Abstract: Substrate having a first partial substrate with a carrier layer and a second partial substrate, which is bonded to the first partial substrate. The second partial substrate has an insulator layer, which is applied on the carrier layer and has at least two regions each having a different thickness, thereby forming a stepped surface of the insulator layer, and a semiconductor layer, which is applied to the stepped surface of the insulator layer and is formed at least partially epitaxially, wherein the semiconductor layer has a planar surface which is opposite to the stepped surface of the insulator layer. Transistors are formed on the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: An integrated circuit is described. The integrated circuit may comprise a multitude of floating-gate electrodes, wherein at least one of the floating-gate electrodes has a lower width and an upper width, the lower width being larger than the upper width, and wherein the at least one of the floating-gate electrodes comprises a transition metal. A corresponding manufacturing method for an integrated circuit is also described.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory component comprises at least one memory cell. The memory cell comprises a semiconductor body comprised of a body region, a drain region and a source region, a gate dielectric, and a gate electrode. The body region comprises a first conductivity type and a depression between the source and drain regions, and the source and drain regions comprise a second conductivity type. The gate electrode is arranged at least partly in the depression and is insulated from the body, source, and drain regions by the gate dielectric. The body region further comprises a first continuous region with a first dopant concentration and a second continuous region with a second dopant concentration greater than the first dopant concentration. The first continuous region adjoins the drain region, the depression and the source region, and the second region is arranged below the first region and adjoins the first region.

Abstract: An integrated circuit arrangement and fabrication method is presented. The integrated circuit arrangement contains a semiconductor and a metal electrode. The contact area between a semiconductor and the electrode is increased without increasing the lateral dimensions using partial regions of the semiconductor and/or of the electrode that extend through a transition layer between the semiconductor and electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory having a multitude of memory cells (21-1), the semiconductor memory having a substrate (1), at least one wordline (5-1), a first (15-1) and a second line (15-2; 16-1), wherein each of the multitude of memory cells (21-1) comprises a first doping region (6) disposed in the substrate (1), a second doping region (7) disposed in the substrate (1), a channel region (22) disposed in the substrate (1) between the first doping region (6) and the second doping region (7), a charge-trapping layer stack (2) disposed on the substrate (1), on the channel region (22), on a portion of the first doping region (6) and on a portion of the second doping region (7). Each memory cell (21-1) further comprises a conductive layer (3) disposed on the charge-trapping layer stack (2), wherein the conductive layer (3) is electrically floating. A dielectric layer (4) is disposed on a top surface of the conductive layer (3) and on sidewalls (23) of the conductive layer (3).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to integrated circuits and methods for manufacturing an integrated circuit. In an embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit having a memory cell is provided. The memory cell may include a trench in a carrier, a charge trapping layer structure in the trench, the charge trapping layer structure comprising at least two separate charge trapping regions, electrically conductive material at least partially filled in the trench, and source/drain regions next to the trench.

Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit having a cell is provided. The cell may include a field effect transistor structure which includes a gate stack and a resistivity changing material structure disposed above the gate stack, wherein the resistivity changing material structure includes a resistivity changing material which is configured to change its resistivity in response to the application of an electrical voltage to the resistivity changing material structure.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to a method for manufacturing an integrated circuit, a method for manufacturing a cell arrangement, an integrated circuit, a cell arrangement, and a memory module. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for manufacturing an integrated circuit having a cell arrangement is provided, including forming at least one semiconductor fin structure having an area for a plurality of fin field effect transistors, wherein the area of each fin field effect transistor includes a first region having a first fin structure width, a second region having a second fin structure width, wherein the second fin structure width is smaller than the first fin structure width. Furthermore, a plurality of charge storage regions are formed on or above the second regions of the semiconductor fin structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a recessed channel transistor comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of active areas lines in a semiconductor substrate with an upper surface, said lines being segmented by segmentation structures having an upper surface height differing from the substrate surface; forming a first and a second extension region arranged above the active area and adjacent said segmentation structures; forming recessed channel devices in the active area segments in the remaining portion of the active area segment between said extension regions.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to integrated circuits having a memory cell arrangement and methods of manufacturing thereof. In one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit has a memory cell arrangement which includes a fin structure extending in its longitudinal direction as a first direction, including a first insulating layer, a first active region disposed above the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed above the first active region, a second active region disposed above the second insulating layer, a charge storage layer structure disposed at least next to at least one sidewall of the fin structure covering at least a portion of the first active region and at least a portion of the second active region, and a control gate disposed next to the charge storage layer structure.

Abstract: A self-aligned gate structure includes a first gate region and a second gate region. The first gate region extends in semiconductor substrate portions to a lesser depth than in isolation trenches that are adjacent to the semiconductor substrate portions. The first gate region comprises a first conductive material. The second gate region is adjacent to the first gate region and extends above a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The second gate region includes a second conductive material.

Abstract: In various embodiments of the invention, integrated circuits and methods of manufacturing integrated circuits are provided. In an embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit having at least one memory cell is provided. The memory cell includes a dielectric layer disposed above a charge storage region, a word line disposed above the dielectric layer, and a control line disposed at least partially above at least one sidewall of the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nanowire transistor includes oxidizing at least a portion of a semiconductor carrier. The semiconductor carrier includes a first carrier portion and a second carrier portion above the first carrier portion. A portion of the oxidized portion is removed, thereby forming an oxide spacer between a portion of the second carrier portion and the first carrier portion. A gate region is formed above at least a portion of the second carrier portion, and a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region are formed.

Abstract: A met4hod is disclosed for functionalizing biosensors. The biosensors are based on semiconductor chips mounted on a finished processed wafer. They are provided with sensor fields placed thereupon, which are arranged in any array, and, to be precise, for carrying out a functionalization, for example, with organic molecules such as nucleic acids like DNA, RNA and PNA or with their derivatives, proteins, sugar molecules, or antibodies.

Abstract: An integrated circuit and method of manufacturing an integrated circuit is disclosed. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit includes a gate structure which includes a polysilicon double layer. The polysilicon double layer having a first polysilicon layer and a second polysilicon layer formed above the first polysilicon layer, the first polysilicon layer being doped with positive ions to a higher concentration than the second polysilicon layer.

Abstract: Memory transistors are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns. A first source/drain terminal of each memory transistor of a first column is connected to an electrically conductive conductor track in a first metallization plane, and a first source/drain terminal of each memory transistor of a second column adjacent to the first column is connected to an electrically conductive conductor track in a second metallization plane.

Abstract: This invention concerns a system comprising processors (2, 3) arranged so as to receive and process data arriving at the system and containing time-indicating means (11, 17, 21) operatively connected to said processors and arranged so as to furnish time data to the processors for time-marking of the data. The time-indicating means (11, 17, 21) include a hardware clock arranged so as to generate a clock signal, and further arranged so as to receive second time data from at least one additional time reference and modify the clock signal from the hardware clock using the second time data in order to generate the first time data. The time-indicating means (11, 17, 21) are arranged so as to add to the clock signal, during the generation of the first time data, a compensation signal (??i) based on said second time data. The invention also concerns a method for time-marking data.

Abstract: Floating gate memory cell having a first layer with first and second source/drain regions and a channel region arranged between and next to the first and second source/drain regions, and a floating gate layer arranged on the first layer, wherein the first and second source/drain regions and the floating gate layer are formed of a metallically conductive material, and the channel region is formed of an electrically insulating material.

Abstract: A DRAM memory cell is provided with a selection transistor, which is arranged horizontally at a semiconductor substrate surface and has a first source/drain electrode, a second source/drain electrode, a channel layer arranged between the first and the second source/drain electrode in the semiconductor substrate, and a gate electrode, which is arranged along the channel layer and is electrically insulated from the channel layer, a storage capacitor, which has a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode, insulated from the first capacitor electrode, one of the capacitor electrodes of the storage capacitor being electrically conductively connected to one of the source/drain electrodes of the selection transistor, and a semiconductor substrate electrode on the rear side, the gate electrode enclosing the channel layer at at least two opposite sides.

Abstract: Memory cell transistors with back-channel isolation are produced without using an SOI substrate. With the word line stack acting as a mask, the semiconductor material is etched on both sides of the world line, first anisotropically and then isotropically to widen the etch hole and form an undercut beneath the gate electrode and at a distance from the ONO storage layer forming the gate dielectric. The undercut is filled, whereby a buried oxide layer of at least 20 nm maximum thickness is formed underneath the channel region. The latter is p-doped at a density of at least 1017 cm?3.