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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an asymmetric semiconductor device, and to provide a method using a spacer scheme in manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: A semiconductor structure is provided that includes an asymmetric gate stack located on a surface of high-k gate dielectric. The asymmetric gate stack includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion has a different threshold voltage than the second portion. The first portion of the asymmetric gate stack includes, from bottom to top, a threshold voltage adjusting material and at least a first conductive spacer, while the second portion of the asymmetric gate stack includes at least a second conductive spacer over the gate dielectric. In some embodiments, the second conductive spacer is in direct contact with the underlying high-k gate dielectric, while, in other embodiments, the first and second conductive spacers are in direct contact with the threshold voltage adjusting material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a p-type semiconductor nanowire device and an n-type semiconductor nanowire device for achieving a high on current and a low off current. SOLUTION: In semiconductor structures each including semiconductor link sections 30C, 50C and two adjacent pad sections 30A, 30B, 50A, 50B, the sidewalls of the semiconductor link sections are oriented to maximize hole mobility for a first semiconductor structure, and to maximize electron mobility for a second semiconductor structure. Thinning by oxidation of the semiconductor structures reduces the width of the semiconductor link sections at different rates for each different crystal orientation. The widths of the semiconductor link sections are predetermined such that the different amount of thinning results in target sublithographic dimensions for the resulting semiconductor nanowires after thinning. By compensating for different thinning rates for different crystallographic surfaces, semiconductor nanowires having optimal sublithographic widths may be formed without excessive thinning or insufficient thinning. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device having dielectric stressor elements and a method for manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: There is provided a chip including an active semiconductor region and a field effect transistor (FET) having a channel region, a source region, and a drain region, all of which are arranged in the active semiconductor region. The FET has a lengthwise direction in the direction of the length of the channel region and a transverse direction in the direction of the width of the channel region. An embedded dielectric stressor element has an upper surface extending horizontally at a first depth below the main surface of a part of the active semiconductor region, such as an east edge portion of the active semiconductor region. Surface dielectric stressor elements are arranged adjacent to each other in the transverse direction in the active semiconductor region on the main surface of the active semiconductor region. The surface dielectric stressor element extends from the main surface to a second depth substantially not deeper than the first depth. The stresses applied by the embedded dielectric stressor element and the surface dielectric stressor element collaborate in applying shearing stress to the channel region of the FET. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-performance bipolar device and its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: The method to increase electronic charge carrier mobility in a bipolar device includes the steps of generating compression strain in the device to increase hole mobility on the device's internal base, and causing tensile strain in the device to increase electron mobility on the internal base of the device. The compression strain and tensile strain are generated by forming a stress layer in the neighborhood of the internal base of the device. As for the stress layer, at least part of it is adjacent to an emitter structure of the device, and is imbedded in the device's base layer. The stress layer has a grating constant different from the internal base. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor structure and a method of manufacturing using tensile stress and compressive stress. SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing includes a step of forming shallow trench isolation (STI) in a substrate, and a step of providing a first material and a second material on the substrate. The first material and the second material form a first island and a second island at an pFET region and a nFET region, respectively. A tensile hard mask is formed on the first and the second island layers prior to forming finFETs. A Si epitaxial layer is grown on the sidewalls of the finFETs with the hard mask. The hard mask becomes a capping layer, which is under tension, preventing lateral buckling of the nFETfin. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an effective manufacturing method of a loosened SiGe layer. SOLUTION: A compressed distortional SiGe layer is formed on a silicon substrate. An EOR damage is given by performing an ionic injection of atoms onto the SiGe layer. Annealing is performed to loosen the distorted SiGe layer. An interstitial dislocation loop is formed as uniformly distributed in the SiGe layer during the annealing. The interstitial dislocation loop is a base for the nucleation of the misfit dislocation between the SiGe layer and the silicon substrate. Since the interstitial dislocation loop is uniformly distributed, the misfit dislocation is uniformly distributed as well, thereby the SiGe layer is loosened. The tensile distortional silicon layer is formed on the loosened SiGe layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and structure of a vertical strained silicon device. SOLUTION: A trench capacitor vertical-transistor DRAM cell in an SiGe wafer compensates for overhang of a pad nitride, by forming an epitaxial strained silicon layer on trench walls that improves transistor mobility, removes voids from the polysilicon filling, and reduces resistance on the bit line contact. Another feature is that by forming a vertical strained silicon channel, the performance of the vertical device is improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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While embedded silicon germanium alloy and silicon carbon alloy provide many useful applications, especially for enhancing the mobility of MOSFETs through stress engineering, formation of alloyed suicide on these surfaces degrades device performance. The present invention provides structures and methods for providing unalloyed suicide on such silicon alloy surfaces placed on semiconductor substrates. This enables the formation of low resistance contacts for both mobility enhanced PFETs with embedded SiGe and mobility enhanced NFETs with embedded Si:C on the same semiconductor substrate. Furthermore, this invention provides methods for thick epitaxial silicon alloy, especially thick epitaxial Si:C alloy, above the level of the gate dielectric to increase the stress on the channel on the transistor devices.
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The present invention relates to semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrates having device regions (2, 4, 6), each comprises a base semiconductor substrate layer (12) and a semiconductor device layer (16) and a buried insulator layer (14) between. The semiconductor device layer (16) supported by vertical insulating pillars (22), each having a ledge extending between the base semiconductor substrate layer (12) and the semiconductor device layer (16). The SOI substrates of the present invention can be readily formed from a precursor substrate structure with a "floating" semiconductor device layer that is spaced apart from the base semiconductor substrate layer by an air gap (15) and is supported by the vertical insulating pillars (22). The air gap (15) is preferably formed by selective removal of a sacrificial layer (13) located between the base semiconductor substrate layer (12) and the semiconductor device layer (16).
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A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes channels for a pFET and an nFET. A SiGe layer is selectively grown in the source and drain regions of the pFET channel and a Si:C layer is selectively grown in source and drain regions of the nFET channel. The SiGe and Si:C layer match a lattice network of the underlying Si layer to create a stress component. In one implementation, this causes a compressive component in the pFET channel and a tensile component in the nFET channel.