Bipolar And Mos Technologies (epo) Patents (Class 257/E21.696)
  • Patent number: 11127621
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes following steps. Firstly, a substrate is provided and the substrate has a first semiconductor layer formed thereon. Next, an isolating structure is formed in the first semiconductor layer, and a sacrificial layer is formed on the first semiconductor layer by consuming a top portion of the first semiconductor layer. Then, the sacrificial layer is removed to form a second semiconductor layer, and a portion of the isolating structure is also removed to form a shallow trench isolation (STI), with a top surface of the shallow trench isolation being substantially coplanar with a top surface of the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Ji Feng, Yunfei Li, Guohai Zhang, Ching Hwa Tey, Jingling Wang
  • Patent number: 10396103
    Abstract: A method is presented for forming a monolithically integrated semiconductor device. The method includes forming a first device including first hydrogenated silicon-based contacts formed on a first portion of a semiconductor material of an insulating substrate and forming a second device including second hydrogenated silicon-based contacts formed on a second portion of the semiconductor material of the insulating substrate. Source and drain contacts of the first device are formed before a gate contact of the first device and a gate contact of the second device is formed before the emitter and collector contacts of the second device. The first device can be a heterojunction field effect transistor (HJFET) and the second device can be a (heterojunction bipolar transistor) HBT. The HJFET and the HBT are integrated in a neuronal circuit and create negative differential resistance by forming a lambda diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Bahman Hekmatshoartabari
  • Patent number: 10312356
    Abstract: Device structures and fabrication methods for heterojunction bipolar transistors. Trench isolation regions are arranged to surround a plurality of active regions, and a collector is located in each of the active regions. A base layer includes a plurality of first sections that are respectively arranged over the active regions and a plurality of second sections that are respectively arranged over the trench isolation regions. The first sections of the base layer contain single-crystal semiconductor material, and the second sections of the base layer contain polycrystalline semiconductor material. The second sections of the base layer are spaced in a vertical direction from the trench isolation regions to define a plurality of cavities. A plurality of emitter fingers are respectively arranged on the first sections of the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: Qizhi Liu, Vibhor Jain, James W. Adkisson, Sarah McTaggart, Mark Levy
  • Patent number: 10243048
    Abstract: A microelectronic device having an n-type buried layer (NBL) is formed by forming a thin screen layer on the top surface of the substrate. Antimony is implanted through the screen layer exposed by an implant mask into the substrate; the implant mask blocks antimony from the substrate outside the NBL area. The implant mask is removed, leaving the screen layer, which has the same thickness over the NBL area and the area outside the NBL, on the surface. Silicon dioxide is formed during an anneal/drive process, both in the NBL area and outside the NBL area. Slightly more silicon dioxide is formed in the NBL area, consuming more silicon there and so forming a shallow silicon recess. An epitaxial layer is grown on the top surface of the substrate. A structure for the microelectronic device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Binghua Hu, Azghar H Khazi-Syed, Shariq Arshad
  • Patent number: 9929146
    Abstract: Bipolar transistors and MOS transistors are formed in a common process. A semiconductor layer is arranged on an insulating layer. On a side of the bipolar transistors: an insulating region including the insulating layer is formed; openings are etched through the insulating region to delimit insulating walls; the openings are filled with first epitaxial portions; and the first epitaxial portions and a first region extending under the first epitaxial portions and under the insulating walls are doped. On the side of the bipolar transistors and on a side of the MOS transistors: gate structures are formed; second epitaxial portions are made; and the second epitaxial portions covering the first epitaxial portions are doped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS, STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Olivier Weber, Emmanuel Richard, Philippe Boivin
  • Patent number: 9673191
    Abstract: A bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) device is disclosed. The BiCMOS device includes a CMOS device in a CMOS region, a PNP bipolar device in a bipolar region, and a spacer clear region defined by an opening in a common spacer layer over the CMOS region and the bipolar region, wherein a sub-collector, a selectively implanted collector, and a base of the PNP bipolar device are formed in the spacer clear region. The PNP bipolar device further includes a collector sinker adjacent to the spacer clear region and electrically connected to the sub-collector of the PNP bipolar device. The BiCMOS device can further include an NPN bipolar device having a sub-collector, a selectively implanted collector and a base in another spacer clear region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Newport Fab, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Preisler, Todd Thibeault
  • Patent number: 9373722
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor structure comprising: a semiconductor base located on an insulating layer, wherein the insulating layer is located on a semiconductor substrate; source/drain regions, which are in contact with first sidewalls of the semiconductor base opposite to each other; gates located on second sidewalls of the semiconductor base opposite to each other; an insulating via located on the insulating layer and embedded into the semiconductor base; and an epitaxial layer sandwiched between the insulating via and the semiconductor base. The present invention further provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure comprising: forming an insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a semiconductor base on the insulating layer; forming a void within the semiconductor base, wherein the void exposes the semiconductor substrate; forming an epitaxial layer in the void through selective epitaxy; and forming an insulating via within the void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Haizhou Yin, Huilong Zhu, Zhijiong Luo
  • Patent number: 9245755
    Abstract: An integrated circuit and method having a deep collector vertical bipolar transistor with a first base tuning diffusion. A MOS transistor has a second base tuning diffusion. The first base tuning diffusion and the second base tuning diffusion are formed using the same implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Brian E. Hornung, Xiang-Zheng Bo, Amitava Chatterjee, Alwin J. Tsao
  • Patent number: 8993394
    Abstract: Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device includes a semiconductive layer disposed over a substrate. A trench is disposed in the semiconductive layer, the trench with a first sidewall and an opposite second sidewall. A first insulating material layer is disposed over an upper portion of the first sidewall, and a conductive material disposed within the trench. An air gap is disposed between the conductive material and the semiconductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Mueller, Robert Gruenberger, Bernhard Winkler
  • Patent number: 8993393
    Abstract: A structure and method for providing a multiple silicide integration is provided. An embodiment comprises forming a first transistor and a second transistor on a substrate. The first transistor is masked and a first silicide region is formed on the second transistor. The second transistor is then masked and a second silicide region is formed on the first transistor, thereby allowing for device specific silicide regions to be formed on the separate devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Der-Chyang Yeh, Hsing-Kuo Hsia, Hao-Hsun Lin, Chih-Ping Chao, Chin-Hao Su, Hsi-Kuei Cheng
  • Patent number: 8921195
    Abstract: Methods for fabricating a device structure, as well as device structures and design structures for a bipolar junction transistor. The device structure includes a collector region in a substrate, a plurality of isolation structures extending into the substrate and comprised of an electrical insulator, and an isolation region in the substrate. The isolation structures have a length and are arranged with a pitch transverse to the length such that each adjacent pair of the isolation structures is separated by a respective section of the substrate. The isolation region is laterally separated from at least one of the isolation structures by a first portion of the collector region. The isolation region laterally separates a second portion of the collector region from the first portion of the collector region. The device structure further includes an intrinsic base on the second portion of the collector region and an emitter on the intrinsic base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Peter B. Gray, Vibhor Jain, Robert K. Leidy, Qizhi Liu
  • Patent number: 8912569
    Abstract: A hybrid transistor (58) has a substrate (42) with a first (e.g., P type) well region (46) and a second (e.g., N type) well region (44) with an NP or PN junction (43) therebetween. A MOS portion (70-3) of the hybrid transistor (58) has an (e.g., N type) source region (48) in the first well region (46) and a gate conductor (52) overlying and insulated from the well regions (46, 44) that extends laterally at least to the junction (43). A drain or anode (D/A) portion (71-3) in the second well region (44) collects current 56 from the source region (48), and includes a bipolar transistor (78) having an (e.g., N+) emitter region (64), a (e.g., P type) base region (59) and a (e.g., N type) collector region (62) laterally separated from the junction (43). Different LDMOS-like or IGBT-like properties are obtained depending on whether the current 56 is extracted from the hybrid transistor (58) via the bipolar transistor (78) base (59) or emitter (64) or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Vishal P. Trivedi
  • Patent number: 8907450
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for metal semiconductor wafer bonding for high-Q devices are provided. An exemplary capacitor includes a first plate formed on a glass substrate, a second plate, and a dielectric layer. No organic bonding agent is used between the first plate and the glass substrate, and the dielectric layer can be an intrinsic semiconductor. A extrinsic semiconductor layer that is heavily doped contacts the dielectric layer. The dielectric and extrinsic semiconductor layers are sandwiched between the first and second plates. An intermetallic layer is formed between the first plate and the dielectric layer. The intermetallic layer is thermo compression bonded to the first plate and the dielectric layer. The capacitor can be coupled in a circuit as a high-Q capacitor and/or a varactor, and can be integrated with a mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Changhan Yun, Chengjie Zuo, Chi Shun Lo, Jonghae Kim, Mario F. Velez
  • Patent number: 8836043
    Abstract: A lateral bipolar junction transistor includes an emitter region; a base region surrounding the emitter region; a gate disposed at least over a portion of the base region; and a collector region surrounding the base region; wherein the portion of the base region under the gate does not under go a threshold voltage implant process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Ko, Tung-Hsing Lee
  • Patent number: 8772103
    Abstract: A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an npn BJT and an NMOS transistor by cooling the integrated circuit substrate to 5° C. or colder and concurrently implanting n-type dopants, at a specified minimum dose according to species, into the emitter region of the BJT and the source and drain regions of the NMOS transistor. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing a pnp BJT and a PMOS transistor by cooling the integrated circuit substrate to 5° C. or colder and concurrently implanting p-type dopants, at a specified minimum dose according to species, into the emitter region of the BJT and the source and drain regions of the PMOS transistor. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an implant region by cooling the integrated circuit substrate to 5° C. or colder and implanting atoms, at a specified minimum dose according to species, into the implant region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Ming-Yeh Chuang
  • Patent number: 8674454
    Abstract: A lateral bipolar junction transistor includes an emitter region; a base region surrounding the emitter region; a gate disposed at least over a portion of the base region; and a collector region surrounding the base region; wherein the portion of the base region under the gate does not under go a threshold voltage implant process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Ko, Tung-Hsing Lee
  • Publication number: 20140043096
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a bandgap reference voltage using at least one polysilicon diode and no silicon diodes. The polysilicon diode is comprised of three portions, a lightly doped portion flanked by a more heavily doped portion on each end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventor: Adrian FINNEY
  • Publication number: 20140035064
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures and methods of manufacture are disclosed herein. Specifically, disclosed herein are methods of manufacturing a high-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor and respective structures. A method includes forming a field-effect transistor (FET) on a substrate in a FET region, forming a high-voltage FET (HVFET) on a dielectric stack over a over lightly-doped diffusion (LDD) drain in a HVFET region, and forming an NPN on the substrate in an NPN region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William F. CLARK, JR., Qizhi LIU, John J. Pekarik, Yun SHI, Yanli ZHANG
  • Patent number: 8643118
    Abstract: Bipolar field effect transistor (BiFET) structures and methods of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate and a plurality of epitaxial layers disposed over the substrate. The plurality of epitaxial layers includes a first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer disposed over the first epitaxial layer, and a third epitaxial layer disposed over the second epitaxial layer. The first epitaxial layer includes at least a portion of a channel of a first field effect transistor (FET) and the third epitaxial layer includes at least a portion of a channel of a second FET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J Zampardi, Jr., Hsiang-Chih Sun
  • Publication number: 20140027817
    Abstract: A hybrid transistor (58) has a substrate (42) with a first (e.g., P type) well region (46) and a second (e.g., N type) well region (44) with an NP or PN junction (43) therebetween. A MOS portion (70-3) of the hybrid transistor (58) has an (e.g., N type) source region (48) in the first well region (46) and a gate conductor (52) overlying and insulated from the well regions (46, 44) that extends laterally at least to the junction (43). A drain or anode (D/A) portion (71-3) in the second well region (44) collects current (69) from the source region (48), and includes a bipolar transistor (78) having an (e.g., N+) emitter region (64), a (e.g., P type) base region (59) and a (e.g., N type) collector region (62) laterally separated from the junction (43). Different LDMOS-like or IGBT-like properties are obtained depending on whether the current (69) is extracted from the hybrid transistor (58) via the bipolar transistor (78) base (59) or emitter (64) or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: Vishal P. Trivedi
  • Publication number: 20140001518
    Abstract: A method includes forming a deep well region of a first conductivity type in a substrate, implanting a portion of the deep well region to form a first gate, and implanting the deep well region to form a well region. The well region and the first gate are of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. An implantation is performed to form a channel region of the first conductivity type over the first gate. A portion of the deep well region overlying the channel region is implanted to form a second gate of the second conductivity type. A source/drain implantation is performed to form a source region and a drain region of the first conductivity type on opposite sides of the second gate. The source and drain regions are connected to the channel region, and overlap the channel region and the first gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Feng Huang, Chia-Chung Chen, Victor Chiang Liang, Mingo Liu
  • Patent number: 8617936
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a reverse-conducting semiconductor device (RC-IGBT) with a seventh layer formed as a gate electrode and a first electrical contact on a emitter side and a second electrical contact on a collector side, which is opposite the emitter side, a wafer of a first conductivity type with a first side and a second side opposite the first side is provided. For the manufacturing of the RC-IGBT on the collector side, a first layer of the first conductivity type or of a second conductivity type is created on the second side. A mask with an opening is created on the first layer and those parts of the first layer, on which the opening of the mask is arranged, are removed. The remaining parts of the first layer form a third layer. Afterwards, for the manufacturing of a second layer of a different conductivity type than the third layer, ions are implanted into the wafer on the second side into those parts of the wafer, on which the at least one opening is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Munaf Rahimo, Babak H-Alikhani
  • Patent number: 8581339
    Abstract: A bipolar junction transistor and a manufacturing method for the same are provided. The bipolar junction transistor includes a well region, an emitter electrode, a base electrode, a collector electrode, and a conductive layer. The emitter electrode, the base electrode and the collector electrode are separated from each other by the well region. The conductive layer is on the well region between the base electrode and the collector electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Chang, Ching-Lin Chan, Chin-Shien Lu, Ming-Tung Lee, Shuo-Lun Tu
  • Patent number: 8581347
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a first transistor and a second transistor that are formed on the same substrate. The first transistor includes a first collector, a first base, and a first emitter. The first collector includes a first doped well disposed in the substrate. The first base includes a first doped layer disposed above the substrate and over the first doped well. The first emitter includes a doped element disposed over a portion of the first doped layer. The second transistor includes a second collector, a second base, and a second emitter. The second collector includes a doped portion of the substrate. The second base includes a second doped well disposed in the substrate and over the doped portion of the substrate. The second emitter includes a second doped layer disposed above the substrate and over the second doped well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Der-Chyang Yeh, Li-Weng Chang, Hua-Chou Tseng, Chih-Ping Chao
  • Patent number: 8569840
    Abstract: A high-k gate dielectric layer and a metal gate layer are formed and patterned to expose semiconductor surfaces in a bipolar junction transistor region, while covering a CMOS region. A disposable material portion is formed on a portion of the exposed semiconductor surfaces in the bipolar junction transistor area. A semiconductor layer and a dielectric layer are deposited and patterned to form gate stacks including a semiconductor portion and a dielectric gate cap in the CMOS region and a cavity containing mesa over the disposable material portion in the bipolar junction transistor region. The disposable material portion is selectively removed and a base layer including an epitaxial portion and a polycrystalline portion fills the cavity formed by removal of the disposable material portion. The emitter formed by selective epitaxy fills the cavity in the mesa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas A. Wallner, Ebenezer E. Eshun, Daniel J. Jaeger, Phung T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8569866
    Abstract: A configuration of a lateral transistor suited for the hybrid-integration (BiCMOS) of a high-performance lateral transistor (HCBT) and a CMOS transistor, and a method for manufacturing the lateral transistor are provided. A semiconductor device includes a HCBT 100 and a CMOS transistor 200 hybrid-integrated therein. The HCBT 100 has an open region 21 opened by etching a device isolating oxide film 6 surrounding an n-hill layer 11, an emitter electrode 31A and a collector electrode 31B each of which is formed in the open region 21 and is composed of a polysilicon film having such a thickness as to expose the n-hill layer 11 exposed by etching the device isolating oxide film, and an ultrathin oxide film 24 covering at least a part of the n-hill layer 11. The ultrathin oxide film 24 functions as a protective film for protecting the n-hill layer 11 from being etched when the polysilicon film is etched to form the emitter electrode 31A and the collector electrode 31B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Tomislav Suligoj, Marko Koricic, Hidenori Mochizuki, Soichi Morita
  • Publication number: 20130277753
    Abstract: A BiCMOS device structure, method of manufacturing the same and design structure thereof are provided. The BiCMOS device structure includes a substrate having a layer of semiconductor material upon an insulating layer. The BiCMOS device structure further includes a bipolar junction transistor structure formed in a first region of the substrate having an extrinsic base layer formed at least partially from a portion of the layer of semiconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William F. Clark, JR., Qizhi Liu, Robert Mark Rassel, Yun Shi
  • Publication number: 20130258532
    Abstract: Device structures, design structures, and fabrication methods for passive devices that may be used as electrostatic discharge protection devices in fin-type field-effect transistor integrated circuit technologies. A portion of a device layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate is patterned to form a device region. A well of a first conductivity type is formed in the epitaxial layer and the device region. A doped region of a second conductivity type is formed in the well and defines a junction with a portion of the well. The epitaxial layer includes an exterior sidewall spaced from an exterior sidewall of the device region. Another portion of the device layer may be patterned to form fins for fin-type field-effect transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William F. Clark, JR., Robert J. Gauthier, JR., Junjun Li
  • Patent number: 8546939
    Abstract: A technology is provided so that RF modules used for cellular phones etc. can be reduced in size. Over a wiring board constituting an RF module, there are provided a first semiconductor chip in which an amplifier circuit is formed and a second semiconductor chip in which a control circuit for controlling the amplifier circuit is formed. A bonding pad over the second semiconductor chip is connected with a bonding pad over the first semiconductor chip directly by a wire without using a relay pad. In this regard, the bonding pad formed over the first semiconductor chip is not square but rectangular (oblong).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Sasaki, Tomonori Tanoue, Sakae Kikuchi, Toshifumi Makino, Takeshi Sato, Tsutomu Kobori, Yasunari Umemoto, Takashi Kitahara
  • Patent number: 8536002
    Abstract: A process of forming an integrated circuit containing a bipolar transistor and an MOS transistor, by forming a base layer of the bipolar transistor using a non-selective epitaxial process so that the base layer has a single crystalline region on a collector active area and a polycrystalline region on adjacent field oxide, and concurrently implanting the MOS gate layer and the polycrystalline region of the base layer, so that the base-collector junction extends into the substrate less than one-third of the depth of the field oxide, and vertically cumulative doping density of the polycrystalline region of the base layer is between 80 percent and 125 percent of a vertically cumulative doping density of the MOS gate. An integrated circuit containing a bipolar transistor and an MOS transistor formed by the described process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Berthold Staufer
  • Patent number: 8530298
    Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) includes providing a substrate having a topside semiconductor surface, wherein the topside semiconductor surface includes at least one of N+ buried layer regions and P+ buried layer regions. An epitaxial layer is grown on the topside semiconductor surface. Pwells are formed in the epitaxial layer. Nwells are formed in the epitaxial layer. NMOS devices are formed in and over the pwells, and PMOS devices are formed in and over the nwells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard G. Roybal, Shariq Arshad, Shaoping Tang, James Fred Salzman
  • Patent number: 8492220
    Abstract: Vertically stacked Field Effect Transistors (FETs) are created on a vertical structure formed on a semiconductor substrate where a first FET and a second FET are controllable independently. A bipolar junction transistor is connected between and in series with the first FET and the second FET, the bipolar junction transistor may be controllable independently of the first and second FET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Karl R. Erickson, Phil C. Paone, David P. Paulsen, John E. Sheets, II, Kelly L. Williams
  • Patent number: 8461621
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device having a transistor. The transistor includes a substrate. The transistor includes a collector region that is formed in a portion of the substrate. The transistor includes a base region that is surrounded by the collector region. The transistor includes an emitter region that is surrounded by the based region. The transistor includes an isolation structure that is disposed adjacent the emitter region. The transistor includes a gate structure that is disposed over a portion of the emitter region and a portion of the isolation structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Harry Hak-Lay Chuang, Lee-Wee Teo, Ming Zhu
  • Patent number: 8450179
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a first and second bipolar devices of the same dopant type includes: depositing a dielectric layer over a semiconductor layer, depositing a gate conductor layer over the dielectric layer, defining base regions of both bipolar devices, removing the gate conductor layer and dielectric layer in the base regions, depositing a base layer on the gate conductor layer and on the exposed semiconductor layer in the base regions, depositing an insulating layer over the base layer, forming a photoresist layer and defining emitter regions of both bipolar devices, removing the photoresist layer in the emitter regions thereby forming two emitter windows, masking the emitter window of the first bipolar device and exposing the base layer in the base region of the second bipolar device to an additional emitter implant through the associated emitter window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Badih El-Kareh, Hiroshi Yasuda, Scott Balster
  • Patent number: 8435863
    Abstract: A reverse-conducting semiconductor device (RC-IGBT) including a freewheeling diode and an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), and a method for making the RC-IGBT are provided. A first layer of a first conductivity type is created on a collector side before a second layer of a second conductivity type is created on the collector side. An electrical contact in direct electrical contact with the first and second layers is created on the collector side. A shadow mask is applied on the collector side, and a third layer of the first conductivity type is created through the shadow mask. At least one electrically conductive island, which is part of a second electrical contact in the finalized RC-IGBT, is created through the shadow mask. The island is used as a mask for creating the second layer, and those parts of the third layer which are covered by the island form the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Munaf Rahimo, Wolfgang Janisch, Eustachio Faggiano
  • Publication number: 20130093014
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a laterally double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor formed on a partial region of a epitaxial layer of a first conductive type, a bipolar transistor formed on another partial region of the epitaxial layer of the first conductive type, and a guard ring formed between the partial region and the another partial region. The guard ring serves to restrain electrons generated by a forward bias operation of the LDMOS transistor from being introduced into the bipolar transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheol Ho CHO
  • Patent number: 8415762
    Abstract: The external base electrode has a two-layered structure where a p-type polysilicon film doped with a medium concentration of boron is laminated on a p-type polysilicon film doped with a high concentration of boron. Therefore, since the p-type polysilicon film doped with a high concentration of boron is in contact with an intrinsic base layer at a junction portion between the external base electrode and the intrinsic base layer, the resistance of the junction portion can be reduced. In addition, since the resistance of the external base electrode becomes a parallel resistance of the two layers of the p-type polysilicon films, the resistance of the p-type polysilicon film whose boron concentration is relatively lower is dominant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Yoshida, Tatsuya Tominari, Toshio Ando
  • Patent number: 8384154
    Abstract: A bidirectional power transistor formed horizontally in a semiconductor layer disposed on a heavily-doped semiconductor wafer with an interposed insulating layer, the wafer being capable of being biased to a reference voltage, the product of the average dopant concentration and of the thickness of the semiconductor layer ranging between 5·1011 cm?2 and 5·1012 cm?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS, Universite Francois Rabelais UFR Sciences et Techniques
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Quoirin, Luong Viêt Phung, Nathalie Batut
  • Publication number: 20130032882
    Abstract: Bi-directional blocking voltage protection devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a protection device includes an n-well and first and second p-wells disposed on opposite sides of the n-well. The first p-well includes a first P+ region and a first N+ region and the second p-well includes a second P+ region and second N+ region. The device further includes a third P+ region disposed along a boundary of the n-well and the first p-well and a fourth P+ region disposed along a boundary of the n-well and the second p-well. A first gate is disposed between the first N+ region and the third P+ region and a second gate is disposed between the second N+ region and the fourth P+ region. The device provides bi-directional blocking voltage protection during high energy stress events, including in applications operating at very low to medium swing voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Javier A. Salcedo, Michael Lynch, Brian Moane
  • Publication number: 20130032892
    Abstract: A process of forming an integrated circuit containing a bipolar transistor and an MOS transistor, by forming a base layer of the bipolar transistor using a non-selective epitaxial process so that the base layer has a single crystalline region on a collector active area and a polycrystalline region on adjacent field oxide, and concurrently implanting the MOS gate layer and the polycrystalline region of the base layer, so that the base-collector junction extends into the substrate less than one-third of the depth of the field oxide, and vertically cumulative doping density of the polycrystalline region of the base layer is between 80 percent and 125 percent of a vertically cumulative doping density of the MOS gate. An integrated circuit containing a bipolar transistor and an MOS transistor formed by the described process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Texas Intruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Hiroshi YASUDA, Berthold STAUFER
  • Publication number: 20120299114
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a semiconductor device which is manufactured by a BiCMOS process in which a process of manufacturing a V-NPN transistor is rationalized. Furthermore, the hFE of the transistor is adjusted to a large value. An N type base width control layer is formed being in contact with a bottom portion of a P type base region under an N+ type emitter region. The N type base width control layer shallows a portion of the P type base region under the N+ type emitter region partially. The P type base region is formed by using a process of forming a P type well region, and the N type base width control layer is formed by using a process of forming an N type well region, thereby achieving the process rationalization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Semiconductor Components Industrires, LLC
    Inventor: Seiji OTAKE
  • Patent number: 8318581
    Abstract: Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device includes a semiconductive layer disposed over a substrate. A trench is disposed in the semiconductive layer, the trench with a first sidewall and an opposite second sidewall. A first insulating material layer is disposed over an upper portion of the first sidewall, and a conductive material disposed within the trench. An air gap is disposed between the conductive material and the semiconductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Mueller, Bernhard Winkler, Robert Gruenberger
  • Patent number: 8293598
    Abstract: A bipolar selection transistor and a circuitry MOS transistor for a memory device are formed in a semiconductor body. The bipolar selection transistor is formed by implanting a buried collector, implanting a base region on the buried collector, forming a silicide protection mask on the semiconductor body, and implanting an emitter region and a control contact region. The circuitry MOS transistor is formed by defining a gate on the semiconductor body, forming lateral spacers on the sides of the gate and implanting source and drain regions on the sides of the lateral spacers. Then, a silicide region is formed on the emitter, base contact, source and drain regions and the gate, in a self-aligned way. The lateral spacers are multilayer structures including at least two different layers, one of which is used to form the silicide protection mask on the bipolar selection transistor. Thereby, the dimensions of the lateral spacers are decoupled from the thickness of the silicide protection mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Fabio Pellizzer, Cristina Casellato, Michele Magistretti, Roberto Colombo, Lucilla Brattico
  • Publication number: 20120241870
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) with surface protection and a manufacturing method thereof. The BJT includes: a first conductive type base, a second conductive type emitter, and a second conductive type collector, which are formed in a substrate, wherein the base is formed between and separates the emitter and the collector, and the base includes a base contact region functioning as an electrical contact node of the base; and a gate structure which is formed on the substrate between the base contact region and the second conductive type emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Chien-Ling Chan, Yuh-Chyuan Wang, Hung-Der Su
  • Patent number: 8274131
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a first transistor device (130) on or in a semiconductor substrate (115) and a second transistor device (132) on or in the substrate. The device further comprises an insulating trench (200) located between the first transistor device and the second transistor device. At least one upper corner (610) of the insulating trench is a rounded corner in a lateral plane (620) of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sameer P. Pendharkar, John Lin, Philip L. Hower, Steven L. Merchant
  • Publication number: 20120205713
    Abstract: A memory cell includes a thyristor having a plurality of alternately doped, vertically superposed semiconductor regions; a vertically oriented access transistor having an access gate; and a control gate operatively laterally adjacent one of the alternately doped, vertically superposed semiconductor regions. The control gate is spaced laterally of the access gate. Other embodiments are disclosed, including methods of forming memory cells and methods of forming a shared doped semiconductor region of a vertically oriented thyristor and a vertically oriented access transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Sanh D. Tang
  • Patent number: 8236662
    Abstract: High performance bipolar transistors with raised extrinsic self-aligned base are integrated into a BiCMOS structure containing CMOS devices. By forming pad layers and raising the height of an intrinsic base layer relative to the source and drain of preexisting CMOS devices and by forming an extrinsic base through selective epitaxy, the effect of topographical variations is minimized during a lithographic patterning of the extrinsic base. Also, by not employing any chemical mechanical planarization process during the fabrication of the bipolar structures, complexity of process integration is reduced. Internal spacers or external spacers may be formed to isolate the base from the emitter. The pad layers, the intrinsic base layer, and the extrinsic base layer form a mesa structure with coincident outer sidewall surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Natalie B. Feilchenfeld, Bradley A. Orner, Benjamin T. Voegeli
  • Patent number: 8207035
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a vertical power transistor is formed on a semiconductor substrate with other transistors. A portion of the semiconductor layer underlying the vertical power transistor is doped to provide a low on-resistance for the vertical power transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Francine Y. Robb, Stephen P. Robb, Prasad Venkatraman, Zia Hossain
  • Publication number: 20120139006
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) including a collector layer located over a substrate, the collector layer including a semiconductor material, and a field effect transistor (FET) located over the substrate, the FET having a channel formed in the semiconductor material that forms the collector layer of the HBT. In some implementations, a second FET can be provided so as to be located over the substrate and configured to include a channel formed in a semiconductor material that forms an emitter of the HBT. One or more of the foregoing features can be implemented in devices such as a die, a packaged module, and a wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter J. Zampardi, JR., Hsiang-Chih Sun
  • Publication number: 20120112243
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) including a collector layer located over a substrate, the collector layer including a semiconductor material, and a field effect transistor (FET) located over the substrate, the FET having a channel formed in the semiconductor material that forms the collector layer of the HBT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Peter J. Zampardi, HsiangChih Sun