Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a Si crystal having a crystal surface in the vicinity of a (111) surface, and an insulation film formed on said crystal surface, at least a part of said insulation film comprising a Si oxide film containing Kr or a Si nitride film containing Ar or Kr.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a p-channel MIS transistor including: a first insulating layer formed on a semiconductor region between a source region and a drain region, and containing at least silicon and oxygen; a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer, and containing hafnium, silicon, oxygen, and nitrogen, and a first gate electrode formed on the second insulating layer. The first and second insulating layers have a first and second region respectively. The first and second regions are in a 0.3 nm range in the film thickness direction from an interface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. Each of the first and second regions include aluminum atoms with a concentration of 1×1020 cm?3 or more to 1×1022 cm?3 or less.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film which is composed of a material whose main component is a tetravalent metal oxide, a mixture of a tetravalent metal oxide and SiO2, or a mixture of a tetravalent metal oxide and SiON and which containing B when it is in an nMOS structure on the semiconductor substrate or containing at least one of P and As when it is in a pMOS structure on the semiconductor substrate, and a gate electrode made of a metal having a work function of 4 eV to 5.5 eV.

Abstract: A method is provided with: arranging nitrogen atoms on a surface of a silicon substrate; performing a heat treatment in a hydrogen atmosphere so that the nitrogen atoms and silicon atoms existing on the surface of the silicon substrate are brought into a three-coordinate bond state; and forming a silicon oxide film on the silicon substrate with the three-coordinate bond state of nitrogen atoms and the silicon atoms being maintained.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus wherein a device formed on a semiconductor substrate comprises a gate insulating film including a high dielectric constant film formed on the substrate and an anti-reaction film formed on the high dielectric constant film, and a gate electrode formed on the anti-reaction film, the high dielectric constant film comprises a film containing at least one of Hf and Zr, and Si and O, or a film containing at least one of Hf and Zr, and Si, O and N, the anti-reaction film comprises an SiO2 film, a film containing SiO2 as a main component and at least one of Hf and Zr, a film containing SiO2 as a main component and N, a film containing SiO2 as a main component, Hf and N, a film containing SiO2 as a main component, Zr and N, or a film containing SiO2 as a main component, Hf, Zr and N.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in an interlayer dielectric film on the semiconductor substrate, the trench reaching a semiconductor substrate and having a sidewall made of silicon nitride film; depositing a gate insulation film made of a HfSiO film at a temperature within a range of 200 degrees centigrade to 260 degrees centigrade, so that the HfSiO film is deposited on the semiconductor substrate which is exposed at a bottom surface of the trench without depositing the HfSiO film on the silicon nitride film; and filling the trench with a gate electrode made of metal.

Abstract: There is disclosed a semiconductor device including a plurality of memory cell transistors, each memory cell transistor including a floating gate electrode isolated from each other via an isolation insulating film every memory cell transistor, an inter-electrode insulating film comprising a HfxAl1-xOy film (0.8?x?0.95) formed on the floating gate electrode, and a control gate electrode formed on the inter-electrode insulating film, wherein the memory cell transistors are arrayed to form a memory cell array.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a first insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate, a charge storage layer formed on the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed on the charge storage layer, and a control electrode formed on the second insulating film, forming the second insulating film comprises forming a lower insulating film containing oxygen and a metal element, thermally treating the lower insulating film in an atmosphere containing oxidizing gas, and forming an upper insulating film on the thermally treated lower insulating film using film forming gas containing at least one of hydrogen and chlorine.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device capable of suppressing detrapping of stored charges from a charge storage dielectric is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor memory device comprising a semiconductor substrate, a blocking dielectric disposed on the semiconductor substrate a charge storage dielectric disposed on the blocking dielectric to store holes, a hole conductive dielectric disposed on the charge storage dielectric, and a gate electrode disposed on the hole conductive dielectric.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a first insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate, a charge storage layer formed on the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed on the charge storage layer, and a control electrode formed on the second insulating film, wherein forming the second insulating film comprises forming an insulating film containing silicon using source gas not containing chlorine, and forming an insulating film containing oxygen and a metal element on the insulating film containing silicon.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate; a gate dielectric film provided on the semiconductor substrate and containing Hf, Si, and O or containing Zr, Si and O; a gate electrode of an n-channel FET provided on the gate dielectric film, the gate electrode being made of nickel silicide containing nickel at a higher content than silicon; an aluminum layer provided at a bottom portion of the gate electrode of the n-channel FET; and a gate electrode of a p-channel FET provided on the gate dielectric film, the gate electrode being made of nickel silicide containing nickel at a higher content than silicon.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes semiconductor substrate, isolation insulating film, nonvolatile memory cells, each of the cells including tunnel insulating film, FG electrode, CG electrode, interelectrode insulating film between the CG and FG electrodes and including a first insulating film and a second insulating film on the first insulating film and having higher permittivity than the first insulating film, the interelectrode insulating film being provided on a side wall of the floating gate electrode in a cross-section view of a channel width direction of the cell, thickness of the interelectrode insulating film increasing from an upper portion of the side wall toward a lower portion of the side wall, thickness of the second insulating film on an upper corner of the FG electrode being thicker than thickness of the second insulating film on the other portions of the side wall in the cross-section view of the channel width direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells provided on the semiconductor substrate, each of the plurality of nonvolatile memory cells comprising a first insulating film provided on the semiconductor substrate, a charge storage layer provided on the first insulating film, a control gate electrode provided above the charge storage layer, a second insulating film provided between the control gate electrode and the charge storage layer, the second insulating film between adjacent charge storage layers including a first region having permittivity lower than that of the second insulating film on a top surface of the charge storage layer in a cross-section view of a channel width direction of the nonvolatile memory cell, and the first region having composition differing from that of the second insulating film on the top surface of the charge storage layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, a charge storage layer formed on the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed on the charge storage layer, and a control electrode formed on the second insulating film, the second insulating film including a lower silicon nitride film, a lower silicon oxide film formed on the lower silicon nitride film, an intermediate insulating film formed on the lower silicon oxide film and containing a metal element, the intermediate insulating film having a relative dielectric constant of greater than 7, an upper silicon oxide film formed on the intermediate insulating film, and an upper silicon nitride film formed on the upper silicon oxide film.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus wherein a device formed on a semiconductor substrate comprises a gate insulating film including a high dielectric constant film formed on the substrate and an anti-reaction film formed on the high dielectric constant film, and a gate electrode formed on the anti-reaction film, the high dielectric constant film comprises a film containing at least one of Hf and Zr, and Si and O, or a film containing at least one of Hf and Zr, and Si, O and N, the anti-reaction film comprises an SiO2 film, a film containing SiO2 as a main component and at least one of Hf and Zr, a film containing SiO2 as a main component and N, a film containing SiO2 as a main component, Hf and N, a film containing SiO2 as a main component, Zr and N, or a film containing SiO2 as a main component, Hf, Zr and N.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor device comprising: a gate insulating film selectively formed on a predetermined region of a semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode formed on said gate insulating film; and a source region and drain region formed, in a surface portion of said semiconductor substrate, on two sides of a channel region positioned below said gate electrode, wherein a carbon concentration in an interface where said gate insulating film is in contact with said gate electrode is not more than 5×1022 atoms/cm3.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device manufacturing method includes forming a floating gate electrode above a semiconductor substrate, forming an interelectrode insulating film above the floating gate electrode, forming a first radical nitride film on a surface of the interelectrode insulating film by first radical nitriding, and forming a control gate electrode on the first radical nitride film.

Abstract: A plurality of memory cell transistors each of which has a gate structure having a floating gate electrode formed of a first conductive film and stacked on an element region surrounded by an element isolation region on a silicon substrate with a first insulating film disposed therebetween and a control gate electrode formed of a second conductive film and stacked on the first conductive film with a second insulating film with a large dielectric constant disposed therebetween are arranged in a memory cell array. A detrap pulse supply circuit generates and supplies a detrap pulse signal to the control gate electrode of the memory cell transistor to extract charges from the second insulating film after data is written into each of the memory cell transistors.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a gate insulating film selectively formed on a predetermined region of a semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode formed on said gate insulating film; and a source region and drain region formed, in a surface portion of said semiconductor substrate, on two sides of a channel region positioned below said gate electrode; wherein a carbon concentration in an interface where said gate insulating film is in contact with said gate electrode is not more than 5×1022 atoms/cm3.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in an interlayer dielectric film on the semiconductor substrate, the trench reaching a semiconductor substrate and having a sidewall made of silicon nitride film; depositing a gate insulation film made of a HfSiO film at a temperature within a range of 200 degrees centigrade to 260 degrees centigrade, so that the HfSiO film is deposited on the semiconductor substrate which is exposed at a bottom surface of the trench without depositing the HfSiO film on the silicon nitride film; and filling the trench with a gate electrode made of metal.