Abstract: A method is described for producing a structured metal layer used, for example, as an antenna for RF ID tags. The structured metal layer is electrodeposited on a cathode, on the surface of which conducting and non-conducting regions are defined. Applied to the deposited metal layer in a residual volume is an adhesive with which the structured metal layer can be made to adhere firmly on a carrier layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor device having a semiconductor path made from an organic semiconductor material. Semiconductor particles or semiconductor clusters are distributed randomly in the organic semiconductor material. The semiconductor particles and/or semiconductor clusters can also be linked by linker molecules. The addition of semiconductor particles to the organic semiconductor material makes it possible to improve the electrical properties, for example, of a field-effect transistor has a semiconductor path of this nature.

Abstract: A semiconductor arrangement is disclosed, having transistors based on organic semiconductors and non-volatile read/write memory cells. The invention relates to a semiconductor arrangement, constructed from transistors, in the case of which the semiconductor path is composed of an organic semiconductor, and memory cells based on a ferroelectric effect perferably in a polymer, for use in RF-ID tags, for example.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a first contact, by which charge carriers are injected into a semiconductor path, and a second contact, by which the charge carriers are extracted from the semiconductor path. The semiconductor path is formed by surface-modified semiconductor particles that bear alkyl or aryl ligands at their surface. The modification with ligands enables the semiconductor particles to form a stable dispersion that can easily be applied to a substrate with a printing technique. Consequently, the semiconductor device according to the invention can be produced very easily and inexpensively.

Abstract: The organic polymers of the invention have electrical semiconductor properties. The compounds have a backbone of phenylene groups to which side groups with semiconductor properties, or which impart semiconductor properties to the polymer, are bonded. The polymers are obtained by Bergmann cyclization from compounds that contain aromatic groups to which vicinal ethynyl groups are bonded. The polymers are suitable for the production of semiconductor components, such as organic transistors or diodes.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory cell has a field-effect transistor device and a ferroelectric storage capacitor. The field-effect transistor device has a channel region that includes or is made of an organic semiconductor material. Besides a first gate electrode of the gate electrode configuration of the field-effect transistor device, an additional selection gate electrode is provided, by way of which the field-effect transistor device can be switched off without influencing the storage dielectric and independently of the first gate electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel polyhydroxyamide compounds that, in the form of their oxazoles, ane suited as a coating material, particularly for electronic components. The invention also relates to a method for producing these novel compounds and to the use thereof.

Abstract: Polyhydroxyamides are polymerized to form highly-crosslinked, temperature-stable polymers. The polyhydroxyamides include as their central, parent structure a benzenetricarboxylic acid to which side chains containing a terminal reactive group are attached by an amide bond. By way of this reactive group, highly crosslinked polymers can be formed. In addition, the polyhydroxyamide can be added as an additive to polymers in order to bring about three-dimensional crosslinking.

Abstract: A dielectric for aluminum and copper metalizations is stable at high temperatures. Surprisingly, in spite of the elimination of water during the cyclization, the polymeric dielectrics are very suitable for filling narrow trenches. The filled trenches exhibit no defects and bubbles or cracks. The polybenzoxazoles have dielectric constants of k≦2.7 and are suitable as an electrical insulator. Furthermore, these materials adhere very well on all surfaces relevant for microelectronics.

Abstract: A laminate is formed from a carrier layer and an electrically conductive layer. In one section, the conductive layer is formed into an antenna structure. The antenna structure can be produced in a joint operation with the electrically conductive layer. The antenna structure is connected to a microchip, so that data can be written in or read out without contact in a wireless transponder system.

Abstract: A semiconductor circuit configuration has at least one pair of complementary operating field-effect transistors in which each transistor has a gate region, first and second source/drain regions and also a channel region with or made of an organic semiconductor material that is provided in between. It is furthermore provided that the gate regions are formed such that they are electrically coupled to one another via a capacitor configuration.

Abstract: The semiconductor memory cell is characterized in that at least one modulation region is provided between a first gate electrode of the gate electrode configuration and the insulation region, and in that the modulation region has or is formed from a material or modulation material having electrical and/or further material properties that can be modulated in a controllable manner between at least two states in such a way that, in accordance with these states of the modulation material or of the modulation region, the channel region can be influenced electromagnetically, in particular for a given electrical potential difference between the first gate electrode and the source/drain regions.

Abstract: Dioxaborines as organic n-semiconductors, a process for the production of semiconductors utilizing dioxaborines, and a semiconductor component, a field effect transistor, and a diode having a dioxaborine are provided. Dioxaborines have a conjugated &pgr;-system that carries two terminal six-membered dioxaborine heterocycles that are electronically linked to one another via the central &pgr;-system. The compounds have good electron mobility and very good reversibility of redox behavior and are therefore suitable as organic semiconductors in electronic semiconductor components. Processes for manufacturing the electronic semiconductor components utilize the dioxabroines.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a first contact, by which charge carriers are injected into a semiconductor path, and a second contact, by which the charge carriers are extracted from the semiconductor path. The semiconductor path is formed by surface-modified semiconductor particles that bear alkyl or aryl ligands at their surface. The modification with ligands enables the semiconductor particles to form a stable dispersion that can easily be applied to a substrate with a printing technique. Consequently, the semiconductor device according to the invention can be produced very easily and inexpensively.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory cell has a field-effect transistor device and a ferroelectric storage capacitor. The field-effect transistor device has a channel region the includes or is made of an organic semiconductor material. Besides a first gate electrode of the gate electrode configuration of the field-effect transistor device, an additional selection gate electrode is provided, by way of which the field-effect transistor device can be switched off without influencing the storage dielectric and independently of the first gate electrode.

Abstract: A polythiophene polymer with high charge-carrier mobilities, a method for fabricating the polymer, and a semiconductor component and an organic field effect transistor including the polymer are provided. The polymer has electrical semiconductor characteristics and includes a backbone formed from thiophene groups. The thiophene groups carry a side group in the 3rd and 4th positions that can itself have semiconductor characteristics. The polymers have a high mobility of the charge carriers and are therefore suitable for fabricating electronic components such as field effect transistors.

Abstract: Polyhydroxyamides are polymerized to form highly-crosslinked, temperature-stable polymers. The polyhydroxyamides include as their central, parent structure a benzenetricarboxylic acid to which side chains containing a terminal reactive group are attached by an amide bond. By way of this reactive group, highly crosslinked polymers can be formed. In addition, the polyhydroxyamide can be added as an additive to polymers in order to bring about three-dimensional crosslinking.

Abstract: The organic polymers of the invention have electrical semiconductor properties. The compounds have a backbone of phenylene groups to which side groups with semiconductor properties, or which impart semiconductor properties to the polymer, are bonded. The polymers are obtained by Bergmann cyclization from compounds that contain aromatic groups to which vicinal ethynyl groups are bonded. The polymers are suitable for the production of semiconductor components, such as organic transistors or diodes.

Abstract: The novel photo-cross-linkable polymers are suitable as coating materials. The photo-cross-linkable polymers contain a biphenylene unit, which can be dimerized by exposure. Attached to the biphenyl unit are side chains of a polymer with a high temperature resistance and a high chemical stability. Through exposure, the biphenylene units dimerize, whereby the polymers are spatially cross-linked.