the region of the 2DEG region terminating at sidewalls of the mesa. An ohmic contact material is disposed on the electron donor layer. A sideway HEMT is formed with the electron donor layer, the 2DEG region and the ohmic contact material increasing the concentration of electrons (i.e., lowering ohmic contact resistance) along the contact between the lower semiconductor layer and the electron donor layer.
Abstract:
A structure having first and second electrical conductors disposed on a surface of the structure and a bridging conductor connected between the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor with portions disposed over the surface of the structure. The bridging conductor includes a plurality of stacked, multi-metal layers, each one of the multi -metal layers having: an electrically conductive layer; and a pair of barrier metal layers, the electrically conductive layer being disposed between and in direct contact with the pair of barrier metal layers.
Abstract:
Forming an alignment mark on a semiconductor structure using an optical lithography to form a metal alignment mark on a substrate of the structure, using the formed metal alignment mark to form a first feature of a semiconductor device being formed on the substrate using optical lithography, and using the formed metal alignment mark to form a second, different feature for the semiconductor using electron beam lithography. In one embodiment, the first feature is an ohmic contact, the second feature is a Schottky contact, the metal alignment mark is a refractory metal or a refractory metal compound having an atomic weight greater than 60 such as TaN and the semiconductor device is a GaN semiconductor device. A semiconductor structure having a metal alignment mark on a zero layer of the structure, the metal alignment mark is a TaN and the semiconductor is GaN.
Abstract:
A method for forming a transistor device having a field plate includes forming a structure having a source, a drain, and a Tee gate. A photo-resist layer is formed on the structure with an opening therein only the one of two distal ends of the Tee gate. A metal is deposited over the photo-resist layer with portions of the metal being disposed on the photo-resist layer and with other portions of the metal passing through the opening onto the exposed portions of the dielectric layer and with distal end of the top of the Tee gate preventing such metal from being deposited onto portions of the dielectric layer disposed under it. The photo-resist layer is removed along with the portions of the metal deposited thereon while leaving portions of the metal from regions of the dielectric layer exposed by the opening to form the field gate.