Patents by Inventor Cheng-Wei Cheng

Cheng-Wei Cheng has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9287362
    Abstract: An approach to forming a semiconductor structure for a vertical field effect transistor with a controlled gate overlap. The approach includes forming on a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer, a fifth semiconductor layer, and a first dielectric layer. The etched first dielectric layer and a first drain contact are surrounded by a first spacer. The first drain contact is composed of the fifth semiconductor layer. A second drain contact composed of the fourth semiconductor layer, a channel composed of the third semiconductor layer, and a second source contact composed of the second semiconductor layer are formed. Additionally, first source contact composed of the first semiconductor is formed and a gate electrode is formed on a portion of the first source contact layer surrounding a portion of the first pillar and the second pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anirban Basu, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Wilfried E. Haensch, Amlan Majumdar, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Patent number: 9263626
    Abstract: A material stack including an ohmic contact layer and a single crystalline semiconductor base substrate of a first conductivity type and having a surface Fermi level pinned close to a band edge (either the conduction band or valence band) is first provided. A stressor layer is then formed above the ohmic contact layer and a material portion of the single crystalline semiconductor base substrate is removed by a process referred to as spalling. A transparent conductive oxide layer is then formed on an exposed surface of the material portion of the single crystalline semiconductor base substrate that was removed by spalling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Ning Li, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Publication number: 20160042109
    Abstract: The integrated circuit (IC) device includes a substrate, an isolation feature, a first gate structure, a second gate structure, a first contact feature and a first supplementary active region. The isolation feature is disposed in the substrate, and the isolation feature defines a boundary between a first active region and a second active region of the substrate. The first gate structure is disposed over the first active region. The second gate structure is disposed over the second active region. The first contact feature is disposed over the first active region, in which a portion of the first active region is disposed between the first gate structure and the isolation feature. The first supplementary active region is disposed adjacent to the portion of the first active region, in which a thickness of the first supplementary active region is substantially in a range from 5 nm to 10 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Chen-Liang LIAO, Cheng-Wei CHENG, Ming LEI, Yi-Lii HUANG
  • Patent number: 9236251
    Abstract: Various methods to integrate a Group III nitride material on a silicon material are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a structure including a (100) silicon layer, a (111) silicon layer located on an uppermost surface of the (100) silicon layer, a Group III nitride material layer located on an uppermost surface of the (111) silicon layer, and a blanket layer of dielectric material located on an uppermost surface of the Group III nitride material layer. Next, an opening is formed through the blanket layer of dielectric material, the Group III nitride material layer, the (111) Si layer and within a portion of the (100) silicon layer. A dielectric spacer is then formed within the opening. An epitaxial semiconductor material is then formed on an exposed surface of the (100) silicon layer within the opening and thereafter planarization is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Can Bayram, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Tak H. Ning, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Publication number: 20150325443
    Abstract: Laser ablation can be used to form a trench within at least a blanket layer of a stressor layer that is atop a base substrate. A non-ablated portion of the stressor layer has an edge that defines the edge of the material layer region to be spalled. Laser ablation can also be used to form a trench within a blanket material stack including at least a plating seed layer. A stressor layer is formed on the non-ablated portions of the material stack and one portion of the stressor layer has an edge that defines the edge of the material layer region to be spalled. Laser ablation can be further used to form a trench that extends through a blanket stressor layer and into the base substrate itself. The trench has an edge that defines the edge of the material layer region to be spalled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Ibrahim Alhomoudi, Stephen W. Bedell, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Keith E. Fogel, Devendra K. Sadana, Katherine L. Saenger, Norma E. Sosa, Ning Li
  • Publication number: 20150325682
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a III-V monocrystalline layer and a germanium surface layer. An interlayer is formed directly between the III-V monocrystalline layer and the germanium surface layer from a material selected to provide stronger nucleation bonding between the interlayer and the germanium surface layer than nucleation bonding that would be achievable directly between the III-V monocrystalline layer and the germanium surface layer such that a continuous, relatively defect-free germanium surface layer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: CHENG-WEI CHENG, JACK O. CHU, DEVENDRA K. SADANA, KUEN-TING SHIU, YANNING SUN
  • Publication number: 20150311179
    Abstract: A device and method for fabrication includes providing a first substrate assembly including a first substrate and a first metal layer formed on the first substrate and a second substrate assembly including a second substrate and a second metal layer formed on the second substrate. The first metal layer is joined to the second metal layer using a cold welding process wherein one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a semiconductor channel layer for forming a transistor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: CHENG-WEI CHENG, SHU-JEN HAN, MASAHARU KOBAYASHI, KO-TAO LEE, DEVENDRA K. SADANA, KUEN-TING SHIU
  • Publication number: 20150287790
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure including a (100) silicon substrate having a plurality openings located within the silicon substrate, wherein each opening exposes a surface of the silicon substrate having a (111) crystal plane. This structure further includes an epitaxial semiconductor material located on an uppermost surface of the (100) silicon substrate, and a gallium nitride material located adjacent to the surface of the silicon substrate having the (111) crystal plane and adjacent a portion of the epitaxial semiconductor material. The structure also includes at least one semiconductor device located upon and within the gallium nitride material and at least one other semiconductor device located upon and within the epitaxial semiconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Can Bayram, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Publication number: 20150262818
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor substrate including a type III-V semiconductor material directly on a dielectric material that includes forming a trench in a dielectric layer, and forming a via within the trench extending from a base of the trench to an exposed upper surface of an underlying semiconductor including substrate. A III-V semiconductor material is formed extending from the exposed upper surface of the semiconductor substrate filling at least a portion of the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Edward W. Kiewra, Amlan Majumdar, Uzma Rana, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu, Yanning Sun
  • Publication number: 20150255281
    Abstract: A method for forming a crystalline compound material on a single element substrate includes etching a high aspect ratio trench in a single element crystalline substrate and forming a dielectric layer over the substrate and on sidewalls and a bottom of the trench. The dielectric is removed from the bottom of the trench to expose the substrate at the bottom of the trench. A crystalline compound material is selectively grown on the substrate at the bottom of the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Robert L. Bruce, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Joel P. de Souza, Ryan M. Martin, Uzma Rana, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu, Yanning Sun
  • Publication number: 20150255460
    Abstract: Embodiments for the present invention provide a CMOS structure and methods for fabrication. In an embodiment of the present invention, a CMOS structure comprises a NFET, formed on a wafer, having a gate stack and a channel. A PFET having a gate stack and a channel is also formed on the wafer. The channel of the PFET and the channel of the NFET include semiconductor material formed on III-V semiconductor material, such that the III-V semiconductor material acts like a buried oxide because of a valence band offset between the semiconductor material and the III-V material. There is a height difference between a terminal of the NFET and a terminal of the PFET. In addition, the gate stack NFET is the same height as the gate stack PFET.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-wei Cheng, Amlan Majumdar, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Patent number: 9123569
    Abstract: Embodiments for the present invention provide a CMOS structure and methods for fabrication. In an embodiment of the present invention, a CMOS structure comprises a NFET, formed on a wafer, having a gate stack and a channel. A PFET having a gate stack and a channel is also formed on the wafer. The channel of the PFET and the channel of the NFET include semiconductor material formed on III-V semiconductor material, such that the III-V semiconductor material acts like a buried oxide because of a valence band offset between the semiconductor material and the III-V material. There is a height difference between a terminal of the NFET and a terminal of the PFET. In addition, the gate stack NFET is the same height as the gate stack PFET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-wei Cheng, Amlan Majumdar, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Publication number: 20150235838
    Abstract: Various methods to integrate a Group III nitride material on a silicon material are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a structure including a (100) silicon layer, a (111) silicon layer located on an uppermost surface of the (100) silicon layer, a Group III nitride material layer located on an uppermost surface of the (111) silicon layer, and a blanket layer of dielectric material located on an uppermost surface of the Group III nitride material layer. Next, an opening is formed through the blanket layer of dielectric material, the Group III nitride material layer, the (111) Si layer and within a portion of the (100) silicon layer. A dielectric spacer is then formed within the opening An epitaxial semiconductor material is then formed on an exposed surface of the (100) silicon layer within the opening and thereafter planarization is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Can Bayram, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Tak H. Ning, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Patent number: 9099381
    Abstract: A method for selective formation of a gallium nitride material on a (100) silicon substrate. The method includes forming a blanket layer of dielectric material on a surface of a (100) silicon substrate. The blanket layer of dielectric material is then patterned forming a plurality of patterned dielectric material structures on silicon substrate. An etch is employed that selectively removes exposed portions of the silicon substrate. The etch forms openings within the silicon substrate that expose a surface of the silicon substrate having a (111) crystal plane. A contiguous AlN buffer layer is then formed on exposed surfaces of each patterned dielectric material structure and on exposed surfaces of the silicon substrate. A gallium nitride material is then formed on a portion of the contiguous AlN buffer layer and surrounding each sidewall of each patterned dielectric material structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Can Bayram, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Patent number: 9093532
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure that includes a semiconductor fin comprising an III-V compound semiconductor material. A functional gate structure straddles a portion of the semiconductor fin. A semiconductor channel material having an electron mobility greater than silicon and comprising a different semiconductor material than the semiconductor fin and is located beneath the functional gate structure. The semiconductor channel material is present on at least each vertical sidewall of the semiconductor fin. A dielectric spacer is located on each vertical sidewall surface of the functional gate structure. A doped semiconductor is located on each side of the functional gate structure and underneath each dielectric spacer. A portion of the doped semiconductor material located beneath each dielectric spacer directly contacts a sidewall surface of semiconductor channel material located on each vertical sidewall of the semiconductor fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Effendi Leobandung, Kuen-Ting Shiu, Yanning Sun
  • Patent number: 9087905
    Abstract: A device and method for fabrication includes providing a first substrate assembly including a first substrate and a first metal layer formed on the first substrate and a second substrate assembly including a second substrate and a second metal layer formed on the second substrate. The first metal layer is joined to the second metal layer using a cold welding process wherein one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a semiconductor channel layer for forming a transistor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Shu-Jen Han, Masaharu Kobayashi, Ko-Tao Lee, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Patent number: 9087775
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a III-V monocrystalline layer and a germanium surface layer. An interlayer is formed directly between the III-V monocrystalline layer and the germanium surface layer from a material selected to provide stronger nucleation bonding between the interlayer and the germanium surface layer than nucleation bonding that would be achievable directly between the III-V monocrystalline layer and the germanium surface layer such that a continuous, relatively defect-free germanium surface layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Jack O. Chu, Devendra K. Sadana, Kuen-Ting Shiu, Yanning Sun
  • Patent number: 9082690
    Abstract: A method of removing a plurality of semiconductor device layers from an underlying base substrate. A multilayered stack including alternating layers of sacrificial material layers and semiconductor material layers is formed on a base substrate. Each successive sacrificial material layer that is formed is thicker than the previously formed sacrificial material layer. An etch is then performed that first removes the thickest sacrificial material layer of the multilayered stack. The uppermost semiconductor device layer within the multilayered stack is accordingly first released. As the etch continues, the other sacrificial material layers are removed sequentially, in the order of decreasing thickness, and the other semiconductor device layers are removed sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Ning Li, Kuen-Ting Shiu
  • Patent number: 9079269
    Abstract: Laser ablation can be used to form a trench within at least a blanket layer of a stressor layer that is atop a base substrate. A non-ablated portion of the stressor layer has an edge that defines the edge of the material layer region to be spalled. Laser ablation can also be used to form a trench within a blanket material stack including at least a plating seed layer. A stressor layer is formed on the non-ablated portions of the material stack and one portion of the stressor layer has an edge that defines the edge of the material layer region to be spalled. Laser ablation can be further used to form a trench that extends through a blanket stressor layer and into the base substrate itself. The trench has an edge that defines the edge of the material layer region to be spalled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen W. Bedell, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Keith E. Fogel, Devendra K. Sadana, Katherine L. Saenger, Norma E. Sosa Cortes, Ning Li, Ibrahim Alhomoudi
  • Patent number: 9082689
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a base substrate, and a multilayered stack located on the base substrate. The multilayered stack includes, from bottom to top, a first sacrificial material layer having a first thickness, a first semiconductor device layer, a second sacrificial material layer having a second thickness, and a second semiconductor device layer, wherein the first thickness is less than the second thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Cheng, Ning Li, Kuen-Ting Shiu