Abstract: A reduction in the visibility of an alignment mark of an imaging device configured by bonding a plurality of semiconductor substrates together is prevented. An imaging element includes a semiconductor substrate, a pad, an alignment mark, and a light shielding film. The semiconductor substrate includes a pixel region which is a region in which pixels for generating an image signal in accordance with incident light are disposed. The pad is disposed on a surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The alignment mark is disposed on a back surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The light shielding film is disposed between the pad and the alignment mark.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same, and relate to the field of semiconductor technology. The method includes: providing a substrate provided with word line trenches and bit line trenches, where the word line trenches and the bit line trenches separate the substrate into active pillars arranged at intervals, and along a first direction, a dielectric layer is provided between adjacent active pillars; forming initial protective layers on side walls of the word line trenches; forming word line isolation structures in the region surrounded by the initial protective layers, the word line isolation structures having gaps therein; forming sealing members configured to seal up at least tops of the gaps; forming first filling regions; and forming word lines extending along the first direction in the first filling regions. Parasitic capacitance is prevented in the semiconductor structure, and performance of the semiconductor structure is improved.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure, a method for manufacturing the same and a memory are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, multiple first active pillars above the substrate, a memory structure, multiple transistors, and multiple second active pillars. The multiple first active pillars are arranged in an array along a first direction and a second direction. The substrate includes an isolation structure on which the first active pillars are located. The memory structure includes first electrode layers, a dielectric layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer covers a sidewall of the first active pillar, the dielectric layer covers at least surfaces of the first electrode layers, the second electrode layer covers a surface of the dielectric layer. Each of the second active pillars is located above a corresponding one of the first active pillars; a channel structure of each transistor is located in the second active pillar.

Abstract: A display device includes an auxiliary electrode disposed on a substrate, a bank layer disposed on the auxiliary electrode, a conductive layer disposed on the auxiliary electrode, the conductive layer including a base portion and protrusions protruded from the base portion, an organic layer disposed on the conductive layer, and a cathode electrode disposed on the organic layer, the cathode electrode being in contact with the protrusions.

Abstract: A memory and a method for preparing a memory are provided. The method for preparing the memory includes: providing a substrate, in which the substrate includes a first N-type active region and a first P-type active region; forming an epitaxial layer covering the first P-type active region, in which the epitaxial layer exposes the first N-type active region; simultaneously forming a first gate dielectric layer covering the first N-type active region and a second gate dielectric layer covering the epitaxial layer, in which a thickness of the first gate dielectric layer is substantially the same as a thickness of the second gate dielectric layer; forming a first gate covering the first gate dielectric layer to form a first N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (NMOS) device; and forming a second gate covering the second gate dielectric layer to form a first P-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (PMOS) device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display panel. According to the present disclosure, angles between two side walls of a first sub-active part and a first bottom surface of a side of the first sub-active part close to a second active part are both acute angles, thereby reducing an angle of a corner experienced by a signal transmitted from a first electrode to a second electrode via an active layer. Therefore, a current distribution is optimized, a resistance at the corner is reduced, and the generated heat is reduced under the condition that the current is not changed, thereby improving service life of the display panel and reliability of the display panel.

Abstract: A display device includes a pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels including a first electrode extending in a first direction, a second electrode spaced from the first electrode in a second direction, and a plurality of light emitting elements on the first electrode and the second electrode, and a plurality of first scan lines on the pixel and extending in the first direction, wherein the plurality of sub-pixels includes a first sub-pixel on which a portion of the first scan line is located, and a second sub-pixel adjacent to the first sub-pixel in the second direction, and the first scan line does not overlap the first electrode disposed on the first sub-pixel.

Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a gate electrode, an insulating barrier layer, and an active layer. The active layer is disposed on a side of the gate electrode away from or close to the substrate, and the insulating barrier layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the active layer; wherein band gap widths of materials of the insulating barrier layer are greater than a work function of a material of the gate electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, a semiconductor device manufacturing method, and an image capturing device capable of suppressing variations in transistor characteristics. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, and a field effect transistor. The field effect transistor includes a semiconductor region having a channel, a gate electrode covering the semiconductor region, and a gate insulating film. The semiconductor region has a top face, and a first side face at one side of the top face in a gate width direction of the gate electrode. The gate electrode has a first part facing the top face over the gate insulating film, and a second part facing the first side face over the gate insulating film. A first end face of the first part and a second end face of the second part are flush at at least one end of the gate electrode in a gate length direction.

Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a bottom gate, a semiconductor layer, a top gate, a first auxiliary conductive pattern, a source, and a drain. The semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a first heavily doped region, a second heavily doped region, a third heavily doped region, a first lightly doped region, a second lightly doped region, and a third lightly doped region. The first heavily doped region and the second heavily doped region are respectively located on two sides of the first semiconductor region. Two ends of the second semiconductor region are directly connected to the third heavily doped region and the third lightly doped region, respectively. The top gate is electrically connected to the bottom gate. The source and the drain are respectively electrically connected to the third heavily doped region and the second heavily doped region of the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a conductive pad disposed on the substrate and having a first surface facing away from the substrate. The first surface of the conductive pad is recessed toward the substrate and defines a recessed portion. The semiconductor device also includes a capacitor structure at least partially disposed within the recessed portion of the conductive pad and electrically connected with the substrate through the conductive pad.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to switches in a bulk substrate and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: at least one active device having a channel region of a first semiconductor material; a single air gap under the channel region of the at least one active device; and a second semiconductor material being coplanar with and laterally bounding at least one side of the single air gap, the second semiconductor material being different material than the first semiconductor material.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of semiconductors, and provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure. The manufacturing method includes: providing a base, and forming active layers and sacrificial layers on the base, wherein two adjacent ones of the active layers constitute an active group, there is a first distance between the active layers in the active group, there is a second distance between adjacent ones of active groups, and the first distance is greater than the second distance; forming isolation layers, wherein each isolation layer penetrates through all the active layers and all the sacrificial layers, and the isolation layers divide each of the active layers into a plurality of active structures; removing a part of the isolation layers in the word line region and a part of the sacrificial layers located in the word line region.

Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a gate, a source and a drain. The semiconductor layer is located above the substrate. The gate insulating layer is located above the semiconductor layer. The gate is located above the gate insulating layer and overlapping with the semiconductor layer. The gate includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion is extending along the surface of the gate insulating layer and directly in contact with the gate insulating layer. The second portion is separated from the gate insulating layer. Taking the surface of the gate insulating layer as a reference, the top surface of the second portion is higher than the top surface of the first portion. The third portion connects the first portion to the second portion. The source and the drain are electrically connected to the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: One or more systems, devices, methods of use and/or methods of fabrication provided herein relate to a device that can facilitate qubit measurement with isolation imposed between a quantum processor and a respective qubit measurement circuit and/or which respective qubit measurement circuit can have a small footprint, such as within a respective cryogenic chamber of a quantum system. According to one embodiment, a device comprises an isolator circuit having a bandpass filter configuration coupled between a pair of ports and the bandpass filter configuration comprising two or more poles. Two or more shunt resonators can be realized as the two or more poles, wherein the two or more shunt resonators can comprise DC SQUIDs and can be coupled together with one or more admittance inverters. A non-reciprocal signal transmission can be generated between the two ports by RF pumping the DC SQUIDs.

Abstract: A microelectronic device includes a hybrid component. The microelectronic device has a substrate including silicon semiconductor material. The hybrid component includes a silicon portion in the silicon, and a wide bandgap (WBG) structure in a silicon recess on the silicon portion of the hybrid device. The silicon recess contains a silicon recess nitride sidewall. The WBG structure includes a WBG semiconductor material having a bandgap energy greater than a bandgap energy of the silicon. The hybrid component has a first current terminal on the silicon, and a second current terminal on the WBG structure. The microelectronic device may be formed by forming the silicon portion of the hybrid component in the silicon, and subsequently forming the WBG structure in a silicon recess on the silicon.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a stack of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell units over a substrate in a vertical direction. At least one DRAM cell unit includes a transistor and a capacitor. The capacitor includes a first metal layer, a capacitor dielectric layer on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer on the capacitor dielectric layer. The capacitor is elongated in a horizontal direction. The first metal layer has a first end and a second end in the horizontal direction. The transistor includes a channel structure, and a gate structure on the channel structure. The second metal layer extends in the horizontal direction beyond the first end of the first metal layer to form a drain region and a source region of the transistor. A common ground structure is configured to electrically connect to a plurality of first metal layers on respective second ends.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes lower electrodes, a first supporter structure including first supporter patterns interconnecting the lower electrodes, wherein side surfaces of the first supporter patterns and side surfaces of the lower electrodes that are exposed by the first supporter patterns at least partially define a first open region, the first supporter patterns being spaced apart from one another, the first open region extending among the first supporter patterns in a horizontal direction, a dielectric layer covering the first supporter structure and the lower electrodes, and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer. A distance between adjacent ones of the first supporter patterns is smaller than or equal to a pitch of the lower electrodes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vertical inverter and a semiconductor device including the vertical inverter, and the vertical inverter includes an insulation substrate, a first thin film transistor, and a second thin film transistor. By a layered arrangement of the first and second thin film transistors of the vertical inverter, more thin film transistors can be arranged within the limited space, so that the integration degree of the thin film transistors in the semiconductor device can be improved.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices and to semiconductor fabrication for DRAM devices. Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide an integrated processing system and methods for forming CMOS contact, DRAM array bit line contact (BLC), and storage node structures. The integrated processing system and methods enable deposition of contact and storage node layers with reduced contamination and improved quality, thus reducing leakage current and resistance for the final contact and storage node structures.