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| 438275000 | Making plural insulated gate field effect transistors of differing electrical characteristics | 62 |
| 20090221118 | High Voltage Semiconductor Devices - A transistor suitable for high-voltage applications and a method of manufacture is provided. A first device is formed by depositing a dielectric layer and a conductive layer over a substrate. A hard mask is deposited over the conductive layer and patterned using photolithography techniques. The photoresist material is removed prior to etching the underlying conductive layer and dielectric layer. The hard mask is also used as an implant mask. Another mask may be deposited and formed over the conductive layer to form other devices in other regions of the substrate. The other mask is preferably removed from over the hard mask prior to etching the conductive layer and the dielectric layer. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20130040430 | FORMATION OF A CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY BY FORMING A NITRIDE BASED HARD MASK LAYER - The present disclosure provides manufacturing techniques in which sophisticated high-k metal gate electrode structures may be formed in an early manufacturing stage on the basis of a selectively applied threshold voltage adjusting semiconductor alloy. In order to reduce the surface topography upon patterning the deposition mask while still allowing the usage of well-established epitaxial growth recipes developed for silicon dioxide-based hard mask materials, a silicon nitride base material may be used in combination with a surface treatment. In this manner, the surface of the silicon nitride material may exhibit a silicon dioxide-like behavior, while the patterning of the hard mask may be accomplished on the basis of highly selective etch techniques. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130052781 | Method of Forming Non-planar FET - A method of forming a Non-planar FET is provided. A substrate is provided. An active region and a peripheral region are defined on the substrate. A plurality of VSTI is formed in the active region of the substrate. A part of each VSTI is removed to expose a part of sidewall of the substrate. Then, a conductor layer is formed on the substrate which is then patterned to form a planar FET gate in the peripheral region and a Non-planar FET gate in the active region simultaneously. Last, a source/drain region is formed on two sides of the Non-planar FET gate. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20090042348 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In the present invention, there is provided a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that has on a semiconductor substrate first and second transistor groups having different operating voltages respectively, the first transistor group having a first gate electrode, the second transistor group having a second gate electrode, the method including the steps of: forming the silicide layer on the first gate electrode of the first transistor group after setting a height of the first gate electrode smaller than a height of a dummy gate electrode formed in a dummy gate part; and forming a gate forming trench by removing the dummy gate part after forming an interlayer insulating film that covers a silicide layer and planarizing a surface of the interlayer insulating film. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090093097 | Method for Manufacturing Dual Gate in Semiconductor Device - Provided is a method for manufacturing a dual gate in a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a gate insulating layer and a gate conductive layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a diffusion barrier layer on the gate conductive layer, forming a barrier metal layer on the diffusion barrier layer, depositing a first gate metal layer on the barrier metal layer, forming a metal nitride barrier layer on a surface of the first gate metal layer by supplying nitrogen (N2) plasma on the first gate metal layer, forming a second gate metal layer on the metal nitride barrier layer, and forming a hard mask layer on the second gate metal layer. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090011561 | Method of fabricating high-voltage mos having doubled-diffused drain - A method of fabricating high-voltage MOS having double-diffused drain (DDD) is disclosed. The original photoresist used to define a gate is used to define double-diffused drains without increasing the complexity of the whole process. A dielectric layer and a conductive layer are sequentially formed on a substrate. A patterned photoresist is then formed on the conductive layer and then used to etch the conductive layer and the dielectric layer to form a gate and a gate dielectric layer, respectively. After stabilizing the photoresist layer, a first ion implantation is performed to form lightly doped region having deep junction. The photoresist is removed and two spacers are formed on the sidewalls of the gate. Next, a second ion implantation is performed to form heavily doped region in the substrate on outer side of the spacers. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20130122673 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A DOUBLE-GATE TRANSISTOR AND A TRI-GATE TRANSISTOR ON A COMMON SUBSTRATE - A method of fabricating a double-gate transistor and a tri-gate transistor on a common substrate, in which, a substrate includes a first fin structure covered with a first mask layer and a second fin structure covered with a second mask layer, the first mask layer is removed, a gate material layer is formed and covers the first fin structure and the second mask layer, the gate material layer is patterned to result in a tri-gate structure covering the first fin structure and a double-gate structure covering the second fin structure and the second mask layer, and a source and a drain are formed in each of these two fin structures each at two sides of the gates. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20100267212 | FABRICATION METHODS FOR RADIATION HARDENED ISOLATION STRUCTURES - Semiconductor devices can be fabricated using conventional designs and process but including specialized structures to reduce or eliminate detrimental effects caused by various forms of radiation. Such semiconductor devices can include one or more parasitic isolation devices and/or buried layer structures disclosed in the present application. The introduction of design and/or process steps to accommodate these novel structures is compatible with conventional CMOS fabrication processes, and can therefore be accomplished at relatively low cost and with relative simplicity. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110300680 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND DEPLETION-TYPE MOS TRANSISTOR - A peripheral circuit includes at least a first transistor. The first transistor comprises a gate electrode formed on a surface of a semiconductor layer via agate insulating film. A channel region of a first conductivity type having a first impurity concentration is formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer directly below and in the vicinity of the gate electrode. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20090170266 | METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - Methods for manufacturing semiconductor devices simultaneously to implement low-voltage and high-voltage devices in a single chip. In one example embodiment, a method includes various acts. An isolation layer is formed on a wafer. A gate oxide layer and a lower gate poly are sequentially formed on a first low-voltage transistor region. A first poly oxide layer is formed. A nitride layer is formed on the first poly oxide layer. The nitride layer and the first poly oxide layer are etched. A field oxide layer is formed by selectively oxidizing portions exposed by the etching. A second poly oxide layer is formed. Gate patterns of each transistor region are completed by vapor-depositing an upper gate poly on a high-voltage transistor region, the first low-voltage transistor region and a second low-voltage transistor region. A source and drain region are formed. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20080268597 | TECHNIQUE FOR ENHANCING DOPANT ACTIVATION BY USING MULTIPLE SEQUENTIAL ADVANCED LASER/FLASH ANNEAL PROCESSES - By performing multiple radiation-based anneal processes on the basis of less critical process parameters, the overall risk for creating anneal-induced damage, such as melting of gate portions, may be substantially avoided while nevertheless the respective degree of dopant activation may be enhanced for each individual anneal process. Consequently, the sheet resistance of advanced transistor devices may be reduced with a decreasing number of sequential anneal processes. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20100124808 | Method of fabricating semiconductor device - A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including forming a plurality of gate structures on a semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of impurity regions in the semiconductor substrate at sides of the gate structures, forming a dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate having the gate structures, forming contact holes by etching the dielectric layer to expose parts of the impurity regions at sides of the gate structures, directly implanting impurity ions into the exposed parts of the impurity regions via the contact holes by using the gate structures as ion implanting masks, wherein the impurity ions prevent impurities doped in the impurity regions from diffusing to channel regions of the gate structures, and forming conductive plugs in the contact holes. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20090263948 | METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR (MOSFET) AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) is provided. The MOSFET includes a semiconductor substrate, a device isolating region disposed on a predetermined portion of the semiconductor substrate to define an active region, a source region and a drain region spaced apart from each other about a channel region within the active region, and a gate electrode formed on the active region between the source region and the drain region. Furthermore, the MOSFET also includes a gate insulating layer formed between the active region and the gate electrode. The gate insulating layer includes a central gate insulating layer disposed under central portion of the gate electrode, an edge gate insulating layer disposed under an edge portion of the gate electrode to have a bottom surface level with a bottom of the central gate insulating layer and an upper surface protruding to be higher than an upper surface of the central gate insulating layer. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090142896 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate having first and second low voltage transistor regions and first and second high voltage transistor regions. A dielectric layer is formed over the semiconductor substrate-in the low and high voltage transistor. Gates are formed over the dielectric layer in the low and high voltage regions. Lightly doped drains are formed in the first low-voltage transistor region and the first high-voltage transistor region by performing an ion implantation process on the semiconductor substrate using a first gate in the first low-voltage transistor region and a third gate in the first high-voltage transistor region as ion implantation masks and the dielectric layer as a buffer. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090275181 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device according to an example of the present invention includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a first MIS transistor of a second conductivity type formed in the first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, and a second MIS transistor of a first conductivity type formed in the second semiconductor region. A first gate insulating layer of the first MIS transistor is thicker than a second gate insulating layer of the second MIS transistor, and a profile of impurities of the first conductivity type in a channel region of the second MIS transistor has peaks. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090269897 | METHODS OF FABRICATING DUAL-DEPTH TRENCH ISOLATION REGIONS FOR A MEMORY CELL - Methods for fabricating dual-depth trench isolation regions for a memory cell. First and second deep trench isolation regions are formed in the semiconductor layer that laterally bound a device region in a well of a first conductivity type in the semiconductor layer. First and second pluralities of doped regions of a second conductivity type are formed in the device region. A shallow trench isolation region is formed that extends laterally across the device region from the first deep trench isolation region to the second deep trench isolation region. The shallow trench isolation region is disposed in the device region between the first and second pluralities of doped regions. The shallow trench isolation region extends into the semiconductor layer to a depth such that the well is continuous beneath the shallow trench isolation region. A gate stack controls carrier flow between a pair of the first plurality of doped regions. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20080286928 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - In the chip with which a plurality of MISFET from which threshold value voltage differs is intermingled, leakage current, such as GIDL current and BTBT current, is suppressed, inhibiting the short channel effect of MISFET. The concentration of the impurity for threshold value voltage adjustment implanted to the region in which n channel type MISFET with relatively low threshold value voltage is formed is made lower than the concentration of the impurity for threshold value voltage adjustment implanted to the region in which n channel type MISFET with relatively high threshold value voltage is formed. Implantation amount of the impurity at the time of forming n | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100003796 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING SELF-ALIGNED CONTACT - A method of manufacturing semiconductor devices having self-aligned contacts is provided. Multiple isolation structures are formed on the substrate to define an active area. Multiple gate structures are formed on the substrate. Multiple doped areas are formed in the substrate beside each gate structure. Multiple first spacers are formed on the sidewalls of each of the gate structure. Multiple second spacers are formed on the sidewalls of each of the isolation structure. A dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. Then, a self-aligned process is performed to form multiple contact openings in the dielectric layer between the gate structures. The conductive material is filled in the contact openings. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090004800 | Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices - In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a conductive layer pattern may be formed on a substrate. An oxide layer may be formed on the substrate to cover the conductive layer pattern. A diffusion barrier layer may be formed by treating the oxide layer to increase an energy required for a diffusion of impurities. An impurity region may be formed on the substrate by implanting impurities into the conductive layer pattern and a portion of the substrate adjacent to the conductive layer pattern, through the diffusion barrier. The impurities in the conductive layer pattern and the impurity region may be prevented or reduced from diffusing, and therefore, the semiconductor device may have improved performance. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090142895 | METHOD OF FORMING A VIA - A method for forming a via includes forming a gate electrode over a semiconductor substrate, forming a source/drain region in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate electrode, forming a silicide region in the source/drain region, forming a post-silicide spacer adjacent the gate electrode after forming the silicide region, forming an interlayer dielectric layer over the gate electrode, the post-silicide spacer, and the silicide region, and forming a conductive via in the interlayer dielectric layer, extending to the silicide region. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20110223733 | Method for Forming a Strained Transistor by Stress Memorization Based on a Stressed Implantation Mask - By using an implantation mask having a high intrinsic stress, SMT sequences may be provided in which additional lithography steps may be avoided. Consequently, a strain source may be provided without significantly contributing to the overall process complexity. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110223732 | THRESHOLD ADJUSTMENT FOR MOS DEVICES BY ADAPTING A SPACER WIDTH PRIOR TO IMPLANTATION - Different threshold voltages of transistors of the same conductivity type in a complex integrated circuit may be adjusted on the basis of different Miller capacitances, which may be accomplished by appropriately adapting a spacer width and/or performing a tilted extension implantation. Thus, efficient process strategies may be available to controllably adjust the Miller capacitance, thereby providing enhanced transistor performance of low threshold transistors while not unduly contributing to process complexity compared to conventional approaches in which threshold voltage values may be adjusted on the basis of complex halo and well doping regimes. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20090004799 | METHOD OF FORMING A SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE COMPRISING A FORMATION OF AT LEAST ONE SIDEWALL SPACER STRUCTURE - According to an illustrative example, a method of forming a semiconductor structure comprises providing a semiconductor substrate comprising a first feature and a second feature. A material layer is formed over the first feature and the second feature. A mask is formed over the first feature. At least one etch process adapted to form a sidewall spacer structure adjacent the second feature from a portion of the material layer is performed. The mask protects a portion of the material layer over the first feature from being affected by the at least one etch process. An ion implantation process is performed. The mask remains over the first feature during the ion implantation process. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20080261367 | METHOD FOR PROCESS INTEGRATION OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELL TRANSISTORS WITH TRANSISTORS OF ANOTHER TYPE - A method for making a semiconductor device having non-volatile memory cell transistors and transistors of another type is provided. In the method, a substrate is provided having an NVM region, a high voltage (HV) region, and a low voltage (LV) region. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer on the HV and LV regions. A tunnel oxide layer is formed over the substrate in the NVM region and the gate dielectric in the HV and LV regions. A first polysilicon layer is formed over the tunnel dielectric layer and gate dielectric layer. The first polysilicon layer is patterned to form NVM floating gates. An ONO layer is formed over the first polysilicon layer. A single etch removal step is used to form gates for the HV transistors from the first polysilicon layer while removing the first polysilicon layer from the LV region. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20100015771 | METHOD OF FABRICATING STRAINED SILICON TRANSISTOR - A method of fabricating a strained silicon transistor is provided. Amorphous silicon is formed below the transistor region before the transistor is formed. By using the tensile/compressive strainer, amorphous silicon is recrystallized to form a strained silicon layer. In addition, the dopants in the well can be driven in and activated by using the same annealing process with the amorphous silicon recrystallization. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20120196417 | Sophisticated Gate Electrode Structures Formed by Cap Layer Removal with Reduced Loss of Embedded Strain-Inducing Semiconductor Material - When forming sophisticated gate electrode structures, such as high-k metal gate electrode structures, an appropriate encapsulation may be achieved, while also undue material loss of a strain-inducing semiconductor material that is provided in one type of transistor may be avoided. To this end, the patterning of the protective spacer structure prior to depositing the strain-inducing semiconductor material may be achieved for each type of transistor on the basis of the same process flow, while, after the deposition of the strain-inducing semiconductor material, an etch stop layer may be provided so as to preserve integrity of the active regions. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20100261325 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A DUAL GATE INSULATION LAYER - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a dual gate insulation layer is presented. The method includes a step of forming a first insulation layer on a semiconductor substrate which has a first region and a second region. The method includes a step of selectively removing a portion of the first insulation layer formed the second region of the semiconductor substrate. The removal of the portion of the first insulation layer is conducted using an etching solution comprising propylene glycol, HF and amine. The method also includes a step of forming a second insulation layer on the first insulation layer in the first region and on the semiconductor substrate in the second region. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100227446 | Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device and Manufacturing Method Thereof - After silicon oxide film ( | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110244642 | METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of fabricating a semiconductor device utilizes a substrate including a high voltage circuit area, a medium voltage circuit area and a low voltage circuit area. A first well of a first conductivity type is formed. Two separate second wells of a second conductivity type are formed in the first well and two separate isolation structures are formed respectively in the second wells in each of the high voltage circuit area and the medium voltage circuit area. A first gate dielectric layer is formed in the high voltage circuit area. A second gate dielectric layer that is thinner than the first gate dielectric layer is formed in each of the medium voltage circuit area and the low voltage circuit area. A gate is formed. Two source and drain regions of the second conductivity type are respectively formed. The method is simple and low-cost and meets the market requirement. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20100093145 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF FOR REDUCING THE AREA OF THE MEMORY CELL REGION - A structure is adopted for a layout of an SRAM cell which provides a local wiring | 04-15-2010 |
| 20090317955 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a memory section formed at a semiconductor substrate and including a first transistor having an ONO film that can store charges between the semiconductor substrate and a memory electrode and a first STI region for isolating the first transistor, and a CMOS section formed at the semiconductor substrate and including a second transistor having a CMOS electrode and a gate dielectric and a second STI region for isolating the second transistor. The height of the top surface of the first STI region is set equal to or smaller than the height of the top surface of the second STI region. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20080220580 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device having on the same substrate both a high breakdown voltage MISFET and a low breakdown voltage MISFET is provided. An element isolation trench is formed in advance so that the width thereof is larger than the sum of the thickness of a polycrystalline silicon film serving as a gate electrode of a low breakdown voltage, the thickness of a gate insulating film and an alignment allowance in processing of a gate electrode in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the gate electrode and is larger than the thickness of the polycrystalline silicon film in a planar region not overlapping the gate electrode. It is possible to decrease the number of manufacturing steps for the semiconductor integrated circuit device. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080199998 | PRE-EPITAXIAL DISPOSABLE SPACER INTEGRATION SCHEME WITH VERY LOW TEMPERATURE SELECTIVE EPITAXY FOR ENHANCED DEVICE PERFORMANCE - The embodiments of the invention provide a method, etc. for a pre-epitaxial disposable spacer integration scheme with very low temperature selective epitaxy for enhanced device performance. More specifically, one method begins by forming a first gate and a second gate on a substrate. Next, an oxide layer is formed on the first and second gates; and, a nitride layer is formed on the oxide layer. Portions of the nitride layer proximate the first gate, portions of the oxide layer proximate the first gate, and portions of the substrate proximate the first gate are removed so as to form source and drain recesses proximate the first gate. Following this, the method removes remaining portions of the nitride layer, including exposing remaining portions of the oxide layer. The removal of the remaining portions of the nitride layer only exposes the remaining portions of the oxide layer and the source and drain recesses. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20110020993 | Semiconductor Device and Method of Fabricating the Same - Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a first interconnection disposed on a substrate. The interconnection includes a first silicon interconnection region and a first metal interconnection region sequentially stacked on the substrate. A second interconnection includes a second silicon interconnection region and a second metal interconnection region that are stacked sequentially. The second silicon interconnection region has a lower resistivity than the first silicon interconnection region. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20100323484 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include, but is not limited to the following processes. First and second gate electrodes are formed over a semiconductor substrate. An epitaxial layer is selectively formed over the semiconductor substrate. The epitaxial layer is adjacent to the first gate electrode. A first impurity is introduced into the semiconductor substrate through the epitaxial layer to form a first impurity region and directly into the semiconductor substrate to form a second impurity region. The first and second impurity regions are adjacent to the first and second gate electrodes, respectively. The first impurity region includes the epitaxial layer. A first bottom surface of the first impurity region is shallower in level than a second bottom surface of the second impurity region. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100190308 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING A FIN-TYPE TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE AND A PROCESS FOR FORMING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device can include an insulating layer and a fin-type transistor structure. The fin-type structure can have a semiconductor fin and a gate electrode spaced apart from each other. A dielectric layer and a spacer structure can lie between the semiconductor fin and the gate electrode. The semiconductor fin can include channel region including a portion associated with a relatively higher V | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110189831 | REDUCING CONTAMINATION IN A PROCESS FLOW OF FORMING A CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY IN A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In sophisticated approaches for forming high-k metal gate electrode structures in an early manufacturing stage, a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy may be deposited on the basis of a selective epitaxial growth process without affecting the back side of the substrates. Consequently, any negative effects, such as contamination of substrates and process tools, reduced surface quality of the back side and the like, may be suppressed or reduced by providing a mask material and preserving the material at least during the selective epitaxial growth process. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20100035397 | Configuration and method of manufacturing the one-time programmable (OTP) memory cells - This invention discloses a method for manufacturing a one-time programmable (OTP) memory includes a first and second MOS transistors connected in parallel and controlled by a common gate formed with a single polysilicon stripe. The method further comprises a step of implanting a drift region in a substrate region below a drain and source of the first and second MOS transistors counter doping a lightly dope drain (LDD) encompassing and surrounding a drain and a source of the first MOS transistor having a different threshold voltage than the second MOS transistor not reached by the drift region. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20120302022 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN ASYMMETRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for fabricating at least three different types of devices on a semiconductor substrate comprises forming a first electrode region and a second electrode region for a first semiconductor device at the same time as forming a first electrode region of a asymmetrical semiconductor device, and forming a first electrode region and a second electrode region for a second semiconductor device at the same time as forming a second electrode region of the asymmetrical semiconductor device. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20090068807 | DUAL GATE OXIDE DEVICE INTEGRATION - A method of forming devices including forming a first region and a second region in a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method further includes forming a semiconductive material over the first region, wherein the semiconductive material has a different electrical property than the first semiconductor substrate, forming a first dielectric material over the first region, depositing a second dielectric material over the first dielectric material and over the second region, wherein the second dielectric material is different than the first dielectric material, and depositing a gate electrode material over the high dielectric constant material. In one embodiment, the semiconductive material is silicon germanium and the semiconductor substrate is silicon. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090130812 | Creating High Voltage FETs with Low Voltage Process - An integrated circuit (IC) includes a high voltage first-conductivity type field effect transistor (HV-first-conductivity FET) and a high voltage second-type field effect transistor (HV-second-conductivity FET). The HV first-conductivity FET has a second-conductivity-well and a field oxide formed over the second-conductivity-well to define an active area. A first-conductivity-well is formed in at least a portion of the active area, wherein the first-conductivity-well is formed to have the capability to operate as a first-conductivity− drift portion of the HV-first-conductivity FET. The HV second-conductivity FET has a first-conductivity-well and a field oxide formed over the first-conductivity-well to define an active area. A channel stop region I s formed in at least a portion of the active area, wherein the channel stop region is formed to have the capability to operate as second-conductivity− drift portions of the HV-second-conductivity FET. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20080299728 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes: forming a sidewall spacer on a sidewall surface of a gate electrode; forming a pair of second conductive type source and drain regions in an active region; covering top surfaces of a semiconductor layer, a device isolation region, the sidewall spacer and the gate electrode with a metal film; reducing resistance of the source and drain regions and the gate electrode partially by making the metal film react with the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode; and removing an unreacted portion of the metal film and the sidewall spacer simultaneously by using an etchant which readily etches the unreacted portion of the metal film and the sidewall spacer while hardly etching the device isolation region, resistance-reduced portions of the gate electrode and resistance-reduced portions of the source and drain regions. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20110217821 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DOPING PATTERNS - A method of manufacturing doping patterns includes providing a substrate having a plurality of STIs defining and electrically isolating a plurality of active regions in the substrate, forming a patterned photoresist having a plurality of exposing regions for exposing the active regions and the STIs in between the active regions on the substrate, and performing an ion implantation to form a plurality of doping patterns in the active regions. | 09-08-2011 |
| 438276000 | Introducing a dopant into the channel region of selected transistors | 19 |
| 20120164805 | FORMATION OF A CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY BY FORMING A HARD MASK LAYER STACK AND APPLYING A PLASMA-BASED MASK PATTERNING PROCESS - When forming sophisticated high-k metal gate electrode structures, a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy may be formed on the basis of selective epitaxial growth techniques and a hard mask comprising at least two hard mask layers. The hard mask may be patterned on the basis of a plasma-based etch process, thereby providing superior uniformity during the further processing upon depositing the threshold adjusting semiconductor material. In some illustrative embodiments, one hard mask layer is removed prior to actually selectively depositing the threshold adjusting semiconductor material. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20090093098 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor device having trench isolation - A manufacturing method of semiconductor device includes: forming a nitride film above a silicon substrate including a first region and a second region which respectively correspond to an outside of a memory cell region and the memory cell region; forming trenches reaching from the nitride film to the silicon substrate; retreating the nitride film such that widths of the trenches at the nitride film become wider; forming a buried oxide film to be buried in the trenches after the retreating; polishing the buried oxide film with the nitride film being used as a stopper; removing the nitride film after the polishing; implanting impurity after the removing; forming gate electrodes after the implanting; and implanting impurity after the forming the gate electrodes. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090035909 | METHOD OF FABRICATION OF A FINFET ELEMENT - The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a FinFET element including providing a substrate including a first fin and a second fin. A first layer is formed on the first fin. The first layer comprises a dopant of a first type. A dopant of a second type is provided to the second fin. High temperature processing of the substrate is performed on the substrate including the formed first layer and the dopant of the second type. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20100248438 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - In a semiconductor substrate in a first section, a channel region having an impurity concentration peak in an interior of the semiconductor substrate is formed, and in the semiconductor substrate in a second section and a third section, channel regions having an impurity concentration peak at a position close to a surface of the substrate are formed. Then, extension regions are formed in the first section, the second section and the third section. After that, the substrate is thermally treated to eliminate defects produced in the extension regions. Then, using gate electrodes and side-wall spacers as a mask, source/drain regions are formed in the first section, the second section and the third section. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20090191679 | LOCAL STRESS ENGINEERING FOR CMOS DEVICES - A first dielectric layer is formed over a PFET gate and an NFET gate, and lithographically patterned to expose a PFET area, while covering an NFET area. Exposed PFET active area is etched and refilled with a SiGe alloy, which applies a uniaxial compressive stress to a PFET channel. A second dielectric layer is formed over the PFET gate and the NFET gate, and lithographically patterned to expose the NFET area, while covering the PFET area. Exposed NFET active area is etched and refilled with a silicon-carbon alloy, which applies a uniaxial tensile stress to an NFET channel. Dopants may be introduced into the SiGe and silicon-carbon regions by in-situ doping or by ion implantation. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20100047983 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A threshold control layer of a second MIS transistor is formed under the same conditions for forming a threshold control layer of a first MIS transistor. LLD regions of the second MIS transistor are formed under the same conditions for forming LDD regions of a third transistor. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110081758 | Semiconductor device including I/O oxide nitrided core oxide on substrate, and method of manufacture - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a core area for core circuits and a peripheral area for peripheral circuits. The semiconductor device includes a core oxide on the semiconductor substrate in the core area, a portion of the core oxide being nitrided, a first polysilicon pattern on the core oxide, an I/O oxide including pure oxide on the semiconductor substrate in the peripheral area, and a second polysilicon pattern on the I/O oxide. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20080248623 | Method for forming high-drain-voltage tolerance MOSFET transistor in a CMOS process flow with double well dose approach - A method for forming a high-voltage drain metal-oxide-semiconductor (HVD-MOS) device includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a well region of a first conductivity type; and forming an embedded well region in the semiconductor substrate and only on a drain side of the HVD-MOS device, wherein the embedded region is of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. The step of forming the embedded well region includes simultaneously doping the embedded well region and a well region of a core regular MOS device, and simultaneously doping the embedded well region and a well region of an I/O regular MOS device, wherein the core and I/O regular MOS devices are of the first conductivity type. The method further includes forming a gate stack extending from over the embedded well region to over the well region. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20100173462 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING A CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTOR - A method of fabricating a nanotube field-effect transistor having unipolar characteristics and a small inverse sub-threshold slope includes forming a local gate electrode beneath the nanotube between drain and source electrodes of the transistor and doping portions of the nanotube. In a further embodiment, the method includes forming at least one trench in the gate dielectric (e.g., a back gate dielectric) and back gate adjacent to the local gate electrode. Another aspect of the invention is a nanotube field-effect transistor fabricated using such a method. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20080299729 | METHOD OF FABRICATING HIGH VOLTAGE MOS TRANSISTOR DEVICE - A substrate is provided, and a sacrificial pattern having an opening partially exposing a high voltage device region is formed on the substrate. Subsequently, a gate oxide layer is formed in the opening, and the sacrificial pattern is removed. A gate electrode, and two heavily doped regions are formed. Than, a salicidation process is carried out to form salicides on the surface of the gate electrode and the heavily doped regions. | 12-04-2008 |
| 438277000 | Including forming overlapping gate electrodes | 1 |
| 20110207278 | METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device that includes both an enhancement-mode FET and a depletion-mode FET. The method includes forming an opening in a gate electrode for the depletion-mode FET. The opening is located in or in the vicinity of one of the overlapping regions in which the gate electrode extends over active regions. The method further includes ion-implanting dopant impurities into the active regions at an oblique angle using the gate electrode as a mask, thereby to form the doped region that is located under the opening and continuously extending from one of the opposite sides of the gate electrode to the other. | 08-25-2011 |
| 438278000 | After formation of source or drain regions and gate electrode (e.g., late programming, encoding, etc.) | 8 |
| 20090124056 | METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. A gate structure is formed on a substrate and then a first spacer is formed at a sidewall of the gate structure. Next, recesses are respectively formed in the substrate at two sides of the first spacer. Thereafter, a buffer layer and a doped semiconductor compound layer are formed in each recess. An extra implantation region is respectively formed on the surfaces of each buffer layer and each doped semiconductor compound layer. Afterward, source/drain contact regions are formed in the substrate at two sides of the gate structure. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20080286929 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the invention includes the first doping step of doping source/drain regions including source/drain extension regions adjacent to a channel region of a MOS transistor, the second doping step of doping pocket implant regions disposed from the bottom of the source/drain extension regions in the depth direction, the step of forming an amorphous surface layer at the surface of a semiconductor crystal substrate so as to overlap the source/drain extension regions and the pocket implant regions, and the recrystallization step of recrystallizing the amorphous surface layer by a solid-phase epitaxy technique. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090137090 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. A first active region and a second active region are defined in a substrate. An electrode covering the first active region and the second active region is formed on the substrate. A first sacrificial layer is formed on the second active layer. A first work function electrode is formed on the first active layer by performing a first doping process to a portion of the electrode. The first sacrificial layer is removed. A second sacrificial layer is formed on the first active layer. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20080311715 | Method for forming semiconductor device - A method for forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate comprising trenches are provided. Dopants are doped into a region of the substrate neighboring a sidewall of the trenches by using an isotropic doping method. A gate dielectric layer is formed on the sidewall of the substrate. A gate electrode is formed in the trenches, wherein the gate electrode protrudes a surface of the substrate. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20110086484 | BODY TIE TEST STRUCTURE FOR ACCURATE BODY EFFECT MEASUREMENT - A body tie test structure and methods for its manufacture are provided. The transistor comprises a body-tied semiconductor on insulator (SOI) transistor formed in a layer of semiconductor material, the transistor comprising a cross-shaped gate structure with a substantially constant gate length L. An insulating blocking layer enables formation of a spacer region in the layer of semiconductor material separating the source and drain regions from the body tie region. A conductive channel with substantially the same inversion characteristics as the intrinsic transistor body connects the body tie to the intrinsic transistor body through the spacer region. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20090197381 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY FORMING STRAIN IN A TRANSISTOR BY A STRESS MEMORIZATION TECHNIQUE WITHOUT ADDING ADDITIONAL LITHOGRAPHY STEPS - A selective stress memorization technique is disclosed in which the creation of tensile strain may be accomplished without additional photolithography steps by using an implantation mask or any other mask required during a standard manufacturing flow, or by providing a patterned cap layer for a strained re-crystallization of respective drain and source areas. In still other aspects, additional anneal steps may be used for selectively creating a crystalline state and a non-crystalline state prior to the re-crystallization on the basis of a cap layer. Thus, enhanced strain may be obtained in one type of transistor while not substantially negatively affecting the other type of transistor without requiring additional photolithography steps. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100009506 | DOPANT IMPLANTATION METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FORMED THEREBY - A method of forming a dopant implant region in a MOS transistor device having a dopant profile having a target dopant concentration includes implanting a first concentration of dopants into a region of a substrate, where the first concentration of dopants is less than the target dopant concentration, and without annealing the substrate after the implanting step, performing at least one second implanting step to implant at least one second concentration of dopants into the region of the substrate to bring the dopant concentration in the region to the target dopant concentration. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20120282747 | EFFECTING SELECTIVITY OF SILICON OR SILICON-GERMANIUM DEPOSITION ON A SILICON OR SILICON-GERMANIUM SUBSTRATE BY DOPING - A method for selective deposition of Si or SiGe on a Si or SiGe surface exploits differences in physico-chemical surface behavior according to a difference in doping of first and second surface regions. By providing at least one first surface region with a Boron doping of a suitable concentration range and exposing the substrate surface to a cleaning and passivating ambient atmosphere in a prebake at a temperature lower or equal to 800° C., a subsequent deposition step will prevent deposition in the first surface region. This allows selective deposition in the second surface region, which is not doped with the Boron (or doped with another dopant or not doped). Several devices are, thus, provided. The method saves a usual photolithography sequence, which according to prior art is required for selective deposition of Si or SiGe in the second surface region. | 11-08-2012 |
