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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical sensor and a method of forming the optical sensor. SOLUTION: The optical sensor structure includes (a) a semiconductor substrate, (b) a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth electrodes and (c) a first, a second, and a third semiconductor regions. The first and fourth electrodes are at a first depth. The second and fifth electrodes are at a second depth. The third and sixth electrodes are at a third depth. The first depth is deeper than the second depth, and the second depth is deeper than the third depth. The first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and the third semiconductor region are laid out between the first electrode and the fourth electrode, between the second electrode and the fifth electrode, and between the third electrode and the sixth electrodes, respectively, and are in contact with the first and fourth electrodes, the second and fifth electrodes, and the third and sixth electrodes, respectively. The first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and the third semiconductor region come into contact with each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved method of forming a filled isolation region of a semiconductor substrate, and to provide a method of forming a semiconductor device, having the filled isolation region and cooling the device and giving body potential control. SOLUTION: A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the semiconductor structure are disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a nanostructure or is manufactured by using the nanostructure. The method of forming the semiconductor structure includes the steps of generating the nanostructure, by using a nano mask and performing an additional semiconductor processing step by using the nanostructure thus generated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming a field effect transistor having a channel length controlled favorably by applying a carbon nanotube. SOLUTION: The field effect transistor employs the vertically oriented carbon nanotube as a transistor body, the carbon nanotube being formed by deposition within a vertical aperture, with an optional combination of several parallel nanotubes to produce quantized current drive, and an optional change in a chemical composition of a carbon material at the top or at the bottom to suppress short channel effect. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gate formation method capable of controlling the gate length of a self-aligned wrap-around type field effect transistor easily, accurately, and securely. SOLUTION: A reference edge in the vertical direction is determined by forming a cavity in an silicon on insulator (SOI) structure having an embedded silicon island 108. In order to securely carry out an etch back, the reference edge is used in two etch back stages. In the first etch back, part of oxide layer corresponding to a first distance is removed and then, a gate conductive material is applied thereon. In the second etch back, part of the gate conductive material corresponding to a second distance is removed. The difference between the first distance and the second distance determines the final gate length of a device. After the oxide layer is peeled off and removed, gate electrodes 904 and 906 in the vertical direction surrounding the embedded silicon island 108 appear at all four sides. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for selecting semiconducting carbon nanotubes from a random collection of conducting and semiconducting carbon nanotubes synthesized on a plurality of synthesis sites carried by a substrate and structures formed thereby. SOLUTION: After an initial growth stage, synthesis at synthesis sites is interrupted and specific synthesis sites bearing conducting carbon nanotubes are altered so as to halt lengthening of the conducting carbon nanotubes. Synthesis sites bearing semiconducting carbon nanotubes are unaffected by the alteration, so that semiconducting carbon nanotubes can be lengthened to a greater length than the conducting carbon nanotubes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROCESS OF MAKING DUAL WELL CMOS SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH ALIGNED FIELD-DOPINGS USING SINGLE MASKING STEP A process for making a CMOS dual-well semiconductor structure with field isolation doping, wherein only a single lithographic masking step is required for providing self-alignment both of the wells to each other and also of the field isolation doping regions to the wells. The lithographic masking step forms a well mask and defines an oxidation barrier which acts as: an implant mask (absorber) during the ion-implantation of a field dopant of one type; an oxidation barrier over one well during the oxidation of the opposite-type well to form over the one well a sacrificial oxide layer which forms the alignment marks for subsequent formation of the field-doping regions; and a dopant-transmitter during the ion-implanation of an opposite-type field dopant which is simultaneously absorbed by the sacrificial oxide. As a result, there are formed field-doped oxide layers self-aligned to the wells so that, with a subsequent masking step, oxide field isolations are defined over the doped oxide layers. A heat cycle is then used to drive the field dopants into the corresponding field-doping regions.