Introduction Of Conductivity Modifying Dopant Into Semiconductive Material Patents (Class 438/510)
  • Publication number: 20110101501
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first semiconductor zones of a first conductivity type having a first dopant species of the first conductivity type and a second dopant species of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. The semiconductor device also includes second semiconductor zones of the second conductivity type including the second dopant species. The first and second semiconductor zones are alternately arranged in contact with each other along a lateral direction extending in parallel to a surface of a semiconductor body. One of the first and second semiconductor zones constitute drift zones and a diffusion coefficient of the second dopant species is at least twice as large as the diffusion coefficient of the first dopant species. A concentration profile of the first dopant species along a vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the semiconductor body includes at least two maxima.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventor: Hans-Joachim Schulze
  • Publication number: 20110089445
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing a NIII-V semiconductor. According to the invention, the method includes at least one step of doping a semiconductor of general formula AlxGa1-xN, wherein the atomic number x represents the number between 0 and 1 with a p-type electron-accepting dopant, as well as a co-doping step with a codopant capable of modifying the structure of the valency band. The invention also concerns a semiconductor as well as its use in electronics or optoelectronics. The invention further concerns a device as well as a diode using such a semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Bruno Daudin, Henri Mariette
  • Patent number: 7927957
    Abstract: A bonded silicon wafer is produced by a method including an oxygen ion implantation step on a silicon wafer for active layer having the specified wafer face; a step of bonding the silicon wafer for active layer to a silicon wafer for support; a first heat treatment step; an inner SiO2 layer exposing step; a step of removing the inner SiO2 layer; and a planarizing step of polishing a silicon wafer composite or subjecting the silicon wafer composite to a heat treatment in a reducing atmosphere (a second heat treatment step).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: SUMCO Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi Kusaba, Akihiko Endo, Hideki Nishihata, Nobuyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 7919400
    Abstract: A method for introducing one or more impurities into nano-structured materials. The method includes providing a nanostructured material having a feature size of about 100 nm and less. The method includes subjecting a surface region of the nanostructured material to one or more impurities to form a first region having a first impurity concentration within a vicinity of the surface region. In a specific embodiment, the method includes applying a driving force to one or more portions of at least the nanostructured material to cause the first region to form a second region having a second impurity concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Stion Corporation
    Inventor: Howard W. H. Lee
  • Patent number: 7915146
    Abstract: A catalyst particle on a substrate is exposed to reactants containing a semiconductor material in a reactor. An intrinsic semiconductor nanowire having constant lateral dimensions is grown at a low enough temperature so that pyrolysis of the reactant is suppressed on the sidewalls of the intrinsic semiconductor nanowire. Once the intrinsic semiconductor nanowire grows to a desired length, the temperature of the reactor is raised to enable pyrolysis on the sidewalls of the semiconductor nanowire, and thereafter dopants are supplied into the reactor with the reactant. A composite semiconductor nanowire having an intrinsic inner semiconductor nanowire and a doped semiconductor shell is formed. The catalyst particle is removed, followed by an anneal that distributes the dopants uniformly within the volume of the composite semiconductor nanowire, forming a semiconductor nanowire having constant lateral dimensions and a substantially uniform doping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Haight, Mark C. Reuter
  • Patent number: 7910486
    Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a nanotube region using a thin epitaxial layer formed on the sidewall of a trench in the semiconductor body. The thin epitaxial layer has uniform doping concentration. In another embodiment, a first thin epitaxial layer of the same conductivity type as the semiconductor body is formed on the sidewall of a trench in the semiconductor body and a second thin epitaxial layer of the opposite conductivity type is formed on the first epitaxial layer. The first and second epitaxial layers have uniform doping concentration. The thickness and doping concentrations of the first and second epitaxial layers and the semiconductor body are selected to achieve charge balance. In one embodiment, the semiconductor body is a lightly doped P-type substrate. A vertical trench MOSFET, an IGBT, a Schottky diode and a P-N junction diode can be formed using the same N-Epi/P-Epi nanotube structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamza Yilmaz, Xiaobin Wang, Anup Bhalla, John Chen, Hong Chang
  • Patent number: 7913195
    Abstract: According to mask layout data created for a particular factory facility, transistors constituting a semiconductor device are classified into multiple groups depending on the gate length. Thereafter, the concentration of impurity introduced into a channel layer is set for each group, and thereby the gate length-threshold characteristics of a transistor are controlled. An overlapping area of a gate electrode and an element region of a certain group is extracted from mask layout data. The overlapping area is expanded to determine the shape of a mask used in injecting impurity in a channel layer. The data on the mask shape is then added to the mask layout data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Takao
  • Patent number: 7906416
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device from a semiconductor wafer having a first major surface, a recess provided inside a periphery on opposite side of the first major surface and surrounded by the periphery, and a second major surface provided at bottom of the recess is provided. The method comprises: fitting into the recess a doping mask having selectively formed openings to selectively cover the second major surface with the doping mask; and selectively introducing dopant into the second major surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masanobu Tsuchitani, Hideki Nozaki, Motoshige Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7902041
    Abstract: An object is to provide a method for manufacturing, with high yield, a semiconductor device having a crystalline semiconductor layer even if a substrate with low upper temperature limit. A groove is formed in a part of a semiconductor substrate to form a semiconductor substrate that has a projecting portion, and a bonding layer is formed to cover the projecting portion. In addition, before the bonding layer is formed, a portion of the semiconductor substrate to be the projecting portion is irradiated with accelerated ions to form a brittle layer. After the bonding layer and the supporting substrate are bonded together, heat treatment for separation of the semiconductor substrate is performed to provide a semiconductor layer over the supporting substrate. The semiconductor layer is selectively etched, and a semiconductor element is formed and a semiconductor device is manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hideto Ohnuma
  • Publication number: 20110037125
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an electronic structure is provided that includes forming a first conductivity doped first semiconductor material on the SOI semiconductor layer of a substrate. The SOI semiconductor layer has a thickness of less than 10 nm. The first conductivity in-situ doped first semiconductor material is removed from a first portion of the SOI semiconductor layer, wherein a remaining portion of the first conductivity in-situ doped first semiconductor material is present on a second portion of SOI semiconductor layer. A second conductivity in-situ doped second semiconductor material is formed on the first portion of the SOI semiconductor layer, wherein a mask prohibits the second conductivity in-situ doped semiconductor material from being formed on the second portion of the SOI semiconductor layer. The dopants from the first and second conductivity in-situ doped semiconductor materials are diffused into the first semiconductor layer to form dopant regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Bruce B. Doris, Ghavam G. Shahidi
  • Patent number: 7879666
    Abstract: A semiconductor process and apparatus fabricate a metal gate electrode (30) and an integrated semiconductor resistor (32) by forming a metal-based layer (26) and semiconductor layer (28) over a gate dielectric layer (24) and then selectively implanting the resistor semiconductor layer (28) in a resistor area (97) to create a conductive upper region (46) and a conduction barrier (47), thereby confining current flow in the resistor semiconductor layer (36) to only the top region (46) in the finally formed device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Da Zhang, Chendong Zhu, Xiangdong Chen, Melanie Sherony
  • Patent number: 7879701
    Abstract: Doping with suppressed filament deterioration can be performed even in the case of doping in various conditions with an ion doping apparatus having a filament. After ion doping is completed, supply of a material gas is stopped and hydrogen or a rare gas is kept to be supplied. After that, current of the filament is decreased and correspondingly, filament temperature is decreased. Accordingly, in decreasing the filament temperature, the material gas around the filament has been replaced with hydrogen or a rare gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Koezuka, Hiroshi Ohki, Taku Hasegawa, Mami Goto
  • Publication number: 20110021010
    Abstract: A method deposits an undoped silicon layer on a primary layer, deposits a cap layer on the undoped silicon layer, patterns a masking layer on the cap layer, and patterns the undoped silicon layer into silicon mandrels. The method incorporates impurities into sidewalls of the silicon mandrels in a process that leaves sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels doped with impurities and that leaves central portions of at least some of the silicon mandrels undoped. The method removes the cap layer to leave the silicon mandrels standing on the primary layer and performs a selective material removal process to remove the central portions of the silicon mandrels and to leave the sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels standing on the primary layer. The method patterns at least the primary layer using the sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels as a patterning mask and removes the sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels to leave at least the primary layer patterned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Bruce B. Doris, Toshiharu Furukawa
  • Patent number: 7863115
    Abstract: An embodiment is a method and apparatus to fabricate a flat panel display. A poly-last structure is formed for a display panel using an amorphous silicon or amorphous silicon compatible process. The poly-last structure has a channel silicon precursor. The display panel is formed from the poly-last structure using a polysilicon specific or polysilicon compatible process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Jackson H. Ho, Jeng Ping Lu
  • Publication number: 20100323507
    Abstract: A substrate processor enables realization of a proper process by combining advantages of a remote plasma and a plasma generated in an entire processing chamber. The substrate processor includes a conductive member (10) which is installed surrounding a processing space (1) and grounded to the earth and a pair of electrodes (4) installed inside the conductive member (10). A primary coil of an insulating transformer (7) is connected to a high-frequency power supply unit (14) and a secondary coil is connected to the electrodes (4). A switch (13) is connected to the connection line connecting the secondary coil to the electrodes (4). By setting up/cutting off the connection of the line to the earth with use of the switch (13), the region where the plasma is generated in the processing space (1) can be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TOYODA, Nobuhito Shima, Nobuo Ishimaru, Yoshikazu Konno, Motonari Takebayashi, Takaaki Noda, Norikazu Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20100314707
    Abstract: Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of making semiconductor devices. An exemplary embodiment comprises a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a first surface, a second surface, and a graded net doping concentration of the first conductivity type within a portion of the semiconductor layer. The graded portion is located adjacent to the top surface of the semiconductor layer, and the graded net doping concentration therein decreasing in value with distance from the top surface of the semiconductor layer. The exemplary device also comprises an electrode disposed at the first surface of the semiconductor layer and adjacent to the graded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Joseph A. Yedinak, Mark L. Rinehimer, Thomas E. Grebs, John L. Benjamin
  • Publication number: 20100314716
    Abstract: A vertical TVS (VTVS) circuit includes a semiconductor substrate for supporting the VTVS device thereon having a heavily doped layer extending to the bottom of substrate. Deep trenches are provided for isolation between multi-channel VTVS. Trench gates are also provided for increasing the capacitance of VTVS with integrated EMI filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Shekar Mallikararjunaswamy, Madhur Bobde
  • Patent number: 7846822
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for fabricating semiconductor structures and devices, particularly ultra-shallow doped semiconductor structures exhibiting low electrical resistance. Methods of the present invention use modification of the composition of semiconductor surfaces to allow fabrication of a doped semiconductor structure having a selected dopant concentration depth profile, which provides useful junctions and other device components in microelectronic and nanoelectronic devices, such as transistors in high density integrated circuits. Surface modification in the present invention also allows for control of the concentration and depth profile of defects, such as interstitials and vacancies, in undersaturated semiconductor materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Edmund G. Seebauer, Richard D. Braatz, Michael Yoo Lim Jung, Rudiyanto Gunawan
  • Publication number: 20100302842
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: first and second impurity diffusion layers that form a part of a semiconductor substrate, each of the impurity diffusion layers function as one and the other of an anode and a cathode, respectively of a pn-junction diode; a recording layer connected to the second impurity diffusion layer; and a cylindrical sidewall insulation film provided on the first impurity diffusion layer. At least a part of the second diffusion layer and at least a part of the recording layer are formed in a region surrounded by a sidewall insulation film. According to the present invention, because a pillar-shaped pn-junction diode and the recording layer are formed in a self-aligned manner, the degree of integration of a semiconductor memory device can be increased. Further, because a silicon pillar is a part of the semiconductor substrate, a leakage current attributable to a crystal defect can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KAWAGOE, Isamu Asano
  • Publication number: 20100295159
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method (80) for manufacturing a semiconductor tip. The method comprises obtaining (81) a substrate provided with a layer of tip material, providing (82) a doping profile in the layer of tip material, the doping profile comprising a tapered-shaped region of a first dopant concentration, undoped or lightly doped, e.g. having a dopant concentration of 1017 cm?3 or lower, surrounded by a region of a second dopant concentration, highly doped, e.g. having a dopant concentration above 1017 cm?3 , the first dopant concentration being lower than the second dopant concentration, and isotropically etching (83) the layer of tip material by using an etch chemistry for which the etch rate of tip material with the second dopant concentration is substantially higher than the etch rate of the tip material with the first dopant concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: IMEC
    Inventor: Simone Severi
  • Publication number: 20100289113
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a hybrid semiconductor substrate comprising the steps of (a) providing a hybrid semiconductor substrate comprising a semiconductor-on-insulator (SeOI) region, that comprises an insulating layer over a base substrate and a SeOI layer over the insulating layer, and a bulk semiconductor region, wherein the SeOI region and the bulk semiconductor region share the same base substrate; (b) providing a mask layer over the SeOI region; and (c) forming a first impurity level by doping the SeOI region and the bulk semiconductor region simultaneously such that the first impurity level in the SeOI region is contained within the mask. Thereby avoiding higher number of process steps involved in the manufacturing process of hybrid semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: S.O.I. TEC SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Konstantin Bourdelle, Bich-Yen Nguyen, Mariam Sadaka
  • Patent number: 7833886
    Abstract: A method of producing a semiconductor element in a substrate includes forming a plurality of micro-cavities in a substrate, creating an amorphization of the substrate to form crystallographic defects and a doping of the substrate with doping atoms, depositing an amorphous layer on top of the substrate, and annealing the substrate, such that at least a part of the crystallographic defects is eliminated using the micro-cavities. The semiconductor element is formed using the doping atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignees: Infineon Technologies AG, Qimonda AG
    Inventors: Luis-Felipe Giles, Matthias Goldbach, Martin Bartels, Paul Kuepper
  • Patent number: 7829402
    Abstract: A MOSFET device and a method for fabricating MOSFET devices are disclosed. The method includes providing a semiconductor device structure including a semiconductor device layer of a first conductivity type, and ion implanting a well structure of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor device layer, where the ion implanting includes providing a dopant concentration profile in a single mask implant sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kevin Sean Matocha, Stephen Daley Arthur, Ramakrishna Rao, Peter Almern Losee, Zachary Matthew Stum
  • Patent number: 7820532
    Abstract: Method for simultaneously forming doped regions having different conductivity-determining type elements profiles are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method comprises the steps of diffusing first conductivity-determining type elements into a first region of a semiconductor material from a first dopant to form a doped first region. Second conductivity-determining type elements are simultaneously diffused into a second region of the semiconductor material from a second dopant to form a doped second region. The first conductivity-determining type elements are of the same conductivity-determining type as the second conductivity-determining type elements. The doped first region has a dopant profile that is different from a dopant profile of the doped second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Yu-Kwan Leung, Nicole Rutherford, Anil Bhanap
  • Publication number: 20100264391
    Abstract: The fabrication of seek-scan probe (SSP) memory devices involves processing on both-sides of a wafer. However, there are temperature restrictions on the mover circuitry side of the wafer and doping level constrains for either side of wafer. Using a low doped EPI layer on a highly doped substrate solves this issue and provides good STO growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Ajay Jain, Valluri R. Rao, John Magana
  • Patent number: 7816200
    Abstract: The present invention generally includes a method and an apparatus for depositing both a high k layer and a capping layer within the same processing chamber by coupling gas precursors, liquid precursors, and solid precursors to the same processing chamber. By coupling gas precursors, liquid precursors, and solid precursors to the same processing chamber, a high k dielectric layer, a capping layer for a PMOS section, and a different capping layer for a NMOS may be deposited within the same processing chamber. The capping layer prevents the metal containing electrode from reacting with the high k dielectric layer. Thus, the threshold voltage for the PMOS and NMOS may be substantially identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Shreyas Kher
  • Patent number: 7816239
    Abstract: Techniques for manufacturing solar cells are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may comprise disposing a mask upstream of the solar cell, the mask comprising a plurality of filaments spaced apart from one another to define at least one aperture; directing a ribbon ion beam of desired species toward the solar cell to ion implant a portion of the solar cell defined by the at least one aperture of the mask; and orienting the ribbon ion beam such that longer cross-section dimension of the ribbon beam is perpendicular to the aperture in one plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Julian G. Blake, Kevin M. Daniels
  • Patent number: 7812378
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first MOS type capacitor having a first insulating film and a first electrode that are formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a second MOS type capacitor having a second insulating film and a second electrode that are formed on the semiconductor substrate. The first electrode has a first concentration difference as a difference when an impurity concentration in an interface region with the first insulating film is subtracted from an impurity concentration in a top portion of the first electrode. The second electrode has a second concentration difference as a difference when an impurity concentration in an interface region with the second insulating film is subtracted from an impurity concentration in a top portion of the second electrode. The second concentration difference is larger than the first concentration difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Shibata
  • Patent number: 7811875
    Abstract: Disclosed is a complementary CMOS device having a first FET with sidewall channels and a second FET with a planar channel. The first FET can be a p-FET and the second FET can be an n-FET or vice versa. The conductor used to form the gate electrodes of the different type FETs is different and is pre-selected to optimize performance. For example, a p-FET gate electrode material can have a work function near the valence band and an n-FET gate electrode material can have a work function near the conduction band. The first gate electrodes of the first FET are located adjacent to the sidewall channels and the second gate electrode of the second FET is located above the planar channel. However, the device structure is unique in that the second gate electrode extends laterally above the first FET and is electrically coupled to the first gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brent A. Anderson, Edward J. Nowak
  • Patent number: 7799650
    Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device on a semiconductor material layer includes forming a gate structure over the semiconductor material layer. The method further includes forming a first nitride spacer adjacent to the gate structure and forming source/drain extensions in the semiconductor material layer. The method further includes forming an oxide liner overlying the gate structure and the source/drain extensions. The method further includes forming a second nitride spacer adjacent to the oxide liner. The method further includes forming source/drain regions in the semiconductor material layer. The method further includes using an etching process that is selective to the oxide liner, removing the second nitride spacer. The method further includes using an etching process that is selective to the first nitride spacer, at least partially removing the oxide liner. The method further includes forming silicide regions overlying the source/drain regions and the gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangzheng Bo, Venkat R. Kolagunta, Konstantin V. Loiko
  • Patent number: 7795119
    Abstract: A structure and a method for mitigation of the damage arising in the source/drain region of a MOSFET is presented. A substrate is provided having a gate structure comprising a gate oxide layer and a gate electrode layer, and a source and drain region into which impurity ions have been implanted. A PAI process generates an amorphous layer within the source and drain region. A metal is deposited and is reacted to create a silicide within the amorphous layer, without exacerbating existing defects. Conductivity of the source and drain region is then recovered by flash annealing the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia Ping Lo, Jerry Lai, Chii-Ming Wu, Mei-Yun Wang, Da-Wen Lin
  • Patent number: 7790585
    Abstract: An antiferromagnetic half-metallic semiconductor of the present invention is manufactured by adding to a semiconductor two or more types of magnetic elements including a magnetic element with a d-electron number of less than five and a magnetic element with a d-electron number of more than five, and substituting a part of elements of the semiconductor with the two or more types of magnetic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Osaka University
    Inventors: Hisazumi Akai, Masako Ogura
  • Publication number: 20100219810
    Abstract: A complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor system in one embodiment includes a doped substrate, a doped central island extending downwardly within the doped substrate from an upper surface of the doped substrate, and a first doped outer island extending downwardly within the doped substrate from the upper surface of the doped substrate, the first outer island electrically isolated from the central island within an upper portion of the substrate, and electrically coupled to the central island within a lower portion of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Rocznik, Christoph Lang, Sam Kavusi
  • Patent number: 7785993
    Abstract: A method of forming a Si strained layer 16 on a Si substrate 10 includes forming a first SiGe buffer layer 12 on the Si substrate 10. Then, the first SiGe buffer layer is implanted with an amorphising implant to render the first SiGe buffer layer amorphous using ion implantation. A second SiGe buffer layer 14 is grown on the first SiGe buffer layer after annealing. This produces a relaxed SiGe layer 12, 14. Then, the strained layer of Si 16 is grown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Bartlomiej J Pawlak, Philippe Meunier-Beillard
  • Patent number: 7776727
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention contemplate high efficiency emitters in solar cells and novel methods for forming the same. One embodiment of the improved emitter structure, called a high-low type emitter, optimizes the solar cell performance by equally providing low contact resistance to minimize ohmic losses and isolation of the high surface recombination metal-semiconductor interface from the junction to maximize cell voltage. Another embodiment, called an alternating doping type emitter, provides regions of alternating doping type for use with point contacts in the back-contact solar cells. One embodiment of the methods includes depositing and patterning a doped or undoped dielectric layer on a surface of a substrate, implanting a fast-diffusing dopant and/or a slow-diffusing dopant into the substrate either simultaneously or sequentially, and annealing the substrate to drive in the dopants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Borden
  • Patent number: 7776714
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining a thin layer made of a first material on a substrate made of a second material called the final substrate, including the following steps: bonding a thick layer of a first material on one of its main faces on the final substrate at an interface, implantation of gaseous species in the thick layer of first material to create a weakened zone delimiting said thin layer between the interface and the weakened zone, deposit a layer of third material called the self-supporting layer on the thick layer made of first material, fracture within the structure composed of the final substrate, the thick layer of first material and the layer of third material, at the weakened zone to supply the substrate supporting said thin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Commissariat A l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Hubert Moriceau, Chrystelle Lagahe, Benoit Bataillou
  • Patent number: 7776726
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. A preferred embodiment includes providing a workpiece having a first orientation and at least one second orientation. The semiconductor device is implanted with a dopant species using a first implantation process in the first orientation of the workpiece. The semiconductor device is implanted with the dopant species using a second implantation process in the at least one second orientation of the workpiece, wherein the second implantation process is different than the first implantation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schiml, Manfred Eller
  • Patent number: 7776725
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling the net doping in the active region of a semiconductor device in accordance with a gate length. The method includes doping a short channel device and a long channel device with a first dopant, and doping the short channel device and the long channel device with a second dopant at a same implantation energy, dose, and angle for both the short channel device and the long channel device. The second dopant neutralizes the first dopant in portion to a gate length of the short channel device and the second channel device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Huilong Zhu, Philip Oldiges, Cheruvu S. Murthy
  • Publication number: 20100200914
    Abstract: A source layer 13 is so high that the source layer 13 and a source electrode 20 can be connected to each other mainly by the sides of the source layer 13. Thus, the width of the source layer 13 can be minimized and size reduction can be achieved. At the same time, insulating films 19 with a sufficient thickness can be formed in trenches 15 and thus the insulating films 19 are not formed on the source layer 13. Thus it is possible to deeply form a recessed structure 17 while suppressing unevenness on the source electrode 20, thereby improving a breakdown voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Hamada
  • Patent number: 7767545
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a substrate having a top layer of a first material and an underlying layer of a second material whose lattice parameter is different from that of the first material. The process includes the steps of conducting an amorphization of the top layer to create an amorphous region in the top layer lying between an exposed surface and an amorphization interface, with that portion of the top layer below the interface being shielded from the amorphization and remaining as a crystalline structure; recrystallizing the amorphous region while also creating a network of defects at the interface, wherein the network forms a boundary for dislocations from the crystalline structure of the top layer, and containing the dislocations in the portion of the top layer that is located below the interface. Also, the substrates obtained by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: S.O.I.Tec Silicon on Insulator Technologies
    Inventors: Konstantin Bourdelle, Carlos Mazure
  • Publication number: 20100190323
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of providing a desired catalyst electron energy level. The method includes providing a donor material quantum confinement structure (QCS) having a first Fermi level, and providing an acceptor QCS material having a second Fermi level, where the first Fermi level is higher than the second Fermi level. According to the method the acceptor is disposed proximal to the donor to alter an electronic structure of the donor and the acceptor materials to provide the desired catalyst electron energy level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Timothy P. Holme, Friedrich B. Prinz
  • Patent number: 7763095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the internal gettering of impurities in semiconductors by metal alloy clusters. In particular, intermetallic clusters are formed within silicon, such clusters containing two or more transition metal species. Such clusters have melting temperatures below that of the host material and are shown to be particularly effective in gettering impurities within the silicon and collecting them into isolated, less harmful locations. Novel compositions for some of the metal alloy clusters are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Anthony Buonassisi, Matthias Heuer, Andrei A. Istratov, Matthew D. Pickett, Mathew A. Marcus, Eicke R. Weber
  • Publication number: 20100181687
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a chip. The chip includes a single circuit element formed in a semiconductor substrate, a first metal layer on a first face of the semiconductor substrate, and a second metal layer on a second face of the semiconductor substrate opposite the first face. The first metal layer and the second metal layer are configured for accessing the single circuit element. A smaller of a first width of the first face of the semiconductor substrate and a second width of the first face of the semiconductor substrate perpendicular to the first width is less than or equal to a distance between an exposed face of the first metal layer parallel to the first face of the semiconductor substrate and an exposed face of the second metal layer parallel to the second face of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Scharf, Horst Theuss, Markus Leicht
  • Patent number: 7759148
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor optical device includes forming a BDR (Band Discontinuity Reduction) layer of a first conductivity type doped with an impurity, depositing a contact layer of the first conductivity type in contact with the BDR layer after forming the the BDR layer, the contact layer being doped with the same impurity as the BDR layer and used to form an electrode, and heat treating after forming the contact layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hanamaki, Kenichi Ono
  • Patent number: 7749875
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor element. A dislocation region is formed between a first layer and a second layer, the dislocation region including a plurality of dislocations. First interstitials in the first layer are at least partially eliminated using the dislocations in the dislocation region. Vacancies are formed in the second layer. Second interstitials in the second layer are at least partially eliminated using the vacancies in the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Luis-Felipe Giles
  • Publication number: 20100164048
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor substrate comprising the steps of: providing a semiconductor on insulator type substrate, providing a diffusion barrier layer and providing a second semiconductor layer. By providing the diffusion barrier layer, it becomes possible to suppress diffusion from the highly doped first semiconductor layer into the second semiconductor layer. The invention also relates to a corresponding semiconductor substrate and opto-electronic devices comprising such a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: S.O.I.TEC Silicon on Insulator Technologies
    Inventors: Christophe Figuet, Christophe Bouvier, CĂ©line Cailler, Alexis Drouin, Thibaut Maurice
  • Publication number: 20100164073
    Abstract: Electrical structures and devices may be formed and include an organic passivating layer that is chemically bonded to a silicon-containing semiconductor material to improve the electrical properties of electrical devices. In different embodiments, the organic passivating layer may remain within finished devices to reduce dangling bonds, improve carrier lifetimes, decrease surface recombination velocities, increase electronic efficiencies, or the like. In other embodiments, the organic passivating layer may be used as a protective sacrificial layer and reduce contact resistance or reduce resistance of doped regions. The organic passivation layer may be formed without the need for high-temperature processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Nathan S. Lewis, William Royea
  • Publication number: 20100155722
    Abstract: A memory device with band gap control is described. A memory cell can include a conductive oxide layer in contact with and electrically in series with an electronically insulating layer. A thickness of the electronically insulating layer is configured to increase from an initial thickness to a target thickness. The increased thickness of the electronically insulating layer can improve resistive memory effect, increase a magnitude of a read current during read operations, and lower barrier height with a concomitant reduction in band gap of the electronically insulating layer. The memory cell can include a memory element that comprises the conductive oxide layer and the electronically insulating layer and can optionally include a non-ohmic device (NOD). The memory cell can be positioned in a two-terminal cross-point array between a pair of conductive array lines across which voltages for data operations are applied. The memory cell and array can be fabricated BEOL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: UNITY SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Rene Meyer
  • Publication number: 20100151667
    Abstract: A dopant device includes: a dopant holder that holds Ge which is solid at normal temperature and liquefies the Ge near a surface of the semiconductor melt, the dopant holder including a communicating hole for delivering the liquefied Ge downwardly; a cover portion for covering the Ge held by the dopant holder; and a vent provided on the cover portion for communicating with the outside. A dopant injecting method is carried out using such a dopant device, the dopant injecting method including: loading Ge dopant in a solid state into the doping device; liquefying the solid Ge dopant loaded into the doping device while holding the doping device at a predetermined height from a surface of a semiconductor melt; and doping the semiconductor melt with the liquefied Ge that is flowed from the communicating hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: SUMCO TECHXIV CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhito Narushima, Shinichi Kawazoe, Fukuo Ogawa, Toshimichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 7736483
    Abstract: A method for electroplating low-resistance metal wire for resolving the problem to fabricate the metal wire on large-area substrate through the technology of photolithographing and etching in the prior art. Then the invention improves the RC-delay characteristic of circuit on large-area substrate and reduces the number of masks for processing of a structure of gate overlap lightly-doped drain (source) (GOLDD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chun-Yau Huang, Cheng-Chung Chen, Yong-Fu Wu, Cheng-Hung Tsai, Chwan-Gwo Chyau, Fang-Tsun Chu