Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a detection circuit and a method for detecting silicon well voltage or current indicating collision of an alpha particle or a cosmic ray to the silicon well in silicon substrate. SOLUTION: An effective application of the detection circuit is use in redundancy repair latches used for an SRAM. In the redundancy repair latches, normally writing is once performed when power is on in order to register wrong latch data, though writing is not performed again usually. When either state of these latches is altered by SER phenomena (soft error rate: collision of the alpha particle or the cosmic ray, and the like), the recovery data for the redundant latch of the SRAM is mapped incorrectly. In this detection circuit and the method, whether the SER phenomenon occurs in these latches is monitored, when occurring, reloading the recovery data is performed to the redundancy repair latches. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To self-align to the gate structure of a field effect transistor, and prevent the occurrence of electric short-circuiting when a conductive stud is formed in a drain or source region. SOLUTION: On the surface of a semiconductor substrate 20, a gate dielectric 32, gate structure 30 consisting of a conductive gate 34 that is matched to the gate dielectric and an insulation cap 38 are formed, and drain and source regions 42 and 44 are formed. After insulation spacers 52 and 54 are formed on the side wall of the gate structure 30, an insulation region that is made of a nitride blanket 60, and bonate-prosphste-silicate glass is formed, and the insulation region is polished and flattened by the CMP method up to the nitride blanket 60. Then, with a resist pattern as a mask, the insulation region and the nitride blanket 60 are etched to form a cavity above the drain and source regions, and the cavity is filled with a conductive material to form conductive studs 92 and 94. The surface of the conductive studs 92 and 94 is coplanar with that of the gate structure 30.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a hetero-junction bipolar transistor having a raised base of which the base resistance is decreased by forming silicide extending to an emitter region in a self-aligning manner on a raised base. SOLUTION: This silicide formation is incorporated in a BiCMOS process flow after forming a raised and extrinsic base. The bipolar transistor has the raised and extrinsic base, and the hetero-junction bipolar transistor has silicide positioned on the raised and extrinsic base. The silicide on the extrinsic base extends to an emitter in a self-aligning manner. The emitter is isolated from the silicide by a spacer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A BURIED BUTTED CONTACT AND METHOD FOR ITS FABRICATION ARE PROVIDED WHICH INCLUDES A SUBSTRATE HAVING DOPANTS OF A FIRST CONDUCTIVITY TYPE AND HAVING SHALLOW TRENCH ISOLATION. DOPANTS OF A SECOND CONDUCTIVITY TYPE ARE LOCATED IN THE BOTTOM OF AN OPENING IN SAID SUBSTRATE. OHMIC CONTACT IS PROVIDED BETWEEN THE DOPANTS IN THE SUBSTRATE AND THE LOW DIFFUSIVITY DOPANTS THAT IS LOCATED ON A SIDE WALL OF THE OPENING. THE CONTACT IS A METAL SILICIDE, METAL AND/OR METAL ALLOY.(FIG.2)