Patents Assigned to Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandted Forschung e.V.
  • Patent number: 9865608
    Abstract: A method disclosed herein includes providing a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure comprising a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack, the gate stack comprising a gate insulation material over the substrate, a floating gate electrode material over the gate insulation material, a ferroelectric transistor dielectric over the floating gate electrode material and a top electrode material over the ferroelectric transistor dielectric, performing a first patterning process to remove portions of the top electrode material and the ferroelectric transistor dielectric and performing a second patterning process after the first patterning process to remove portions of the floating gate electrode material and the gate insulation material, wherein a projected area of an upper portion of the gate structure onto a plane that is perpendicular to a thickness direction of the substrate is smaller than a projected area of the lower portion of the gate structure onto the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandted Forschung e.V., NaMLab gGmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Mueller, Stefan Mueller, Stefan Flachowsky