Patents Assigned to NEXCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD
  • Patent number: 11437281
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing semiconductor device and a semiconductor device formed using same. The method includes: preparing a substrate; forming a pad oxide layer and a barrier layer on the substrate, the barrier layer is disposed on the pad oxide layer; forming a plurality of shallow trench isolation structures in the substrate to form multiple regions in the substrate; removing a part of the barrier layer to form a recess, the recess is set in any one of the multiple regions, and a region directly below the recess is defined as a high voltage device region; and forming a gate oxide layer in the recess, and removing the barrier layer. The method provided in the present disclosure simplifies the manufacturing process and reduces the production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventors: Zhongxiang Ma, Ching-Ming Lee, Po-Hua Kung
  • Patent number: 11404328
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes: preparing a semiconductor substrate; sequentially forming an oxide layer and a sacrificial layer on the semiconductor substrate, the thickness of the oxide layer is a first thickness; forming a plurality of trenches in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the trenches extending from the sacrificial layer into the semiconductor substrate; forming an isolation dielectric layer on the plurality of trenches and the sacrificial layer, and removing the isolation dielectric layer on the sacrificial layer to form a plurality of isolation structures; forming a well region in the semiconductor substrate; processing the oxide layer by an etching process, so that the thickness of the oxide layer is equal to a second thickness, the first thickness is greater than the second thickness; and forming a polysilicon gate on the etched oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventors: Chunlong Xu, Ching-Ming Lee, Tsung-kai Yang
  • Patent number: 11257668
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes: providing a substrate includes a first region and a second region; forming a first polycrystalline silicon layer on the substrate, wherein the first polycrystalline silicon layer covers the first region and the second region; forming a stacked structure on the first polycrystalline silicon layer; forming a protective layer on the stacked structure; forming a patterned photoresist layer on the protective layer, wherein the patterned photoresist layer exposes the protective layer in the second region; removing the protective layer and the stacked structure in the second region to expose the first polycrystalline silicon layer in the second region; removing the patterned photoresist layer; and forming a second polycrystalline silicon layer on the protective layer in the first region and the first polycrystalline silicon layer in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventors: Yongbo Feng, Hongbo Zhu, Houyou Wang, Mingyang Tsai
  • Publication number: 20210384083
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes: preparing a semiconductor substrate; sequentially forming an oxide layer and a sacrificial layer on the semiconductor substrate, the thickness of the oxide layer is a first thickness; forming a plurality of trenches in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the trenches extending from the sacrificial layer into the semiconductor substrate; forming an isolation dielectric layer on the plurality of trenches and the sacrificial layer, and removing the isolation dielectric layer on the sacrificial layer to form a plurality of isolation structures; forming a well region in the semiconductor substrate; processing the oxide layer by an etching process, so that the thickness of the oxide layer is equal to a second thickness, the first thickness is greater than the second thickness; and forming a polysilicon gate on the etched oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventors: Chunlong Xu, Ching-Ming Lee, Tsung-kai Yang
  • Publication number: 20210375617
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes: providing a substrate includes a first region and a second region; forming a first polycrystalline silicon layer on the substrate, wherein the first polycrystalline silicon layer covers the first region and the second region; forming a stacked structure on the first polycrystalline silicon layer; forming a protective layer on the stacked structure; forming a patterned photoresist layer on the protective layer, wherein the patterned photoresist layer exposes the protective layer in the second region; removing the protective layer and the stacked structure in the second region to expose the first polycrystalline silicon layer in the second region; removing the patterned photoresist layer; and forming a second polycrystalline silicon layer on the protective layer in the first region and the first polycrystalline silicon layer in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventors: Yongbo FENG, Hongbo ZHU, Houyou WANG, Mingyang TSAI
  • Patent number: 11088155
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating split-gate non-volatile memory. The method comprises the following: 1) preparing a semiconductor substrate by forming at least one shallow trench isolation structure in the semiconductor substrate to isolate at least one active region in the semiconductor substrate; 2) forming at least one word line on the semiconductor substrate; 3) forming at least one source and at least one drain in the semiconductor substrate, and forming at least one floating gate on a sidewall of the word line on a side close to the source; 4) removing part of the word line by adopting an etching process; 5) forming a tunneling dielectric layer and an erasing gate at the top portion of the floating gate; and 6) forming a conductive plug on the drain and forming at least one metal bit line on the conductive plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventor: Geeng-Chuan Chern
  • Publication number: 20210210615
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a transistor structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes: preparing a substrate, a plurality of gate structures are disposed on the substrate; forming a first spacer structure on both sidewalls of each gate structure; and forming a film layer, the film layer covers the substrate, the plurality of gate structures, the second spacer structure and the step structure. The present disclosure solves the problem that defects caused by growth speed differences of films at spacers of the gate structures and the substrate, such as deep pits or holes, occur in a film deposition process, thereby avoiding electricity leakage of a subsequent contact pipeline and failure of a device, thus ensuring the quality of the transistor product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventors: Jing ZHANG, Qizhun JIN
  • Publication number: 20210193529
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing semiconductor device and a semiconductor device formed using same. The method includes: preparing a substrate; forming a pad oxide layer and a barrier layer on the substrate, the barrier layer is disposed on the pad oxide layer; forming a plurality of shallow trench isolation structures in the substrate to form multiple regions in the substrate; removing a part of the barrier layer to form a recess, the recess is set in any one of the multiple regions, and a region directly below the recess is defined as a high voltage device region; and forming a gate oxide layer in the recess, and removing the barrier layer. The method provided in the present disclosure simplifies the manufacturing process and reduces the production costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventors: Zhongxiang MA, Qingmin LI, Baihua GONG
  • Publication number: 20200251481
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating split-gate non-volatile memory. The method comprises the following: 1) preparing a semiconductor substrate by forming at least one shallow trench isolation structure in the semiconductor substrate to isolate at least one active region in the semiconductor substrate; 2) forming at least one word line on the semiconductor substrate; 3) forming at least one source and at least one drain in the semiconductor substrate, and forming at least one floating gate on a sidewall of the word line on a side close to the source; 4) removing part of the word line by adopting an etching process; 5) forming a tunneling dielectric layer and an erasing gate at the top portion of the floating gate; and 6) forming a conductive plug on the drain and forming at least one metal bit line on the conductive plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., LTD
    Inventor: Geeng-Chuan Chern
  • Patent number: 10726894
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-volatile memory cell, array and fabrication method. The memory cell comprises a substrate, a gate structure, a source region and a drain region, wherein the gate structure is formed on the substrate, the gate structure sequentially comprises a first gate dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second gate dielectric layer and a second conductive layer from bottom to top, the source region is formed in the substrate, the source region comprises an N-type heavily doped source region, the drain region is formed in the substrate, the drain region comprises an N-type doped drain region and a P-type heavily doped drain region formed in the N-type doped drain region. The non-volatile memory cell and array provided by the present invention have a band-to-band tunneling programming ability and reserve the advantage of high reading current of an N-channel at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Nexchip Semiconductor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Geeng-Chuan Chern
  • Publication number: 20200027492
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-volatile memory cell, array and fabrication method. The memory cell comprises a substrate, a gate structure, a source region and a drain region, wherein the gate structure is formed on the substrate, the gate structure sequentially comprises a first gate dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second gate dielectric layer and a second conductive layer from bottom to top, the source region is formed in the substrate, the source region comprises an N-type heavily doped source region, the drain region is formed in the substrate, the drain region comprises an N-type doped drain region and a P-type heavily doped drain region formed in the N-type doped drain region. The non-volatile memory cell and array provided by the present invention have a band-to-band tunneling programming ability and reserve the advantage of high reading current of an N-channel at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: NEXCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: GEENG-CHUAN CHERN
  • Publication number: 20200027888
    Abstract: A split-gate non-volatile memory and a fabrication method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: 1) forming a plurality of shallow trench isolation structures in a semiconductor substrate; 2) forming word lines on the semiconductor substrate; 3) forming a source and a drain in the semiconductor substrate, and forming a floating gate on a sidewall of the word line on a side close to the source, a portion of the floating gate that contacts with the word lines presents as a sharp tip; 4) removing part of the word lines by adopting an etching process such that the sharp tip of the top portion of the floating gate is higher than the word lines; 5) forming a tunneling dielectric layer and an erasing gate at the top portion of the floating gate; and 6) forming a conductive plug on the drain and forming metal bit lines on the conductive plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: NEXCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: GEENG-CHUAN CHERN