Abstract: A P-i-N diode structure includes a group III-N semiconductor material disposed on a substrate. An n-doped raised drain structure is disposed on the group III-N semiconductor material. An intrinsic group III-N semiconductor material is disposed on the n-doped raised drain structure. A p-doped group III-N semiconductor material is disposed on the intrinsic group III-N semiconductor material. A first electrode is connected to the p-doped group III-N semiconductor material. A second electrode is electrically coupled to the n-doped raised drain structure. In an embodiment, a group III-N transistor is electrically coupled to the P-i-N diode. In an embodiment, a group III-N transistor is electrically isolated from the P-i-N diode. In an embodiment, a gate electrode and an n-doped raised drain structure are electrically coupled to the n-doped raised drain structure and the second electrode of the P-i-N diode to form the group III-N transistor.

Abstract: A semiconductor transistor structure is described. In an example, the semiconductor transistor includes a group III-N semiconductor material disposed on a doped buffer layer, above a substrate. A polarization charge inducing layer is disposed on and conformal with the sloped sidewalls and a planar uppermost surface of the group III-N semiconductor material. A gate structure is disposed on the sloped sidewalls. A source contact is formed on an uppermost portion of the polarization charge inducing layer. A drain region is formed adjacent to the doped buffer layer. An insulator layer is disposed on the drain region and separates the gate structure from the drain region.

Abstract: A transistor connected diode structure is described. In an example, the transistor connected diode structure includes a group III-N semiconductor material disposed on substrate. A raised source structure and a raised drain structure are disposed on the group III-N semiconductor material. A mobility enhancement layer is disposed on the group III-N semiconductor material. A polarization charge inducing layer is disposed on the mobility enhancement layer, the polarization charge inducing layer having a first portion and a second portion separated by a gap. A gate dielectric layer disposed on the mobility enhancement layer in the gap. A first metal electrode having a first portion disposed on the raised drain structure, a second portion disposed above the second portion of the polarization charge inducing layer and a third portion disposed on the gate dielectric layer in the gap. A second metal electrode disposed on the raised source structure.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor device and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a source region, a drain region, and a channel region formed between the source region and drain region. In an embodiment, a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) may be formed over the channel region, and a first opening is formed through the first ILD. In an embodiment, a second ILD may be formed over the first ILD, and a second opening is formed through the second ILD. Embodiments of the invention include the second opening being offset from the first opening. Embodiments may also include a gate electrode formed through the first opening and the second opening. In an embodiment, the offset between the first opening and the second opening results in the formation of a field plate and a spacer that reduces a gate length of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: An apparatus including a transistor device on a substrate including an intrinsic layer including a channel; a source and a drain on opposite sides of the channel; and a diffusion barrier between the intrinsic layer and each of the source and the drain, the diffusion barrier including a conduction band energy that is less than a conduction band energy of the channel and greater than a material of the source and drain. A method including defining an area of an intrinsic layer on a substrate for a channel of a transistor device; forming a diffusion barrier layer in an area defined for a source and a drain; and forming a source on the diffusion barrier layer in the area defined for the source and forming a drain in the area defined for the drain.

Abstract: Envelope-tracking control techniques are disclosed for highly-efficient radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers. In some cases, a III-V semiconductor material (e.g., GaN or other group III material-nitride (III-N) compounds) MOSFET including a high-k gate dielectric may be used to achieve such highly-efficient RF power amplifiers. The use of a high-k gate dielectric can help to ensure low gate leakage and provide high input impedance for RF power amplifiers. Such high input impedance enables the use of envelope-tracking control techniques that include gate voltage (Vg) modulation of the III-V MOSFET used for the RF power amplifier. In such cases, being able to modulate Vg of the RF power amplifier using, for example, a voltage regulator, can result in double-digit percentage gains in power-added efficiency (PAE). In some instances, the techniques may simultaneously utilize envelope-tracking control techniques that include drain voltage (Vd) modulation of the III-V MOSFET used for the RF power amplifier.

Abstract: CMOS circuits may formed using p-channel gallium nitride transistors and n-channel gallium nitride transistors, wherein both the p-channel gallium nitride transistors and the n-channel gallium nitride transistors are formed on a single layered structure comprising a polarization layer deposited on a first gallium nitride layer and a second gallium nitride layer deposited on the polarization layer. Having both n-channel gallium nitride transistors and p-channel gallium nitride transistors s on the same layer structure may enable “all gallium nitride transistor” implementations of circuits including logic, digital, and analog circuitries spanning low supply voltages to high supply voltages.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a silicon pillar disposed on a substrate, the silicon pillar has a sidewall. A group III-N semiconductor material is disposed on the sidewall of the silicon pillar. The group III-N semiconductor material has a sidewall. A doped source structure and a doped drain structure are disposed on the group III-N semiconductor material. A polarization charge inducing layer is disposed on the sidewall of the group III-N semiconductor material between the doped drain structure and the doped source structure. A plurality of portions of gate dielectric layer is disposed on the sidewalls of the group III-N semiconductor material and between the polarization charge inducing layer. A plurality of resistive gate electrodes separated by an interlayer dielectric layer are disposal adjacent to each of the plurality of portions of the gate dielectric layer. A source metal layer is disposed below and in contact with the doped source structure.

Abstract: Enhancement/depletion device pairs and methods of producing the same are disclosed. A disclosed example multilayered die includes a depletion mode device that includes a first polarization layer and a voltage tuning layer, and an enhancement mode device adjacent the depletion mode device, where the enhancement mode device includes a second polarization layer, and where the second polarization layer includes an opening corresponding to a gate of the enhancement mode device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a high voltage transistor with one or more field plates and methods of forming such transistors. According to an embodiment, the transistor may include a source region, a drain region, and a gate electrode formed over a channel region formed between the source region and drain region. Embodiments of the invention may also include a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) formed over the channel region and a second ILD formed over the first ILD. According to an embodiment, a first field plate may be formed in the second ILD. In an embodiment the first field plate is not formed as a single bulk conductive feature with the gate electrode. In some embodiments, the first field plate may be electrically coupled to the gate electrode by one or more vias. In alternative embodiments, the first field plate may be electrically isolated from the gate electrode.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for forming self-aligned transistor structures including two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) source/drain tip portions or tips. In some cases, the 2DEG source/drain tips utilize polarization doping to enable ultra-short transistor channel lengths of less than 20 nm, for example, and create highly conductive, thin source/drain tip portions in transistor devices. In some instances, the 2DEG source/drain tips can be formed by self-aligned regrowth of a polarization layer over a base III-V compound layer and on either side of a dummy gate, in locations to be substantially covered by spacers. In some cases, the III-V base layer may include gallium nitride (GaN) or indium gallium nitride (InGaN), for example, and the polarization layer may include aluminum indium nitride (AlInN), aluminum nitride (AlN), aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN), or aluminum indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN), for example.

Abstract: Nanoribbon Field Effect Transistors (FETs) offer significant performance increases and energy consumption decreases relative to traditional metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors. Various embodiments are directed to nanoribbon FETs having III-N channel materials and methods of forming the same. An integrated circuit (IC) structure can include a first layer on a substrate. The first layer can include a group III semiconductor material and nitrogen. The IC structure can include recessed source and drain regions formed on the first layer using planar epitaxy. The IC structure can include a second layer between the recessed source and drain. A gate wraps around at least part of the second layer.

Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques, systems, and method for a semiconductor device. Embodiments herein may present a semiconductor device having a channel area including a channel III-V material, and a source area including a first portion and a second portion of the source area. The first portion of the source area includes a first III-V material, and the second portion of the source area includes a second III-V material. The channel III-V material, the first III-V material and the second III-V material may have a same lattice constant. Moreover, the first III-V material has a first bandgap, and the second III-V material has a second bandgap, the channel III-V material has a channel III-V material bandgap, where the channel material bandgap, the second bandgap, and the first bandgap form a monotonic sequence of bandgaps. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a superlattice that includes a plurality of layers of alternating materials above the substrate, where each of the plurality of layers corresponds to a threshold voltage, a gate trench extending into the superlattice to a predetermined one of the plurality of layers of the superlattice structure, and a high-k layer on the bottom and sidewall of the trench, the high-k layer contacting an etch stop layer of one of the plurality of layers of alternating materials. A gate is located in the trench on top of the high-k layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer on the substrate, a semiconductor interlayer on top of the epitaxial layer, a gate conductor above the semiconductor interlayer, a gate insulator on the bottom and sides of the gate conductor and contacting the top surface of the semiconductor interlayer, a source region extending into the epitaxial layer, and a drain region extending into the epitaxial layer. The semiconductor device also includes a first polarization layer on the semiconductor interlayer between the source region and the gate conductor and a second polarization layer on the semiconductor interlayer between the drain region and the gate conductor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer above the substrate, a Schottky barrier material on the epitaxial layer, a Schottky metal contact extending into the Schottky barrier material, a fin structure that extends in a first direction, a first angled implant in a first side of the fin structure that has an orientation that is orthogonal to the first direction, and a second angled implant in a second side of the fin structure that has an orientation that is orthogonal to the first direction. The second side is opposite to the first side. A first cathode region and a second cathode region are coupled by parts of the first angled implant and the second angled implant that extend in the first direction.

Abstract: A diode is disclosed. The diode includes a semiconductor substrate, a hard mask formed above the substrate, vertically oriented components of a first material adjacent sides of the hard mask, and laterally oriented components of the first material on top of the hard mask. The laterally oriented components are oriented in a first direction and a second direction. The diode also includes a second material on top of the first material. The second material forms a Schottky barrier.

Abstract: A transistor gate is disclosed. The transistor gate includes a first part above a substrate that has a first width and a second part above the first part that is centered with respect to the first part and that has a second width that is greater than the first width. The first part and the second part form a single monolithic T-gate structure.

Abstract: A transistor is disclosed. The transistor includes a first part of a gate above a substrate that has a first width and a second part of the gate above the first part of the gate that is centered with respect to the first part of the gate and that has a second width that is greater than the first width. The first part of the gate and the second part of the gate form a single monolithic T-gate structure.

Abstract: A substrate contact diode is disclosed. The substrate contact includes a first type substrate implant tap in a substrate, a second type epitaxial implant in an epitaxial layer that is on the substrate, and a first type epitaxial region above the second type epitaxial implant. A contact electrode that extends upward from the top of the first type epitaxial region to the surface of an interlayer dielectric that surrounds the contact electrode.