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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a heat runway and improve stability of an ESD-inhibiting device in conjunction with a device scaling, by forming an in-plant under a shallow trench separation part of an ESD device. SOLUTION: An in-plant is formed under a trench separation structure of an ESD(Electrostatic Discharge) device. The in-plant is formed using a hybrid- resist. The hybrid resist formed the in-plant without any additional treatment such as mask-step. An ESD structure of a water part 2100 provides an ESD- inhibiting device function by connecting its input to the ESD device. A P++ diffusion part 2908 and an N-well 2920 constitute the first diode, and the P++ diffusion part 2908 becomes an anode and the N-well 2920 a cathode. Similarly, an N++ diffusion part 2904 and an N-well 2922 which are combined form a cathode of the second diode, and a P-type board becomes an anode.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination light in an immersion lithography stepper for particle or bubble detection. SOLUTION: Embodiments provide an immersion lithography exposure system comprising a wafer holder for holding a wafer, an immersion liquid for covering the wafer, an immersion head to dispense and contain the immersion liquid, and a light source adapted to lithographically expose a resist on the wafer. The system also comprises a light detector at a first location of the immersion head and a laser source at a second location within the immersion head. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory cell structure without gate leak current, and an activation method thereof. SOLUTION: The structure includes (a) a substrate, (b) first and second electrode regions 610, 1120 on the substrate, and (c) a third electrode region 1110 arranged between the first electrode region and the second electrode region. When a first write voltage potential is applied between the first electrode and the third electrode region, in response thereto, the third electrode region changes the shape of its own and then, when a predetermined read voltage potential is applied between the first electrode region and the third electrode region, in response thereto, a sense current flows between the first electrode region and the third electrode region. Further, when a second write voltage potential is applied between the second electrode region and the third electrode region, in response thereto, no sense current flows between the first electrode region and the third electrode region. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for synthesizing carbon nanotubes and a structure formed by the carbon nanotubes. SOLUTION: A method for synthesizing the carbon nanotubes includes a step for forming carbon nanotubes on a plurality of synthesis sites supported by a first substrate, a step for interrupting nanotube synthesis, a step for mounting a free end of each carbon nanotube onto a second substrate, and a step for removing the first substrate. Each carbon nanotube is capped by one of the synthesis sites, to which growth reactants have ready access. As the carbon nanotubes lengthen during resumed nanotube synthesis, access to the synthesis sites remains unoccluded. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
Micro-valves (257) and micro-pumps (400) and methods of fabricating micro- valves (257) and micro-pumps (400). The micro-valves (257) and micro-pumps (400) include electrically conductive diaphragms (155) fabricated from electrically conductive nano-fibers. Fluid flow through the micro-valves (257) and pumping action of the micro-pumps (400) is accomplished by applying electrostatic forces to the electrically conductive diaphragms (155).
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Conductive sidewall spacer stractures are formed using a method tiiat patterns structures (mandrels) and activates the sidewalls of the structures. Metal ions are attached to the sidewalls of the structures and these metal ions are reduced to form seed material. The structures are then trimmed and the seed material is plated to form wiring on the sidewalls of the structures.
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A negative developable bottom antireflective coating (NDBARC) material includes a polymer containing an aliphatic alcohol moiety, an aromatic moiety, and a carboxylic acid moiety. The NDBARC composition is insoluble in a typical resist solvent such as propylene glycol methyl ether acetate (PGMEA) after coating and baking. The NDBARC material also includes a photoacid generator, and optionally a crosslinking compound. In the NDBARC material, the carboxylic acid provides the developer solubility, while the alcohol alone, the carboxylic acid alone, or their combination provides the PGMEA resistance. The NDBARC material has resistance to the resist solvent, and thus, intermixing does not occur between NDBARC and resist during resist coating over NDBARC. After exposure and bake, the lithographically exposed portions of both the negative photoresist (30E) and the NDBARC layer (20E) become insoluble in developer due to the chemically amplified crosslinking of the polymers in negative resist and NDBARC layer in the lithographically exposed portions.
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Non-volatile and radiation-hard switching and memory devices (225) using vertical nano-tubes (155) and reversibly held in state by van der Waals' forces and methods of fabricating the devices. Means for sensing the state of the devices include measuring capacitance, and tunneling and field emission currents.
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A trench-type storage device includes a trench in a substrate (100), with bundles of carbon nanotubes (202) lining the trench and a trench conductor (300) filling the trench. A trench dielectric (200) may be formed between the carbon nanotubes and the sidewall of the trench. The bundles of carbon nanotubes form an open cylinder structure lining the trench. The device is formed by providing a carbon nanotube catalyst structure on the substrate and patterning the trench in the substrate; the carbon nanotubes are then grown down into the trench to line the trench with the carbon nanotube bundles, after which the trench is filled with the trench conductor.
Abstract:
Eine erste metallische Hartmaskenschicht über einer dielektrischen Zwischenverbindungsebenen-Schicht wird mit einem Leitungsmuster strukturiert. Oberhalb der ersten metallischen Hartmaskenschicht wird wenigstens eine Schicht aus einem dielektrischen Material, eine zweite metallische Hartmaskenschicht, eine erste organische Planarisierungsschicht (OPL) sowie ein erstes Photoresist angebracht. Ein erstes Durchkontakt-Muster wird von der ersten Photoresistschicht in die zweite metallische Hartmaskenschicht hinein transferiert. Eine zweite OPL und ein zweites Photoresist werden angebracht und mit einem zweiten Durchkontakt-Muster strukturiert, das in die zweite metallische Hartmaskenschicht hinein transferiert wird. Ein erstes Kombinationsmuster aus dem ersten und dem zweiten Durchkontaktmuster wird in die wenigstens eine Schicht aus einem dielektrischen Material transferiert. Ein zweites Kombinationsmuster, welches das erste Kombinationsmuster mit den Gebieten der Öffnungen in der ersten metallischen Hartmaskenschicht begrenzt, wird in die dielektrische Zwischenverbindungsebenen-Schicht hinein transferiert.