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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bit-line contact and formation method thereof for a vertical DRAM array, using a bit-line contact mask. SOLUTION: In this method, a gate conductor line is formed. An oxide layer 35 is adhered to the gate conductor line, and a bit-line contact mask 40 is formed on a part of the oxide layer 35. The bit-line contact mask 40 is etched, and a silicon layer 45 is made to stick on a substrate 5. A bit-line layer 50 is adhered to the silicon layer 45. Masking and etching processes are carried out with a bit-line layer 50. An M0 metal 60 is made to adhere to the silicon layer 45, as well as on both sides of non-etching part of the bit-line (M0) layer 50, and forms the left and right bit lines.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust the threshold voltage at the corner of a device without requiring any additional mask by doping the central part of a channel region at some concentration and doping a channel region adjacent to a corner region at a higher concentration. SOLUTION: N type (arsenic) dopant ions 19 are implanted compensatingly. The compensatory implantation is performed in order to compensate for the threshold voltage implantation at the part of the side wall of STI trench structures 18a-18c contiguous to the corner of a substrate 12 other than the corner region 25 and to suppress the effect of P-type ion implantation 21 in the channel region onto the following stage by means of N type doping ions 19 so that the corner region 25 has a higher doping concentration after boron B doping stage. A spacer 16 prevents the compensatory implantation at the corner of the device except the central channel regions 20a, 20b, 20c and 20d.
Abstract:
A trench-type storage device includes a trench in a substrate (100), with bundles of carbon nanotubes (202) lining the trench and a trench conductor (300) filling the trench. A trench dielectric (200) may be formed between the carbon nanotubes and the sidewall of the trench. The bundles of carbon nanotubes form an open cylinder structure lining the trench. The device is formed by providing a carbon nanotube catalyst structure on the substrate and patterning the trench in the substrate; the carbon nanotubes are then grown down into the trench to line the trench with the carbon nanotube bundles, after which the trench is filled with the trench conductor.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simultaneously form a line interconnection of a bit line or the like and borderless contact to a diffused part such as bit line contact. SOLUTION: A semiconductor substrate contains a previously patterned gate stack 12 on the substrate, is covered with a first dielectric substance 40 for forming a first level 42 and then deposited with a second dielectric substance 44 to form a second level 46. A line interconnection opening 62 is formed at a second level 46 by a lithography and etching. The etching is continued to a microcrystallized region of an array region 30 of the substrate, and formed with a borderless contact opening between the gate stacks 12 corresponding to the line interconnection such as an opening of the bit line or the like. These openings are filled with one or more conductors to form the contact with the diffused part such as bit line contact or the like corresponding to the line interconnection of the bit line or the like.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for forming a field effect transistor having a channel length controlled favorably by applying a carbon nanotube. SOLUTION: The field effect transistor employs the vertically oriented carbon nanotube as a transistor body, the carbon nanotube being formed by deposition within a vertical aperture, with an optional combination of several parallel nanotubes to produce quantized current drive, and an optional change in a chemical composition of a carbon material at the top or at the bottom to suppress short channel effect. 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 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
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure and method of forming a dual-damascene structure. SOLUTION: The method (and structure) of forming interconnection on a semiconductor substrate includes a step for forming a relatively narrow first structure in a dielectric material formed on the semiconductor substrate, a step for forming a relatively wide second structure in the dielectric material formed on the semiconductor substrate, a step for forming a liner in the first and second structure so that the first structure is substantially filled with the liner and the second structure is not substantially filled, with the liner and a step for metallizing the liner to completely fill the second structure.
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A method of forming a thin silicon layer upon which semiconductor devices may be constructed. An epitaxial layer is grown on a silicon substrate, and oxygen or nitrogen ions are implanted into the epitaxial layer in order to form a buried etch-stop layer therein. An oxide layer is grown on the epitaxial layer, and is used to form a bond to a mechanical support wafer. The silicon substrate is removed using grinding and/or HNA, the upper portions of the epitaxy are removed using EDP, EPP or KOH, and the etch-stop is removed using a non-selective etch. The remaining portions of the epitaxy forms the thin silicon layer. Due to the uniformity of the implanted ions, the thin silicon layer has a very uniform thickness. BU9-84-031