Abstract:
A method of making a MOS device, a MOS device containing an aluminum nitride layer, and a CMOS circuit are disclosed. The method includes depositing an aluminum nitride layer on a structure including a silicon layer, depositing a dopant ink on the structure, and diffusing the dopant through the aluminum nitride layer into the silicon layer. The structure also includes a gate oxide layer on the silicon layer and a gate on the gate oxide layer. The dopant ink includes a dopant and a solvent. The MOS device includes a silicon layer, a gate oxide layer on the silicon layer, a gate on the gate oxide layer, and an aluminum nitride layer on the gate. The silicon layer includes a dopant on opposite sides of the gate.
Abstract:
Etching trench isolation structures into a semiconductor structure that includes an upper thin semiconductor layer disposed over a buried insulator layer and a buried compressively strained stressor layer under the buried insulator layer, the compressively strained stressor layer being disposed on an underlying semiconductor substrate, causes edge relaxation of the compressively strained stressor layer. The edge relaxation results in the buried insulation layer being deformed, thus inducing tensile strain in an upper surface of the thin semiconductor layer across at least a first portion of a lateral extent of the thin semiconductor layer between walls of one or more trenches formed by the etching.
Abstract:
To provide a decoder whose area is reduced. The decoder includes an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) circuit. The IDCT circuit includes a multiplier circuit. The multiplier circuit includes an arithmetic circuit that multiplies a first current and a second current, a current generator that generates the first current, and a digital-analog converter that generates a reference current used by the current generator. The current generator includes a current mirror circuit (CM circuit) including first and second transistors, a third transistor, a switch that controls the current output, and first and second memory circuits. The reference current of the CM circuit is input to a drain of the first transistor, and a current which copies the reference current is output from a drain of the second transistor. A drain of the third transistor is electrically connected to the drain of the second transistor. The switch controls the first current output.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a semiconductor device having sub regions or distances to define threshold voltages. A first semiconductor device includes a first gate stack having a first edge opposing a second edge and a first source region disposed on the semiconductor substrate. A second semiconductor device includes a second gate stack having a third edge opposing a fourth edge and a second source region disposed on the semiconductor substrate. A first distance extends from the first source region to the first edge of the first gate stack and a second distance different from the first distance extends from the second source region to the third edge of the second gate stack.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor structure and a method of making such a structure. According to an embodiment, the structure may include a semiconductor substrate with a first shallow trench isolation (STI) layer formed over semiconductor substrate. A plurality of first trenches may be aligned in a row and formed through the first STI layer. In an embodiment, a first ΠΙ-nitride (III-N) layer may be formed in the first trenches and over a top surface of the first STI layer. Additionally, embodiments include a second STI layer formed over the first III-N layer and the top surface of the first STI layer. A second trench formed through the second STI layer may be oriented perpendicular to the row of first trenches. Embodiments include a second III-N layer that fills the second trench.
Abstract:
A MOS device includes a first MOS transistor having a first MOS transistor source, a first MOS transistor drain, and a first MOS transistor gate. The MOS device also includes a second MOS transistor having a second MOS transistor source, a second MOS transistor drain, and a second MOS transistor gate. The second MOS transistor source and the first MOS transistor source are coupled to a first voltage source. The MOS device includes a third MOS transistor having a third MOS transistor gate, the third MOS transistor gate between the first MOS transistor source and the third MOS transistor source, the third MOS transistor further having a third MOS transistor source and a third MOS transistor drain, the third MOS transistor source being coupled to the first MOS transistor source, the third MOS transistor drain being coupled to the second MOS transistor source, the third MOS transistor gate floating.