Abstract:
A trench capacitor memory cell structure is provided with includes a vertical collar region that suppresses current leakage of an adjacent vertical parasitic transistor that exists between the vertical MOSFET and the underlying trench capacitor. The vertical collar isolation, which has a vertical length of about 0.50 mum or less, includes a first portion that is present partially outside the trench and a second portion that is present inside the trench. The first portion of the collar oxide is thicker than said second portion oxide thereby reducing parasitic current leakage.
Abstract:
Forming a vertical MOS transistor or making another three-dimensional integrated circuit structure in a silicon wafer exposes planes having at least two different crystallographic orientations. Growing oxide on different crystal planes is inherently at different growth rates because the inter-atomic spacing is different in the different planes. Heating the silicon in a nitrogen-containing ambient to form a thin layer of nitride and then growing the oxide through the thin nitrided layer reduces the difference in oxide thickness to less than 1%.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing thin metal-containing layers (5C) having low electrical resistance, according to which a metal-containing initial layer (5A) having a first grain size is configured on a carrier material (2) in a first step. A locally restricted heated area (W) is then created and moved within the metal-containing initial layer (5A) in such a way that the metal-containing initial layer (5A) is recrystallized so as to create the metal-containing layer (5C) having a second grain size which is enlarged to the first grain size, whereby a metal-containing layer having improved electrical properties is obtained.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a semiconductor element with at least one layer of tungsten oxide (WOx), optionally in a structured tungsten oxide (WOx) layer. The inventive semiconductor element is characterized in that the relative permittivity ( epsilon r) of the tungsten oxide layer (WOx) is higher than 50.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a structuring method, among other things. According to said method, a filling material (22) having a T-shaped cross section is used as a structuring mask in order to create structures with sublithographic dimensions, particularly a double-fin field effect transistor.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a field effect transistor (37), among other things, which comprises a monocrystalline control area (34). The inventive field effect transistor (37) provides a certain degree of freedom concerning the circuitry design and can be produced in a simple manner.
Abstract:
The invention inter alia relates to a method for producing a tunnel field-effect transistor (T1). The inventive method is characterized by producing differently doped connecting areas (28, 80) by means of self-aligned implantation methods.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing: a sublithographic gate structure; an associated field effect transistor; an associated inverter, and; an associated inverter structure. A sublithographic gate structure (SG) having slight variations in the critical dimensions thereof can be directly produced on the lateral walls of a lithographically structured mask (M0, 2) by the conformal formation of a gate insulation layer (3) and of a gate layer with subsequently executed anisotropic etching.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing thin metal-containing layers (5C) having low electrical resistance, according to which a metal-containing initial layer (5A) having a first grain size is configured on a carrier material (2) in a first step. A locally restricted heated area (W) is then created and moved within the metal-containing initial layer (5A) in such a way that the metal-containing initial layer (5A) is recrystallized so as to create the metal-containing layer (5C) having a second grain size which is enlarged to the first grain size, whereby a metal-containing layer having improved electrical properties is obtained.