Lateral Bipolar Transistor Patents (Class 438/236)
  • Patent number: 11929362
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device may include a semiconductor substrate, an active well, an emitter, a base, a collector, a body contact region, and a blocking well. The semiconductor substrate may have a first conductive type. The active well may be formed in the semiconductor substrate. The active well may have a second conductive type. The emitter and the base may be formed in the active well. The collector may be formed in the semiconductor substrate outside the active well. The body contact region may be formed in the semiconductor substrate to electrically connect the collector with the semiconductor substrate. The body contact region may have a conductive type substantially the same as that of the collector. The blocking well may be configured to surround an outer wall of the body contact region. The blocking well may have the second conductive type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Joung Cheul Choi, Jae Young You
  • Patent number: 10192886
    Abstract: Devices and methods for forming a device are presented. The method for forming the device includes providing a support substrate having first crystal orientation. A trap rich layer is formed on the support substrate. An insulator layer is formed over a top surface of the trap rich layer. The method further includes forming a top surface layer having second crystal orientation on the insulator layer. The support substrate, the trap rich layer, the insulator layer and the top surface layer correspond to a substrate and the substrate is defined with at least first and second device regions. A transistor is formed in the top surface layer in the first device region and a wide band gap device is formed in the second device region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Purakh Raj Verma, Shaoqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9991254
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a field effect transistor (FET) arranged on the substrate. The FET includes a gate positioned on the substrate. The gate includes a nanosheet extending through a channel region of the gate. The FET includes a pair of source/drains arranged on opposing sides of the gate. The semiconductor device further includes a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) arranged adjacent to the FET on the substrate. The BJT includes an emitter and a collector. The BJT includes a nanosheet including a semiconductor material extending from the emitter to the collector, with a doped semiconductor material arranged above and below the nanosheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Juntao Li, Geng Wang, Qintao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9716166
    Abstract: A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor structure with improved unclamped inductive switching immunity. The LDMOS includes a substrate and an adjacent epitaxial layer both of a first conductivity type. A gate structure is above the epitaxial layer. A drain region and a source region, both of a second conductivity type, are within the epitaxial layer. A channel is formed between the source and drain region and arranged below the gate structure. A body structure of the first conductivity type is at least partially formed under the gate structure and extends laterally under the source region, wherein the epitaxial layer is less doped than the body structure. A conductive trench-like feed-through element passes through the epitaxial layer and contacts the substrate and the source region. The LDMOS includes a tub region of the first conductivity type formed under the source region, and adjacent laterally to and in contact with said body structure and said trench-like feed-through element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Vishay-Siliconix
    Inventors: Wenjie Zhang, Madhur Bobde, Qufei Chen, Kyle Terrill
  • Patent number: 9011155
    Abstract: A system for behavior modification and sales promotion includes a child computer device having a computer application stored thereon in a non-transitory computer readable memory. The computer application of the child computer device includes a graphical user interface allowing for a child to interact with a fictitious character. A parent computer device is provided having a computer application stored thereon in a non-transitory computer readable memory, the computer application of the parent computer device including a graphical user interface allowing a parent to control the fictitious character with which the child interacts on the child computer device. The system also includes a system server. The parent computer device, the child computer device and system server are connected by a global communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Inventors: Joan M Skelton, Benjamin J Kwitek
  • Patent number: 8980703
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure is provided. A substrate having a cell area and a periphery area is provided. A stacked structure including a gate oxide layer, a floating gate and a first spacer is formed on the substrate in the cell area and a resistor is formed on the substrate in the periphery area. At least two doped regions are formed in the substrate beside the stacked structure. A dielectric material layer and a conductive material layer are sequentially formed on the substrate. A patterned photoresist layer is formed on the substrate to cover the stacked structure and a portion of the resistor. The dielectric material layer and the conductive material layer not covered by the patterned photoresist layer are removed, so as to form an inter-gate dielectric layer and a control gate on the stacked structure, and simultaneously form a salicide block layer on the resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Maxchip Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chen-Chiu Hsu, Tung-Ming Lai, Kai-An Hsueh, Ming-De Huang
  • Patent number: 8946040
    Abstract: A Bipolar Junction Transistor with an intrinsic base, wherein the intrinsic base includes a top surface and two side walls orthogonal to the top surface, and a base contact electrically coupled to the side walls of the intrinsic base. In one embodiment an apparatus can include a plurality of Bipolar Junction Transistors, and a base contact electrically coupled to the side walls of the intrinsic bases of each BJT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Cai, Tak H. Ning
  • Publication number: 20150014769
    Abstract: A high-voltage LDMOS device with voltage linearizing field plates and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a continuous gate structure over a deep well region and a body of a substrate. The method further includes forming oppositely doped, alternating segments in the continuous gate structure. The method further includes forming a contact in electrical connection with a tip of the continuous gate structure and a drain region formed in the substrate. The method further includes forming metal regions in direct electrical contact with segments of at least one species of the oppositely doped, alternating segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: John J. ELLIS-MONAGHAN, Theodore J. LETAVIC, Santosh SHARMA, Yun SHI, Michael J. ZIERAK
  • Patent number: 8853043
    Abstract: A heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT), an integrated circuit (IC) chip including at least one HBT and a method of forming the IC. The HBT includes an extrinsic base with one or more buried interstitial barrier layer. The extrinsic base may be heavily doped with boron and each buried interstitial barrier layer is doped with a dopant containing carbon, e.g., carbon or SiGe:C. The surface of the extrinsic base may be silicided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wade J. Hodge, Alvin J. Joseph, Rajendran Krishnasamy, Qizhi Liu, Bradley A. Orner
  • Patent number: 8841723
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an LDMOS device having an increased punch-through voltage and a method for making same. The LDMOS device includes: a substrate; a well of a first conductive type formed in the substrate; an isolation region formed in the substrate; a body region of a second conductive type in the well; a source in the body region; a drain in the well; a gate structure on the substrate; and a first conductive type dopant region beneath the body region, for increasing a punch-through voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Richtek Technology Corporation, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Huan-Ping Chu, Ching-Yao Yang, Hung-Der Su
  • Patent number: 8796766
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheol Ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20140127869
    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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Ko, Tung-Hsing Lee
  • Patent number: 8546917
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method and an operating method for the same are provided. The semiconductor structure comprises a first well region, a second well region, a first doped region, a second doped region, an anode, and a cathode. The second well region is adjacent to the first well region. The first doped region is on the second well region. The second doped region is on the first well region. The anode is coupled to the first doped region and the second well region. The cathode is coupled to the first well region and the second doped region. The first well region and the first doped region have a first conductivity type. The second well region and the second doped region have a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Liang Chen, Wing-Chor Chan, Shyi-Yuan Wu
  • Patent number: 8482081
    Abstract: A high-performance semiconductor apparatus which can be easily introduced into the MOS process, reduces the leakage current (electric field strength) between the emitter and the base, and is insusceptible to noise or surge voltage, and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor apparatus. The emitter 111 is formed by performing the ion implantation twice by using the conductive film (109) as a mask. The second emitter area (111b) is formed by ion implantation of a low impurity density impurity ion, and the first emitter area (111a) is formed by ion implantation of a high impurity density impurity ion. As a result, the low impurity density second emitter area is formed in the circumference of the emitter 111, which lowers the electric field strength, and reduces the leakage current. Also the conductive film is connected with the emitter electrode (116), which makes the apparatus insusceptible to noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8431450
    Abstract: An LDMOS transistor includes a gate including a conductive material over an insulator material, a source including a first impurity region and a second impurity region, a third impurity region, and a drain including a fourth impurity region and a fifth impurity region. The first impurity region is of a first type, and the second impurity region is of an opposite second type. The third impurity region extends from the source region under the gate and is of the first type. The fourth impurity region is of the second type, the fifth impurity region is of the second type, and the fourth impurity region impinges the third impurity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Volterra Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Marco A. Zuniga, Budong You, Yang Lu
  • 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: 8415764
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate having a top surface; at least one insulation region extending from the top surface into the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of base contacts of a first conductivity type electrically interconnected to each other; and a plurality of emitters and a plurality of collectors of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. Each of the plurality of emitters, the plurality of collectors, and the plurality of base contacts is laterally spaced apart from each other by the at least one insulation region. The integrated circuit device further includes a buried layer of the second conductivity type in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the buried layer has an upper surface adjoining bottom surfaces of the plurality of collectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao-Wen Chung, Po-Yao Ke, Wei-Yang Lin, Shine Chung
  • Patent number: 8330219
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type; a well having a second conductivity type and provided inside the semiconductor substrate; a first impurity region having the first conductivity type and provided within the well; a second impurity region having the second conductivity type, provided inside the well and away from the first impurity region; and a third impurity region having a first conductivity type, provided surrounding the well and away from the second impurity region. In this semiconductor device, the well is formed to be deeper than the first impurity region, the second impurity region, and the third impurity region, in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate; and a minimum distance between the first impurity region and the second impurity region is smaller than a minimum distance between the second impurity region and the third impurity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Furuhata, Hideyuki Akanuma, Hiroaki Nitta
  • Patent number: 8247287
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises forming an epitaxial layer over a substrate of an opposite conductivity type, the epitaxial layer being separated by a buffer layer having a doping concentration that is substantially constant in a vertical direction down to the buffer layer. A pair of spaced-apart trenches is formed in the epitaxial layer from a top surface of the epitaxial layer down at least into the buffer layer. A dielectric material is formed in the trenches over the first and second sidewall portions. Source/collector and body regions of are formed at the top of the epitaxial layer, the body region separating the source/collector region of the pillar from a drift region of the epitaxial layer that extends from the body region to the buffer layer. An insulated gate member is then formed in each of the trenches adjacent to and insulated from the body region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Parthasarathy, Sujit Banerjee
  • Patent number: 8236642
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; an n-type tub extending from a top surface of the semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the n-type tub comprises a bottom buried in the semiconductor substrate; a p-type buried layer (PBL) on a bottom of the tub, wherein the p-type buried layer is buried in the semiconductor substrate; and a high-voltage n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (HVNMOS) device over the PBL and within a region encircled by sides of the n-type tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-San Wei, Kuo-Ming Wu, Yi-Chun Lin
  • Patent number: 8124466
    Abstract: The present invention provides a self-driven LDMOS which utilizes a parasitic resistor between a drain terminal and an auxiliary region. The parasitic resistor is formed between two depletion boundaries in a quasi-linked deep N-type well. When the two depletion boundaries pinch off, a gate-voltage potential at a gate terminal is clipped at a drain-voltage potential at said drain terminal. Since the gate-voltage potential is designed to be equal to or higher than a start-threshold voltage, the LDMOS is turned on accordingly. Besides, no additional die space and masking process are needed to manufacture the parasitic resistor. Furthermore, the parasitic resistor of the present invention does not lower the breakdown voltage and the operating speed of the LDMOS. In addition, when the two depletion boundaries pinch off, the gate-voltage potential does not vary in response to an increment of the drain-voltage potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: System General Corp.
    Inventors: Chiu-Chih Chiang, Chih-Feng Huang
  • Patent number: 8048734
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention relate to a method of making a heterojunction bipolar transistor, including: forming a collector layer; forming a stack of at least a second dielectric layer overlying a first dielectric layer, the stack formed over the collector layer; removing a portion of each of the dielectric layers to form an opening through the stack; and forming a base layer within the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Detlef Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 8021951
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: a silicon substrate; at least two trenches spaced apart from each other, being in parallel with each other, and being formed by vertically etching the silicon substrate from a surface thereof; an electrically insulating film for burying therein at least bottom surfaces of the trenches; a base region formed in a region of the silicon substrate located between the two trenches; and an emitter region and a collector region formed on portions of side surfaces of the trenches, respectively, the portions of the sides located above the insulating film and formed in the base region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20110220997
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an LDMOS device having an increased punch-through voltage and a method for making same. The LDMOS device includes: a substrate; a well of a first conductive type formed in the substrate; an isolation region formed in the substrate; a body region of a second conductive type in the well; a source in the body region; a drain in the well; a gate structure on the substrate; and a first conductive type dopant region beneath the body region, for increasing a punch-through voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Huang, Huan-Ping Chu, Ching-Yao Yang, Hung-Der Su
  • Patent number: 8017476
    Abstract: A junction field effect transistor includes a channel region, a gate region coupled to the channel region, a well tap region coupled to the gate region and the channel region, and a well region coupled to the well tap region and the channel region. A double gate operation is achieved by this structure as a voltage applied to the gate region is also applied to the well region through the well tap region in order to open the channel from both the gate region and the well region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: SuVolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Srinivasa R. Banna
  • Patent number: 7935605
    Abstract: In an ESD protection circuit an NPN BJT snapback device is provided with high breakdown voltage by including a RESURF region or by forming a PIN diode in the BJT. Holding voltage is increased by forming a sub-collector sinker region with the desired configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Vladislav Vashchenko, Peter J. Hopper
  • Patent number: 7871882
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises forming an epitaxial layer over a substrate of an opposite conductivity type, the epitaxial layer being separated by a buffer layer having a doping concentration that is substantially constant in a vertical direction down to the buffer layer. A pair of spaced-apart trenches is formed in the epitaxial layer from a top surface of the epitaxial layer down at least into the buffer layer. A dielectric material is formed in the trenches over the first and second sidewall portions. Source/collector and body regions of are formed at the top of the epitaxial layer, the body region separating the source/collector region of the pillar from a drift region of the epitaxial layer that extends from the body region to the buffer layer. An insulated gate member is then formed in each of the trenches adjacent to and insulated from the body region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Parthasarathy, Sujit Banerjee
  • Patent number: 7868378
    Abstract: An LDMOS transistor includes a gate including a conductive material over an insulator material, a source including a first impurity region and a second impurity region, a third impurity region, and a drain including a fourth impurity region and a fifth impurity region. The first impurity region is of a first type, and the second impurity region is of an opposite second type. The third impurity region extends from the source region under the gate and is of the first type. The fourth impurity region is of the second type, the fifth impurity region is of the second type, and the fourth impurity region impinges the third impurity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Volterra Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Marco A. Zuniga, Budong You, Yang Lu
  • Patent number: 7838376
    Abstract: Integrated circuits using buried layers under epitaxial layers present a challenge in aligning patterns for surface components to the buried layers, because the epitaxial material over the buried layer diminishes the visibility of and shifts the apparent position of the buried layer. A method of measuring the lateral offset, known as the epi pattern shift, between a buried layer and a pattern for a surface component using planar processing technology and commonly used semiconductor fabrication metrology tools is disclosed. The disclosed method may be used on a pilot wafer to provide optimization data for a production line running production wafers, or may be used on production wafers directly. An integrated circuit fabricated using the instant invention is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Lynn S. Welsh, Amy E. Anderson
  • Patent number: 7829405
    Abstract: Conduction between source and drain or emitter and collector regions is an important characteristic in transistor operation, particularly for lateral bipolar transistors. Accordingly, techniques that can facilitate control over this characteristic can mitigate yield loss by promoting the production of transistors that have an increased likelihood of exhibiting desired operational performance. As disclosed herein, well regions are established in a semiconductor substrate to facilitate, among other things, control over the conduction between the source and drain regions of a lateral bipolar transistor, thus mitigating yield loss and other associated fabrication deficiencies. Importantly, an additional mask is not required in establishing the well regions, thus further mitigating (increased) costs associated with promoting desired device performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Kamel Benaissa
  • Publication number: 20100178740
    Abstract: Complementary MOS (CMOS) integrated circuits include MOS transistors, resistors and bipolar transistors formed on a common substrate. An emitter region of a bipolar transistor is implanted with a first dopant in an implantation process that implants source/drain regions of an MOS transistor, and is also implanted with a second dopant of same conductivity type in another implantation process that implants a body region of a resistor. The first and second dopants may optionally be the same dopant. The source/drain regions are implanted with the resistor body region covered by a first patterned mask; and the resistor body region is implanted with the MOS transistor source/drain regions covered by a second patterned mask. The implantations of the MOS transistor source/drain regions and of the resistor body region the source/drain regions can occur in any order, with the emitter region implanted during both implantations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Puneet Kohli
  • Patent number: 7638389
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capacitor fabrication method that is capable of enabling the simultaneous use of an oxide capacitor and a PIP capacitor of a semiconductor device depending upon whether metal line terminals are used. The semiconductor device capacitor fabrication method can include forming an active region and a first gate electrode over a semiconductor substrate, partially depositing a silicon nitride layer, over which a capacitor will be formed, over the first gate electrode, forming a second gate electrode over the silicon nitride, sequentially forming a first insulation layer and a second insulation layer over the resultant structure and forming line terminals extending through the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer for a transistor and a capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung-Ho Ahn
  • Patent number: 7585720
    Abstract: A dual stress liner manufacturing method and device is described. Overlapping stress liner layers of opposite effect (e.g., tensile versus compression) may be deposited over portions of the device, and the uppermost overlapping layer may be polished down in a process that uses the bottom overlapping layer as a stopper. An insulating film may be deposited on the stress liner layers before the polishing, and another insulating film may be deposited above the first insulating film after the polishing. Contacts may be formed such that the contacts need only penetrate one stress liner layer to reach a transistor well or gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
    Inventor: Gaku Sudo
  • Publication number: 20090108346
    Abstract: An MOS-bipolar hybrid-mode LDMOS device has a main gate input and a control gate input wherein the device operates in an MOS mode when both gate inputs are enabled, and operates in a bipolar mode when the main gate input is enabled and the control gate input is disabled. The device can drive the gate of a power MOSFET to deliver the high current required by the power MOSFET while in the bipolar mode, and provide a fully switching between supply voltage and ground to the gate of the power MOSFET while in the MOS mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: Jun Cai
  • Patent number: 7351620
    Abstract: The invention includes BIFETRAM devices. Such devices comprise a bipolar transistor in combination with a field effect transistor (FET) in a three-dimensional stacked configuration. The memory devices can be incorporated within semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) constructions. The base region of the bipolar device can be physically and electrically connected to one of the source/drain regions of the FET to act as a storage node for the memory cell. The semiconductor material of the SOI constructions can comprise Si/Ge, and the active region of the FET can extend into the Si/Ge. The SOI constructions can be formed over any of a number of substrates, including, for example, semiconductive materials, glass, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, metals and/or plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Arup Bhattacharyya
  • Patent number: 7276744
    Abstract: This invention is intended to provide an HBT capable of achieving, if the HBT is a collector-up HBT, the constriction of the emitter layer disposed directly under an external base layer, and reduction in base-emitter junction capacity, or if the HBT is an emitter-up HBT, reduction in base-collector junction capacity. For the collector-up HBT, window structures around the sidewalls of a collector are used to etch either the emitter layer disposed directly under the external base layer, or an emitter contact layer For the emitter-up HBT, window structures around the sidewalls of an emitter are used to etch either the collector layer disposed directly under the external base layer, or a collector contact layer. In both HBTs, the external base layer is supported by a columnar structure to ensure mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Kenichi Tanaka, Tomonori Tanoue, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Ohta, Kazuhiro Mochizuki, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 7169654
    Abstract: A method of integrating a non-MOS transistor device and a CMOS electronic device on a semiconductor substrate includes forming openings within an active semiconductor layer in first and second regions of a semiconductor substrate. The first region corresponds to a non-MOS transistor device portion and the second region corresponds to a CMOS electronic device portion. The openings are formed using a dual trench process, forming openings or shallow trenches in the non-MOS transistor device portion to a first depth, and openings in the CMOS electronic device portion to a second depth greater than the first depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Omar Zia, Lawrence Cary Gunn, III
  • Patent number: 7166504
    Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method is provided which is capable of suppressing variation of the resistance value of resistive interconnection and preventing variation of transistor performance. A gate electrode and a resistive interconnection are formed on a substrate and impurity ions are implanted into the surface of the substrate to form source/drain regions (diffusion layers: 1A, 1B) on both sides of the gate electrode. Also, impurity ions are implanted to control the resistance value of the resistive interconnection. Next, a sidewall film is formed to cover the resistive interconnection. Then a heat treatment is performed to activate the source/drain regions (diffusion layers: 1A, 1B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Koji Iizuka
  • Patent number: 7144767
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of semiconductor devices including an n-type field effect transistor and a p-type field effect transistor by covering the p-type field effect transistor with a mask, and oxidizing a portion of a gate polysilicon of the n-type field effect transistor, such that tensile mechanical stresses are formed within a channel of the n-type field effect transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dureseti Chidambarrao, Omer H. Dokumaci, Oleg G. Gluschenkov
  • Patent number: 6858443
    Abstract: Ferroelectric capacitors, etc. are disclosed that include a conductive plug that has a base portion of a first cross-sectional width and a protruding portion that protrudes from the base portion and has a second cross-sectional width that is less than the first cross-sectional width. A conductive layer of the ferroelectric capacitor is on the protruding portion opposite the base portion. Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moon-Sook Lee, Kun-Sang Park
  • Publication number: 20040262715
    Abstract: A bipolar semiconductor device including a collector layer covered at a portion of an outer periphery thereof with an insulating film and having a shape extending in an upper direction and a horizontal direction, with a gap being formed between the collector layer and the insulating film, and further including a base layer and an emitter layer disposed over the collector layer, and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor device. Since the collector layer has a shape extending in a portion thereof in the upward direction and the horizontal direction, an external collector region can be deleted, and both the parasitic capacitance and the collector capacitance in the intrinsic portion attributable to the collector can be decreased and, accordingly, a bipolar transistor capable of high speed operation at a reduced consumption power can be constituted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Makoto Miura, Katsuyoshi Washio, Hiromi Shimamoto
  • Patent number: 6821837
    Abstract: A trench capacitor includes an electrode having a first conductive area formed in a trench provided in a substrate, and a second conductive area extending from a bottom of the trench, the second conductive area being electrically coupled to the first conductive area and spaced apart from the first conductive area; a storage node having a first conductive extension extending into a first dielectric space provided between the first conductive area and the second conductive area of the electrode, and a second conductive extension extending into a second dielectric space provided within the second conductive area of the electrode; and a dielectric layer electrically insulating the electrode from the storage node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: ProMOS Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Yu-Ying Lian
  • Publication number: 20040207046
    Abstract: High-voltage bipolar transistors (30, 60) in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) integrated circuits are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, an collector region (28) is formed in epitaxial silicon (24, 25) disposed over a buried insulator layer (22). A base region (32) and emitter (36) are disposed over the collector region (28). Buried collector region (31) are disposed in the epitaxial silicon (24) away from the base region (32). The transistor may be arranged in a rectangular fashion, as conventional, or alternatively by forming an annular buried collector region (31). According to another disclosed embodiment, a high voltage transistor (60) includes a central isolation structure (62), so that the base region (65) and emitter region (66) are ring-shaped to provide improved performance. A process for fabricating the high voltage transistor (30, 60) simultaneously with a high performance transistor (40) is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Babcock, Gregory E. Howard, Angelo Pinto, Phillipp Steinmann, Scott G. Balster
  • Patent number: 6784065
    Abstract: A low-power bipolar transistor is formed to have an intrinsic emitter region with a sub-lithographic width, and an oxide layer that is self aligned to an overlying extrinsic emitter. The small extrinsic emitter region reduces the maximum current that can flow through the transistor, while the self-aligned oxide layer and extrinsic emitter reduces the base-to-emitter junction size and device performance variability across the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Abdalla Aly Naem
  • Patent number: 6780702
    Abstract: When InP DHBTs are located in parallel to a crystallographical direction of <011>, there are several advantages in the aspect of device property such as reliability. But, in case of a direction parallel to a general <011>, there exists the limitation in reducing base-collector parasitic capacitance only by collector over-etching technique due to poor lateral-etching characteristic of the InP collector. To overcome such a problem mentioned above and improve device performance, the present invention provides a method of reducing parasitic capacitance using underneath crystallographically selective wet etching, thereby providing a self-alignable, structurally stable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Myoung Hoon Yoon, Kyoung Hoon Yang
  • Patent number: 6767810
    Abstract: An integrated circuit located between isolation trenches at the surface of a semiconductor chip comprising a first well of a first conductivity type having a first resistivity. This first well has a shallow buried region of higher resistivity than the first resistivity, extending between the isolation trenches and created by a compensating doping process. The circuit further comprises a second well of the opposite conductivity type extending to the surface between the isolation trenches, having a contact region and forming a junction with the shallow buried region of the first well, substantially parallel to the surface. Finally, the circuit has a MOS transistor located in the second well, spaced from the contact region, and having source, gate and drain regions at the surface. This space is predetermined to create a small voltage drop in I/O transistors for conditioning signals and power to a pad, or large voltage drops in ESD circuits for protecting the active circuitry connected to a pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Craig T. Salling, Amitava Chatterjee, Youngmin Kim
  • Patent number: 6767783
    Abstract: A method of making vertical diodes and transistors in SiC is provided. The method according to the invention uses a mask (e.g., a mask that has been previously used for etching features into the device) for selective epitaxial growth or selective ion implantation. In this manner, the gate and base regions of static induction transistors and bipolar junction transistors can be formed in a self-aligned process. A method of making planar diodes and planar edge termination structures (e.g., guard rings) is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Mississippi State University-Research and Technology Corporation (RTC)
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Casady, Geoffrey E. Carter, Yaroslav Koshka, Michael S. Mazzola, Igor Sankin
  • Patent number: 6764921
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a MISFET provided in an element formation region Re of a semiconductor substrate 11 and a trench isolation 13 surrounding the sides of the element formation region Re. An oxygen-passage-suppression film 23 is provided from the top of the trench isolation 13 to the top of a portion of the element formation region Re adjacent to the trench isolation 13. The oxygen-passage-suppression film 23 is made of a silicon nitride film or the like through which oxygen is less likely to permeate. Therefore, since it becomes hard that the upper edge of the element formation region Re of the semiconductor substrate 11 is oxidized, an expansion of the volume of the upper edge is suppressed, thereby reducing a stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Imade, Hiroyuki Umimoto
  • Patent number: 6686233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming a high voltage NMOS transistor together with a low voltage NMOS transistor and a low voltage PMOS transistor, respectively, in an n-well CMOS process by adding solely two additional process steps to a conventional CMOS process: (i) a masking step, and (ii) an ion implantation step for forming a doped channel region for the high voltage MOS transistor in the substrate self-aligned to the edge of the high voltage MOS transistor gate region. The ion implantation is performed through the mask in a direction, which is inclined at an angle to the normal of the substrate surface, to thereby create the doped channel region partly underneath the gate region of the high voltage MOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
    Inventors: Anders Söderbärg, Peter Olofsson, Andrej Litwin
  • Patent number: 6667202
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which has: a bipolar transistor having a collector region of a second conductivity type formed from the surface of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a base region of a first conductivity type formed from the surface of the collector region, and an emitter region of a second conductivity type formed from the surface of the base region; a collector extraction region that is separated by an insulating layer and is formed in the collector region except the base region; a concave portion in the collector extraction region that is formed up to a depth where the collector region has a peak concentration in impurity distribution; and a collector extraction electrode that is connected with the collector region to extract ohmic-connecting to the bottom of the concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hisamitsu Suzuki