Abstract:
An active FET body device which comprises an active FET region including a gate, a body region and electrical connection between said gate and said body region that is located within the active FET region is provided along with various methods for fabricating the devices. The electrical connection extends over substantially the entire width of the FET.
Abstract:
A semiconductor MOSFET device is formed on a silicon substrate which includes trenches filled with Shallow Trench Isolation dielectric trench fill structures and extending above the surface of the substrate. The trench fill structures have protruding sidewalls with channel regions in the substrate having corner regions adjacent to the trench fill structures. The channel regions are between and adjacent to the STI trench fill structures doped with one concentration of dopant in the centers of the channel regions with a higher concentration of dopant in the corner regions. The dopant concentration differential provides a substantially equal concentration of electrons in the centers and at the corner regions of the channel regions.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fin FET structure and its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: The manufacturing method includes the steps for forming a silicon fin on the top surface of a bulk silicon substrate, forming gate dielectrics on the sidewalls at both sides of the fin, forming a gate electrode which comes into contact directly and physically with the gate dielectric layer on the sidewalls at both sides of the fin, forming a primary source/drain at a primary side fin in the channel region and forming a secondary source/drain at a secondary side fin in the channel region, removing a part of the bulk silicon substrate from the underside of at least one part of the primary and secondary source/drain regions for creating the void, and filling the void with the dielectric materials. The structure includes a body contact between a silicon body of the fin FET and the bulk silicon substrate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor structure including at least one e-fuse, and a manufacturing method which is easily integrated with standard semiconductor technologies, thus minimizing implementation costs. SOLUTION: A semiconductor structure includes at least one e-fuse embedded in a trench that is located in a semiconductor substrate (a bulk or semiconductor-on-insulator substrate). According to the present invention, the e-fuse is in electrical contact with a dopant region that is located in the semiconductor substrate. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure in which the embedded e-fuse and trench isolation regions are formed almost at the same time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double work function doping and a borderless array diffusion contact. SOLUTION: This method includes steps for forming a semiconductor substrate 5, a gate insulator 10, conductors 61, 12 on the gate insulator, an insulation cap on the conductors, and an insulation spacer 92 on part of the sidewall of the conductors and of the insulation cap. This method also includes a step for doping a part of the semiconductor substrate and of the conductors with a first conductive dopant and the other part with a second conductive dopant. The conductors are annealed, to allow the first and the second conductive dopants to spread crossing into into each conductor.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an active FET body device capable of balancing high-speed electric charges, decreasing off-current, and increasing on-current. SOLUTION: This embodiment comprises a silicon substrate 2, a silicon dioxide layer 3, a monocrystal silicon layer 4, a silicon dioxide layer 5, a spacer 13 of N+ doped polysilicon, a conformal layer 15 of a conductive diffusion preventing substance, a metal silicide layer 16, a CVD silicon dioxide layer 17, an insulator spacer 18, a silicon oxide layer 19, and a polysilicon 21. In an off-state, a gate contact with a body holds the body at a low word line level. In this state, a threshold takes a larger value. In addition to a voltage added to the N+ part 13 of a gate conductor, a potential from the body to a source rises. As a result, if the device is turned on, Vt lowers. By the effects of a dynamic Vt fall accompanied by a low off-current, this embodiment is suitable for a device using a very low voltage.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure related to a semiconductor memory cell whose size is less than 4.5F2 in a case where F denotes the minimum dimension of a lithography techinique, and a manufacturing method thereof. SOLUTION: A semiconductor memory cell comprises a memory capacitor 12 formed in a trench, a transfer device formed in a mesa region which extends on the substantial arc of the periphery of the trench and is electrically isolated, and a buried strap which electrically connects the transfer device to the memory capacitors, wherein the transfer device comprises a controlled conduction channel located at a prescribed position on the arc removed from the buried strap.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrate a step move element adjacent to a deep trench capacitor by arranging an FET on one portion of the deep trench capacitor in a substrate, and providing an insulation region with a larger depth than the FET while surrounding the FET. SOLUTION: An FET is arranged on one portion of a deep trench capacitor 13 in a substrate, a travel element gate 17 is arranged on one portion of the deep trench capacitor 13 in the FET, and an n+ diffusion region 23 being separated from the travel element gate 17 by the insulation layer is formed adjacent to the side part of the travel element gate 17. Also, an isolation region 15 being insulated from the travel element gate 17 of the FET is arranged on one portion of the deep trench capacitor that is not covered with the FET, surrounds the FET and is located in the substrate, thus forming a larger depth than the FET and hence integrating the step travel element adjacent to the deep trench capacitor 13.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To design a smart-card integrated circuit whose density is high, whose chip size is small and which is low-cost by a method wherein a semiconductor memory device which contains an NVRAM cell structure, a DRAM cell structure and an SRAM cell structure is formed on an identical substrate. SOLUTION: An NVRAM cell structure, a DRAM cell structure and an SRAM cell structure are formed on an identical substrate. In the NVRAM cell structure, a double polysilicon layer is used as the topology of a stacked capacitor DRAM and as a material layer, a staked capacitor is formed, and shallow trench isolation regions 26, 28 are formed on the substrate adjacent to a source region and a drain region inside the substrate. In the DRAM cell structure, a source region, a drain region and a trench isolation region 28 are contained, and a gate structure which is the same as in the VRAM cell structure and a stud interconnection are contained. In the SRAM cell structure, a source region and a drain region which are the same as in the NVRAM cell structure and the DRAM cell structure are contained, and a stud interconnection is contained.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a finFET structure and a method of fabricating the same.SOLUTION: The method includes: forming a silicon fin on a top surface of a bulk silicon substrate; forming a gate dielectric on opposite sidewalls of the fin; forming a gate electrode in direct physical contact with the gate dielectric layer on the opposite sidewalls of the fin; forming a first source/drain in the fin on a first side of a channel region and forming a second source/drain in the fin on a second side of the channel region; removing a portion of the bulk silicon substrate from under at least a portion of the first and second source/drains to create a void; and filling the void with a dielectric material. The structure includes a body contact between the silicon body of the finFET and the bulk silicon substrate.