Abstract:
A method for fabricating germanium-on-insulator (GOI) substrate materials, the GOI substrate materials produced by the method and various structures that can include at least the GOI substrate materials of the present invention are provided. The GOI substrate material include at least a substrate, a buried insulator layer located atop the substrate, and a Ge-containing layer, preferably pure Ge, located atop the buried insulator layer. In the GOI substrate materials of the present invention, the Ge-containing layer may also be referred to as the GOI film. The GOI film is the layer of the inventive substrate material in which devices can be formed.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop a new improved method for forming a relaxed SiGe-on-insulator substrate material which is thermodynamically stable with respect to the generation of a defect. SOLUTION: Silicon to which tensile stress is applied is formed by epitaxially growing over the whole SiGe alloy layer. Silicon to which compressive stress is applied is formed by epitaxially growing over the whole porous silicon. A method of converting a patterned SOI region into patterned an SGOI (silicon-germanium ON oxide) by a SiGe/SOI heat mixing process for farther reinforcing the performance of a logic circuit in a padded DRAM is described in a preferred embodiment. The SGOI region in which Si is strained acts as a template for succeeding Si growth so that electrons and holes in the Si have higher mobilities. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a design capable of manufacturing a field-effect transistor which is fine in size and contains a sub-lithography channel length on an SOI wafer or a chip with a high degree of integration through a well-known and fully-developed process. SOLUTION: A short channel effect can be effectively restrained by the use of the impurity concentration of a steep gradient which can be accurately improved in shape and arranged at a proper position, and on the other hand, impurities are injected into a polysilicon seed adjacent to the conduction channel of a transistor and diffused into the conduction channel from the polysilicon seed to relax the allowance of a process. The polysilicon seed enables a polysilicon source/drain contact, which has a structure capable of reducing its current density and path length to an irreducible minimum and giving other mechanical advantages, to grow epitaxially from the polysilicon seed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the depletion of the gate polysilicon of a CMOS by a gate electrode structure composed of a metal dielectric stack containing a large volume of potassium. SOLUTION: A semiconductor structure is provided by including an n-FET device and a p-FET device. At least either of the devices includes a gate electrode stack having a thin film of a silicon-containing electrode, i.e., polysilicon electrode and a first metal on the silicon-containing electrode. The other of the devices includes a gate electrode stack not having a thin film of a silicon-containing electrode but at least having a first metal gate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a protective structure for blocking the propagation of defects generated in a semiconductor device. SOLUTION: The protective structure is provided with a deep-trench isolation region 50 formed between a memory storing region 12 of the semiconductor device 10 and the logical operation circuit region 14 of the semiconductor device 10, while the deep-trench isolation region is filled with an insulation material. The deep-trench isolation region is formed below a shallow-trench isolation region 28 and the shallow-trench isolation region electrically separates a device included in the memory storage region 12 from a device included in the logical operation circuit region 14. According to this structure, the deep-trench isolation region blocks the propagation of crystalline defects generated in the logical operation circuit region into the memory storage region. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a CMOS circuit which includes an n-FET gate stack having a gate dielectric and a metal gate conductor, and a p-FET gate stack having a gate dielectric layer and a silicon-containing gate conductor. SOLUTION: In the high-performance complementary metal oxide film semiconductor (CMOS) circuit, each semiconductor unit has at least the first gate stack and the second gate stack. The first gate stack is disposed on a first device region (e.g., n-FET device region) in a semiconductor board, and at least includes a gate dielectric layer 14, a metal gate conductor 16, and a silicon-containing gate conductor 18 that are laminated in increasing order. The second gate stack is disposed on a second device region (e.g., p-FET device region) in the semiconductor board; and at least includes a gate dielectric layer, and a silicon-containing gate conductor that are laminated in increasing order. The first and second gate stacks can be formed on the semiconductor board by a variety of integrated methods. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved method of manufacturing a magnetic data track necessary for building a magnetic shift register memory device. SOLUTION: The magnetic data track can be manufactured by forming a multilayered stack made by stacking a dielectric material and/or a silicon layer alternately. A via having a height of about 10 microns and a cross section of about 100 nm in length and width is formed in the multilayered stack of alternate layers by etching. Then, the via is filled up with a layer of alternately stacked ferromagnetic material and ferrimagnetic metal by electrical plating. The ferromagnetic material layer and the ferrimagnetic material layer are formed of magnetic materials having a different magnetization characteristic, a different magnetic exchange characteristic, or a different magnetic anisotropy. Due to the different magnetic characteristics, a magnetic wall can be fixed to the boundary between these layers. The magnetic wall is formed by the ferromagnetic material occurring on a notch or projection along the wall of the via or by the discontinuity in the ferromagnetic material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming a crack stopper which prevents the propagation of cracks and chips which occur when the effective area of an IC is diced. SOLUTION: A method for forming crack stopper is used for a semiconductor wafer carrying an integrated circuit which is formed so that the circuit may be separated by dicing a dielectric layer. In order to suppress the formation of a crack which occurs when the wafer is diced for isolating the integrated circuit, a discontinuity 250 is formed in a dielectric material in the edge section of a channel 218 without requiring any additional processing for the formation of the discontinuity 250. Therefore, the discontinuity 250 can be formed as part of the manufacturing process of the integrated circuit.
Abstract:
A gate stack structure for field effect transistor (FET) devices includes a nitrogen rich first dielectric layer formed over a semiconductor substrate surface; a nitrogen deficient, oxygen rich second dielectric layer formed on the nitrogen rich first dielectric layer, the first and second dielectric layers forming, in combination, a bi-layer interfacial layer; a high-k dielectric layer formed over the bi-layer interfacial layer; a metal gate conductor layer formed over the high-k dielectric layer; and a work function adjusting dopant species diffused within the high-k dielectric layer and within the nitrogen deficient, oxygen rich second dielectric layer, and wherein the nitrogen rich first dielectric layer serves to separate the work function adjusting dopant species from the semiconductor substrate surface.
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Verfahren zum Bilden einer Photovoltaikeinheit (100), aufweisend:Bereitstellen eines Substrats (102); undAbscheiden einer Pufferschicht (105) zwischen einer transparenten Elektrode (104), die auf dem Substrat (102) ausgebildet ist, und einer p-leitenden Schicht (106) eines Photovoltaikstapels (106, 110, 112), wobei das Abscheiden der Pufferschicht (105) die Schritte umfasst:Durchführen einer Blitzabscheidung mit einer hohen Leistung von etwa 100 W/cm2zum Abscheiden eines ersten Teils (116) der Pufferschicht (105), um ein Kristallinitätsniveau und Leitfähigkeit der Pufferschicht (105) zu erhöhen; undDurchführen einer Abscheidung mit niedriger Leistung zum Abscheiden eines zweiten Teils der Pufferschicht (105) und zum Erhalten einer stärker amorphen Form, wobei der erste Teil (116) der Pufferschicht (105) an die p-leitende Schicht (106) angrenzt und der zweite Teil der Pufferschicht (105) an die transparente Elektrode (104) angrenzt, und wobei die Pufferschicht (105) einen Dotierstoff des p-Typs aufweist.