Patents by Inventor Fabrice Nemouchi

Fabrice Nemouchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20210066133
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a component based on a plurality of transistors on a substrate including an active area and an electrical isolation area, each transistor including a gate and spacers on either side of the gate, the electrical isolation area including at least one cavity formed as a hollow between a spacer of a first transistor of the plurality of transistors and a spacer of a second transistor of the plurality of transistors, the first and the second transistors being adjacent, the method including: forming the gates of the transistors; forming the spacers; and forming a mechanically constraining layer for the transistors; and after forming the spacers and before forming the mechanically constraining layer, forming a filling configured to at least partially fill, with a filling material, the at least one cavity within the electrical isolation area, between the spacers of the first and the second transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Nicolas POSSEME, Cyrille LE ROYER, Fabrice NEMOUCHI
  • Patent number: 10930562
    Abstract: A connection structure for microelectronic device with superposed semi-conductor layers including a conductor via that connects a lower face of an upper semi-conductor layer and an underlying conducting zone, the connection structure further including a silicide zone in contact with a lower face or with an inner face of the layer of the upper semi-conductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Claire Fenouillet-Beranger, Fabrice Nemouchi, Maud Vinet
  • Publication number: 20210005443
    Abstract: Method for producing a semiconductor device, including: producing, on a first region of a surface layer comprising a first semiconductor and disposed on a buried dielectric layer, a layer of a second compressive strained semiconductor along a first direction; etching a trench through the layer of the second semiconductor forming an edge of a portion of the layer of the second semiconductor oriented perpendicularly to the first direction, and wherein the bottom wall is formed by the surface layer; thermal oxidation forming in the surface layer a semiconductor compressive strained portion along the first direction and forming in the trench an oxide portion; producing, through the surface layer and/or the oxide portion, and through the buried dielectric layer, dielectric isolation portions around an assembly formed of the compressive strained semiconductor portion and the oxide portion; and wherein the first semiconductor is silicon, the second semiconductor is SiGe, and said at least one compressive strained
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Loic GABEN, Cyrille LE ROYER, Fabrice NEMOUCHI, Nicolas POSSEME, Shay REBOH
  • Publication number: 20200274321
    Abstract: A process for producing a component includes a structure made of III-V material(s) on the surface of a substrate, the structure comprising at least one upper contact level defined on the surface of a first III-V material and a lower contact level defined on the surface of a second III-V material, comprising: successive operations of encapsulation of the structure with at least one dielectric; making primary apertures in a dielectric for the two contacts; making secondary apertures in a dielectric for the two contacts; at least partial filling of the apertures with at least one metallic material so as to produce upper contact bottom metallization and at least one upper contact pad in contact with the metallization for each of said contacts. A component produced by the process is also provided. The component may be a laser diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Elodie GHEGIN, Christophe JANY, Fabrice NEMOUCHI, Philippe RODRIGUEZ, Bertrand SZELAG
  • Publication number: 20200203161
    Abstract: A process for fabricating an integrated circuit is provided, including steps of providing a substrate including a silicon layer, a layer of insulator a layer of hard mask and accesses to first and second regions of the silicon layer; forming first and second deposits of SiGe alloy on the first and the second regions in order to form first and second stacks; then protecting the first deposit and maintaining an access to the second deposit; then performing an etch in order to form trenches between the hard mask and two opposite edges of the second stack; then forming a tensilely strained silicon layer in the second region via amorphization of the second region; then crystallization; and enriching the first region in germanium by diffusion from the first deposit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Nicolas POSSEME, Loic Gaben, Cyrille Le Royer, Fabrice Nemouchi, Shay Reboh
  • Publication number: 20200185497
    Abstract: A process for fabricating an electronic component with multiple quantum dots is provided, including providing a stack including a substrate, a nanostructure made of semiconductor material superposed over the substrate and including first and second quantum dots and a link linking the quantum dots, first and second control gate stacks arranged on the quantum dots, the gate stacks separated by a gap, the quantum dots and the link having a same thickness; partially thinning the link while using the gate stacks as masks to obtain the link, a thickness of which is less than that of the quantum dots; and conformally forming a dielectric layer on either side of the gate stacks so as to fill the gap above the partially thinned link. An electronic component with multiple quantum dots is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Nicolas POSSEME, Louis HUTIN, Cyrille LE ROYER, Fabrice NEMOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200161422
    Abstract: Production of a transistor comprising: producing, on a substrate provided with a semiconductor surface layer (4) wherein an active area (4a) is capable of being formed: a gate block (9) arranged on this active area, forming lateral protection areas (15c) against lateral faces of said gate block (9), forming source and drain regions (19a, 19b) being based on a metal material-semiconductor material compound on either side of the gate and in the continuation of a portion located facing the gate block, then forming insulating spacers (23c) on either side of the gate and resting on said regions based on a metal material-semiconductor material compound (FIG. 1G).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Fabrice Nemouchi, Antonio Lacerda Santos Neto, Francois Lefloch
  • Publication number: 20190371671
    Abstract: Connection structure for microelectronic device with superposed semi-conductor layers comprising a conductor via that connects a lower face of an upper semi-conductor layer and an underlying conducting zone, said connection structure further comprising a silicide zone in contact with a lower face or with an inner face of the layer of the upper semi-conductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Claire FENOUILLET-BERANGER, Fabrice NEMOUCHI, Maud VINET
  • Patent number: 10388653
    Abstract: A production of contact zones for a transistor device including the steps of: a) forming at least one layer made of a compound based on semiconductor and metal on one or more first semiconductor region(s) of a first N-type transistor and on one or more second semiconductor region(s) of a second P-type transistor resting on a same substrate, the first regions being based on a III-V type material whereas the second semiconductor regions are based on another material different from the III-V material, the semiconductor of the compound being an N-type dopant of the III-V material, b) carrying out at least one thermal annealing so as to form on the first semiconductor regions first contact zones and on the second semiconductor regions second contact zones based on a semiconductor and metal compound while increasing the N-doping of the III-V material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Rodriguez, Elodie Ghegin, Fabrice Nemouchi
  • Patent number: 10361087
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an intermetallic contact on the surface of a layer or of a substrate of oriented InxGa1-xAs material, the contact includes an Ni—InGaAs intermetallic compound, the intermetallic compound having a hexagonal crystallographic structure that may have: a first texture or a second texture formed at a second nucleation temperature above the first nucleation temperature; the process comprising the following steps: the production of nomograms defining, for a thickness of Ni deposited, the time to completely consume the initial thickness of Ni as a function of the annealing temperature, the annealing temperature being below the nucleation temperature of the second texture; the localized deposition of Ni on the surface of the InxGa1-xAs material; an annealing step applying the pair of parameters: time required/annealing temperature, deduced from the nomograms, comprising at least one temperature rise step and at least one temperature hold of the final annealing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Philippe Rodriguez, Seifeddine Zhiou, Fabrice Nemouchi, Patrice Gergaud
  • Patent number: 10340361
    Abstract: A MOS transistor manufacturing method, including: forming a first conductive or semiconductor layer; forming a sacrificial gate on the first layer and a second layer made of an insulating material laterally surrounding the sacrificial gate; forming, on either side of the sacrificial gate, source and drain electric connection elements crossing the second layer and contacting the first layer; removing the sacrificial gate and the portion of the first layer located vertically in line with the sacrificial gate; depositing a third layer made of a two-dimensional semiconductor material; depositing a fourth layer made of an insulating material on the third layer; and forming a conductive gate in the opening, on the fourth layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Fabrice Nemouchi, Yves Morand
  • Publication number: 20190187375
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a heterostructure includes at least one elementary structure made of III-V material on the surface of a silicon-based substrate successively comprising: producing a first pattern having at least a first opening in a dielectric material on the surface of a first silicon-based substrate; a first operation for epitaxy of at least one III-V material so as to define at least one elementary base layer made of III-V material in the at least first opening; producing a second pattern in a dielectric material so as to define at least a second opening having an overlap with the elementary base layer; a second operation for epitaxy of at least one III-V material on the surface of at least the elementary base layer made of III-V material(s) so as to produce the at least elementary structure made of III-V material(s) having an outer face; an operation for transferring and assembling the at least photonic active elementary structure via its outer face, on an interface that may comprise passive elem
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Fabrice NEMOUCHI, Charles BAUDOT, Yann BOGUMILOWICZ, Elodie GHEGIN, Philippe RODRIGUEZ
  • Patent number: 10199276
    Abstract: Fabrication of an integrated circuit comprising: at least one first transistor made at least partially in a first semiconducting layer, at least one second transistor made at least partially in a second semiconducting layer formed above the first semiconducting layer, an insulating layer formed between the first transistor and the second transistor, one or several connection elements passing through the insulating layer between the first and the second transistor, at least one connection element being connected to the first and/or the second transistor and being based on a metal-semiconductor alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Claire Fenouillet-Beranger, Fabrice Nemouchi
  • Publication number: 20190006182
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an intermetallic contact on the surface of a layer or of a substrate of oriented InxGa1-xAs material, the contact includes an Ni—InGaAs intermetallic compound, the intermetallic compound having a hexagonal crystallographic structure that may have: a first texture or a second texture formed at a second nucleation temperature above the first nucleation temperature; the process comprising the following steps: the production of nomograms defining, for a thickness of Ni deposited, the time to completely consume the initial thickness of Ni as a function of the annealing temperature, the annealing temperature being below the nucleation temperature of the second texture; the localized deposition of Ni on the surface of the InxGa1-xAs material; an annealing step applying the pair of parameters: time required/annealing temperature, deduced from the nomograms, comprising at least one temperature rise step and at least one temperature hold of the final annealing temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Philippe RODRIGUEZ, Seifeddine ZHIOU, Fabrice NEMOUCHI, Patrice GERGAUD
  • Publication number: 20180337252
    Abstract: A MOS transistor manufacturing method, including: forming a first conductive or semiconductor layer; forming a sacrificial gate on the first layer and a second layer made of an insulating material laterally surrounding the sacrificial gate; forming, on either side of the sacrificial gate, source and drain electric connection elements crossing the second layer and contacting the first layer; removing the sacrificial gate and the portion of the first layer located vertically in line with the sacrificial gate; depositing a third layer made of a two-dimensional semiconductor material; depositing a fourth layer made of an insulating material on the third layer; and forming a conductive gate in the opening, on the fourth layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Fabrice Nemouchi, Yves Morand
  • Patent number: 9997395
    Abstract: This method includes the following steps: a) providing a first structure successively including a substrate, an electronic device and a dielectric layer; b) providing a second structure successively including a substrate, an active layer, an intermediate layer, a first semiconducting layer and a porous second semiconducting layer; c) bonding the first and second structures by direct bonding between the dielectric layer and the porous second semiconducting layer; d) removing the substrate of the second structure so as to expose the active layer; e) adding dopants to the first semiconducting layer or to the active layer; f) irradiating the first semiconducting layer by a pulse laser so as to thermally activate the corresponding dopants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Claire Fenouillet-Beranger, Frédéric-Xavier Gaillard, Benoit Mathieu, Fabrice Nemouchi
  • Patent number: 9911827
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a Schottky barrier field-effect transistor is provided. The process includes: providing a structure including a control gate and a semiconductive layer positioned under the gate and having protrusions that protrude laterally with respect to the gate; anisotropically etching at least one of the protrusions by using the control gate as a mask, so as to form a recess in this protrusion, this recess defining a lateral face of the semiconductive layer; depositing a layer of insulator on the lateral face of the semiconductive layer; and depositing a metal in the recess on the layer of insulator so as to form a contact of metal/insulator/semiconductor type between the deposit of metal and the lateral face of the semiconductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, ST Microelectronics SA, ST Microelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS
    Inventors: Louis Hutin, Julien Borrel, Yves Morand, Fabrice Nemouchi
  • Publication number: 20170352583
    Abstract: This method includes the following steps: a) providing a first structure successively including a substrate, an electronic device and a dielectric layer; b) providing a second structure successively including a substrate, an active layer, an intermediate layer, a first semiconducting layer and a porous second semiconducting layer; c) bonding the first and second structures by direct bonding between the dielectric layer and the porous second semiconducting layer; d) removing the substrate of the second structure so as to expose the active layer; e) adding dopants to the first semiconducting layer or to the active layer; f) irradiating the first semiconducting layer by a pulse laser so as to thermally activate the corresponding dopants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Claire FENOUILLET-BERANGER, Frédéric-Xavier GAILLARD, Benoit MATHIEU, Fabrice NEMOUCHI
  • Patent number: 9831319
    Abstract: A field-effect transistor, including a source, drain and channel formed in a semiconductor layer a gate stack placed above the channel, including a metal electrode, a first layer of electrical insulator placed between the metal electrode and the channel, and a second layer of electrical insulator covering the metal electrode; a metal contact placed plumb with the source or drain and at least partially plumb with said gate stack; and a third layer of electrical insulator placed between said metal contact and said source or said drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Julien Borrel, Louis Hutin, Yves Morand, Fabrice Nemouchi, Heimanu Niebojewski
  • Publication number: 20170162672
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a Schottky barrier field-effect transistor is provided. The process includes: providing a structure including a control gate and a semiconductive layer positioned under the gate and having protrusions that protrude laterally with respect to the gate; anisotropically etching at least one of the protrusions by using the control gate as a mask, so as to form a recess in this protrusion, this recess defining a lateral face of the semiconductive layer; depositing a layer of insulator on the lateral face of the semiconductive layer; and depositing a metal in the recess on the layer of insulator so as to form a contact of metal/insulator/semiconductor type between the deposit of metal and the lateral face of the semiconductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicants: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives, STMicroelectronics SA, STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS
    Inventors: Louis HUTIN, Julien BORREL, Yves MORAND, Fabrice NEMOUCHI