Abstract: A display device and a method of manufacturing the display device are provided. A display device includes: a plurality of first emission areas and a plurality of second emission areas alternately arranged at centers of virtual quadrangles aligned adjacent to each other in a row direction and a column direction; and a plurality of third areas respectively arranged at vertexes of the virtual quadrangles, and a difference between planar areas of the first to third emission areas is less than 25% of a largest planar area among the planar areas of the first to third emission areas.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer; a first insulating film which covers a surface of the semiconductor layer; a first adhering film which is formed on a surface of the first insulating film and contains a carbonyl group; and a second insulating film which covers a surface of the first adhering film and has a lower dielectric constant than the first insulating film.

Abstract: A resistive memory, a manufacturing method thereof, and a chemical mechanical polishing process are provided. The resistive memory includes a first electrode, a variable resistance layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is disposed on a substrate. The variable resistance layer is disposed on the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed on the variable resistance layer. The first electrode includes a first Ti layer, a Ti oxide layer, and a conductive layer sequentially disposed on the substrate.

Abstract: An insulated-gate semiconductor device, which has trenches arranged in a chip structure, the trenches defining both sidewalls in a first and second sidewall surface facing each other, includes: a first unit cell including a main-electrode region in contact with a first sidewall surface of a first trench, a base region in contact with a bottom surface of the main-electrode region and the first sidewall surface, a drift layer in contact with a bottom surface of the base region and the first sidewall surface, and a gate protection-region in contact with the second sidewall surface and a bottom surface of the first trench; and a second unit cell including an operation suppression region in contact with a first sidewall surface and a second sidewall surface of a second trench, wherein the second unit cell includes the second trench located at one end of an array of the trenches.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to forming a source/drain region with a high surface dopant concentration at an upper surface of the source/drain region, to which a conductive feature may be formed. In an embodiment, a structure includes an active area on a substrate, a dielectric layer over the active area, and a conductive feature through the dielectric layer to the active area. The active area includes a source/drain region. The source/drain region includes a surface dopant region at an upper surface of the source/drain region, and includes a remainder portion of the source/drain region having a source/drain dopant concentration. The surface dopant region includes a peak dopant concentration proximate the upper surface of the source/drain region. The peak dopant concentration is at least an order of magnitude greater than the source/drain dopant concentration. The conductive feature contacts the source/drain region at the upper surface of the source/drain region.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device may include a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure may include a source contact, a drain contact, and a gate. A first fluorocarbon spacer may be between the gate and the source contact. A second fluorocarbon spacer may be between the gate and the drain contact.

Abstract: An IC structure according to the disclosure includes an insulative structure overlying a substrate and set of STIs. The insulative structure includes an isolation layer contacting an upper surface of the substrate, and a diffusion break region integral with and extending from the isolation layer, wherein the diffusion break region horizontally separates a pair of upper surfaces of the isolation layer. A pair of active semiconductor layers, each positioned on a respective one of the pair of upper surfaces of the isolation layer, are adjacent opposing sidewalls of the diffusion break region. The isolation layer electrically separates the pair of active semiconductor layers from the substrate, and the diffusion break region electrically separates the pair of active semiconductor layers from each other.

Abstract: A flexible display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The flexible display device includes a flexible display panel and a function module, the function module includes a base film and a function layer formed on the base film, and the base film is served as an adhesive layer to attach the function module to the flexible display panel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a III-nitride light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region, a III-nitride layer including a nanopipe defect, and a nanopipe terminating layer disposed between the III-nitride light emitting layer and the III-nitride layer comprising a nanopipe defect. The nanopipe terminates in the nanopipe terminating layer.

Abstract: A method of producing a quantum dot comprising zinc selenide, the method comprising: providing an organic ligand mixture comprising a carboxylic acid compound, a primary amine compound, a secondary amide compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a first organic solvent: RCONHR??Chemical Formula 1 wherein each R is as defined herein; heating the organic ligand mixture in an inert atmosphere at a first temperature to obtain a heated organic ligand mixture; adding a zinc precursor, a selenium precursor, and optionally a tellurium precursor to the heated organic ligand mixture to obtain a reaction mixture, wherein the zinc precursor does not comprise oxygen; and heating the reaction mixture at a first reaction temperature to synthesize a first semiconductor nanocrystal particle.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode and a display device are disclosed. The organic light-emitting diode includes an organic light-emitting layer and a first light ray adjusting layer, wherein the organic light-emitting layer is configured to generate at least first incident light and second light to enter the first light ray adjusting layer to form a first refracted light ray and a second refracted light ray respectively, and a refraction angle of the first refracted light ray is smaller than a refraction angle of the first refracted light ray. A first refractive index of the first light ray adjusting layer on a propagation path of the second refracted light ray is greater than that of the first light ray adjusting layer on a propagation path of the first refracted light ray.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a first die. The first die includes a first bridge interconnect region. The semiconductor package further includes a second die. The second die includes a second bridge interconnect region. The semiconductor package includes a bridge die. The bridge die includes a first contact area to connect to the first bridge interconnect region and a second contact area to connect to the second bridge interconnect region. In the semiconductor package, the first bridge interconnect region is larger than the second bridge interconnect region. Additionally, each of the first bridge interconnect region and the second bridge interconnect region include a plurality of conductive bumps. An average pitch between adjacent bumps of the first bridge interconnect region is larger than an average pitch between adjacent bumps of the second bridge interconnect region.

Abstract: To provide a miniaturized semiconductor device with low power consumption. A method for manufacturing a wiring layer includes the following steps: forming a second insulator over a first insulator; forming a third insulator over the second insulator; forming an opening in the third insulator so that it reaches the second insulator; forming a first conductor over the third insulator and in the opening; forming a second conductor over the first conductor; and after forming the second conductor, performing polishing treatment to remove portions of the first and second conductors above a top surface of the third insulator. An end of the first conductor is at a level lower than or equal to the top level of the opening. The top surface of the second conductor is at a level lower than or equal to that of the end of the first conductor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and at least one trench line formed within the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a self-aligned landing pad in contact with the at least one trench line, and a magnetic tunnel junction stack formed on and in contact with the self-aligned landing pad. The method includes forming a conductive layer on and in contact with at least one trench line formed within a substrate. Magnetic tunnel junction stack layers are deposited on and in contact with the conductive layer. The magnetic tunnel junction stack layers are etched to form a magnetic tunnel junction stack, where the etching stops on the conductive layer.

Abstract: Provided herein are flashing ratchets that produce transport based on the oscillating application of regularly-spaced, asymmetric potentials. In particular, devices are provided that transport electrons without the requirement of an overall source-drain bias favoring electron transport.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device with multiple heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) that have different emitter ballast resistances. The disclosed semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first HBT and a second HBT formed over the substrate. The first HBT includes a first collector, a first base over the first collector, a first emitter over the first base, and a first cap structure over the first emitter. The second HBT includes a second collector, a second base over the second collector, a second emitter over the second base, and a second cap structure over the second emitter. Herein, the first cap structure is different from the second cap structure, such that a first emitter ballast resistance from the first cap structure is at least 1.5 times greater than a second emitter ballast resistance from the second cap structure.

Abstract: There is provided semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same, including: a first substrate; and a second substrate adjacent to the first substrate, where a side wall of the second substrate includes one or more diced portions that can include a blade diced portion and a stealth diced portion; and also imaging devices and methods of forming the same, including: a first substrate; a transparent layer; an adhesive layer between the first substrate and the transparent layer; a second substrate, where the first substrate is disposed between the adhesive layer and the second substrate; and a groove extending from the adhesive layer to the second substrate, where the groove is filled with the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A capacitor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a storage node pad disposed in the dielectric layer, and a cylindrical lower electrode including a bottom portion recessed into the dielectric layer and in contact with the storage node pad. The bottom extends to a sidewall of the storage node pad.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a base; a wiring pattern formed on the base; an electronic element disposed on the wiring pattern; and a bonding layer interposed between the electronic element and the wiring pattern, wherein an opening is formed in the wiring pattern and the bonding layer is in contact with a portion of the base exposed by the opening in the wiring pattern.

Abstract: Various methods and structures for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes in a top layer of a semiconductor stack a semiconductor contact located according to a first horizontal pitch. A first metallization layer is disposed directly on the top layer and includes a metallization contact located according to a second horizontal pitch, the second horizontal pitch being different from the first horizontal pitch such that the location of the metallization contact is vertically mismatched from the location of the semiconductor contact. A second metallization layer is disposed directly on the first metallization layer. The second metallization layer includes a super viabar structure that forms an electrical interconnect, in the second metallization layer, between the semiconductor contact in the top layer of the semiconductor stack and the metallization contact in the first metallization layer.