Abstract: A semiconductor device including a plurality of wirings and an insulating space is described. The insulating space is disposed between adjacent wirings of the plurality of wirings. An insulating material surrounds the insulating space. The insulating space is filled with air at a pressure no more than an atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a plurality of wirings and an insulating space is described. The insulating space is disposed between adjacent wirings of the plurality of wirings. An insulating material surrounds the insulating space. The insulating space is filled with air at a pressure no more than an atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: According to one embodiments, an impurity that is introduced into a gate electrode and includes phosphorus or arsenic, a carbon that is introduced into the gate electrode, and an impurity diffusion layer that is formed in a semiconductor substrate to be arranged on both sides of the gate electrode are included, in which a coverage of an active region in which the gate electrode and the impurity diffusion layer are formed is 50% or more and an area thereof is 0.02 mm2 or more.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate electrode formed on the substrate, a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate, the source region and the drain region formed located on the both side of the gate electrode, a first insulating film formed on the substrate, the first insulating film for generating a stress in a channel region under the gate electrode, a contact formed on the source region and the drain region, and the contact formed so that an amount of the first insulating film formed on the source region is larger than an amount of the first insulating film formed on the drain region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method is disclosed. The method is to form a second semiconductor layer which has less susceptibility to adopting insulative characteristics than a first semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer. Then, grooves which expose portions of the second and first semiconductor layers are formed to extend from the upper surface of the second semiconductor layer into the first semiconductor layer. Next, portions of the first and second semiconductor layers which are exposed to the grooves are changed into an insulator form to fill the grooves with the insulator-form portions of the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a simple structure with selectively formed full-silicide (FUSI) and partial silicide gate electrodes and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. According to one aspect, there is provided a semiconductor device includes a first field effect transistor (MOSFET), and a second MOSFET, the first MOSFET including a first gate electrode provided on a gate insulator on a semiconductor substrate and formed of a first metal silicide layer, a first insulator provided to be adjacent to the first gate electrode, and a first sidewall including the first insulator, the second MOSFET including a second gate electrode provided on a gate insulator on the semiconductor substrate and formed of a conductor film including a polysilicon layer and a second metal silicide layer, a second insulator provided to be adjacent to the second gate electrode, and a second sidewall including the second insulator.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device suitable for the miniaturization and comprising properly controlled Si/SiGe gate electrode comprises an insulator formed on a semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode formed on the insulator and including silicon-germanium, wherein a germanium concentration is higher near an interface to the insulator and lower in a surface side opposite to the insulator, and a second gate electrode formed on the insulator and including silicon-germanium, wherein a germanium concentration is substantially uniform and an n-type dopant of a concentration of above 6×1020 atoms/cm3 is contained.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate electrode formed on the substrate, a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate, the source region and the drain region formed located on the both side of the gate electrode, a first insulating film formed on the substrate, the first insulating film for generating a stress in a channel region under the gate electrode, a contact formed on the source region and the drain region, and the contact formed so that an amount of the first insulating film formed on the source region is larger than an amount of the first insulating film formed on the drain region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device suitable for the miniaturization and comprising properly controlled Si/SiGe gate electrode comprises an insulator formed on a semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode formed on the insulator and including silicon-germanium, wherein a germanium concentration is higher near an interface to the insulator and lower in a surface side opposite to the insulator, and a second gate electrode formed on the insulator and including silicon-germanium, wherein a germanium concentration is substantially uniform and an n-type dopant of a concentration of above 6×1020 atoms/cm3 is contained.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method is disclosed. The method is to form a second semiconductor layer which has less susceptibility to adopting insulative characteristics than a first semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer. Then, grooves which expose portions of the second and first semiconductor layers are formed to extend from the upper surface of the second semiconductor layer into the first semiconductor layer. Next, portions of the first and second semiconductor layers which are exposed to the grooves are changed into an insulator form to fill the grooves with the insulator-form portions of the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.

Abstract: The semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same according to the present invention has an object of reducing hem-pulling at a side wall of an isolation trench caused at an open space of a device isolation region having a well boundary at its bottom portion thereby to prevent structurally occurrence of punch-through. In an insulator filled device isolation method, an isolation trench for device isolation is formed by dry etching. If a second isolation trench intersects an intermediate portion of a first isolation like a T-shape, one side of the first isolation trench has an open space. In this case, the inclination angle of the side wall of the first isolation trench, opposed to the open space, is loosened and the side wall forms a shape whose hem is pulled out on the bottom portion. In this case if a well boundary exists along the lengthwise direction at the bottom of the first isolation trench, the structure tends to cause punch-through easily.

Abstract: Element isolation technique for LSIs having a fine pattern of sub-micron class or finer. A high strained region doped with impurities at a high concentration is formed under, and remote from, a buried insulating material (dielectrics) layer for element isolation. With this buried dielectrics element isolation (BDEI) structure, since the high strained layer exists just under the buried dielectrics layer, crystal defects generated near the buried dielectrics layer due to strain caused by a difference of thermal expansion coefficient between a semiconductor layer and the buried dielectrics layer, are moved toward the high strained layer. Accordingly, the crystal defects do not reach an active region where active elements are formed, so that leakage current in the p-n junction formed in the active layer can be advantageously reduced.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate having a groove, and a semiconductor element formed in a surface region of the semiconductor substrate. A substance having a thermal expansion coefficient different from the semiconductor substrate is embedded in at least a portion of the groove, a crystal defect is generated from the region near the bottom of the groove in the semiconductor substrate, thereby alleviating stress and strain in other regions of the semiconductor substrate, such that such regions cannot generate crystal defects in a region necessary for a circuit operation of the semiconductor element of the surface region.