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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for selecting semiconducting carbon nanotubes from a random collection of conducting and semiconducting carbon nanotubes synthesized on a plurality of synthesis sites carried by a substrate and structures formed thereby. SOLUTION: After an initial growth stage, synthesis at synthesis sites is interrupted and specific synthesis sites bearing conducting carbon nanotubes are altered so as to halt lengthening of the conducting carbon nanotubes. Synthesis sites bearing semiconducting carbon nanotubes are unaffected by the alteration, so that semiconducting carbon nanotubes can be lengthened to a greater length than the conducting carbon nanotubes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly reliable gate insulation film with respect to a gate insulation film forming method by silicon nitride oxide. SOLUTION: The gate insulation film forming method includes a process for preparing a substrate, a process for forming a silicon dioxide layer on the top surface of the substrate, a process for exposing the silicon dioxide layer to a plasma-nitride forming process in order to change the silicon dioxide layer into a silicon nitride oxide layer, and a process for subjecting the silicon nitride oxide layer to spike-like rapid annealing. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor element reducing a short channel effect. SOLUTION: An element has a trench 370 formed in a silicon substrate 305. The channel 380 of the element is formed on the bottom portion of the trench 370. Diffusion layers 310, 320 are formed adjacently to both sides of the trench 370 and are extended along the side walls of the trench 370 and under a part of the trench 370 to form diffusion extension parts 315, 325, whereby each diffusion layer is connected to each edge of the element channel.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor and a device structure which suppress the latch-up in a bulk CMOS device. SOLUTION: The method includes a step of forming a trench in a semiconductor material of a substrate, while the trench has a first side wall disposed between a pair of doped wells demarcated in the semiconductor material of the substrate. The method further includes a step of forming an etching mask in the trench to mask partially the basal surface of the trench, and successively a step of removing the semiconductor material of the substrate exposing in the basal surface which has been partially masked and demarcating a second side wall which deepens the trench and has been narrowed. A dielectric material is filled in the deepened trench to demarcate trench separation regions of devices constructed in the doped wells. The dielectric material filled in the extended part of the deepened trench improves the suppression of the latch-up. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device adapted to reduce latchups. SOLUTION: The semiconductor device includes (1) a shallow-trench-isolation (STI) oxide region; (2) a first metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) coupled to a first side of the STI oxide region; (3) a second MOSFET coupled to a second side of the STI oxide region, wherein the portions of the first and second MOSFETs are coupled into a loop to form first and second bipolar junction transistors (BJTs); and (4) a dopant-implanted region, formed below the STI oxide region, where the dopant-implanted region forms a portion of the BJT loop and is adapted to reduce a gain of the loop. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a manufacturing process of a three-dimensional integrated circuit chip or a wafer assembly, and further in detail, to make it possible to process chips in an arrayed state on a wafer before arranging the chips as stack. SOLUTION: The manufacture of the three-dimensional integrated circuit is disclosed wherein chip density can be made extremely high, and the wafer can be processed while keeping a planar form as a whole. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure and a method for selectively accumulating a germanium spacer on a nitride. SOLUTION: In a method for selectively forming a germanium structure in a semiconductor manufacturing process, a native oxide is removed in a chemical oxide removing (COR) process, then surfaces of heated nitride and oxide are exposed to a germanium-containing gas to selectively form the germanium only on the surface of the nitride, not on the surface of the oxide. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an immersion lithography device and its method. SOLUTION: A lithographic optical column structure is disclosed for performing immersion lithography, at least on a projection optical system and a wafer of an optical system inside different fluids of equal pressure. In particular, a supercritical fluid is introduced to the periphery of the wafer with identical pressure, and another fluid, for example an inert gas, is introduced in at least the projection optical system of the optical system, thereby comprising the immersion lithography device which does not require special lenses. Furthermore, a chamber is provided which encloses the wafer to be exposed and at least a projection optical component of the optical system, and is filled with a supercritical immersion fluid. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multi-mesa FET structure having a doped sidewall for a source/drain region and its forming method. SOLUTION: This method makes use of the fact that when using a doping method which does not depend on a geometric shape such as a vapor doping or a plasma doping, a uniform doping of the whole sidewall is obtained by exposing the source and the drain sidewall during manufacturing. As a result, a device manufactured can have a large quantity of current per unit area of a silicon because it has a threshold voltage and a current density that does not depend on the depth and controlled with accuracy, and also its mesa quantity is extremely high compared with a mesa which can be formed by a conventional technology. Instead of a normal subtractive etching method, a multi-mesa FET structure forming method using a Damascene method gate process or a Damascene method alternate gate process is included. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a leakage current characteristic at or below the threshold of a trench discrete type FET element. SOLUTION: A slot in a vertical direction is formed in an stacked structure 14 adhered to a silicon substrate 10 covered with an oxide 12, and thereafter a spacer is formed on the sidewall of the slot. Then, a trench is formed in the substrate 10 by etching. A horizontal ledge appears adjacent to the trench, on the exposed surface of the substrate covered with the oxide by removal of the spacer. The conduction of an end in the element is suppressed by injecting a proper impurity into this ledge. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO