Abstract: In an embodiment, a Group III nitride-based transistor device, includes a first. Group III nitride barrier layer arranged on a Group III nitride channel layer, the first Group III nitride barrier layer and the Group III nitride channel layer having differing bandgaps and forming a heterojunction capable of supporting a two-dimensional charge gas. A source, a gate and a drain are on an upper surface of the first Group III nitride barrier layer. A gate recess extends from the upper surface of the first. Group III nitride barrier layer into the first Group III nitride barrier layer. A p-doped Group III nitride material arranged in the gate recess has a first extension extending on the upper surface of the first Group III nitride barrier layer towards the drain. The first extension has a length ld, and 0 nm?ld?200 nm.

Abstract: A device including a III-N material is described. In an example, a device includes a first layer including a first group III-nitride (III-N) material and a polarization charge inducing layer, including a second III-N material, above the first layer. The device further includes a gate electrode above the polarization charge inducing layer and a source structure and a drain structure on opposite sides of the gate electrode. The source structure and the drain structure both include a first portion adjacent to the first layer and a second portion above the first portion, the first portion includes a third III-N material with an impurity dopant, and the second portion includes a fourth III-N material, where the fourth III-N material includes the impurity dopant and further includes indium, where the indium content increases with distance from the first portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a leadframe having an electrically conductive paddle, electrically conductive perimeter package leads, a first electrically conductive clip electrically connected to a first set of the package leads, and a second electrically conductive clip electrically connected to a second set of the package leads. The semiconductor package includes a single semiconductor die. The die includes a front-side active layer having an integrated power structure of two or more transistors. The die includes a backside portion having a backside contact electrically coupled to at least one of the two or more transistors and to the paddle. One or more first front-side contacts of the die are electrically coupled to at least one of the transistors and to the first clip, and one or more second front-side contacts of the die are electrically coupled to at least one of the transistors and to the second clip.

Abstract: A transistor includes a III-N channel layer; a III-N barrier layer on the III-N channel layer; a source contact and a drain contact, the source and drain contacts electrically coupled to the III-N channel layer; an insulator layer on the III-N barrier layer; a gate insulator partially on the insulator layer and partially on the III-N channel layer, the gate insulator including an amorphous Al1-xSixO layer with 0.2<x<0.8; and a gate electrode over the gate insulator, the gate electrode being positioned between the source and drain contacts.

Abstract: One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming a conformal SMCM layer above a conformal high-k gate insulation layer within each of first and second replacement gate cavities (RGC), removing the SMCM layer from the first RGC while leaving the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, forming a first conformal metal-containing material (MCM) layer above the gate insulation layer within the first RGC and above the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, removing the first conformal MCM layer and the conformal SMCM layer positioned within the second RGC while leaving the first conformal MCM layer within the first RGC, and forming a second conformal MCM layer above the first conformal MCM layer positioned within the first RGC and above the gate insulation layer positioned within the second RGC.

Abstract: An HEMT includes: a heterostructure; a dielectric layer on the heterostructure; a gate electrode, which extends throughout the thickness of the dielectric layer; a source electrode; and a drain electrode. The dielectric layer extends between the gate electrode and the drain electrode and is absent between the gate electrode and the source electrode. In this way, the distance between the gate electrode and the source electrode can be designed in the absence of constraints due to a field plate that extends towards the source electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor device (1) includes a substrate (2), an electron transit layer (4) disposed on the substrate (2), and an electron supply layer (5) disposed on the electron supply layer (4). The electron transit layer (4) includes a conductive path forming layer (43) in contact with the electron supply layer (5), a first semiconductor region (first nitride semiconductor layer) (41) containing an acceptor-type impurity, and a second semiconductor region (second nitride semiconductor layer) (42) disposed at a position closer to the conductive path forming layer (43) than the first semiconductor region (41) and containing an acceptor-type impurity. The first semiconductor region (41) has a higher acceptor density than the second semiconductor region (42).

Abstract: A package structure of a common-source common-gate gallium nitride field-effect transistor is disclosed, including a lead frame. A gallium nitride field-effect transistor and a metal oxide semiconductor are directly disposed on the lead frame. The gallium nitride field-effect transistor includes a first matrix directly disposed on the lead frame. A first drain, a first gate, and a first source are disposed on a surface side of the first matrix, and the first drain and the first gate are separately electrically connected to the lead frame. The metal oxide semiconductor includes a second matrix directly disposed on the lead frame. A second drain, a second gate, and a second source are disposed on a surface side of the second matrix, the second drain is directly electrically connected to the first source, and the second gate and the second source are separately electrically connected to the lead frame.

Abstract: A color conversion substrate includes a base on which first to third light outputting regions and a light shielding region surrounding the first to third light outputting regions are defined; first to third color filters on the base in the first to third light outputting regions, respectively; a first light shielding member on the first color filter in the light shielding region; a light transmission pattern on the first color filter; a first wavelength conversion pattern on the second color filter and which converts light of a first color into light of a second color; and a second wavelength conversion pattern on the third color filter and which converts the light of the first color into light of a third color. A first opening located in the light shielding region is defined in at least one of the light transmission pattern and the first and second wavelength conversion patterns.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nitride semiconductor device capable of forming a half-bridge circuit and suppressing changes in current collapse characteristics. A first transistor of the present invention includes a first nitride semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode formed thereon. The second transistor includes a second nitride semiconductor layer, and a second gate electrode, a second source electrode and a second drain electrode formed thereon. The source electrode is electrically connected to a lower region of a first region on the substrate, the second source electrode is electrically connected to a lower region of a second region on the substrate, and a first insulating region is disposed between a portion corresponding to the first region on the substrate and a portion corresponding to the second region on the substrate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a source, a gate and a drain fabricated on one side of the semiconductor substrate; a via hole region reserved in the region of the source; and an etching stopping layer made in the via hole region as well as a via hole under the etching stopping layer penetrating through the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A GaN-based superjunction vertical power transistor and a manufacturing method thereof. The transistor includes: a N?-GaN layer; a first P-GaN layer as a current blocking layer, formed on the N?-GaN layer and having a gate region window; and a thin barrier Al(In, Ga)N/GaN heterostructure conformally formed on the current blocking layer and filling the bottom and one or more sidewalls of the gate region window, wherein the N?-GaN layer has an etched groove completely or partially filled with a second P-type GaN layer, an N+-GaN layer is formed under the second P-type GaN layer, and the N+-GaN layer is in direct contact with the second P-type GaN layer and the N?-GaN layer to form a superjunction composite structure.

Abstract: A phase change material memory device is provided. The phase change material memory device includes one or more electrical contacts in a substrate, and a dielectric cover layer on the electrical contacts and substrate. The phase change material memory device further includes a lower conductive shell in a trench above one of the one or more electrical contacts, and an upper conductive shell on the lower conductive shell in the trench. The phase change material memory device further includes a conductive plug filling the upper conductive shell. The phase change material memory device further includes a liner layer on the dielectric cover layer and conductive plug, and a phase change material block on the liner layer on the dielectric cover layer and in the trench.

Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to fabrication of a correlated electron material (CEM) such as in a CEM device capable of switching between and/or among impedance states. In particular embodiments, a CEM may be formed from one or more transition metal oxides (TMOs), one or more post transition metal oxides (PTMOs) or one or more post transition metal chalcogenides (PTMCs), or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a buffer layer on a substrate, in which the buffer layer includes a first buffer layer and a second buffer layer. Preferably, the first buffer layer includes a first layer of the first buffer layer comprising AlyGa1-yN on the substrate and a second layer of the first buffer layer comprising AlxGa1-xN on the first layer of the first buffer layer. The second buffer layer includes a first layer of the second buffer layer comprising AlwGa1-wN on the first buffer layer and a second layer of the second buffer layer comprising AlzGa1-zN on the first layer of the second buffer layer, in which x>z>y>w.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer above the substrate; a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer; an ohmic electrode above the substrate; and a contact layer in contact with at least a part of the ohmic electrode, the contact layer containing silicon and chlorine. The second nitride semiconductor layer has a wider band gap than the first nitride semiconductor layer. A two-dimensional electron gas channel is formed in the first nitride semiconductor layer at a heterointerface between the first nitride semiconductor layer and the second nitride semiconductor layer. A silicon concentration has a higher peak value than a chlorine concentration in the contact layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes type IV semiconductor base substrate, first and second device areas that are electrically isolated from one another, a first region of type III-V semiconductor material formed over the first device area, a second region of type III-V semiconductor material formed over the second device area, the second region of type III-V semiconductor material being laterally electrically insulated from the first region of type III-V semiconductor material, a first high-electron mobility transistor integrally formed in the first region, and a second high-electron mobility transistor integrally formed in the second region. The first and second high-electron mobility transistors are connected in series. A source terminal of the first high-electron mobility transistor is electrically connected to the first device area. The first device area is electrically isolated from a subjacent intrinsically doped region of the base substrate by a first two-way voltage blocking device.

Abstract: An electronic device can include a substrate defining a trench. In an embodiment, a semiconductor body can be within the trench, wherein the semiconductor body has a resistivity of at least 0.05 ohm-cm and is electrically isolated from the substrate. In an embodiment, an electronic component can be within the semiconductor body. The electronic component can be a resistor or a diode. In a particular embodiment, the semiconductor body has an upper surface, the electronic component is within and along an upper surface and spaced apart from a bottom of the semiconductor body. In a further embodiment, the electronic device can further include a first electronic component within an active region of the substrate, an isolation structure within the trench, and a second electronic component within the isolation structure.

Abstract: A method of forming a vertical fin field effect transistor device, including, forming one or more vertical fins with a hardmask cap on each vertical fin on a substrate, forming a fin liner on the one or more vertical fins and hardmask caps, forming a sacrificial liner on the fin liner, and forming a bottom spacer layer on the sacrificial liner.

Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor component may include at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip, a reflector, a lens, and a connecting layer. The reflector may have a reflector recess where the semiconductor chip may be arranged. The lens may be fully located in the reflector recess, and the lens may have a lens recess. The connecting layer may fasten the lens on the reflector. The lens may have a lens outer side facing toward a reflector inner wall of the reflector recess. A gap may be between the reflector and the lens, and the gap may be filled only partially with the connecting layer. The semiconductor chip may not touch the lens. The optoelectronic semiconductor component may be incorporated into a biometric sensor.