Abstract: When forming sophisticated high-k metal gate electrode structures in an early manufacturing stage on the basis of a silicon/germanium semiconductor alloy for adjusting appropriate electronic conditions in the channel region, the efficiency of a strain-inducing embedded semiconductor alloy, such as a silicon/germanium alloy, may be enhanced by initiating a crystal growth in the silicon material of the gate electrode structure after the gate patterning process. In this manner, the negative strain of the threshold voltage adjusting silicon/germanium alloy may be reduced or compensated for.

Abstract: A multi-bit memory cell includes a substrate; a multi-bit charge-trapping cell over the substrate, the multi-bit charge-trapping cell having a first lateral side and a second lateral side; a source region in the substrate, a portion of the source region being under the first side of the multi-bit charge-trapping cell; a drain region in the substrate, a portion of the drain region being under the second side of the multi-bit charge-trapping cell; and a channel region in the substrate between the source region and the drain region. The channel region has one of a p-type doping and an n-type doping, and the doping is configured to provide a highest doping concentration near the central portion of the channel region.

Abstract: A SRAM device with metal gate transistors is provided. The SRAM device includes a PMOS structure and an NMOS structure over a substrate. Each of the PMOS and the NMOS structure includes a p-type metallic work function layer and an n-type metallic work function layer. The p-type work metallic function layer and the n-type metallic work function layer form a combined work function for the PMOS and the NMOS structures.

Abstract: Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices include providing a substrate including a NMOS region and a PMOS region, implanting fluorine ions into an upper surface of the substrate, forming a first gate electrode of the NMOS region and a second gate electrode of the PMOS region on the substrate, forming a source region and a drain region in portions of the substrate, which are adjacent to two lateral surfaces of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, respectively, and performing a high-pressure heat-treatment process on an upper surface of the substrate by using non-oxidizing gas.

Abstract: Provided is a channel layer for a thin film transistor, a thin film transistor and methods of forming the same. A channel layer for a thin film transistor may include IZO (indium zinc oxide) doped with a transition metal. A thin film transistor may include a gate electrode and the channel layer formed on a substrate, a gate insulating layer formed between the gate electrode and channel layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode which contact ends of the channel layer.

Abstract: A method of forming a field effect transistor (FET) device includes forming a patterned gate structure over a substrate; forming a solid source dopant material on the substrate, adjacent sidewall spacers of the gate structure; performing an anneal process at a temperature sufficient to cause dopants from the solid source dopant material to diffuse within the substrate beneath the gate structure and form source/drain extension regions; following formation of the source/drain extension regions, forming trenches in the substrate adjacent the sidewall spacers, corresponding to source/drain regions; and forming an embedded semiconductor material in the trenches so as to provide a stress on a channel region of the substrate defined beneath the gate structure.

Abstract: A thin film transistor, a method of fabricating the same, and an OLED display device having the same. The thin film transistor includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and having a channel region, source and drain regions, and a body contact region, a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer to expose the body contact region, a silicon layer disposed on the gate insulating layer and contacting the body contact region exposed by the gate insulating layer, a gate electrode disposed on the silicon layer, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode, and source and drain electrodes disposed on the interlayer insulating layer and electrically connected with the source and drain regions, wherein the body contact region is formed in an edge region of the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: An integrated circuit structure comprises at least one pair of complementary transistors on a substrate. The pair of complementary transistors includes a first transistor and a second transistor. In addition, only one stress-producing layer is on the first transistor and the second transistor and applies tensile strain force on the first transistor and the second transistor. The first transistor has a first channel region, a gate insulator on the first channel region, and a deuterium region between the first channel region and the gate insulator. The second transistor has a germanium doped channel region, as well as the same gate insulator on the germanium doped channel region, and the same deuterium region between the germanium doped channel region and the gate insulator.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided, in which extension regions are formed atop the substrate in a vertical orientation. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a semiconductor substrate doped with a first conductivity dopant. Raised extension regions are formed on first portions of the semiconductor substrate that are separated by a second portion of the semiconductor substrate. The raised extension regions have a first concentration of a second conductivity dopant. Raised source regions and raised drain regions are formed on the raised extension regions. The raised source regions and the raised drain regions each have a second concentration of the second conductivity dopant, wherein the second concentration is greater than the first concentration. A gate structure is formed on the second portion of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: In a replacement gate approach in sophisticated semiconductor devices, a tantalum nitride etch stop material may be efficiently removed on the basis of a wet chemical etch recipe using ammonium hydroxide. Consequently, a further work function adjusting material may be formed with superior uniformity, while the efficiency of the subsequent adjusting of the work function may also be increased. Thus, superior uniformity, i.e., less pronounced transistor variability, may be accomplished on the basis of a replacement gate approach in which the work function of the gate electrodes of P-channel transistors and N-channel transistors is adjusted after completing the basic transistor configuration.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same are provided in which the gate induced drain leakage is controlled by introducing a workfunction tuning species within selected portions of a pFET such that the gate/SD (source/drain) overlap area of the pFET is tailored towards flatband, yet not affecting the workfunction at the device channel region. The structure includes a semiconductor substrate having at least one patterned gate stack located within a pFET device region of the semiconductor substrate. The structure further includes extension regions located within the semiconductor substrate at a footprint of the at least one patterned gate stack. A channel region is also present and is located within the semiconductor substrate beneath the at least one patterned gate stack.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device that may include a substrate including a semiconductor layer overlying an insulating layer. A gate structure that is present on a channel portion of the semiconductor layer. A first dopant region is present in the channel portion of the semiconductor layer, in which the peak concentration of the first dopant region is present within the lower portion of the gate conductor and the upper portion of the semiconductor layer. A second dopant region is present in the channel portion of the semiconductor layer, in which the peak concentration of the second dopant region is present within the lower portion of the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device that has a dual gate having different work functions is simply formed by using a selective nitridation. A gate insulating layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate including a first region and a second region, on which devices having different threshold voltages are to be formed. A diffusion inhibiting material is selectively injected into the gate insulating layer in one of the first region and the second region. A diffusion layer is formed on the gate insulating layer. A work function controlling material is directly diffused from the diffusion layer to the gate insulating layer using a heat treatment, wherein the gate insulting layer is self-aligned capped with the selectively injected diffusion inhibiting material so that the work function controlling material is diffused into the other of the first region and the second region. The gate insulating layer is entirely exposed by removing the diffusion layer. A gate electrode layer is formed on the exposed gate insulating layer.

Abstract: A group of high-performance like-polarity insulated-gate field-effect transistors (100, 108, 112, 116, 120, and 124 or 102, 110, 114, 118, 122, and 126) have selectably different configurations of lateral source/drain extensions, halo pockets, and gate dielectric thicknesses suitable for a semiconductor fabrication platform that provides a wide variety of transistors for analog and/or digital applications. Each transistor has a pair of source/drain zones, a gate dielectric layer, and a gate electrode. Each source/drain zone includes a main portion and a more lightly doped lateral extension. The lateral extension of one of the source/drain zones of one of the transistors is more heavily doped or/and extends less deeply below the upper semiconductor surface than the lateral extension of one of the source/drain zones of another of the transistors.

Abstract: Semiconductor structures including a high k gate dielectric material that has at least one surface threshold voltage adjusting region located within 3 nm or less from an upper surface of the high k gate dielectric are provided. The at least one surface threshold voltage adjusting region is formed by a cluster beam implant step in which at least one threshold voltage adjusting impurity is formed directly within the high k gate dielectric or driven in from an overlying threshold voltage adjusting material which is subsequently removed from the structure following the cluster beam implant step.

Abstract: The invention includes methods of forming channel region implants for two transistor devices simultaneously, in which a mask is utilized to block a larger percentage of a channel region location of one of the devices relative to the other. The invention also pertains to methods of forming capacitor structures in which a first capacitor electrode is spaced from a semiconductor substrate by a dielectric material, a second capacitor electrode comprises a conductively-doped diffusion region within the semiconductor material, and a capacitor channel region location is beneath the dielectric material and adjacent the conductively-doped diffusion region. An implant mask is formed to cover only a first portion of the capacitor channel region location and to leave a second portion of the capacitor channel region location uncovered. While the implant mask is in place, dopant is implanted into the uncovered second portion of the capacitor channel region location.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor is provided. First, an isolation structure is formed in a substrate with a photo-sensitive region and a transistor device region in the substrate. The transistor device region includes at least a region for forming a transfer transistor. A dielectric layer and a conductive layer are sequentially formed on the substrate. An ion implantation process is performed to implant a dopant into the substrate below the position for forming a gate of the transfer transistor and in the photo-sensitive region through the conductive layer and the dielectric layer. The conductive layer and the dielectric layer are patterned to at least form the gate structure of the transfer transistor on the transistor device region. Thereafter, a photo diode is formed in the substrate in the photo-sensitive region.

Abstract: A static RAM cell may be formed on the basis of two double channel transistors and a select transistor, wherein a body contact may be positioned laterally between the two double channel transistors in the form of a dummy gate electrode structure, while a further rectangular contact may connect the gate electrodes, the source regions and the body contact, thereby establishing a conductive path to the body regions of the transistors. Hence, compared to conventional body contacts, a very space-efficient configuration may be established so that bit density in static RAM cells may be significantly increased.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure with a channel stack includes forming a screening layer under a gate of a PMOS transistor element and a NMOS transistor element, forming a threshold voltage control layer on the screening layer, and forming an epitaxial channel layer on the threshold control layer. At least a portion of the epitaxial channel layers for the PMOS transistor element and the NMOS transistor element are formed as a common blanket layer. The screening layer for the PMOS transistor element may include antimony as a dopant material that may be inserted into the structure prior to or after formation of the epitaxial channel layer.

Abstract: Epitaxial deposition of silicon germanium in a semiconductor device is achieved without using masks. Nucleation delays induced by interactions with dopants present before deposition of the silicon germanium are used to determine a period over which an exposed substrate surface may be subjected to epitaxial deposition to form a layer of SiGe on desired parts with substantially no deposition on other parts. Dopant concentration may be changed to achieve desired thicknesses within preferred deposition times. Resulting deposited SiGe is substantially devoid of growth edge effects.

Abstract: A semiconductor process test structure comprises an electrode, a charge-trapping layer, and a diffusion region. The test structure is a capacitor-like structure in which the charge-trapping layer will trap charges during various processing steps. Gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) measurement techniques can then be used to characterize the charging status of the test structure.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a source extension region a drain extension region, a first gate insulation film, a second gate insulation film, and a gate electrode. The source region, drain region, source extension region and drain extension region are formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor region. The first gate insulation film is formed on the semiconductor region between the source extension region and the drain extension region. The first gate insulation film is formed of a silicon oxide film or a silicon oxynitride film having a nitrogen concentration of 15 atomic % or less. The second gate insulation film is formed on the first gate insulation film and contains nitrogen at a concentration of between 20 atomic % and 57 atomic %. The gate electrode is formed on the second gate insulation film.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate with a recess pattern, a gate electrode filling the recess pattern, a threshold voltage adjusting layer formed in the substrate under the recess pattern, a source/drain region formed in the substrate on both sides of the gate electrode and a gate insulation layer, with the recess pattern being disposed between the gate electrode and the substrate, wherein the thickness of the gate insulation layer formed in a region adjacent to the source/drain region is greater than the thickness of the gate insulation layer formed in a region adjacent to the threshold voltage adjusting layer.

Abstract: A memory cell having N transistors including at least one pair of access transistors, one pair of pull-down transistors, and one pair of pull-up transistors to form a memory cell, wherein N is an integer at least equal to six, wherein each of the access transistors and each of the pull-down transistors is a same one of an n-type or a p-type transistor, and each of the pull-up transistors is the other of an n-type or a p-type transistor, wherein at least one of the pair of the pull down transistors and the pair of the pull up transistors are asymmetric.

Abstract: Semiconductor structures including a high k gate dielectric material that has at least one surface threshold voltage adjusting region located within 3 nm or less from an upper surface of the high k gate dielectric are provided. The at least one surface threshold voltage adjusting region is formed by a cluster beam implant step in which at least one threshold voltage adjusting impurity is formed directly within the high k gate dielectric or driven in from an overlying threshold voltage adjusting material which is subsequently removed from the structure following the cluster beam implant step.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes the steps of: forming a transistor on a surface side of a silicon layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate, the silicon-on-insulator substrate being formed by laminating a substrate, an insulating layer, and the silicon layer; forming a first insulating film covering the transistor and a wiring section including a part electrically connected to the transistor on the silicon-on-insulator substrate; measuring a threshold voltage of the transistor through the wiring section; forming a supporting substrate on a surface of the first insulating film with a second insulating film interposed between the supporting substrate and the first insulating film; removing at least a part of the substrate and the insulating layer on a back side of the silicon-on-insulator substrate; and adjusting the threshold voltage of the transistor on a basis of the measured threshold voltage.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first and a second isolation insulating film to define a first, a second, a third and a fourth region, forming a first insulating film, implanting a first impurity of a first conductivity type through the first insulating film into the first, the second and the fourth region at a first depth, forming a second insulating film thinner than the first insulating film, implanting a second impurity of a second conductivity type through the second insulating film into the third region at a second depth in the semiconductor substrate, implanting a third impurity of the second conductivity type into the third region at a third depth shallower than the second depth, forming a first transistor of the first conductivity type in the third region, and forming a second transistor of the second conductivity type in the fourth region.

Abstract: Transmission gates, methods of fabricating transmission gates, and design structures for a transmission gate. The transmission gate includes an n-channel field effect transistor characterized by terminals that are asymmetrically doped and a p-channel field effect transistor characterized by terminals that are asymmetrically doped.

Abstract: A transistor structure optimizes current along the A-face of a silicon carbide body to form an AMOSFET that minimizes the JFET effect in the drift region during forward conduction in the on-state. The AMOSFET further shows high voltage blocking ability due to the addition of a highly doped well region that protects the gate corner region in a trench-gated device. The AMOSFET uses the A-face conduction along a trench sidewall in addition to a buried channel layer extending across portions of the semiconductor mesas defining the trench. A doped well extends from at least one of the mesas to a depth within the current spreading layer that is greater than the depth of the trench. A current spreading layer extends between the semiconductor mesas beneath the bottom of the trench to reduce junction resistance in the on-state. A buffer layer between the trench and the deep well further provides protection from field crowding at the trench corner.

Abstract: In a method and system of detecting abnormality in an imaging device, multiple digital data are received in sequence from the imaging device via at least one data output pin. The multiple digital data correspond respectively to multiple pixel data. Subsequently, the multiple digital data for a specific pin are compared to determine whether they are, or how many of them are, the same. Accordingly, the specific pin is determined as abnormal when the number of the same digital data exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: A method for producing one or more nMOSFET devices and one or more pMOSFET devices on the same semiconductor substrate is disclosed. In one aspect, the method relates to the use of a single activation anneal that serves for both Si nMOS and Ge pMOS. By use of a solid phase epitaxial regrowth (SPER) process for the Si nMOS, the thermal budget for the Si nMOS can be lowered to be compatible with Ge pMOS.

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a semiconductor structure that includes one or more multi-gate field effect transistors (MUGFETs), each MUGFET having one or more semiconductor fins. In the embodiments, dopant implant region is incorporated into the upper portion of the channel region of a semiconductor fin in order to selectively modify (i.e., decrease or increase) the threshold voltage within that upper portion relative to the threshold voltage in the lower portion and, thereby to selectively modify (i.e., decrease or increase) device drive current. In the case of a multiple semiconductor fins, the use of implant regions, the dopant conductivity type in the implant regions and/or the sizes of the implant regions can be varied from fin to fin within a multi-fin MUGFET or between different single and/or multi-fin MUGFETs so that individual device drive current can be optimized. Also disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of forming the semiconductor structure.

Abstract: A static RAM cell may be formed on the basis of two double channel transistors and a select transistor, wherein a body contact may be positioned laterally between the two double channel transistors in the form of a dummy gate electrode structure, while a further rectangular contact may connect the gate electrodes, the source regions and the body contact, thereby establishing a conductive path to the body regions of the transistors. Hence, compared to conventional body contacts, a very space-efficient configuration may be established so that bit density in static RAM cells may be significantly increased.

Abstract: Multiple types of gate stacks are formed on a doped semiconductor well. A high dielectric constant (high-k) gate dielectric is formed on the doped semiconductor well. A metal gate layer is formed in one device area, while the high-k gate dielectric is exposed in other device areas. Threshold voltage adjustment oxide layers having different thicknesses are formed in the other device areas. A conductive gate material layer is then formed over the threshold voltage adjustment oxide layers. One type of field effect transistors includes a gate dielectric including a high-k gate dielectric portion. Other types of field effect transistors include a gate dielectric including a high-k gate dielectric portion and a first threshold voltage adjustment oxide portions having different thicknesses. Field effect transistors having different threshold voltages are provided by employing different gate dielectric stacks and doped semiconductor wells having the same dopant concentration.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a gate electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate via an insulating layer; a source region including an extension region, a drain region including an extension region, a first diffusion restraining layer configured to prevent a diffusion of the conductive impurity in the source region and including an impurity other than the conductive impurity, and a second diffusion restraining layer configured to prevent a diffusion of the impurity in the drain region and including the impurity other than the conductive impurity.

Abstract: A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor includes a photodiode formed in a substrate structure, first to fourth gate electrodes formed over the substrate structure, spacers formed on both sidewalls of the first to fourth gate electrodes and filled between the third and fourth gate electrodes, a first ion implantation region formed in a portion of the substrate structure below the spacers filled between the third and fourth gate electrodes, and second ion implantation regions formed in portions of the substrate structure exposed between the spacers, the second ion implantation regions having a higher concentration than the first ion implantation region.

Abstract: The invention suggests a transistor (21) comprising a source (24) and a drain (29) as well as a barrier region (27) located between the source and the drain. The barrier region is separated from the source and the drain by intrinsic or lowly doped regions (26, 28) of a semiconductor material. Potential barriers are formed at the interfaces of the barrier region and the intrinsic or lowly doped regions. A gate electrode (32) is provided in the vicinity of the potential barriers such that the effective height and/or width of the potential barriers can be modulated by applying an appropriate voltage to the gate electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. A method may include forming a first well by injecting first conduction type impurity ions on and/or over a semiconductor substrate, forming an extended drain region overlapped with a region of said first well by injecting second conduction type impurities on and/or over a semiconductor substrate, and/or forming a first conduction type second well on and/or over a semiconductor substrate under an extended drain region to overlap with another region of a first well by injecting second conduction type impurities on and/or over a semiconductor substrate. A method may include forming a gate over a first well overlapped with an extended drain region, and/or forming a drain region by injecting second conduction type impurities on and/or over an extended drain region at one side of a gate.

Abstract: Performance and/or uniformity of sophisticated transistors may be enhanced by incorporating a carbon species in the active regions of the transistors prior to forming complex high-k metal gate electrode structures. For example, a carbon species may be incorporated by ion implantation into the active region of a P-channel transistor and an N-channel transistor after selectively forming a threshold adjusted semiconductor material for the P-channel transistor, while the active region of the N-channel transistor is still masked.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods for fabricating dual supply voltage CMOS devices with a desired I/O transistor threshold voltage. The dual supply voltage CMOS devices can be fabricated in a semiconductor substrate that includes isolated regions for a logic NMOS transistor, a logic PMOS transistor, an I/O NMOS transistor, and an I/O PMOS transistor. Specifically, the fabrication can first set and/or adjust the threshold voltage (VT) of each of the I/O NMOS transistor and the I/O PMOS transistor to a desired level. Logic NMOS and logic PMOS transistors can then be formed with I/O NMOS and I/O PMOS transistors masked without affecting the set/adjusted VT of the I/O transistors.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming first to third gate electrodes in first to third regions, respectively; forming a first mask pattern covering the second region while exposing the first and third regions; forming p-type source drain extensions and p-type pocket regions by ion implantation using the first mask pattern as a mask; forming n-type source drain extensions by ion implantation using the first mask pattern as a mask; forming a second mask pattern covering the first and third regions while exposing the second region; and forming p-type pocket regions by implanting ions of indium into the silicon substrate with the second mask pattern being used as a mask.

Abstract: A novel semiconductor inverter is presented. The semiconductor structure is simple and has a reduced number of semiconductor junctions. It offers the advantage of being very small in area, very fast and very efficient. The current conductivity from either of the two main terminals to the output terminal is controlled by the gate voltage by means of depleting and enhancing the areas underneath the gate oxide. The signal isolation is obtained mainly by the carrier depletion of the channel region. Having a reduced number of semiconductor junctions, the intrinsic current leakage can be very small. This inverter is the elementary component for latches, memory and logic elements based on this technology.

Abstract: An integrated circuit having high performance CMOS devices with good short channel effects may be made by forming a gate structure over a substrate; forming pocket implant regions and source/drain extensions in the substrate; forming spacers along sides of the gate structure; and thermal annealing the substrate when forming the spacers, the thermal annealing performed at an ultra-low temperature. An integrated circuit having high performance CMOS devices with low parasitic junction capacitance may be made by forming a gate structure over a substrate; forming pocket implant regions and source/drain extensions in the substrate; forming spacers along sides of the gate structure; performing a low dosage source/drain implant; and performing a high dosage source/drain implant.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided, which comprises a first transistor and a second transistor formed in a semiconductor layer. The first transistor includes a first source region and a first drain region sandwiching a first gate electrode with the first source region. The second transistor includes an LDD region and a drift region sandwiching the second gate electrode with the LDD region, and a second drain region adjacent to the drift region to sandwich the second gate electrode with the second source region. The first gate electrode has a first sidewall formed on sides thereof and the second gate electrode has a second sidewall formed on sides thereof. The width of the former along the first insulator differs from the width of the latter along the second insulator.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure comprising an SRAM/inverter cell and a method for forming the same are provided, wherein the SRAM/inverter cell has an improved write margin. The SRAM/inverter cell includes a pull-up PMOS device comprising a gate dielectric over the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode on the gate dielectric wherein the gate electrode comprises a p-type impurity and an n-type impurity, and a stressor formed in a source/drain region. The device drive current of the pull-up PMOS device is reduced due to the counter-doping of the gate electrode.

Abstract: The present disclosure fabricates an embedded metal-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (MONOS) memory device. The memory device is stacked with memory layers having a low aspect ratio. The memory device can be easily fabricated with only two extra masks for saving cost. The present disclosure uses a general method for mass-producing TFT and is thus fit for fabricating NAND-type or NOR-type flash memory to be used as embedded memory in a system-on-chip.

Abstract: A plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the gate structures includes a first gate electrode and source and drain regions. The first gate electrode is removed from each of the gate structures. A first photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction. A first halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction at a first angle. The first photoresist is removed. A second photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction. A second halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction at a second angle. The second photoresist is removed. Replacement gate electrodes are formed in each of the gate structures.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and method to form a semiconductor device is described. The semiconductor includes a gate stack disposed on a substrate. Tip regions are disposed in the substrate on either side of the gate stack. Halo regions are disposed in the substrate adjacent the tip regions. A threshold voltage implant region is disposed in the substrate directly below the gate stack. The concentration of dopant impurity atoms of a particular conductivity type is approximately the same in both the threshold voltage implant region as in the halo regions. The method includes a dopant impurity implant technique having sufficient strength to penetrate a gate stack.

Abstract: A high voltage operating field effect transistor has a source region and a drain region spaced apart from each other in a surface of a substrate. The source region is operative to receive at least one of a signal electric potential and a signal current. A semiconductor channel formation region is disposed in the surface of the substrate between the source region and the drain region. A gate region is disposed above the channel formation region and is operative to receive a bias electric potential having an absolute value equal to or larger than a first constant electric potential which changes according to an increase or decrease in a drain electric potential. A gate insulating film region is disposed between the channel formation region and the gate region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; first to third high-voltage insulated-gate field effect transistors formed on a principal surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first device isolation insulating film that is formed in the semiconductor substrate and isolates the first high-voltage insulated-gate field effect transistor and the second high-voltage insulated-gate field effect transistor from each other; a second device isolation insulating film that is formed in the semiconductor substrate and isolates the first high-voltage insulated-gate field effect transistor and the third high-voltage insulated-gate field effect transistor from each other; a first impurity diffusion layer of the first conductivity type that is formed below the first device isolation insulating film; and a second impurity diffusion layer of the first conductivity type that is formed below the second device isolation insulating film.