Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a FinFET which allows an integrated circuit or an electronic device that includes smaller, more densely disposed active regions or active lines. SOLUTION: A method of forming an integrated circuit having a FinFET comprises a method of forming sub-lithographic fins. A silicon block is defined by a mask, and a pair of fins which is reduced in width or pulled back by the thickness of one fin on each side is included. After that, a second mask is formed around the first mask so that an aperture having the width of the separation distance between the pair of fins remains in the second mask after the first mask is removed. When the silicon is etched through the aperture, the fins are protected by the second mask, thereby defining the fin thickness by the pullback step. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the structure and the method of forming an integrated circuit including a low programming voltage anti-fuse on a semiconductor substrate. SOLUTION: This integrated circuit is formed by doping a part of a semiconductor substrate with nitrogen and a charge carrier dopant source, forming a thin dielectric that is destroyed by the application of breakdown voltage on the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate, forming a first conductor that is separated from the semiconductor substrate by the thin dielectric, and forming a second conductor that is conductively connected with the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
An embedded silicon carbon (Si:C) having a substitutional carbon content in excess of one percent in order to effectively increase electron mobility by application of tension to a channel region of an NFET is achieved by overfilling a gap or trench formed by transistor gate structures with Si: C and polishing an etching the Si: C to or below a surface of a raised gate structure in a super-Damascene process, leaving Si:C only in selected regions above the transistor source and drain, even though processes capable of depositing Si: C with sufficiently high substitutional carbon content are inherently non-selective.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a high performance heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) having abase region with a SiGe-containing layer therein. The SiGe-containing layer is not more than about 100 ran thick and has a predetermined critical germanium content. The SiGe-containing layer further has an average germanium content of not less than about 80% of the predetermined critical germanium content The present invention also relates to a method for enhancing carrier mobility in a HBT having a SiGe-containing base layer, by uniformly increasing germanium content in the base layer so that the average germanium content therein is not less than 80% of a critical germanium content, which is calculated based on the thickness of the base layer, provided that the base layer is not more than 100 nm thick.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a semiconductor device having dual nitride liners, which provide an increased transverse stress state for at least one FET (300) and methods for the manufacture of such a device. A first aspect of the invention provides a method for use in the manufacture of a semiconductor device comprising the steps of applying a first silicon nitride liner (360) to the device and applying a second silicon nitride liner (370) adjacent the fast silicon nitride liner, wherein at least one of the first and second silicon nitride liners induces a transverse stress in a silicon channel (330) beneath at least one of the first and second silicon nitride liner.
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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