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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for synthesizing carbon nanotubes and a structure formed by the carbon nanotubes. SOLUTION: A method for synthesizing the carbon nanotubes includes a step for forming carbon nanotubes on a plurality of synthesis sites supported by a first substrate, a step for interrupting nanotube synthesis, a step for mounting a free end of each carbon nanotube onto a second substrate, and a step for removing the first substrate. Each carbon nanotube is capped by one of the synthesis sites, to which growth reactants have ready access. As the carbon nanotubes lengthen during resumed nanotube synthesis, access to the synthesis sites remains unoccluded. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming a desired junction profile in a semiconductor device. SOLUTION: At least one dopant is thrown into a semiconductor substrate. At the same time, the semiconductor substrate and at least one dopant are annealed exposing the semiconductor substrate to an electric field thus diffusing at least one dopant into the semiconductor substrate.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a narrow gate and a shallow expansion part by providing a layer (substrate) including one polysilicon gate and one source/drain region, and by simultaneously doping one gate stack and the source/drain region. SOLUTION: Vapor-phase doping is selectively used, and a polysilicon gate and an S/D region are simultaneously doped. Especially, a gate stack 20 and a well 18 that are not doped are covered with an appropriate diffusion prevention material 40. An S/D region 19 and a polysilicon gate 24 are exposed to n- and p-type gases or a doping source 30 of plasma. The gases can be variously changed corresponding to p and n types. For example, arsine AsH3 is used as arsenic trichloride AsCl3, phosphine PH3, and n-type gas dopant. When a masked laser beam is used, a diffusion prevention material 40 is eliminated, and reaction is repeated for the remaining stack 20 and the S/D region 19 by a type opposite to the doping source being used firstly.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of forming a semiconductor structure.SOLUTION: The method comprises the steps of: bonding a first dielectric layer on a first semiconductor layer with a second dielectric layer on a second semiconductor layer; defining a plurality of openings extending from a top surface of the first semiconductor layer to the second semiconductor layer; applying dielectric regions to sidewalls of each of the openings; epitaxially growing an island of semiconductor material of the second semiconductor layer to fill each of the openings; forming an insulating layer at a given depth that divides the first semiconductor layer into a plurality of device regions between the insulating layer and the top surface and a plurality of body regions between the insulating layer and the first and second dielectric layers such that each of the body regions is aligned with one of the device regions between an adjacent pair of the dielectric regions; forming shallow trench isolation regions extending from the top surface of the first semiconductor layer; and forming a contact through each of the shallow trench isolation regions to the body regions.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide passive maximum acceleration and voltage measurement devices which are compact and do not need a power supply.SOLUTION: A device includes an electrically conductive plate 110 on a top surface of a first insulating layer 105; a second insulating layer 130 on a top surface of the conductive plate 110; and conductive nanotubes 180 suspended across an opening 135 in the second insulating layer 130. Because of acceleration perpendicular to the surface of the conductive plate 110, the nanotubes 180 are bent to be in contact with the conductive plate 110 and held by the van der Waals force.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and equipment in which the possibility of bringing immersion fluid from a clearance or other portion of a chuck onto the surface of a photoresist layer on a wafer is not high. SOLUTION: Equipment for holding a wafer and a method for immersion lithography. The equipment comprises a wafer chuck having a central circular vacuum platen, an outside region, and a circular groove centering on the vacuum platen. Upper surface of the vacuum platen is recessed below the upper surface of the outside region, and the layer surface of the groove is recessed below the upper part of the vacuum platen, one or more suction ports are provided in the lower surface of the groove, and a hollow toroidal bladder capable of expansion or contraction is arranged in the groove. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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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