Abstract:
A method of fabricating a strained semiconductor-on-insulator (SSOI) substrate in which the strained semiconductor is a thin semiconductor layer having a thickness of less than 50 nm that is located directly atop an insulator layer of a preformed silicon-on-insulator substrate is provided. Wafer bonding is not employed in forming the SSOI substrate of the present invention.
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 provide a method and device by which a semiconductor substrate, a CMP tool, a brush cleaning tool, and a chemical wafer cleaning tool can be incorporated. SOLUTION: CMP is performed with a descending force of 1 psi, backward air pressure of 0.5 psi, platen speed of 50 rpm, carrier speed of 30 rpm, and slurry flow rate of 140 milliliter.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a double-gate integrated circuit and its structure. SOLUTION: The method includes a step for forming a laminated structure, having a channel layer and first insulation layers provided on the respective side surface of the channel layer, a step for forming an opening in the laminated structure, a step for forming source and drain regions in the opening, a step for removing a portion of the laminated structure for leaving a first portion of the channel layer exposed to the external, a step for forming a first gate dielectric layer in the channel layer, a step for forming a first gate electrode in the first gate dielectric layer, a step for removing a portion of the laminated structure to leave a second portion of the channel layer exposed to the external, a step for forming a second gate dielectric layer in the channel layer, a step for forming a second gate electrode in the second gate dielectric layer, and a step for doping the source and drain regions through self-aligned ion implantation. In this case, the first and second gate electrodes are formed independently of each other.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a field effect transistor (FET) with a channel formed by a semiconductor nanowire (semiconductor nanowire channel) and doped semiconductor source and drain regions. SOLUTION: A FET structure with a semiconductor nanowire forming the FET channel and doped source and drain regions formed by radial epitaxy from the semiconductor nanowire body is disclosed. A top gated and a bottom gated nanowire FET structures are discussed. The source and drain fabrication can use either selective or non-selective epitaxy. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Semiconductor structures including parallel graphene nanoribbons or carbon nanotubes oriented along crystallographic directions are provided from a template of silicon carbide (SiC) fins or nanowires. The SiC fins or nanowires are first provided and then graphene nanoribbons or carbon nanotubes are formed on the exposed surfaces of the fin or the nanowires by annealing. In embodiments in which closed carbon nanotubes are formed, the nanowires are suspended prior to annealing. The location, orientation and chirality of the graphene nanoribbons and the carbon nanotubes that are provided are determined by the corresponding silicon carbide fins and nanowires from which they are formed.
Abstract:
A nonvolatile nano-electromechanical system device is provided and includes a cantilever structure, including a beam having an initial shape, which is supported at one end thereof by a supporting base and a beam deflector, including a phase change material (PCM), disposed on a portion of the beam in a non-slip condition with a material of the beam, the PCM taking one of an amorphous phase or a crystalline phase and deflecting the beam from the initial shape when taking the crystalline phase.