Having Specific Type Of Active Device (e.g., Cmos) Patents (Class 257/204)
  • Publication number: 20090140270
    Abstract: An object is to provide a system-on-panel display device including a display portion and a peripheral circuit for controlling display on the display portion over one substrate, which can operate more accurately. The display device has a display portion provided with a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels and a peripheral circuit portion for controlling display on the display portion, which are provided over a substrate. Each of the display portion and the peripheral circuit portion includes a plurality of transistors. For semiconductor layers of the transistors, single crystal semiconductor materials are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei TAKAHASHI, Satoshi MURAKAMI, Suguru OZAWA
  • Patent number: 7538374
    Abstract: A CMOS image sensor and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed, in which the fabrication costs are reduced by reducing the number of photolithographic processes and yield is improved by obviating an alignment problem between color filter layers and microlenses. In one embodiment, the CMOS image sensor includes a sub layer provided with a unit pixel (e.g., a photodiode and various transistors), a planarization layer on the sub layer, and microlens-color filter structures formed on the planarization layer at constant intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Yeon Sil Kim
  • Patent number: 7528455
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor transistor for enhancing performance of PMOS and NMOS transistors, particularly current driving performance, while reducing a narrow width effect. A narrow width MOS transistor includes: a channel of which width is W0 and length is L0; an active area including source and drain areas formed at both sides with the channel as a center; a gate insulating layer formed on the channel; a gate conductor formed on the gate insulating layer and intersecting the active area; a first additional active area of width is larger than that W0 of the channel as an active area added to the source area; and a second additional active area of width is larger than that W0 of the channel as an active area added to the drain area. When the structure of the transistor having the additional active areas is applied to NMOS and PMOS transistors, a driving current is represented as 107.27% and 103.31%, respectively. Accordingly, the driving currents of both PMOS and NMOS transistors are enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Ho Ahn
  • Publication number: 20090101940
    Abstract: A gate array cell adapted for standard cell design methodology or programmable gate array that incorporates a dual gate FET device to offer a range of performance options within the same unit cell area. The conductivity and drive strength of the dual gate device may be selectively tuned through independent processing of manufacturing parameters to provide an asymmetric circuit response for the device or a symmetric response as dictated by the circuit application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Corey K. Barrows, Joseph A. Iadanza, Edward J. Nowak, Douglas W. Stout
  • Patent number: 7521735
    Abstract: A semiconductor on insulator substrate and a method of fabricating the substrate. The substrate including: a first crystalline semiconductor layer and a second crystalline semiconductor layer; and an insulating layer bonding a bottom surface of the first crystalline semiconductor layer to a top surface of the second crystalline semiconductor layer, a first crystal direction of the first crystalline semiconductor layer aligned relative to a second crystal direction of the second crystalline semiconductor layer, the first crystal direction different from the second crystal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Furukawa, David V. Horak, Charles W. Koburger, III, Leathen Shi
  • Patent number: 7518167
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a p-type MIS transistor having a first gate electrode including silicon doped with p-type impurities; an n-type MIS transistor having a second gate electrode including silicon doped with n-type impurities; and a shared line which connects the p-type MIS transistor and the n-type MIS transistor and serves as a path of a power supply current or a ground current, the shared line including silicided silicon. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode have silicided top portions, respectively, to establish electrical connection therebetween and the shared line has a line width larger than the line widths of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tokuhiko Tamaki
  • Patent number: 7514728
    Abstract: In a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first well region of the first conductivity type, second well regions of a second conductivity type, and a third well region of the second conductivity type are formed. The second well regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate excluding the region where the first well region has been formed. The third well region is formed under the first and second well regions in the semiconductor substrate in such a manner that a part of the third well region under the first well region is removed, thereby connecting the second well regions to one another electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Sugahara, Yasuhito Itaka
  • Publication number: 20090072274
    Abstract: An integrated circuit including a first gate stack and a second gate stack and a method of manufacturing is disclosed. One embodiment provides non-volatile memory cells including a first gate stack and a gate dielectric on a first surface section of a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a second gate stack including a memory layer stack on a second surface section. A first pattern is transferred into the first gate stack and a second pattern into the second gate stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicants: QIMONDA AG, QIMONDA FLASH GMBH
    Inventors: Roman Knoefler, Michael Specht, Josef Willer
  • Patent number: 7489537
    Abstract: A memory device includes an array of memory cells disposed in rows and columns and constructed over a substrate, each memory cell comprising a first signal electrode, a second signal electrode, and a nano-layer disposed in the intersecting region between the first signal electrode and the second signal electrode; a plurality of word lines each connecting the first signal electrodes of a row of memory cells; and a plurality of bit lines each connecting the second signal electrodes of a column of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Inventor: Bao Tran
  • Patent number: 7482217
    Abstract: A method of forming an electronic device is provided that includes selectively implanting ions into a workpiece, wherein ions are implanted into a first region of the workpiece that includes a semiconductor material, while substantially none of the ions are implanted into a second region of the workpiece that also includes a semiconductor material. The method further includes depositing a metal-containing film over the first region and the second region after selectively implanting, and then reacting the metal-containing film with the semiconductor material to form a first metal-semiconductor film within the first region and a second metal-semiconductor film within the second region. The first metal-semiconductor film has a first thickness and the second metal-semiconductor film has a second thickness that is different from the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Eunha Kim, Wen Yu, Minh-Van Ngo, Kyunghoon Min, Hiu-Yung Wong
  • Patent number: 7482670
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having high tensile stress. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a source region and a drain region. Each of the source region and the drain region includes a plurality of separated source sections and drain sections, respectively. A shallow trench isolation (STI) region is formed between two separated source sections of the source region and between two separated drain sections of the drain region. A gate stack is formed on the substrate. A tensile inducing layer is formed over the substrate. The tensile inducing layer covers the STI regions, the source region, the drain region, and the gate stack. The tensile inducing layer is an insulation capable of causing tensile stress in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Giuseppe Curello, Thomas Hoffmann, Mark Armstrong
  • Patent number: 7476941
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an n-channel MOS transistor and a p-channel MOS transistor formed respectively in first and second device regions of a substrate, the n-channel MOS transistor including a first gate electrode carrying sidewall insulation films on respective sidewall surfaces thereof, the p-channel MOS transistor including a second gate electrode carrying sidewall insulation films on respective sidewall surfaces thereof, wherein there is provided a stressor film on the substrate over the first and second device regions such that the stressor film covers the first gate electrode including the sidewall insulation films thereof and the second gate electrode including the sidewall insulation films thereof, wherein the stressor film has a decreased film thickness in the second device region at least in the vicinity of a base part of the second gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited
    Inventors: Masashi Shima, Yosuke Shimamune, Akiyoshi Hatada, Akira Katakami, Naoyoshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 7468551
    Abstract: A chip package for semiconductor chips is provided by the method of forming a chip package includes the steps of forming a printed circuit board with a window therethrough; forming semiconductor chip connections of one or more primary chips which overlie the window to the printed circuit board by solder connections, locating a suspended semiconductor chip within the window, and connecting the suspended semiconductor chip to one or more primary chips overlying the window in a chip-on-chip connection. A bypass capacitor is formed on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Megica Corporation
    Inventors: Mou-Shiung Lin, Bryan Peng
  • Publication number: 20080310231
    Abstract: A die is formed with different and optimized critical dimensions in different device levels and areas of those device levels using photolithography and etch techniques. One aspect of the invention provides for a memory array formed above a substrate, with driver circuitry formed in the substrate. A level of the memory array consists of, for example, parallel rails and a fan-out region. It is desirable to maximize density of the rails and minimize cost of lithography for the entire memory array. This can be achieved by forming the rails at a tighter pitch than the CMOS circuitry beneath it, allowing cheaper lithography tools to be used when forming the CMOS, and similarly by optimizing lithography and etch techniques for a device level to produce a tight pitch in the rails, and a more relaxed pitch in the less-critical fan-out region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: James M. Cleeves, Roy E. Scheuerlein
  • Patent number: 7465970
    Abstract: A semiconductor layout includes a p substrate, a first semiconductor cell formed over the p substrate, and a second semiconductor cell formed over the p substrate adjacent to the first semiconductor cell. A total height of the first semiconductor cell and the second semiconductor cell is twice a height of a standard semiconductor cell, and the height of the second semiconductor cell is adjusted according to the height of the first semiconductor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Faraday Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Jeng-Huang Wu, Chiung-Yu Feng, Chien-Chih Huang, Yu-Wen Tsai
  • Patent number: 7465972
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate, which comprises a gate electrode and a gate dielectric underlying the gate electrode, a spacer formed on a sidewall of the gate electrode and the gate dielectric, a buffer layer having a first portion underlying the gate dielectric and the spacer and a second portion adjacent the spacer wherein the top surface of the second portion of the buffer layer is recessed below the top surface of the first portion of the buffer layer, and a source/drain region substantially aligned with the spacer. The buffer layer preferably has a greater lattice constant than an underlying semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device may further include a semiconductor-capping layer between the buffer layer and the gate dielectric, wherein the semiconductor-capping layer has a smaller lattice constant then the buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Wang, Shang-Chih Chen, Ching-Wei Tsai, Ta-Wei Wang, Pang-Yen Tsai
  • Patent number: 7456481
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first device region including a plurality of source regions and a plurality of drain regions of first conductivity type transistors, a plurality of loop-shaped gate electrode regions of the first conductivity type transistors, a second device region including a plurality of source regions and a plurality of drain regions of a second conductivity type transistors, a plurality of loop-shaped gate electrode regions of the second conductivity type transistors, a first wiring configured to supply a first voltage to at least one of the source regions of the first device region, a second wiring configured to supply a second voltage to at least one of the source regions of the second device region, and a third wiring electrically coupled to the drain regions of the first and second device regions and to the gate electrode regions of the first and the second conductivity type transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Satoshi Inaba, Makoto Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 7456446
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of the generation with the minimum processing dimensions of 90 nm, or later, wherein variation of processing dimensions of gate electrodes in a logic block and a power source noise are suppressed; wherein a gate electrode formed to have a comb-shaped pattern is formed on a normal cell region, a dummy gate electrode formed to have a comb-shaped pattern is formed on a vacant region, a wiring for applying a predetermined voltage is connected respectively to at least a part of the dummy gate and the semiconductor substrate (source drain regions), and an electrostatic capacity between the part of the dummy gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate constitutes a decoupling capacitor of the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Tahira, Hiroki Usui, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Makoto Aikawa
  • Publication number: 20080283871
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit having a substantially rectangular standard cell divided by first borderlines opposed to other standard cells longitudinally adjacent to the standard cell and second borderlines opposed to other standard cells laterally adjacent to the standard cell, the standard cell has: a p-type MOS transistor having first diffused regions and a first gate electrode; an n-type MOS transistor having second diffused regions and a second gate electrode with STI disposed for device isolation between the n-type MOS transistor and the p-type MOS transistor substantially in parallel with the first borderlines; dummy p-type MOS transistors having third gate electrodes disposed on the second borderlines so as to be adjacent to the first diffused regions of the p-type MOS transistor, the third gate electrodes being connected to power supply wiring so as to turn off the dummy p-type MOS transistors; and dummy n-type MOS transistors having fourth gate electrodes disposed on the second borderlines so
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Mototsugu HAMADA
  • Patent number: 7449735
    Abstract: Disclosed is a complementary CMOS device having a first FET with sidewall channels and a second FET with a planar channel. The first FET can be a p-FET and the second FET can be an n-FET or vice versa. The conductor used to form the gate electrodes of the different type FETs is different and is pre-selected to optimize performance. For example, a p-FET gate electrode material can have a work function near the valence band and an n-FET gate electrode material can have a work function near the conduction band. The first gate electrodes of the first FET are located adjacent to the sidewall channels and the second gate electrode of the second FET is located above the planar channel. However, the device structure is unique in that the second gate electrode extends laterally above the first FET and is electrically coupled to the first gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brent A. Anderson, Edward J. Nowak
  • Patent number: 7446418
    Abstract: The semiconductor device has insulating films 40, 42 formed over a substrate 10; an interconnection 58 buried in at least a surface side of the insulating films 40, 42; insulating films 60, 62 formed on the insulating film 42 and including a hole-shaped via-hole 60 and a groove-shaped via-hole 66a having a pattern bent at a right angle; and buried conductors 70, 72a buried in the hole-shaped via-hole 60 and the groove-shaped via-hole 66a. A groove-shaped via-hole 66a is formed to have a width which is smaller than a width of the hole-shaped via-hole 66. Defective filling of the buried conductor and the cracking of the inter-layer insulating film can be prevented. Steps on the conductor plug can be reduced. Accordingly, defective contact with the upper interconnection layer and the problems taking place in forming films can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kenichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7439105
    Abstract: A gate electrode (202) for a transistor including a metal gate structure (207) containing zirconium and a polycrystalline silicon cap (209) located there over. The metal gate structure (207) is located over a gate dielectric (205). The zirconium inhibits diffusion of silicon from the cap to the metal gate structure and gate dielectric. In one embodiment, the gate dielectric is a high K dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Rama I. Hegde
  • Patent number: 7439559
    Abstract: A method of forming a memory cell having a trench capacitor and a vertical transistor in a semiconductor substrate includes a step of providing a bonded semiconductor wafer having a lower substrate with an [010] axis parallel to a first wafer axis and an upper semiconductor layer having an [010] axis oriented at forty-five degrees with respect to the wafer axis, the two being connected by a layer of bonding insulator; etching a trench through the upper layer and lower substrate; enlarging the lower portion of the trench and converting the cross section of the upper portion of the trench from octagonal to rectangular, so that sensitivity to alignment errors between the trench lithography and the active area lithography is reduced. An alternative version employs a bonded semiconductor wafer having a lower substrate formed from a (111) crystal structure and the same upper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Ramachandra Divakaruni, Carl J. Radens
  • Patent number: 7432554
    Abstract: A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) thin film transistor including a common gate, a logic device including the CMOS thin film transistor, and a method of manufacturing the CMOS thin film transistor are provided. In one embodiment, the CMOS thin film transistor includes a base substrate and a semiconductor layer formed on the base substrate. A PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor are formed on a single semiconductor layer to intersect each other, and a common gate is formed on the intersection area. In addition, a Schottky barrier inducing material layer is formed on a source and a drain of the PMOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moon-Kyung Kim, Jo-Won Lee, Yoon-Dong Park, Chung-Woo Kim
  • Publication number: 20080237646
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a plurality of CMOS-type base cells arranged on a semiconductor substrate and m wiring layers, and gate array type logic cells are composed of the base cells and the wiring layers. Wiring within and between the logic cells is constituted by using only upper n (n<m) wiring layers. It becomes possible to shorten a development period and reduce a development cost when a gate array type semiconductor integrated circuit device becomes large in scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Tokunaga, Shigeki Furuya, Yuuji Hinatsu
  • Patent number: 7429762
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, first and second CMOS inverter circuits formed on the semiconductor substrate and constituting an SRAM memory cell, each inverter circuit having input and output terminals, and first and second resistance elements formed in the semiconductor substrate and having respective one ends connected to a gate electrode pattern serving as input terminals of the first and second CMOS inverter circuits and the respective other ends connected to electrodes serving as output terminals of the first and second CMOS inverter circuits. The gate electrode pattern includes an underside on which a gate insulation film is formed, the gate insulation film being located between the semiconductor substrate and the gate electrode pattern and having an opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Katsumasa Hayashi, Toshiyuki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20080225144
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for image sensors are disclosed that include a multi-mode circuit that can be configured for operating as an imaging pixel and a memory. The multi-mode circuit includes a photo-detector for collecting electrons generated by radiation impinging on the photo-detector. A transfer gate is configured for transferring the collected electrons from the photo-detector to a floating diffusion node when the transfer gate is enabled. A write circuit receives and stores a multi-value voltage on the floating diffusion node and a read circuit is configured for reading a state of the floating diffusion node. The state of the floating diffusion node corresponds to the amount of transferred electrons in an image mode or the multi-value voltage in a memory mode. The semiconductor image sensor may be included in as part of an imaging system that includes a memory for storing a digital representation of an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: Richard A. Mauritzson
  • Publication number: 20080217657
    Abstract: A semiconductor power switch having an array of basic cells in which peripheral regions in the active drain region extend beside the perimeter of the base-drain junction, the peripheral regions being of higher dopant density than the rest of the second drain layer. Intermediate regions in the centre of the active drain region are provided of lighter dopant density than the rest of the second drain layer. This provides an improved compromise between the on-state resistance and the breakdown voltage by enlarging the current conduction path at in its active drain region. On the outer side of each edge cell of the array, the gate electrode extends over and beyond at least part of the perimeters of the base-source junction and the base-drain junction towards the adjacent edge of the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Reynes, Stephane Alves, Alain Deram, Balandino Lopes, Joel Margheritta
  • Patent number: 7423324
    Abstract: In a double-gate MOS transistor, a substrate, an insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer are formed or laminated in that order, an opening extending to the insulating layer is formed in the semiconductor layer while leaving an island-shaped region, the island-shaped region including a semiconductor crystal layer having a predetermined length and height and a predetermined shape of horizontal section, the semiconductor crystal layer including P-type or N-type source region, channel region, and drain region, in that order, formed therein, a source electrode, gate electrodes, and a drain electrode are provided in contact with side surfaces of the respective regions, and the gate electrodes are provided in contact with the side surfaces of the channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sekigawa, Yongxun Liu, Meishoku Masahara, Hanpei Koike, Eiichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080210980
    Abstract: Isolated CMOS transistors formed in a P-type semiconductor substrate include an N-type submerged floor isolation region and a filled trench extending downward from the surface of the substrate to the floor isolation region. Together the floor isolation region and the filled trench form an isolated pocket of the substrate which contains a P-channel MOSFET in an N-well and an N-channel MOSFET in a P-well. The substrate does not contain an epitaxial layer, thereby overcoming the many problems associated with fabricating the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald R. Disney, Richard K. Williams
  • Publication number: 20080203437
    Abstract: The gate tunnel leakage current is increased in the up-to-date process, so that it is necessary to reduce the gate tunnel leakage current in the LSI which is driven by a battery for use in a cellular phone and which needs to be in a standby mode at a low leakage current. In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the ground source electrode lines of logic and memory circuits are kept at a ground potential in an active mode, and are kept at a voltage higher than the ground potential in an unselected standby mode. The gate tunnel leakage current can be reduced without destroying data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Kenichi Osada, Koichiro Ishibashi, Yoshikazu Saitoh, Akio Nishida, Masaru Nakamichi, Naoki Kitai
  • Publication number: 20080203438
    Abstract: A demultiplexer using transistors for accessing memory cell arrays. The demultiplexer includes (a) a substrate; (b) 2N semiconductor regions which are parallel to one another and run in a first direction; (c) first N gate electrode lines, which (i) run in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, (ii) are electrically insulated from the 2N semiconductor regions, and (iii) are disposed between the first plurality of memory cells and the contact region; (d) a contact region; (e) a first plurality of memory cells. An intersection transistor exists at each of intersections between the first N gate electrode lines and the 2N semiconductor regions. In response to pre-specified voltage potentials being applied to the contact region and the first N gate electrode lines, memory cells of the first plurality of memory cells disposed on only one of the 2N semiconductor regions are selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Kailash Gopalakrishnan, Rohit Sudhir Shenoy
  • Patent number: 7413944
    Abstract: In a CMOS image sensor manufacturing process, heavily doped p type impurity ions (for example, B) are implanted in a dummy moat region when the heavily doped p type impurity ions is implanted in a PMOS transistor region, so that metal ion contamination is removed. Accordingly, a CMOS image sensor capable of reducing a leakage current by gettering metal ion contamination is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Gi Lee
  • Publication number: 20080191247
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory transistor having a poly-silicon fin, a stacked nonvolatile memory device having the transistor, a method of fabricating the transistor, and a method of fabricating the device are provided. The device may include an active fin protruding upward from a semiconductor substrate. At least one first charge storing pattern on a top surface and sidewalls of the active fin may be formed. At least one first control gate line on a top surface of the at least one first charge storing pattern may be formed. The at least one first control gate line may intersect over the active fin. An interlayer dielectric layer may be formed on the at least one first control gate line. A poly-silicon fin may be formed on the interlayer dielectric layer. At least one second charge storing pattern on a top surface and sidewalls of the poly-silicon fin may be formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Huaxiang Yin, Young-soo Park, Wenxu Xianyu
  • Patent number: 7411227
    Abstract: The present invention provides a complementary metal oxide semiconductor integration process whereby a plurality of silicided metal gates are fabricated atop a gate dielectric. Each silicided metal gate that is formed using the integration scheme of the present invention has the same silicide metal phase and substantially the same height, regardless of the dimension of the silicide metal gate. The present invention also provides various methods of forming a CMOS structure having silicided contacts in which the polySi gate heights are substantially the same across the entire surface of a semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ricky S. Amos, Diane C. Boyd, Cyril Cabral, Jr., Richard D. Kaplan, Jakub T. Kedzierski, Victor Ku, Woo-Hyeong Lee, Ying Li, Anda C. Mocuta, Vijay Narayanan, An L. Steegen, Maheswaren Surendra
  • Patent number: 7405436
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure having improved carrier mobility is provided. The semiconductor structures includes a hybrid oriented semiconductor substrate having at least two planar surfaces of different crystallographic orientation, and at least one CMOS device located on each of the planar surfaces of different crystallographic orientation, wherein each CMOS device has a stressed channel. The present invention also provides methods of fabricating the same. In general terms, the inventive method includes providing a hybrid oriented substrate having at least two planar surfaces of different crystallographic orientation, and forming at least one CMOS device on each of the planar surfaces of different crystallographic orientation, wherein each CMOS device has a stressed channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dureseti Chidambarrao, Judson R. Holt, Meikei Ieong, Oiging C. Ouyang, Siddhartha Panda
  • Patent number: 7402846
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure is disclosed. The ESD protection structure includes an active device. The active device includes a plurality of drains. Each of the drains has a contact row and at least one body contact row. The at least one body contact row is located on the active device in a manner to reduce the amount of voltage required for triggering the ESD protection structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Schwantes, Michael Graf, Volker Dudek, Gayle W. Miller, Jr., Irwin Rathbun, Peter Grombach, Manfred Klaussner
  • Patent number: 7402847
    Abstract: A programmable logic circuit, including programmable memory element, suitable for microprocessor applications, and a method of using the circuit are disclosed. The programmable circuit includes at least one logic cell, columns and rows of wires coupled to the logic cell, and a programmable memory element located at the intersection of two wires. The programmable element acts as a switch and as memory for the logic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Axon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael N Kozicki, Maria Mitkova, Chakravarthy Gopalan, Muralikrishnan Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 7400004
    Abstract: Regions of an integrated circuit are isolated by a structure that includes at least one isolating trench on the periphery of an active area. The trench is deep, extending at least about 0.5 ?m into the substrate. The isolating structure prevents photons and electrons originating in peripheral circuitry from reaching the active area. Where the substrate has a heavily-doped lower layer and an upper layer on it, the trench can extend through the upper layer to the lower layer. A thermal oxide can be grown on the trench walls. A liner can also be deposited on the sidewalls of each trench. A fill material having a high-extinction coefficient is then deposited over the liner. The liner can also be light absorbent so that both the liner and fill material block photons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan G. Cole, Troy Sorensen
  • Patent number: 7397075
    Abstract: A transistor of a pixel cell for use in a CMOS imager with a low threshold voltage of about 0.3 V to less than about 0.7 V is disclosed. The transistor is provided with high dosage source and drain regions around the gate electrode and with the halo implanted regions and/or the lightly doped LDD regions and/or the enhancement implanted regions omitted from at least one side of the gate electrode. The low threshold transistor is electrically connected to a high voltage transistor with a high threshold voltage of about 0.7 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard E. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 7394156
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a plurality of CMOS-type base cells arranged on a semiconductor substrate and m wiring layers, and gate array type logic cells are composed of the base cells and the wiring layers. Wiring within and between the logic cells is constituted by using only upper n (n<m) wiring layers. It becomes possible to shorten a development period and reduce a development cost when a gate array type semiconductor integrated circuit device becomes large in scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Tokunaga, Shigeki Furuya, Yuuji Hinatsu
  • Patent number: 7391063
    Abstract: A display device has C-MOS p-Si TFTs which enable high integration by reducing spaces for P-MOS TFTs and N-MOS TFTs in a driving circuit or the like thereof. A self-aligned C-MOS process is adopted, which uses a half tone mask as an exposure mask for manufacturing the C-MOS p-Si TFTs mounted on the display device. With the use of the half tone mask, the alignment or positioning at a bonding portion between a P-MOS portion and an N-MOS portion becomes unnecessary, and, hence, the number of photolithography steps can be reduced and high integration of C-MOS TFT circuits can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Sonoda, Toshiki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7388238
    Abstract: The gate tunnel leakage current is increased in the up-to-date process, so that it is necessary to reduce the gate tunnel leakage current in the LSI which is driven by a battery for use in a cellular phone and which needs to be in a standby mode at a low leakage current. In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the ground source electrode lines of logic and memory circuits are kept at a ground potential in an active mode, and are kept at a voltage higher than the ground potential in an unselected standby mode. The gate tunnel leakage current can be reduced without destroying data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignees: Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Osada, Koichiro Ishibashi, Yoshikazu Saitoh, Akio Nishida, Masaru Nakamichi, Naoki Kitai
  • Publication number: 20080128757
    Abstract: A flash memory device can include a semiconductor pin protruding from a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type to extend in one direction, a first doped layer and a second doped layer provided to an upper portion and a lower portion of the semiconductor pin, respectively, to be vertically spaced apart from each other, the first and second doped layers having a second conductive type, and a plurality of word lines extending over a top and a sidewall of the semiconductor pin to intersect the direction. The word lines overlap the first doped layer and the second doped layer to have vertical channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Soo-Doo Chae, Chung-Woo Kim, Chan-Jin Park, Jeong-Hee Han, Byung-Gook Park, Il-Han Park
  • Publication number: 20080121941
    Abstract: Diagonal deep well region for routing the body-bias voltage for MOSFETS in surface well regions is provided and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Mike Pelham, James B. Burr
  • Patent number: 7372155
    Abstract: A method of closely interconnecting integrated circuits contained within a semiconductor wafer to electrical circuits surrounding the semiconductor wafer. Electrical interconnects are held to a minimum in length-by making efficient use of polyimide or polymer as an inter-metal dielectric thus enabling the integration of very small integrated circuits within a larger circuit environment at a minimum cost in electrical circuit performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Inventor: Mou-Shiung Lin
  • Patent number: 7368767
    Abstract: A standard cell is read from a library and automatic layout wiring is performed, thereby configuring a circuit. Next, each cell column in the configured circuit is searched for an empty region. In the empty region in the cell column searched for, a spacer cell or a filler cell is placed. At this time, using the spacer cell or filler cell, the well potential of the standard cells in the cell column is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Kinoshita, Yasuhito Itaka, Takeshi Sugahara
  • Patent number: 7365377
    Abstract: In a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first well region of the first conductivity type, second well regions of a second conductivity type, and a third well region of the second conductivity type are formed. The second well regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate excluding the region where the first well region has been formed. The third well region is formed under the first and second well regions in the semiconductor substrate in such a manner that a part of the third well region under the first well region is removed, thereby connecting the second well regions to one another electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Sugahara, Yasuhito Itaka
  • Patent number: 7361542
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a CMOS image sensor can minimize a dark current by avoiding a dry etch process of a photodiode surface. The method can also reduce a contact resistance and variation of the contact resistance of a read-out circuit unit within a unit pixel. The method includes steps of forming an insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate divided into a photodiode area and a transistor area, removing the insulating layer on a gate electrode forming area, forming a gate insulating layer, forming a conductive layer, forming a gate electrode by planarizing the conductive layer, selectively removing the insulating layer to expose the semiconductor substrate, forming a lightly doped impurity region in the exposed semiconductor substrate, forming a spacer on a sidewall of the gate electrode, completely removing the insulating layer, and forming a heavily doped impurity region on the transistor area of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hee Sung Shim
  • Patent number: 7355219
    Abstract: In order for circuit blocks 1 to 3 composed by the CMOS process, and analog lines 5?1, 5?2, and 5?3 connected thereto not to overlap on the layout, the analog lines 5?1 and 5?2 are wired so that such lines roundabout the layout of the AM/FM common circuit block 3. Through this, the distance of the signal line within the AM/FM common circuit block 3 and the analog lines 5?1 and 5?2 can become as long as possible, the signal line within the AM/FM common circuit block 3 and the analog lines 5?1 and 5?2 would not be coupled via parasitic capacity, and mutual interference occurring between the signal line and the analog lines 5?1 and 5?2 can be suppressed. In another aspect, a semiconductor integrated circuit with a CMOS structure includes an analog circuit and a feedback loop, wherein an analog signal line for the feedback loop is wired outside a layout of the analog circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Niigata Seimitsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Munehiro Karasudani