Abstract:
A memory cell which comprises a substrate having a top surface; a capacitor extending vertically into the substrate for storing a voltage representing a datum, said capacitor occupying a geometrically shaped horizontal area; a transistor formed above the capacitor and occupying a horizontal area substantially equal to the geometrically shaped horizontal area, and having a vertical device depth, for establishing an electrical connection with the capacitor, in response to a control signal, for reading from, and writing to, the capacitor, wherein the transistor includes a gate formed near the periphery of said horizontal device area and having a vertical depth approximately equal to the vertical device depth; an oxide layer on an inside surface of the gate; a conductive body formed inside the oxide layer, said conductive body having a top surface and a bottom surface and a vertical depth approximately equal to the vertical device depth; and diffusion regions in the body near the top and bottom surfaces and a method of manufacturing the same is provided.
Abstract:
Hybrid substrates characterized by semiconductor islands of different crystal orientations and methods of forming such hybrid substrates. The methods involve using a SIMOX process to form an insulating layer. The insulating layer may divide the islands of at least one of the different crystal orientations into mutually aligned device and body regions. The body regions may be electrically floating relative to the device regions.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrate a step move element adjacent to a deep trench capacitor by arranging an FET on one portion of the deep trench capacitor in a substrate, and providing an insulation region with a larger depth than the FET while surrounding the FET. SOLUTION: An FET is arranged on one portion of a deep trench capacitor 13 in a substrate, a travel element gate 17 is arranged on one portion of the deep trench capacitor 13 in the FET, and an n+ diffusion region 23 being separated from the travel element gate 17 by the insulation layer is formed adjacent to the side part of the travel element gate 17. Also, an isolation region 15 being insulated from the travel element gate 17 of the FET is arranged on one portion of the deep trench capacitor that is not covered with the FET, surrounds the FET and is located in the substrate, thus forming a larger depth than the FET and hence integrating the step travel element adjacent to the deep trench capacitor 13.
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
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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 an interconnect structure having electromigration resistance enhanced by lining the inside of a lower portion of a via opening inside with a multi-layered liner. SOLUTION: The multi-layered liner includes, from the patterned surface of a dielectric material outwards, a diffusion barrier, a multi-material layer and a metal-containing hard mask. The multi-material layer includes a first material layer comprised of residue from an underlying dielectric capping layer, and a second material layer comprised of residue from an underlying metallic capping layer. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating such an interconnect structure which includes the multi-layered liner within the lower portion of the via opening formed within a dielectric material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent interaction between a photoresist layer and an immersion fluid in a immersion lithography system and to prevent contaminants in the immersion fluid from contaminating an integrated circuit being fabricated. SOLUTION: The method for forming an image in a photoresist layer includes: a step of providing a substrate; a step (S12) of forming a photoresist layer over the substrate; a step (S16) of forming a contamination gettering topcoat layer over the photoresist layer, the contamination gettering topcoat layer including contains one or more polymers and one or more cation complexing agents; a step of exposing the photoresist layer to actinic radiation; and a step of removing an exposed region of the photoresist layer or an unexposed region of the photoresist layer. The contamination gettering topcoat layer includes one or more polymers, one or more cation complexing agents, and a casting solvent. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination light in an immersion lithography stepper for particle or bubble detection. SOLUTION: Embodiments provide an immersion lithography exposure system comprising a wafer holder for holding a wafer, an immersion liquid for covering the wafer, an immersion head to dispense and contain the immersion liquid, and a light source adapted to lithographically expose a resist on the wafer. The system also comprises a light detector at a first location of the immersion head and a laser source at a second location within the immersion head. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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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