Abstract:
A semiconductor structure comprising a hyperabrupt junction varactor with a compensated cathode contact as well as a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes a single implant mask which is used in forming the subcollector/cathode, collector/well and hyperabrupt junction.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory structure in which electric characteristics are controlled by indirectly heating a phase change material. SOLUTION: A manufacturing method of a memory device of a phase change material and a phase change memory device prepared by the method thereof are included. Concretely, the phase change memory device contains a semiconductor structure, and the semiconductor structure includes a substrate where a first doped area is contained and a set of second doped areas are disposed at both ends thereof; the phase change material disposed on the first doped area; and a conductor disposed on the phase change material. The semiconductor structure is operated as a bipolar junction transistor when the phase change material is in a first phase, and the semiconductor structure is operated as a MOSFET when the phase change material is in a second phase. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A structure, a FET, a method of making the structure and of making the FET. The structure including: a silicon layer (105; Fig. 5) on a buried oxide (BOX) layer (115) of a silicon-on-insulator substrate (100); a trench in the silicon layer extending from a top surface of the silicon layer into the silicon layer, the trench not extending to the BOX layer (160, 165, and 170), a doped region (155) in the silicon layer between and abutting the BOX layer and a bottom of the trench, the first doped region doped to a first dopant concentration; a first epitaxial layer (160), doped to a second dopant concentration, in a bottom of the trench; a second epitaxial layer (165), doped to a third dopant concentration, on the first epitaxial layer in the trench; and wherein the third dopant concentration is greater than the first and second dopant concentrations and the first dopant concentration is greater than the second dopant concentration.
Abstract:
Semiconductor structures are disclosed that have embedded stressor elements therein. The disclosed structures include at least one FET gate stack (18) located on an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate (12). The at least one FET gate stack includes source and drain extension regions (28) located within the semiconductor substrate at a footprint of the at least one FET gate stack. A device channel (40) is also present between the source and drain extension regions (28) and beneath the at least one gate stack (18). The structure further includes embedded stressor elements (33) located on opposite sides of the at least one FET gate stack and within the semiconductor substrate. Each of the embedded stressor elements includes, from bottom to top, a first layer of a first epitaxy doped semiconductor material (35) having a lattice constant that is different from a lattice constant of the semiconductor substrate and imparts a strain in the device channel, a second layer of a second epitaxy doped semiconductor material (36) located atop the first layer, and a delta monolayer of dopant located on an upper surface of the second layer. The structure further includes a metal semiconductor alloy contact (45) located directly on an upper surface of the delta monolayer (37).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an element structure and a method for manufacturing the same for suppressing an increase of an unnecessary capacitance in the element as small as possible and for improving a transistor characteristic. SOLUTION: In an integrated bi-polar circuit element, a stepped collector dopant profile reduces a transit time and a parasitic capacitance between an emitter and a collector due to a minimum increase of the parasitic capacitance. A shallow implantation reduces a width of a space charge region between a base and the collector, reduces a resistance, and individually optimizes a breakdown characteristic between the collector and the base. A deep implantation, then, links a buried collector to a sub-collector and provides a low resistance path to the sub-collector. The stepped collector dopant profile only gives the lowest effect against a capacitance the collector and the base outside an intrinsic region of the element. The reason is that the higher concentration dopant is compensated by an exogenous dopant outside the intrinsic region or is buried therein.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an epitaxial base bipolar transistor which has low base resistance and whose capacitance does not increase. SOLUTION: This epitaxial base bipolar transistor is provided with an epitaxial silicon layer on a single crystal semiconductor substrate 54, a raised emitter 64 on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, a raised extrinsic base 58e on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, an insulator 66 as a spacer between the raised emitter and raised extrinsic base, and a diffusion from the raised emitter and from the raised extrinsic base to provide an emitter diffusion and an extrinsic base diffusion in the semiconductor substrate. The emitter diffusion has an emitter diffusion junction depth, and the raised emitter extends to the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the raised extrinsic base extends to the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A difference of height between the surfaces of the emitter and base is less than 20% of the emitter diffusion junction depth.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photodetector having an array of active pixel sensor(APS) elements formed in cells which are separated respectively by Si. SOLUTION: Each cell has an insulation barrier 10 (10C, etc.), around and lies on an insulation layer 12 which lies on a substrate 14. A semiconductor connector 18 for doing the vertical contact of each APS element between a pinned layer 24 and body 20 is formed pref. so as to occupy the region at a part of the insulation barrier adjacent to each cell and may be simple vertical connection 18 for connecting a plurality of APS elements or a long strip for connecting the plurality of APS elements. Moreover the semiconductor connector 18 may extend to reach a lower insulation layer 12 or pierce the insulation layer 12 to reach the substrate 14 to ground and interconnect the body 20 of each APS element and pinning layer 24. There a method of manufacturing photosensitive elements is also included.
Abstract:
A backside contact structure and method of fabricating the structure. The method includes: forming a dielectric isolation (250) in a substrate (100), the substrate (100) having a frontside and an opposing backside; forming a first dielectric layer (105) on the frontside of the substrate (100); forming a trench (265C) in the first dielectric layer (105), the trench (265C) aligned over and within a perimeter of the dielectric isolation (250) and extending to the dielectric isolation (250); extending the trench (265C) formed in the first dielectric layer (1 05) through the dielectric isolation (250) and into the substrate (1 00)to a depth (Dl ) less than a thickness of the substrate (1 00); filling the trench (265C) and co-planarizing a top surface of the trench (265C) with a top surface of the first dielectric layer (1 05) to form an electrically conductive through via (270C); and thinning the substrate (100) from a backside of the substrate (100) to expose the through via (270C).