With Means (e.g., A Buried Channel Stop Layer) To Prevent Leakage Current Along The Interface Of The Semiconductor Layer And The Insulating Substrate Patents (Class 257/349)
  • Patent number: 6882009
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge protection device that includes a semiconductor substrate of a first dopant type, at least one source/drain pair of a second dopant type formed in the substrate, wherein the source/drain pair is separated to define a channel region therebetween, a lightly-doped region of the first dopant type defined between the source/drain pair and including at least a portion of the channel region, a gate dielectric layer formed over the substrate, and a gate formed over the gate dielectric layer and above the channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ming-Dou Ker, Tang-Kui Tseng, Hsin-Chin Jiang, Chyh-Yih Chang, Jeng-Jie Peng
  • Patent number: 6879006
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a CMOS transistor is disclosed. The present invention provides a method for producing a CMOS transistor having enhanced performance since a short channel characteristic and operation power can be controlled by the duplicate punch stop layer of the pMOS region and the operation power of the nMOS is also controlled by dopant concentration of the duplicated LDD region combined by the first LDD region and the second LDD region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Yong-Sun Sohn, Chang-Woo Ryoo, Jeong-Youb Lee
  • Patent number: 6878966
    Abstract: Thin-film transistor display devices include composite electrodes which provide low resistance contacts and paths for electrical signals and are less susceptible to parasitic metal migration which can limit display quality and lifetime. In particular, a thin-film transistor (TFT) display device is provided having an insulated gate electrode on a face of a substrate (e.g., transparent substrate) and a semiconductor layer on the insulated gate electrode, opposite the face of the substrate. Spaced apart source and drain electrodes are also provided on the semiconductor layer. These source and drain electrodes each preferably comprise a composite of at least two layers containing respective metals therein of different element type. Preferably, one of the layers comprises a metal which is capable of forming a low resistance contact with electrodes such as a pixel electrode (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 6876039
    Abstract: The dependency of threshold voltage on adjusted bias voltage is varied between N-channel and P-channel MOSFETs. A support substrate, an insulating layer on the support substrate, and island-shaped first and second silicon layers separately formed on the insulating layer; a first MOSFET formed of a fully depleted SOI where a first channel part is formed in a first silicon layer; and a second MOSFET formed of a partially depleted SOI where a second channel part is formed in a second silicon layer, the second MOSFET configures a complementary MOSFET with the first MOSFET, are provided. The threshold voltage of the second MOSFET formed of the partially depleted SOI is hardly varied because of a neutral region in the second channel part, although bias voltage is applied to the support substrate to vary the threshold voltage of the first MOSFET formed of the fully depleted SOI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masao Okihara
  • Patent number: 6872979
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate that prevents formation of particles from an edge part of the substrate. The substrate contains an on-substrate oxide film and an SOI layer stacked on the oxide film. A molten layer is formed on the edge part of the on-substrate oxide film and the SOI layer by mixing the SOI layer and the on-substrate oxide film to cover the edge part. An epitaxial layer may also be formed on the edge part of the on-substrate oxide film and the SOI layer to cover the edge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Yoshida, Hideki Naruoka, Yasuhiro Kimura, Yasuo Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Iwamatsu, Yuuichi Hirano
  • Patent number: 6873013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transistor that includes a semiconductive layer on an insulator layer. Below the insulator layer is a substrate and a contact is disposed in the insulator layer that originates at the substrate and terminates in the insulator layer. The contact is aligned below the transistor junction. The invention also relates to a process flow that is used to fabricate the transistor. The process flow includes forming the contact by either a spacer etch or a directional, angular etch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Roberds, Doulgas W. Barlage
  • Patent number: 6867495
    Abstract: Integrated circuits, semiconductor devices and methods for making the same are described. Each embodiment shows a diffused, doped backside layer in a device wafer that is oxide bonded to a handle wafer. The diffused layer may originate in the device handle, in the handle wafer, in the bond oxide or in an additional semiconductor layer of polysilicon or epitaxial silicon. The methods use a thermal bond oxide or a combination of a thermal and deposited oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Intersil Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Czagas, Dustin A. Woodbury, James D. Beasom
  • Patent number: 6867432
    Abstract: In fabricating a thin film transistor, an active layer comprising a silicon semiconductor is formed on a substrate having an insulating surface. Hydrogen is introduced into the active layer. A thin film comprising SiOxNy formed to cover the active layer and then a gate insulating film comprising a silicon oxide film formed on the thin film comprising SiOxNy. Also, a thin film comprising SiOxNy is formed under the active layer. The active layer includes a metal element at a concentration of 1×1015 to 1×1019 cm?3 and hydrogen at a concentration of 2×1019 to 5×1021 cm?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Inventor: Satoshi Teramoto
  • Patent number: 6864535
    Abstract: The controllable semiconductor switching element blocks in both directions. The semiconductor switching element is formed with a first conduction region and a second conduction region of a first type of conductivity, a blocking region of a second type of conductivity which is disposed between the first and second conducting regions, and a control electrode which is arranged opposite the blocking region and insulated from it. A recombination region is configured in the blocking region and is comprised of a material that promotes a recombination of charge carriers of the first and second type of conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Jenoe Tihanyi
  • Patent number: 6861680
    Abstract: A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) gated diode and non-gated junction diode are provided. The SOI gated diode has a PN junction at the middle region under the gate, which has more junction area than a normal diode. The SOI non-gated junction diode has a PN junction at the middle region thereof, and also has more junction area than a normal diode. The SOI diodes of the present invention improve the protection level offered for electrical overstress (EOS)/electrostatic discharge (ESD) due to the low power density and heating for providing more junction area than normal ones. The I/O ESD protection circuits, which comprise primary diodes, a first plurality of diodes, and a second plurality of diodes, all of which are formed of the present SOI diodes, could effectively discharge the current when there is an ESD event. And the ESD protection circuits, which comprise more primary diodes, could effectively reduce the parasitic input capacitance, so that they can be used in the RF circuits or HF circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ming-Dou Ker, Kei-Kang Hung, Tien-Hao Tang
  • Patent number: 6861708
    Abstract: This semiconductor device is provided with a wiring called a body line (BDL), a body section of a memory cell transistor is connected to this body line (BDL), and a potential of the body section is controlled by a body section controller connected to the body line. As a result, it is possible to propose a novel structure capable of keeping the potential of the body section low and to provide a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method therefor, capable of improving operation performance by contriving circuit operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Shigeki Tomishima
  • Patent number: 6855989
    Abstract: A fin field effect transistor includes a fin, a source region, a drain region, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode. The fin includes a channel. The source region is formed adjacent a first end of the fin and the drain region is formed adjacent a second end of the fin. The first gate electrode includes a first layer of metal material formed adjacent the fin. The second gate electrode includes a second layer of metal material formed adjacent the first layer. The first layer of metal material has a different work function than the second layer of metal material. The second layer of metal material selectively diffuses into the first layer of metal material via metal interdiffusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Haihong Wang, Shibly S. Ahmed, Ming-Ren Lin, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 6853002
    Abstract: A hydrogenation method that utilizes plasma directly exposes a crystalline semiconductor film to the plasma, and therefore involves the problem that the crystalline semiconductor film is damaged by the ions generated simultaneously in the plasma. If a substrate is heated to 400° C. or above to recover this damage, hydrogen is re-emitted from the crystalline semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Taketomi Asami, Hidehito Kitakado, Yasuyuki Arai
  • Patent number: 6849884
    Abstract: A method and structure for a transistor that includes an insulator and a silicon structure on the insulator. The silicon structure includes a central portion and Fins extending from ends of the central portion. A first gate is positioned on a first side of the central portion of the silicon structure. A strain-producing layer could be between the first gate and the first side of the central portion of the silicon structure and a second gate is on a second side of the central portion of the silicon structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William F. Clark, David M. Fried, Louis D. Lanzerotti, Edward J. Nowak
  • Patent number: 6847082
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated device having a source region and a drain region of a first conductive type, a channel region of a second conductive type which is located between the source and drain regions. The channel region having a highly doped impurity region of the second conductive type which is surrounded by a lightly doped impurity region of the second conductive type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 6841873
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip which has a first surface, a pad which is formed directly on the first surface, an oxide film which is formed on the first surface, an insulating film which is formed on the oxide film and a part of the pad, a conductive film which is formed on the insulating film and the pad, a sealing material which covers a part of the conductive film and the insulating film and a bump which is formed over the conductive film, wherein the bump is exposed from a surface of the sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Tae Yamane
  • Patent number: 6838747
    Abstract: A dopant is ion-implanted into a second region (52) of a polycrystalline silicon film (50) for a resistive element (5). Nitrogen or the like is ion-implanted into a second region (62) of a polycrystalline silicon film (60) for a resistive element (6). The density of crystal defects in the second regions (52, 62) is higher than that in first regions (51, 61). The density of crystal defects in a polycrystalline silicon film (70) for a resistive element (7) is higher near a silicide film (73). A polycrystalline silicon film (80) for a resistive element (8) is in contact with a substrate (2) with a silicide film in an opening of an isolation insulating film (3). The density of crystal defects in a substrate surface (2S) near the silicide film is higher than that in the vicinity. With such a structure, a current leak in an isolation region can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Oda
  • Patent number: 6835983
    Abstract: The present invention provides SOI material which includes a top Si-containing layer which has regions of different thickness as well as a method of fabricating such SOI material. The inventive method includes a step of thinning predetermined regions of the top Si-containing layer by masked oxidation of silicon. SOI IC chips including the inventive SOI material having different types of CMOS devices build thereon as also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tak H. Ning, Devendra K. Sadana
  • Publication number: 20040259327
    Abstract: A silicon oxide film 3′, 3″ is formed on each of the main surfaces of a first silicon single crystal substrate 1 (bond wafer) and a second silicon single crystal substrate 2 (base wafer), and the first and second silicon single crystal substrates are then brought into close contact so as to locate the silicon oxide films 3′, 3″ in between in an atmosphere of a clean air supplied through a boron-releasable filter, to thereby produce an SOI wafer 10. The second silicon single crystal substrate 2 employed herein comprises a silicon single crystal substrate having a bulk resistivity of 100 &OHgr;·cm or above. In thus produced SOI wafer 10, the silicon oxide film 3 has a depth profile of boron concentration in which the boron concentration reaches maximum at a thickness-wise position. This ensures manufacturing of SOI wafer excellent in high-frequency characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Mitani
  • Patent number: 6831333
    Abstract: To provide a thin film transistor having a low OFF characteristic and to provide P-channel type and N-channel type thin film transistors where a difference in characteristics of the P-channel type and the N-channel type thin film transistors is corrected, a region 145 having a P-type behavior more potential than that of a drain region 146 is arranged between a channel forming region 134 and the drain region 146 in the P-channel type thin film transistor whereby the P-channel type thin film transistor having the low OFF characteristic can be provided and a low concentration impurity region 136 is arranged between a channel forming region 137 and a drain region 127 in the N-channel type thin film transistor whereby the N-channel type thin film transistor having the low OFF characteristic and where deterioration is restrained can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyong Zhang, Satoshi Teramoto
  • Patent number: 6828632
    Abstract: One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a partially depleted silicon-on-insulator structure. The structure includes a well region formed above an oxide insulation layer. In various embodiments, the well region is a multilayer epitaxy that includes a silicon germanium (Si—Ge) layer. In various embodiments, the well region includes a number of recombination centers between the Si—Ge layer and the insulation layer. A source region, a drain region, a gate oxide layer, and a gate are formed. In various embodiments, the Si—Ge layer includes a number of recombination centers in the source/drain regions. In various embodiments, a metal silicide layer and a lateral metal Schottky layer are formed above the well region to contact the source region and the well region. Other aspects are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Arup Bhattacharyya
  • Publication number: 20040238890
    Abstract: A semiconductor device such as a DPAM memory device is disclosed. A, Substrate (12) of semiconductor material is provided with energy band modifying means in the form of a box region (38) and is covered by an insulating layer (14). A semi-conductor layer (16) has source (18) and drain (20) regions formed therein to define bodies (22) of respective field effect transistors. The box region (38) is more heavily doped than the adjacent body (22), but less highly doped than the corresponding source (18) and drain (20), and modifies the valence and/or conduction band of the body (22) to increase the amount of electrical charge which can be stored in the body (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Pierre Fazan, Serguei Okhonin
  • Patent number: 6822297
    Abstract: A short-channel NMOS transistor in a p-well, bordered laterally on each side by an isolation region and vertically by a channel stop region, has a n-source and a n-drain, each comprising a shallow region extending to the transistor gate and a deeper region recessed from the gate, and both having a depletion region when reverse biased. The shallow regions are surrounded in part by an enhanced p-doping implant pocket. The transistor further has in these regions of enhanced p-doping another region of a p-resistivity higher than the remainder of the semiconductor. These regions extend laterally approximately from the inner border of the respective shallow region to the inner border of the respective recessed region, and vertically from a depth just below the depletion regions of source and drain to approximately the top of the channel stop regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahalingam Nandakumar, Song Zhao, Youngmin Kim
  • Patent number: 6815773
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided in which: a parasitic capacitance between a drain and a supporting substrate is reduced; and a high electric field generated in the vicinity of the drain is relaxed and which has a high withstand voltage. A MOS transistor according to the present invention includes: a supporting substrate region in an SOT substrate; a buried insulating film formed on the supporting substrate region; a channel region formed on the buried insulating film; and first and second offset regions that are formed on the buried insulating film so as to be adjacent to the channel region on both sides thereof, and further includes an impurity diffusion region formed in a portion positioned below the second offset region in the supporting substrate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Uehara, Jun Osanai
  • Patent number: 6815774
    Abstract: A dielectrically separated wafer and a fabrication method of the same are provided according to the first, second and third embodiments of the present invention. According to the first embodiment, it becomes possible to expand the device fabrication surface area of the dielectrically separated silicon islands by laminating a low concentration impurity layer including a dopant of the same conductivity on a high concentration impurity layer formed on the bottom of the island. According to the second embodiment, a dielectrically separated wafer and a fabrication method for the same which can grow a polysilicon layer without producing voids in the dielectrically separating oxide layer is provided by forming a seed polysilicon layer at low temperature and under low pressure and by forming, on the seed polysilicon layer, a high temperature polysilicon layer 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oi, Kazuya Sato, Hiroshi Shimamura
  • Patent number: 6815822
    Abstract: Provided is a BiCOMOS semiconductor integrated circuit device which comprises a semiconductor substrate having an insulating layer internally and partially embedded therein and a semiconductor layer deposited on the insulating layer, an insulated gate type transistor formed in the semiconductor layer, a highly-doped collector layer of a bipolar transistor embedded in an insulating-layer-free portion of the semiconductor substrate, and a low-doped collector layer disposed on the highly-doped collector layer of the bipolar transistor, wherein the height level of the lower portion of the low-doped collector layer is below the height level of the lower portion of the insulating layer so as to attain high breakdown voltage and high speed operation of the bipolar transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Kondo, Katsuyoshi Washio, Eiji Oue, Hiromi Shimamoto
  • Patent number: 6815296
    Abstract: A method of forming a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) device is provided. The SOI MOSFET device includes a polysilicon back-gate which controls the threshold voltage of a polysilicon-containing front-gate. The back-gate functions as a dynamic threshold voltage control system in the SOI MOSFET device because it is suitable for use during circuit/system active periods and during circuit/system idle periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert H. Dennard, Wilfried E. Haensch, Hussein I. Hanafi
  • Patent number: 6805962
    Abstract: A method of forming a thin, high-quality relaxed SiGe-on-insulator substrate material is provided which first includes forming a SiGe or pure Ge layer on a surface of a first single crystal Si layer which is present atop a barrier layer that is resistant to the diffusion of Ge. Optionally forming a Si cap layer over the SiGe or pure Ge layer, and thereafter heating the various layers at a temperature which permits interdiffusion of Ge throughout the first single crystal Si layer, the optional Si cap and the SiGe or pure Ge layer thereby forming a substantially relaxed, single crystal SiGe layer atop the barrier layer. Additional SiGe regrowth and/or formation of a strained epi-Si layer may follow the above steps. SiGe-on-insulator substrate materials as well as structures including at least the SiGe-on-insulator substrate materials are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen W. Bedell, Jack O. Chu, Keith E. Fogel, Steven J. Koester, Devendra K. Sadana, John Albrecht Ott
  • Patent number: 6806538
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a field effect transistor which inhibits an aggregation of silicon atoms attendant on heat treatment and has stable source/drain shapes. The field effect transistor according to the present invention is manufactured using a substrate on which a silicon layer, an buried oxide film (BOX film) and an SOI layer are stacked in order. The field effect transistor has an element isolation layer formed in the SOI layer and further includes visored portions provided so as to cover angular portions on the main surface side of an activation layer defined by the element isolation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6803631
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a fin and a layer formed on the fin. The fin includes a first crystalline material having a rectangular cross section and a number of surfaces. The layer is formed on the surfaces and includes a second crystalline material. The first crystalline material has a different lattice constant than the second crystalline material to induce tensile strain within the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Srikanteswara Dakshina-Murthy, Judy Xilin An, Zoran Krivokapic, Haihong Wang, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 6800886
    Abstract: The semiconductor device comprises insulation films 30a-30f formed on a semiconductor substrate 10, and a thermal conductor 42 buried in the insulation films. The thermal conductor is formed on a tube structure of carbon atoms. The thermal conductor is formed on a tube structure of carbon atoms, which is a material of very high thermal conductivity, can effectively radiate heat of a very high generated in semiconductor elements, etc., such as transistors 24a, 24b, etc. Accordingly, the semiconductor device can have good heat radiation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Yuji Awano
  • Patent number: 6797547
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an elongated, blade-shaped semiconductor element isolated from a surrounding region of a semiconductor substrate by buried and side oxide layers. A polysilicon post disposed at one end of the element has a bottom portion extending through the buried oxide to contact the substrate, providing for electrical and thermal coupling between the element and the substrate and for gettering impurities during processing. A device fabrication process employs a selective silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technique including forming trenches in the substrate; passivating the upper portion of the element; and performing a long oxidation to create the buried oxide layer. A second oxidation is used to create an insulating oxide layer on the sidewalls of the semiconductor element, and polysilicon material is used to fill the trenches and to create the post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sheldon D. Haynie, Steven L. Merchant, Sameer P. Pendharkar, Vladimir Bolkhovsky
  • Patent number: 6791145
    Abstract: A method of deforming a pattern comprising the steps of: forming, over a substrate, a layered-structure with an upper surface including at least one selected region and at least a re-flow stopper groove, wherein the re-flow stopper groove extends outside the selected region and separate from the selected region; selectively forming at least one pattern on the selected region; and causing a re-flow of the pattern, wherein a part of an outwardly re-flowed pattern is flowed into the re-flow stopper groove, and then an outward re-flow of the pattern is restricted by the re-flow stopper groove extending outside of the pattern, thereby to form a deformed pattern with at least an outside edge part defined by an outside edge of the re-flow stopper groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shusaku Kido
  • Patent number: 6791144
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a thin film transistor (and related multilayer structures) that includes: source and drain electrodes 14 and 15 disposed at a specified interval above an insulating substrate 11 and formed by printing-and-plating; an a-Si-film 16 disposed for the source and drain electrodes 14 and 15; a gate insulating film 17 laminated on the a-Si film 16; and a gate electrode 18 laminated on the gate insulating film 17 and formed by printing-and-plating. The a-Si film 16 and the gate insulating film 17 have an offset region 20 that uniformly extends beyond the dimensions of the gate electrode 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter M. Fryer, Robert L. Wisnieff, Takatoshi Tsujimura
  • Patent number: 6787851
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in accordance with one example of the present invention pertains to a semiconductor device to be used for a CMOS inverter circuit, comprising a BOX layer 2 formed on a silicon substrate 1, a SOI film 3 including single crystal Si formed on the BOX layer, a gate oxide film 4 formed on the SOI film 3, a gate electrode 5 formed on the gate oxide film, and diffusion layers 7, 8 for source/drain regions formed in source/drain regions of the SOI film 3, wherein, when a power supply voltage of 0.6 V is used, a thickness TSOI of the SOI film 3 is 0.084 &mgr;m or greater and 0.094 &mgr;m or smaller, and an impurity concentration of the SOI film is 7.95×1017/cm3 or greater and 8.05×1017/cm3 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Michiru Hogyoku
  • Patent number: 6787852
    Abstract: A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) device. The SOI device includes a substrate having a buried oxide layer disposed thereon and an active layer disposed on the buried oxide layer. The active layer has an active region defined by isolation regions, the active region having a source and a drain with a body disposed therebetween. The source and the drain have a selectively grown silicon-germanium region disposed under an upper layer of selectively grown silicon. The silicon-geranium regions form heterojunction portions respectively along the source/body junction and the drain/body junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Yu, Ralf van Bentum
  • Patent number: 6787853
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an SOI substrate, trench memory cells including trench capacitors formed in the SOI substrate and a mesa or trench isolation region for isolating the trench memory cells. As a result, the trench memory cells are isolated more completely and soft errors are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Hideto Hidaka, Katsuhiro Suma, Takahiro Tsuruda
  • Patent number: 6787854
    Abstract: A method for forming a fin structure on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer that includes a silicon layer on an insulating layer that is formed over a semiconductor substrate includes etching the silicon layer using a first etch procedure, etching, following the first etch procedure, the silicon layer using a second etch procedure, and etching, following the second etch procedure, the silicon layer using a third etch procedure to form a T-shaped fin structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuh Yang, Shibly S. Ahmed, Srikanteswara Dakshina-Murthy, Cyrus E. Tabery, Haihong Wang, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 6784494
    Abstract: A silicon oxide film 3′, 3″ is formed on each of the main surfaces of a first silicon single crystal substrate 1 (bond wafer) and a second silicon single crystal substrate 2 (base wafer), and the first and second silicon single crystal substrates are then brought into close contact so as to locate the silicon oxide films 3′, 3″ in between in an atmosphere of a clean air supplied through a boron-releasable filter, to thereby produce an SOI wafer 10. The second silicon single crystal substrate 2 employed herein comprises a silicon single crystal substrate having a bulk resistivity of 100 &OHgr;·cm or above. In thus produced SOI wafer 10, the silicon oxide film 3 has a depth profile of boron concentration in which the boron concentration reaches maximum at a thickness-wise position. This ensures manufacturing of SOI wafer excellent in high-frequency characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Handotai, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Mitani
  • Patent number: 6784495
    Abstract: The present invention has provided on a back channel side of the TFT a blocking layer that is formed by laminating a 50 nm to 100 nm thick silicon oxynitride film (A) and a 30 nm to 70 nm thick silicon oxynitride film (B). By forming a lamination structure of such silicon oxynitride films, not only can be the contaminations caused by impurities such as alkali metallic elements from the substrate prevented, but the fluctuations in the electrical characteristics of the TFT can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Koyama, Hidehito Kitakado, Masataka Itoh, Hiroyuki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20040164353
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device having an SOI structure and a method of manufacturing the same, influence by a parasitic transistor can be prevented, and no disadvantage is caused in connection with a manufacturing process. In this semiconductor device, an upper side portion of a semiconductor layer is rounded. Thereby, concentration of an electric field at the upper side portion of the semiconductor layer can be prevented. As a result, lowering of a threshold voltage of a parasitic transistor can be prevented, so that the parasitic transistor does not adversely affect subthreshold characteristics of a regular transistor. Owing to provision of a concavity of a U-shaped section, generation of etching residue can be prevented when etching a gate electrode for patterning the same. Thereby, a disadvantage is not caused in connection with the manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiaki Iwamatsu, Yasuo Yamaguchi, Shigenobu Maeda, Shoichi Miyamoto, Akihiko Furukawa, Yasuo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6777751
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in accordance with the present invention includes: an insulating layer; a semiconductor region formed on the insulating layer; a trench that surrounds side parts of the semiconductor region and reaches the insulating layer; an isolation insulating film formed in the trench; a semiconductor element in which the semiconductor region serves as an active region; a side oxide film formed by oxidizing the side parts of the semiconductor region and located between the rest of the semiconductor region and the isolation insulating film; and a bottom oxide film that is formed by oxidizing a bottom part of the semiconductor region, located over the entire interface between the rest of the semiconductor region and the insulating layer, and having side surfaces that reach the side oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tohru Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 6774436
    Abstract: A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) device. The SOi device includes a substrate, an insulator layer disposed on the substrate and an active region disposed on the insulator layer. The active region includes a source, a drain, and a body disposed therebetween. The source and body form an abrupt or hyperabrupt source/body junction. A gate is disposed on the body to operatively form a transistor. An implanted region forms an interface between the body and the drain, the implanted region formed by tilted atom implantation in a direction towards the active region and under the gate from an angle tilted towards the drain with respect to vertical, the implanted region resulting in the formation of a graded drain/body junction. Also disclosed is a method of fabricating the SOI device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Yu, Ralf van Bentum
  • Publication number: 20040145019
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a fin and a layer formed on the fin. The fin includes a first crystalline material having a rectangular cross section and a number of surfaces. The layer is formed on the surfaces and includes a second crystalline material. The first crystalline material has a different lattice constant than the second crystalline material to induce tensile strain within the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Srikanteswara Dakshina-Murthy, Judy Xilin An, Zoran Krivokapic, Haihong Wang, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 6759701
    Abstract: MOS transistors A and B form a transistor circuit (an inverter in this case). A MOS transistor D is one for interrupting leakage current that has a channel length longer than those of the MOS transistors A and B. Under the action of an enable terminal (Enable), the MOS transistor D conducts only while the circuit is operated, and does not conduct and thereby interrupts leakage current while the circuit is in a standby state. A MOS transistor C does not produce effect while the circuit is operated, and makes the potential of an output terminal (Output) a high potential or a low potential (not intermediate potential) only while the circuit is in the standby state. Therefore, the circuit controls unnecessary through-transistor current of a standby type circuit in a succeeding stage, which current is conventionally caused at an intermediate potential during standby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Shimizume
  • Patent number: 6759714
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor fabrication technology; and, more particularly, to a semiconductor device having a heat release structure that uses a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The device and method of the present research provides a semiconductor device having a high heat-release structure and high heat-release structure, and a fabrication method thereof. In the research, the heat and high-frequency noises that are generated in the integrated circuit are released outside of the substrate through the tunneling region quickly by forming an integrated circuit on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, aiid removing a buried insulation layer under the integrated circuit to form a tunneling region. The heat-release efficiency can be enhanced much more, when unevenness is formed on the surfaces of the upper and lower parts of the tunneling region, or when the air or other gases having excellent heat conductivity is flown into the tunneling region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sang Gi Kim, Dae Woo Lee, Tae Moon Roh, Yil Suk Yang, II-Young Park, Byoung-Gon Yu, Jong Dae Kim
  • Patent number: 6756639
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a defect induced buried oxide (DIBOX) region in a semiconductor substrate utilizing an oxygen ion implantation step to create a stable defect region; a low energy implantation step to create an amorphous layer adjacent to the stable defect region, wherein the low energy implantation steps uses at least one ion other than oxygen; oxidation and, optionally, annealing, is provided. Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials comprising a semiconductor substrate having a DIBOX region in patterned or unpatterned forms is also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Maurice H. Norcott, Devendra K. Sadana
  • Patent number: 6753555
    Abstract: A HDTMOS includes a Si substrate, a buried oxide film and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes an upper Si film, an epitaxially grown Si buffer layer, an epitaxially grown SiGe film, and an epitaxially grown Si film. Furthermore, the HDTMOS includes an n-type high concentration Si body region, an n− Si region, a SiGe channel region containing n-type low concentration impurities, an n-type low concentration Si cap layer, and a contact which is a conductor member for electrically connecting the gate electrode and the Si body region. The present invention extends the operation range while keeping the threshold voltage small by using, for the channel layer, a material having a smaller potential at the band edge where carriers travel than that of a material constituting the body region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Takagi, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 6744115
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising: a first insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer at least a part of which is formed on the first insulating film; a second insulating film comprising a non-doped silicon oxide film and formed on the semiconductor layer; a third insulating film comprising a silicon oxide film containing at least phosphorus formed on the second insulating film; and a fourth insulating film comprising a non-doped silicon oxide film formed on the third insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20040094797
    Abstract: The MOS transistor of the present invention is manufactured by a conventional complementary MOS transistor technology. In the manufacturing method of the MOS transistor having nanometer dimensions, a gate having dimensions at a nanometer scale can be formed through control of the width of spacers instead of with a specific lithography technology. The doped spacers are used for forming source/drain extension regions having an ultra-shallow junction, thereby avoiding damage on the substrate caused by ion implantation. In addition, a dopant is diffused from the doped space into a semiconductor substrate through annealing to form the source/drain extension regions having an ultra-shallow junction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Il-Yong Park, Sang-Gi Kim, Byoung-Gon Yu, Jong-Dae Kim, Tae-Moon Roh, Dae-Woo Lee, Yil-Suk Yang