Abstract: A display device includes a display unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix. The pixels each include a first sub-pixel having the largest area among sub-pixels, a second sub-pixel adjacent to the first sub-pixel and having an area smaller than that of the first sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel adjacent to the first and second sub-pixels, having an area smaller than that of the first sub-pixel, and arranged in the same column as that of second sub-pixels. First, second, and third pixels are aligned in at least one of a column direction or a row direction and each include the first, second, and third sub-pixels that can display different one of first, second, and third colors. Areas of the first, second, and third colors displayable by the first, second, and third pixels in total are equal to one another.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first semiconductor body extends in a stacking direction of a stacked body through a first stacked unit and contacts a foundation layer. A plurality of contact vias extend in the stacking direction through an insulating layer and contact a plurality of terrace portions. A second semiconductor body extends in the stacking direction through a second stacked unit. An insulating film is provided between the foundation layer and a lower end portion of the second semiconductor body.

Abstract: An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes forming an active region that extends vertically into the semiconductor material in which the semiconductor device is formed. The active region may include a P-N junction or alternately a gate or a channel region of an MOS transistor.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing an undivided base having a first main surface and a second main surface on the opposite side from the first main surface, the undivided base having conductive patterns disposed on the first main surface and conductive patterns disposed on the second main surface; mounting a plurality of light emitting elements on the conductive patterns on the first main surface; forming a light reflecting member that integrally covers side surfaces of the light emitting elements and the first main surface of the undivided base; and, after the forming of the light reflecting member, forming at least one groove on the second main surface of the undivided base at a position corresponding to a space between the light emitting elements so that the groove reaches the first main surface and the undivided base is divided into a plurality of base members.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a first III-V compound layer over the substrate, a first passivation layer on the first III-V compound layer, a source region and a drain region. The source region penetrates the first passivation layer to electrically contact the first III-V compound layer. The drain region penetrates the first passivation layer to electrically contact the first III-V compound layer. A sidewall of the first passivation layer contacting with the source region comprises a stair shape.

Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor device is provided as follows. A substrate includes a contact region, a dummy region, and a cell array region. A stack structure includes electrodes vertically stacked on the substrate. The electrodes are stacked to have a first stepwise structure on the contact region and a second stepwise structure in the dummy region. Ends of at least two adjacent electrodes in the second stepwise structure have first sidewalls vertically aligned so that horizontal positions of the first sidewalls are substantially the same.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of light-emitting device is disclosed. The method includes providing an LED wafer comprising a substrate and a semiconductor stack formed on the substrate, wherein the semiconductor stack has a lower surface facing the substrate and an upper surface opposite to the lower surface; providing a first laser to the LED wafer and irradiating the LED wafer from the upper surface to form a plurality of scribing lines on the upper surface; providing and focusing a second laser on an interior of the substrate to form a plurality of textured areas in the substrate; and providing force on the LED wafer to separate the LED wafer into a plurality of LED chips.

Abstract: Disclosed is an array substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device. The method of manufacturing an array substrate includes: forming a pattern comprising an active layer, a source, a drain, a data line and a pixel electrode on a base substrate through a single patterning process; forming a pattern of an insulating layer; forming a pattern comprising a gate and a gate line through a single patterning process. In the array substrate, the method of manufacturing the same, and the display device of the present invention, only two patterning processes are required to achieve the fabrication of the array substrate, which has less and simple process steps, thereby reduces the manufacturing complexity and manufacturing cost, and increasing the production efficiency and the economic benefit.

Abstract: A thermally enhanced semiconductor assembly with three dimensional integration includes a stacked semiconductor sub-assembly electrically coupled to a wiring board by bonding wires. A heat spreader that provides an enhanced thermal characteristic for the stacked semiconductor sub-assembly is disposed in a through opening of a wiring structure. Another wiring structure disposed on the heat spreader not only provides mechanical support, but also allows heat spreading and electrical grounding for the heat spreader by metallized vias. The bonding wires provide electrical connections between the sub-assembly and the wiring board for interconnecting devices assembled in the sub-assembly to terminal pads provided in the wiring board.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a dummy gate structure is formed over a substrate. A source/drain region is formed. A first insulating layer is formed over the dummy gate structure and the source/drain region. A gate space is formed by removing the dummy gate structure. The gate space is filled with a first metal layer. A gate recess is formed by removing an upper portion of the filled first metal layer. A second metal layer is formed over the first metal layer in the gate recess. A second insulating layer is formed over the second metal layer in the gate recess.

Abstract: A transistor device includes a pair of source/drain regions having a channel region there-between. A first gate is proximate the channel region. A gate dielectric is between the first gate and the channel region. A second gate is proximate the channel region. A programmable material is between the second gate and the channel region. The programmable material includes at least one of a) a multivalent metal oxide portion and an oxygen-containing dielectric portion, or b) a multivalent metal nitride portion and a nitrogen-containing dielectric portion. Memory cells and arrays of memory cells are disclosed.

Abstract: Three dimensional memory arrays and methods of forming the same are provided. An example three dimensional memory array can include a stack comprising a plurality of first conductive lines separated from one another by at least an insulation material, and at least one conductive extension arranged to extend substantially perpendicular to the plurality of first conductive lines such that the at least one conductive extension intersects each of the plurality of first conductive lines. Storage element material is arranged around the at least one conductive extension, and a select device is arranged around the storage element material. The storage element material is radially adjacent an insulation material separating the plurality of first conductive lines, and the plurality of materials arranged around the storage element material are radially adjacent each of the plurality of first conductive lines.

Abstract: Vertical gate all-around (VGAA) structures are described. In an embodiment, a structure including a first doped region in a substrate, a first vertical channel extending from the first doped region, a first metal-semiconductor compound region in a top surface of the first doped region, the first metal-semiconductor compound region extending along at least two sides of the first vertical channel, and a first gate electrode around the first vertical channel.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip includes: a first conductive line formed in a first conductive layer, a second conductive line formed in a second conductive layer, and a third conductive line formed in a third conductive layer; wherein the first conductive line is longer than the second conductive line substantially along a first direction, the second conductive line is longer than the first conductive line and the third conductive line substantially along a second direction, the third conductive line is longer than the second conductive line substantially along the first direction, the first conductive layer has a thickness which is thicker than that of the second conductive layer, and the third conductive layer has a thickness which is substantially equal to or thicker than that of the first conductive layer.

Abstract: Forming an SRAM cell that includes first and second inverters cross-coupled for data storage, each inverter including at least one pull-up device and at least one pull-down devices; and at least two pass-gate devices configured with the two cross-coupled inverters, the pull-up devices, the pull-down devices and the pass-gate devices include a tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) that further includes a semiconductor mesa formed on a semiconductor substrate and having a bottom portion, a middle portion and a top portion; a drain of a first conductivity type formed in the bottom portion and extended into the semiconductor substrate; a source of a second conductivity type formed in the top portion, the second conductivity type being opposite to the first conductivity type; a channel in a middle portion and interposed between the source and drain; and a gate formed on sidewall of the semiconductor mesa and contacting the channel.

Abstract: Integrated circuits and manufacturing methods are presented for creating diffusion resistors (101, 103) in which the diffusion resistor well is spaced from oppositely doped wells to mitigate diffusion resistor well depletion under high biasing so as to provide reduced voltage coefficient of resistivity and increased breakdown voltage for high-voltage applications.

Abstract: A semiconductor body of a first type of conductivity is formed including a base layer, a first further layer on the base layer and a second further layer on the first further layer. The base layer and the second further layer have an intrinsic doping or a doping concentration that is lower than the doping concentration of the first further layer. A doped region of an opposite second type of conductivity is arranged in the semiconductor body, penetrates the first further layer and extends into the base layer and into the second further layer. Anode and cathode terminals are electrically connected to the first further layer and the doped region, respectively. The doped region can be produced by filling a trench with doped polysilicon.

Abstract: An engine system includes a mass air flow sensor and a manifold absolute pressure sensor configured to provide a real-time MAP signal during an event. The mass air flow sensor is configured to generate a set of mass air flow readings based on an airflow through the mass air flow sensor during the event. The set of mass air flow readings have a maximum value and a minimum value. A controller is configured to execute a method for detecting reversion in the air flow. If the rate of change in the real-time MAP signal is less than the predetermined transient threshold value (T0), the method includes setting a delta factor (D) as the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value. Reversion is detected based at least partially on a magnitude of the delta factor (D).

Abstract: Phase change memory apparatuses include memory cells including phase change material, bit lines electrically coupled to aligned groups of at least some of the memory cells, and heating elements electrically coupled to the phase change material of the memory cells. The heating elements include vertical portions extending in a bit line direction. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include dummy columns positioned between memory columns and base contact columns. The dummy columns include phase change memory cells and lack heating elements coupled to the phase change memory cells thereof. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include heating elements operably coupled to phase change memory cells. An interfacial area between the heating elements and the phase change memory cells has a length that is independent of a bit line width. Methods relate to forming such phase change memory apparatuses.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of increasing a value of current that flows through the whole chip until a p-n diode in a unit cell close to a termination operates and reducing a size of the chip and a cost of the chip resulting from the reduced size, and including a second well region formed on both sides, as seen in plan view, of the entirety of a plurality of first well regions, a second ohmic electrode located over the second well region, a third separation region of a first conductivity type that is positioned closer to the first well regions than the second ohmic electrode in the second well region and that is formed to penetrate the second well region from a surface layer of the second well region in a depth direction, and a second Schottky electrode located on the third separation region.