公开(公告)号：US11502191B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-15

申请号：US16275631

申请日：2019-02-14

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Johann Christian Rode ,  Nidhi Nidhi ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Han Wui Then ,  Walid M. Hafez

IPC: H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/40

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures that implement field plates for III-N transistors in a form of electrically conductive structures provided in a III-N semiconductor material below the polarization layer (i.e., at the “backside” of an IC structure). In some embodiments, such a field plate may be implemented as a through-silicon via (TSV) extending from the back/bottom face of the substrate towards the III-N semiconductor material. Implementing field plates at the backside may provide a viable approach to changing the distribution of electric field at a transistor drain and increasing the breakdown voltage of an III-N transistor without incurring the large parasitic capacitances associated with the use of metal field plates provided above the polarization material. In addition, backside field plates may serve as a back barrier for advantageously reducing drain-induced barrier lowering.

公开(公告)号：US11450617B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-20

申请号：US16354241

申请日：2019-03-15

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Nidhi Nidhi ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC: H01L23/552 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/207 ,  H01L23/66 ,  H01L29/20

Abstract: IC structures that include transmission line structures to be integrated with III-N devices are disclosed. An example transmission line structure includes a transmission line of an electrically conductive material provided above a stack of a III-N semiconductor material and a polarization material. The transmission line structure further includes means for reducing electromagnetic coupling between the line and charge carriers present below the interface of the polarization material and the III-N semiconductor material. In some embodiments, said means include a shield material of a metal or a doped semiconductor provided over portions of the polarization material that are under the transmission line. In other embodiments, said means include dopant atoms implanted into the portions of the polarization material that are under the transmission line, and into at least an upper portion of the III-N semiconductor material under such portions of the polarization material.

公开(公告)号：US20200373297A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16419240

申请日：2019-05-22

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC: H01L27/088 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/40 ,  H01L25/065 ,  H01L23/31 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L29/778

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistor-based cascode arrangements that may simultaneously realize enhancement mode transistor operation and high voltage capability. In one aspect, an IC structure includes a source region, a drain region, an enhancement mode III-N transistor, and a depletion mode III-N transistor, where each of the transistors includes a first and a second source or drain (S/D) terminals. The transistors are arranged in a cascode arrangement in that the first S/D terminal of the enhancement mode III-N transistor is coupled to the source region, the second S/D terminal of the enhancement mode III-N transistor is coupled to the first S/D terminal of the depletion mode III-N transistor, and the second S/D terminal of the depletion mode III-N transistor is coupled to the drain region.

公开(公告)号：US11658217B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US16242670

申请日：2019-01-08

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Glenn A. Glass ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Nidhi Nidhi ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC: H01L29/00 ,  H01L29/40 ,  H01L21/265 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/205

CPC classification number: H01L29/405 ,  H01L21/265 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/404 ,  H01L29/408 ,  H01L29/7786

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices assemblies that use ions or fixed charge to create field plate structures which are embedded in a dielectric material between gate and drain electrodes of a transistor. Ion- or fixed charge-based field plate structures may provide viable approaches to changing the distribution of electric field at a transistor drain to increase the breakdown voltage of a transistor without incurring the large parasitic capacitances associated with the use of metal field plates. In one aspect, an IC structure includes a transistor, a dielectric material between gate and drain electrodes of the transistor, and an ion- or fixed charge-based region within the dielectric material, between the gate and the drain electrodes. Such an ion- or fixed charge-based region realizes an ion- or fixed charge-based field plate structure. Optionally, the IC structure may include multiple ion- or fixed charge-based field plate structures.

公开(公告)号：US20200373421A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16419179

申请日：2019-05-22

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC: H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L25/065 ,  H01L23/31 ,  H01L23/00

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistor arrangements that may reduce nonlinearity of off-state capacitance of the III-N transistors. In various aspects, III-N transistor arrangements limit the extent of access regions of the transistors, compared to conventional implementations, which may limit the depletion of the access regions. Due to the limited extent of the depletion regions of a transistor, the off-state capacitance may exhibit less variability in values across different gate-source voltages and, hence, exhibit a more linear behavior during operation.

公开(公告)号：US20200303371A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-24

申请号：US16362269

申请日：2019-03-22

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Johann Christian Rode ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Walid M. Hafez

IPC: H01L27/06 ,  H01L27/01 ,  H01L21/8252

Abstract: Disclosed herein are integrated circuit structures, packages, and devices that include resistors and/or capacitors which may be provided on the same substrate/die/chip as III-N devices, e.g., III-N transistors. An integrated circuit structure, comprising a base structure comprising a III-N material, the base structure having a conductive region of a doped III-N material. The IC structure further comprises a first contact element, including a first conductive element, a dielectric element, and a second conductive element, wherein the dielectric element is between the first conductive element and the second conductive element, and wherein the first conductive element is between the conductive region and the dielectric element. The IC structure further comprises a second contact element electrically coupled to the first contact element via the conductive region.

公开(公告)号：US20200295172A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-17

申请号：US16297837

申请日：2019-03-11

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Han Wui Then ,  Nidhi Nidhi ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC: H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/08 ,  H01L29/04 ,  H01L29/66

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and device assemblies with III-N transistors that include additional materials, referred to herein as “stressor materials,” which may be selectively provided over portions of polarization materials to locally increase or decrease the strain in the polarization material. Providing a compressive stressor material may decrease the tensile stress imposed by the polarization material on the underlying portion of the III-N semiconductor material, thereby decreasing the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) and increasing a threshold voltage of a transistor. On the other hand, providing a tensile stressor material may increase the tensile stress imposed by the polarization material, thereby increasing the 2DEG and decreasing the threshold voltage. Providing suitable stressor materials enables easier and more accurate control of threshold voltage compared to only relying on polarization material recess.

公开(公告)号：US20200279932A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-03

申请号：US16289824

申请日：2019-03-01

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Johann Christian Rode ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Walid M. Hafez

IPC: H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/417 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L23/66 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L23/498 ,  H01L21/28 ,  H01L29/66

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include planar III-N transistors with wrap-around gates and/or one or more wrap-around source/drain (S/D) contacts. An example IC structure includes a support structure (e.g., a substrate) and a planar III-N transistor. The transistor includes a channel stack of a III-N semiconductor material and a polarization material, provided over the support structure, a pair of S/D regions provided in the channel stack, and a gate stack of a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material provided over a portion of the channel stack between the S/D regions, where the gate stack at least partially wraps around an upper portion of the channel stack.

公开(公告)号：US12027613B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-02

申请号：US16419179

申请日：2019-05-22

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Han Wui Then ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Paul B. Fischer ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Johann Christian Rode

IPC: H01L29/778 ,  H01L23/00 ,  H01L23/31 ,  H01L25/065 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/51

CPC classification number: H01L29/7786 ,  H01L23/3128 ,  H01L24/09 ,  H01L24/17 ,  H01L25/0655 ,  H01L29/2003 ,  H01L29/517 ,  H01L29/778 ,  H01L2224/0401 ,  H01L2924/13064

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistor arrangements that may reduce nonlinearity of off-state capacitance of the III-N transistors. In various aspects, III-N transistor arrangements limit the extent of access regions of the transistors, compared to conventional implementations, which may limit the depletion of the access regions. Due to the limited extent of the depletion regions of a transistor, the off-state capacitance may exhibit less variability in values across different gate-source voltages and, hence, exhibit a more linear behavior during operation.

公开(公告)号：US11715790B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-01

申请号：US16390819

申请日：2019-04-22

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Nidhi Nidhi ,  Marko Radosavljevic ,  Sansaptak Dasgupta ,  Yang Cao ,  Han Wui Then ,  Johann Christian Rode ,  Rahul Ramaswamy ,  Walid M. Hafez ,  Paul B. Fischer

IPC: H01L29/778 ,  H01L29/20 ,  H01L29/66 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/49 ,  H01L29/45 ,  H01L21/02 ,  H01L29/808 ,  H01L29/10

CPC classification number: H01L29/7786 ,  H01L21/0254 ,  H01L21/02458 ,  H01L29/2003 ,  H01L29/205 ,  H01L29/452 ,  H01L29/49 ,  H01L29/4925 ,  H01L29/66462 ,  H01L29/7781 ,  H01L29/808 ,  H01L29/1066

Abstract: Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistors implementing various means by which their threshold voltage it tuned. In some embodiments, a III-N transistor may include a doped semiconductor material or a fixed charge material included in a gate stack of the transistor. In other embodiments, a III-N transistor may include a doped semiconductor material or a fixed charge material included between a gate stack and a III-N channel stack of the transistor. Including doped semiconductor or fixed charge materials either in the gate stack or between the gate stack and the III-N channel stack of III-N transistors adds charges, which affects the amount of 2DEG and, therefore, affects the threshold voltages of these transistors.