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Class 257/344 - With lightly doped portion of drain region adjacent channel (e.g., LDD structure)


Subclass of Class 257 - Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
Definition: Subject matter wherein the short channel IGFET has a lightly
No. of patents: 1175
Last issue date: 04/24/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8164141Opening structure with sidewall of an opening covered with a dielectric thin film
An opening structure includes a semiconductor substrate, at least one dielectric layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the dielectric layer has a plurality of openings exposing the semiconductor substrate, and each of the openings has a sidewall, a ...
04/24/2012
8164142Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film on the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, an impurity diffusion region formed in an area of the semicondu...
04/24/2012
8120109Low dose super deep source/drain implant
A semiconductor device for reducing junction capacitance by an additional low dose super deep source/drain implant and a method for its fabrication are disclosed. In particular, the super deep implant is performed after spacer formation to significantly reduce junct...
02/21/2012
7960788Replacing symmetric transistors with asymmetric transistors
A semiconductor structure includes a symmetric metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor comprising a first and a second asymmetric MOS transistor. The first asymmetric MOS transistor includes a first gate electrode, and a first source and a first drain adjacent th...
06/14/2011
7956413Semiconductor device having a field effect transistor using a high dielectric constant gate insulating film and manufacturing method of the same
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having an N-channel field effect transistor, the N-channel field effect transistor is formed by a process including the steps of forming a high dielectric constant gate insulating film on a substrate, forming a ga...
06/07/2011
7936016Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
There is provided a semiconductor device having a metal silicide layer which can suppress the malfunction and the increase in power consumption of the device. The semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate containing silicon and having a main surface, first ...
05/03/2011
7880228Semiconductor device including MISFET
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, a source/drain layer, and a germanide layer. The gate insulating film is formed on the semiconductor substrate. The gate electrode is formed on the gate insulating f...
02/01/2011
7872309Self-aligned lightly doped drain recessed-gate thin-film transistor
A recessed-gate thin-film transistor (RG-TFT) with a self-aligned lightly doped drain (LDD) is provided, along with a corresponding fabrication method. The method deposits an insulator overlying a substrate and etches a trench in the insulator. The trench has a bott...
01/18/2011
7868386Method and apparatus for semiconductor device with improved source/drain junctions
A semiconductor device with improved source/drain junctions and methods for fabricating the device are disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises a MOS transistor with a gate structure overlying a substrate, lightly doped source/drain regions formed in the substrat...
01/11/2011
7808043Semiconductor device and methods of fabricating the same including forming spacers and etch stop layers with stress properties
A semiconductor device having an etch stop layer and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device may include a substrate and a first gate electrode formed on the substrate. An auxiliary spacer may be formed on the sidewall of the first ga...
10/05/2010
7768068Drain extended MOS transistor with increased breakdown voltage
A semiconductor topography and a method for forming a drain extended metal oxide semiconductor (DEMOS) transistor is provided. The semiconductor topography includes at least a portion of an extended drain contact region formed within a well region and a plurality of...
08/03/2010
7692242Semiconductor device used as high-speed switching device and power device
A low resistance layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a high resistance layer formed on the low resistance layer. A source region of a first conductivity type is formed on a surface region of the high resistance layer. A drain region of the first conduc...
04/06/2010
7687854Transistor in a semiconductor substrate having high-concentration source and drain region formed at the bottom of a trench adjacent to the gate electrode
The present invention relates to a transistor in a semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same. Trenches are formed in a semiconductor substrate at gate edges. Low-concentration impurity regions are then formed at the sidewalls and the bottoms of the t...
03/30/2010
7687855Semiconductor device having impurity region
To provide a semiconductor device that can effectively suppress the short channel effect without deterioration of carrier migration, an impurity ion is added from a direction of the axis with respect to a silicon substrate on forming a punch through stopper un...
03/30/2010
7687856Body bias to facilitate transistor matching
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transistor matching. In this method, a channel is formed within a first transistor by applying a gate-source bias having a first polarity to the first transistor. The magnitude of a potential barrier in...
03/30/2010
7663187Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
An extension region is formed by ion implantation under masking by a gate electrode, and then a substance having a diffusion suppressive function over an impurity contained in a source-and-drain is implanted under masking by the gate electrode and a first sidewall s...
02/16/2010
7659580Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
It is an object of the present invention to obtain a transistor with a high ON current including a silicide layer without increasing the number of steps. A semiconductor device comprising the transistor includes a first region in which a thickness is increased from ...
02/09/2010
7655983SOI FET with source-side body doping
An SOI FET device with improved floating body is proposed. Control of the body potential is accomplished by having a body doping concentration next to the source electrode higher than the body doping concentration next to the drain electrode. The high source-side do...
02/02/2010
7649226Source and drain structures and manufacturing methods
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a first gate dielectric on the semiconductor substrate; a first gate electrode over the first gate dielectric; a first lightly doped source or drain (LDD) region in the semiconductor substrate and adjacen...
01/19/2010
7633124Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing thereof
A silicon nitride film having a thickness of 3 nm or less is formed on the surfaces of a P-well and N-well, as well as on the upper and side surfaces of a gate electrode, in which the silicon nitride film can be formed, for example, by exposing the surface of the P-...
12/15/2009
7629648Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof
The disclosure concerns a semiconductor memory device including an insulating film; a semiconductor layer provided on the insulating film; a source layer and a drain layer formed on the semiconductor layer; a body region provided between the source layer and the dra...
12/08/2009
7602019Drive circuit and drain extended transistor for use therein
A transistor comprises a source region of a first conductivity type and electrically communicating with a first semiconductor region. The transistor also comprises a drain region of the first conductivity type and electrically communicating with a second semiconduct...
10/13/2009
7592669Semiconductor device with MISFET that includes embedded insulating film arranged between source/drain regions and channel
With the objective of suppressing or preventing a kink effect in the operation of a semiconductor device having a high breakdown voltage field effect transistor, n+ type semiconductor regions, each having a conduction type opposite to p+ type s...
09/22/2009
7586153Technique for forming recessed strained drain/source regions in NMOS and PMOS transistors
By forming a strained semiconductor layer in a PMOS transistor, a corresponding compressively strained channel region may be achieved, while, on the other hand, a corresponding strain in the NMOS transistor may be relaxed. Due to the reduced junction resistance caus...
09/08/2009
7554156Semiconductor device having a field effect transistor using a high dielectric constant gate insulating film and manufacturing method of the same
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having an N-channel field effect transistor, the N-channel field effect transistor is formed by a process including the steps of forming a high dielectric constant gate insulating film on a substrate, forming a ga...
06/30/2009
7544997Multi-layer source/drain stressor
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a recess in a source region and a recess in a drain region of the semiconductor device. The method further includes forming a first semiconductor material layer in the recess in the source region and a sec...
06/09/2009
7528445Wing gate transistor for integrated circuits
A system is provided for forming a semiconductor device. Layers of gate dielectric material, gate material, and cap material are formed on a semiconductor substrate. The cap material and a portion of the gate material are processed to form a cap and a gate body port...
05/05/2009
7514744Semiconductor device including carrier accumulation layers
A semiconductor device includes a gate structure on a channel region of a semiconductor substrate adjacent to a source/drain region therein and a surface insulation layer directly on the source/drain region of the substrate adjacent to the gate structure. The device...
04/07/2009
7511340Semiconductor devices having gate structures and contact pads that are lower than the gate structures
Semiconductor devices have gate structures on a semiconductor substrate with first spacers on sidewalls of the respective gate structures. First contact pads are positioned between the gate structures and have heights lower than the heights of the gate structures. S...
03/31/2009
7492006Semiconductor transistors having surface insulation layers and methods of fabricating such transistors
Semiconductor devices having a transistor and methods of fabricating such devices are disclosed. The device may include a gate pattern formed on a substrate, spacers formed on sidewalls of the gate pattern, a surface insulation layer that may contact the substrate i...
02/17/2009
7446377Transistors and manufacturing methods thereof
Transistors and manufacturing methods thereof are disclosed. An example transistor includes a semiconductor substrate divided into device isolation regions and a device active region. The example transistor includes a gate insulating film formed in the active region...
11/04/2008
7442991Display including casing and display unit
This invention provides a semiconductor device having high operation performance and high reliability. An LDD region 707 overlapping with a gate wiring is arranged in an n-channel TFT 802 forming a driving circuit, and a TFT structure highly resistant ...
10/28/2008
7439124Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and semiconductor device
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a substrate protection film to cover an n-type FET forming region having a first gate electrode and a p-type FET forming region having a second gate electrode; opening the p-type FET forming region by ...
10/21/2008
7436026Semiconductor device comprising a superlattice channel vertically stepped above source and drain regions
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate and at least one metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). The at least one MOSFET may include spaced apart source and drain regions in the semiconductor substrate, and a superlattice cha...
10/14/2008
7429769Recessed channel field effect transistor (FET) device
A method for forming a field effect transistor device employs a self-aligned etching of a semiconductor substrate to form a recessed channel region in conjunction with a pair of raised source/drain regions. The method also provides for forming and thermally annealin...
09/30/2008
7429771Semiconductor device having halo implanting regions
A MIS-type semiconductor device includes a p-type semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and n-type diffused source and drain layers formed in regions of the semicon...
09/30/2008
RE40486Self-aligned non-volatile memory cell
Disclosed is a self-aligned non-volatile memory cell including a small sidewall spacer electrically coupled and being located next to a main floating gate region. Both the small sidewall spacer and the main floating gate region are formed on a substrate and both for...
09/09/2008
7405450Semiconductor devices having high conductivity gate electrodes with conductive line patterns thereon
Semiconductor devices that include a semiconductor substrate and a gate line are provided. The gate line is on the semiconductor substrate and includes a gate insulation pattern and a gate electrode which are stacked on the substrate in the order named. A spacer is ...
07/29/2008
7405458Asymmetric field transistors (FETs)
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same. The structure includes (a) a semiconductor channel region, (b) a semiconductor source block in direct physical contact with the semiconductor channel region; (c) a source contact region in direct physical ...
07/29/2008
7400018End of range (EOR) secondary defect engineering using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) substitutional carbon doping
A method for incorporating carbon into a wafer at the interstitial a-c silicon interface of the halo doping profile is achieved. A bulk silicon substrate is provided. A carbon-doped silicon layer is deposited on the bulk silicon substrate. An epitaxial silicon layer...
07/15/2008
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