Abstract: For forming stacked capacitors, an opening is formed through at least one semiconductor material. A lower electrode material is patterned within the opening to form a plurality of lower electrodes within the opening. The stacked capacitors are formed with the lower electrodes within the opening by depositing a capacitor dielectric and an upper electrode within the opening. With such a relatively large opening, a capacitor dielectric of the stacked capacitors is deposited with a large thickness for improving reliability of the stacked capacitors.

Abstract: A coupling capacitor is coupled between the gate and the body region of a MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor). The body region of the MOSFET is electrically isolated to form a floating body region. The capacitance of the coupling capacitor is designed such that a BJT (Bipolar Junction Transistor) connected in parallel with the MOSFET turns on when the MOSFET turns on. In addition such a design of the coupling capacitor lowers the magnitude of the threshold voltage of the MOSFET when the MOSFET is turned on. Furthermore, the capacitance of the coupling capacitor is designed such that the magnitude of the threshold voltage of the MOSFET is raised when the MOSFET is turned off. Thus, the MOSFET type device of the present invention has both higher drive current when the MOSFET is turned on and lower steady state power dissipation when the MOSFET is turned off with a variable threshold voltage.