Patents by Inventor Hasan M. Nayfeh

Hasan M. Nayfeh 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: 9105718
    Abstract: A structure, a FET, a method of making the structure and of making the FET. The structure including: a silicon layer on a buried oxide (BOX) layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate; a trench in the silicon layer extending from a top surface of the silicon layer into the silicon layer, the trench not extending to the BOX layer, a doped region in the silicon layer between and abutting the BOX layer and a bottom of the trench, the first doped region doped to a first dopant concentration; a first epitaxial layer, doped to a second dopant concentration, in a bottom of the trench; a second epitaxial layer, doped to a third dopant concentration, on the first epitaxial layer in the trench; and wherein the third dopant concentration is greater than the first and second dopant concentrations and the first dopant concentration is greater than the second dopant concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Johnson, Shreesh Narasimha, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Viorel Ontalus, Robert R. Robison
  • Publication number: 20140203359
    Abstract: A structure, a FET, a method of making the structure and of making the FET. The structure including: a silicon layer on a buried oxide (BOX) layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate; a trench in the silicon layer extending from a top surface of the silicon layer into the silicon layer, the trench not extending to the BOX layer, a doped region in the silicon layer between and abutting the BOX layer and a bottom of the trench, the first doped region doped to a first dopant concentration; a first epitaxial layer, doped to a second dopant concentration, in a bottom of the trench; a second epitaxial layer, doped to a third dopant concentration, on the first epitaxial layer in the trench; and wherein the third dopant concentration is greater than the first and second dopant concentrations and the first dopant concentration is greater than the second dopant concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Johnson, Shreesh Narasimha, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Viorel Ontalus, Robert R. Robison
  • Patent number: 8754446
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a structure and method of forming a structure having a sealed gate oxide layer. The structure includes a gate oxide layer formed on a substrate and a gate formed on the gate oxide layer. The structure further includes a material abutting walls of the gate and formed within an undercut underneath the gate to protect regions of the gate oxide layer exposed by the undercut. Source and drain regions are isolated from the gate by the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaomeng Chen, Shwu-Jen Jeng, Byeong Y. Kim, Hasan M. Nayfeh
  • Patent number: 8741725
    Abstract: A structure, a FET, a method of making the structure and of making the FET. The structure including: a silicon layer on a buried oxide (BOX) layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate; a trench in the silicon layer extending from a top surface of the silicon layer into the silicon layer, the trench not extending to the BOX layer, a doped region in the silicon layer between and abutting the BOX layer and a bottom of the trench, the first doped region doped to a first dopant concentration; a first epitaxial layer, doped to a second dopant concentration, in a bottom of the trench; a second epitaxial layer, doped to a third dopant concentration, on the first epitaxial layer in the trench; and wherein the third dopant concentration is greater than the first and second dopant concentrations and the first dopant concentration is greater than the second dopant concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Johnson, Shreesh Narasimha, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Viorel Ontalus, Robert R. Robison
  • Patent number: 8642424
    Abstract: A replacement metal gate structure and methods of manufacturing the same is provided. The method includes forming at least one trench structure and forming a liner of high-k dielectric material in the at least one trench structure. The method further includes adjusting a height of the liner of high-k dielectric material. The method further includes forming at least one workfunction metal over the liner, and forming a metal gate structure in the at least one trench structure, over the at least one workfunction metal and the liner of high-k dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sameer H. Jain, Jeffrey B. Johnson, Ying Li, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Ravikumar Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 8482075
    Abstract: A plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the gate structures includes a first gate electrode and source and drain regions. The first gate electrode is removed from each of the gate structures. A first photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction. A first halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction at a first angle. The first photoresist is removed. A second photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction. A second halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction at a second angle. The second photoresist is removed. Replacement gate electrodes are formed in each of the gate structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hasan M. Nayfeh, Andres Bryant, Arvind Kumar, Nivo Rovedo, Robert Robison
  • Publication number: 20130015580
    Abstract: A replacement metal gate structure and methods of manufacturing the same is provided. The method includes forming at least one trench structure and forming a liner of high-k dielectric material in the at least one trench structure. The method further includes adjusting a height of the liner of high-k dielectric material. The method further includes forming at least one workfunction metal over the liner, and forming a metal gate structure in the at least one trench structure, over the at least one workfunction metal and the liner of high-k dielectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: SAMEER H JAIN, Jeffrey B. Johnson, Ying Li, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Ravikumar Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20120217585
    Abstract: A plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the gate structures includes a first gate electrode and source and drain regions. The first gate electrode is removed from each of the gate structures. A first photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction. A first halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction at a first angle. The first photoresist is removed. A second photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction. A second halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction at a second angle. The second photoresist is removed. Replacement gate electrodes are formed in each of the gate structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hasan M. Nayfeh, Andres Bryant, Arvind Kumar, Nivo Rovedo, Robert R. Robison
  • Patent number: 8232151
    Abstract: A plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the gate structures includes a first gate electrode and source and drain regions. The first gate electrode is removed from each of the gate structures. A first photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction. A first halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction at a first angle. The first photoresist is removed. A second photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction. A second halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction at a second angle. The second photoresist is removed. Replacement gate electrodes are formed in each of the gate structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hasan M. Nayfeh, Andres Bryant, Arvind Kumar, Nivo Rovedo, Robert R. Robison
  • Publication number: 20120112280
    Abstract: A structure, a FET, a method of making the structure and of making the FET. The structure including: a silicon layer on a buried oxide (BOX) layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate; a trench in the silicon layer extending from a top surface of the silicon layer into the silicon layer, the trench not extending to the BOX layer, a doped region in the silicon layer between and abutting the BOX layer and a bottom of the trench, the first doped region doped to a first dopant concentration; a first epitaxial layer, doped to a second dopant concentration, in a bottom of the trench; a second epitaxial layer, doped to a third dopant concentration, on the first epitaxial layer in the trench; and wherein the third dopant concentration is greater than the first and second dopant concentrations and the first dopant concentration is greater than the second dopant concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Johnson, Shreesh Narasimha, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Viorel Ontalus, Robert R. Robison
  • Publication number: 20110254059
    Abstract: A plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the gate structures includes a first gate electrode and source and drain regions. The first gate electrode is removed from each of the gate structures. A first photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction. A first halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction at a first angle. The first photoresist is removed. A second photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction. A second halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction at a second angle. The second photoresist is removed. Replacement gate electrodes are formed in each of the gate structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hasan M. Nayfeh, Andres Bryant, Arvind Kumar, Nivo Rovedo, Robert R. Robison
  • Patent number: 8034692
    Abstract: A plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the gate structures includes a first gate electrode and source and drain regions. The first gate electrode is removed from each of the gate structures. A first photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction. A first halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction at a first angle. The first photoresist is removed. A second photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction. A second halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction at a second angle. The second photoresist is removed. Replacement gate electrodes are formed in each of the gate structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hasan M. Nayfeh, Andres Bryant, Arvind Kumar, Nivo Rovedo, Robert R. Robison
  • Patent number: 8017483
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of forming asymmetric field-effect-transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory G. Freeman, Shreesh Narasimha, Ning Su, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Nivo Rovedo, Werner A. Rausch, Jian Yu
  • Publication number: 20110089499
    Abstract: A plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the gate structures includes a first gate electrode and source and drain regions. The first gate electrode is removed from each of the gate structures. A first photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction. A first halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction at a first angle. The first photoresist is removed. A second photoresist is applied to block gate structures having source regions in a source-up direction. A second halo implantation is performed in gate structures having source regions in a source-down direction at a second angle. The second photoresist is removed. Replacement gate electrodes are formed in each of the gate structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hasan M. Nayfeh, Andres Bryant, Arvind Kumar, Nivo Rovedo, Robert R. Robison
  • Publication number: 20100330763
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of forming asymmetric field-effect-transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory G. Freeman, Shreesh Narasimha, Ning Su, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Nivo Rovedo, Werner A. Rausch, Jian Yu
  • Patent number: 7659172
    Abstract: A method for forming a field effect transistor (FET) device includes forming a gate conductor and gate dielectric on an active device area of a semiconductor wafer, the semiconductor wafer including a buried insulator layer formed over a bulk substrate and a semiconductor-on-insulator layer initially formed over the buried insulator layer. Source and drain extensions are formed in the semiconductor-on-insulator layer, adjacent opposing sides of the gate conductor, and source and drain sidewall spacers are formed adjacent the gate conductor. Remaining portions of the semiconductor-on-insulator layer adjacent the sidewall spacers and are removed so as to expose portions of the buried insulator layer. The exposed portions of the buried insulator layer are removed so as to expose portions of the bulk substrate. A semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on the exposed portions of the bulk substrate and the source and drain extensions, and source and drain implants are formed in the epitaxially grown layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
    Inventors: Hasan M. Nayfeh, Andrew Waite
  • Patent number: 7491623
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a structure and method of forming a structure having a sealed gate oxide layer. The structure includes a gate oxide layer formed on a substrate and a gate formed on the gate oxide layer. The structure further includes a material abutting walls of the gate and formed within an undercut underneath the gate to protect regions of the gate oxide layer exposed by the undercut. Source and drain regions are isolated from the gate by the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaomeng Chen, Shwu-Jen Jeng, Byeong Y. Kim, Hasan M. Nayfeh
  • Publication number: 20080157200
    Abstract: The present invention provides an STI bounded transistor structure having enhanced performance which is not diminished due to embedded stressor facets that can be present at the edge of the source/drain regions that contacts an embedded stressor material. Considering that the facet in the prior art is due to an STI divot formed during several necessary wet etching processes, the MOSFET source/drain edge of the inventive structure is surrounded by a liner to prevent facet growth during the epitaxial growth of the stressor material. As such, a part of the semiconductor substrate edge is preserved. The liner employed in the present invention is a stress engineering material such as, for example, silicon nitride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Byeong Y. Kim, Shahid A. Butt, Xiaomeng Chen, Shwu-Jen J. Jeng, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Deepal Wehella-Gamage
  • Publication number: 20080121931
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a structure and method of forming a structure having a sealed gate oxide layer. The structure includes a gate oxide layer formed on a substrate and a gate formed on the gate oxide layer. The structure further includes a material abutting walls of the gate and formed within an undercut underneath the gate to protect regions of the gate oxide layer exposed by the undercut. Source and drain regions are isolated from the gate by the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaomeng Chen, Shwu-Jen Jeng, Byeong Y. Kim, Hasan M. Nayfeh
  • Publication number: 20080057673
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a structure and method of forming a structure having a sealed gate oxide layer. The structure includes a gate oxide layer formed on a substrate and a gate formed on the gate oxide layer. The structure further includes a material abutting walls of the gate and formed within an undercut underneath the gate to protect regions of the gate oxide layer exposed by the undercut. Source and drain regions are isolated from the gate by the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaomeng CHEN, Shwu-Jen JENG, Byeong Y. KIM, Hasan M. NAYFEH