Abstract: Memory arrays with backside components and angled transistors, and related assemblies and methods, are disclosed herein. A transistor is referred to as an “angled transistor” if a longitudinal axis of an elongated semiconductor structure of the transistor (e.g., a fin or a nanoribbon) is neither perpendicular nor parallel to any edges of front or back sides of a support structure (e.g., a die) over which the transistor is implemented. A component is referred to as a “backside component” if it is provided on the side of a semiconductor substrate that is opposite to the side over which the transistors of the memory arrays are provided. Memory arrays with backside components and angled transistors provide a promising way to increasing densities of memory cells on the limited real estate of semiconductor chips and/or decreasing adverse effects associated with continuous scaling of IC components.

Abstract: Techniques to form semiconductor devices that include forksheet transistors with a self-aligned dielectric spine. In an example, first and second semiconductor devices have first and second semiconductor regions, respectively, extending in a first direction between corresponding source or drain regions. The first and second semiconductor regions may include any number of nanosheets with first and second gate structures extending around three sides of each of the first and second semiconductor regions, respectively. A dielectric spine extends in the first direction directly between the first and second semiconductor regions. In an example, the gate dielectric of each of the first and second gate structures is still present between the first and second semiconductor regions and the dielectric spine. An uppermost width of the dielectric spine may be smaller (e.g., 5 nm or more smaller) than a lower width of the dielectric spine that is between the first and second gate structures.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are source/drain regions in integrated circuit (IC) structures, as well as related methods and components. For example, in some embodiments, an IC structure may include: a channel region including a semiconductor material; and a source/drain region at a side face of the channel region, wherein the source/drain region includes a semiconductor portion and a contact metal, and the semiconductor portion is between the contact metal and the semiconductor material.

Abstract: Material systems for source region, drain region, and a semiconductor body of transistor devices in which the semiconductor body is electrically insulated from an underlying substrate are selected to reduce or eliminate a band to band tunneling (“BTBT”) effect between different energetic bands of the semiconductor body and one or both of the source region and the drain region. This can be accomplished by selecting a material for the semiconductor body with a band gap that is larger than a band gap for material(s) selected for the source region and/or drain region.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are based on extending a nanocomb transistor architecture to implement gate all around, meaning that a gate enclosure of at least a gate dielectric material, or both a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material, is provided on all sides of each nanoribbon of a vertical stack of lateral nanoribbons of a nanocomb transistor arrangement. In particular, extension of a nanocomb transistor architecture to implement gate all around, proposed herein, involves use of two dielectric wall materials which are etch-selective with respect to one another, instead of using only a single dielectric wall material used to implement conventional nanocomb transistor arrangements. Nanocomb-based transistor arrangements implementing gate all around as described herein may provide improvements in terms of the short-channel effects of conventional nanocomb transistor arrangements.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are based on extending a nanocomb transistor architecture to implement gate all around, meaning that a gate enclosure of at least a gate dielectric material, or both a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material, is provided on all sides of each nanoribbon of a vertical stack of lateral nanoribbons of a nanocomb transistor arrangement. In particular, extension of a nanocomb transistor architecture to implement gate all around, proposed herein, involves use of two dielectric wall materials which are etch-selective with respect to one another, instead of using only a single dielectric wall material used to implement conventional nanocomb transistor arrangements. Nanocomb-based transistor arrangements implementing gate all around as described herein may provide improvements in terms of the short-channel effects of conventional nanocomb transistor arrangements.

Abstract: Semiconductor nanowire devices having (111)-plane channel sidewalls and methods of fabricating semiconductor nanowire devices having (111)-plane channel sidewalls are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first semiconductor device including a plurality of vertically stacked nanowires disposed above a substrate, each of the nanowires comprising a discrete channel region having <111> lateral sidewalls along a <110> carrier transport direction. The integrated circuit structure also includes a second semiconductor device including a semiconductor fin disposed above the substrate, the semiconductor fin having a channel region with a top and side surfaces, the channel region having <111> lateral sidewalls along a <110> carrier transport direction.

Abstract: Memory arrays with backside components and angled transistors, and related assemblies and methods, are disclosed herein. A transistor is referred to as an “angled transistor” if a longitudinal axis of an elongated semiconductor structure of the transistor (e.g., a fin or a nanoribbon) is neither perpendicular nor parallel to any edges of front or back sides of a support structure (e.g., a die) over which the transistor is implemented. A component is referred to as a “backside component” if it is provided on the side of a semiconductor substrate that is opposite to the side over which the transistors of the memory arrays are provided. Memory arrays with backside components and angled transistors provide a promising way to increasing densities of memory cells on the limited real estate of semiconductor chips and/or decreasing adverse effects associated with continuous scaling of IC components.

Abstract: Nanowire structures having wrap-around contacts are described. For example, a nanowire semiconductor device includes a nanowire disposed above a substrate. A channel region is disposed in the nanowire. The channel region has a length and a perimeter orthogonal to the length. A gate electrode stack surrounds the entire perimeter of the channel region. A pair of source and drain regions is disposed in the nanowire, on either side of the channel region. Each of the source and drain regions has a perimeter orthogonal to the length of the channel region. A first contact completely surrounds the perimeter of the source region. A second contact completely surrounds the perimeter of the drain region.

Abstract: Vertical integration schemes and circuit elements architectures for area scaling of semiconductor devices are described. In an example, an inverter structure includes a semiconductor fin separated vertically into an upper region and a lower region. A first plurality of gate structures is included for controlling the upper region of the semiconductor fin. A second plurality of gate structures is included for controlling the lower region of the semiconductor fin. The second plurality of gate structures has a conductivity type opposite the conductivity type of the first plurality of gate structures.

Abstract: Vertical integration schemes and circuit elements architectures for area scaling of semiconductor devices are described. In an example, an inverter structure includes a semiconductor fin separated vertically into an upper region and a lower region. A first plurality of gate structures is included for controlling the upper region of the semiconductor fin. A second plurality of gate structures is included for controlling the lower region of the semiconductor fin. The second plurality of gate structures has a conductivity type opposite the conductivity type of the first plurality of gate structures.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first region over a substrate, wherein the first region comprises a first semiconductor material having a L-valley transport energy band structure, a second region in contact with the first region at a junction, wherein the second region comprises a second semiconductor material having a X-valley transport energy band structure, wherein a <111> crystal direction of one or more crystals of the first and second semiconductor materials are substantially orthogonal to the junction, and a metal adjacent to the second region, the metal conductively coupled to the first region through the junction. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Semiconductor nanowire devices having (111)-plane channel sidewalls and methods of fabricating semiconductor nanowire devices having (111)-plane channel sidewalls are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first semiconductor device including a plurality of vertically stacked nanowires disposed above a substrate, each of the nanowires comprising a discrete channel region having <111> lateral sidewalls along a <110> carrier transport direction. The integrated circuit structure also includes a second semiconductor device including a semiconductor fin disposed above the substrate, the semiconductor fin having a channel region with a top and side surfaces, the channel region having <111> lateral sidewalls along a <110> carrier transport direction.

Abstract: Semiconductor nanowire devices having (111)-plane channel sidewalls and methods of fabricating semiconductor nanowire devices having (111)-plane channel sidewalls are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first semiconductor device including a plurality of vertically stacked nanowires disposed above a substrate, each of the nanowires comprising a discrete channel region having <111> lateral sidewalls along a <110> carrier transport direction. The integrated circuit structure also includes a second semiconductor device including a semiconductor fin disposed above the substrate, the semiconductor fin having a channel region with a top and side surfaces, the channel region having <111> lateral sidewalls along a <110> carrier transport direction.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are based on extending a nanocomb transistor architecture to implement gate all around, meaning that a gate enclosure of at least a gate dielectric material, or both a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material, is provided on all sides of each nanoribbon of a vertical stack of lateral nanoribbons of a nanocomb transistor arrangement. In particular, extension of a nanocomb transistor architecture to implement gate all around, proposed herein, involves use of two dielectric wall materials which are etch-selective with respect to one another, instead of using only a single dielectric wall material used to implement conventional nanocomb transistor arrangements. Nanocomb-based transistor arrangements implementing gate all around as described herein may provide improvements in terms of the short-channel effects of conventional nanocomb transistor arrangements.

Abstract: Methods and structures formed thereby are described relating to the doping non-planar fin structures. An embodiment of a structure includes a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises silicon, a fin on the substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion; and a dopant species, wherein the first portion comprises a first dopant species concentration, and the second portion comprises a second dopant species concentration, wherein the first dopant species concentration is substantially less than the second dopant species concentration.

Abstract: Methods and structures formed thereby are described relating to the doping non-planar fin structures. An embodiment of a structure includes a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises silicon, a fin on the substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion; and a dopant species, wherein the first portion comprises a first dopant species concentration, and the second portion comprises a second dopant species concentration, wherein the first dopant species concentration is substantially less than the second dopant species concentration.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are source/drain regions in integrated circuit (IC) structures, as well as related methods and components. For example, in some embodiments, an IC structure may include: a channel region including a semiconductor material; and a source/drain region at a side face of the channel region, wherein the source/drain region includes a semiconductor portion and a contact metal, and the semiconductor portion is between the contact metal and the semiconductor material.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for forming increasing channel region tensile strain in n-MOS devices. In some cases, increased channel region tensile strain can be achieved via S/D material engineering that deliberately introduces dislocations in one or both of the S/D regions to produce tensile strain in the adjacent channel region. In some such cases, the S/D material engineering to create desired dislocations may include using a lattice mismatched epitaxial S/D film adjacent to the channel region. Numerous material schemes for achieving multiple dislocations in one or both S/D regions will be apparent in light of this disclosure. In some cases, a cap layer can be formed on an S/D region to reduce contact resistance, such that the cap layer is an intervening layer between the S/D region and S/D contact. The cap layer includes different material than the underlying S/D region and/or a higher dopant concentration to reduce contact resistance.

Abstract: An integrated circuit structure is provided which comprises: a stack of source regions of a stack of transistors and a stack of drain regions of the stack of transistors; and a gate stack that forms gate regions for the stack of transistors, wherein the gate stack comprises traces of a first polymer of a block copolymer, the block copolymer comprising the first polymer and a second polymer.