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Class 257/E21.182 - On semiconductor body comprising Group IV element excluding non-elemental Si, e.g., Ge, C, diamond, silicon compound or compound, such as SiC or SiGe (EPO)


Subclass of Class 257 - Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
Definition: This subclass is indented under subclass E21.177. This subclass
No. of patents: 17
Last issue date: 10/07/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7432559Silicide formation on SiGe
A semiconductor structure includes a first silicon-containing layer comprising an element selected from the group consisting essentially of carbon and germanium wherein the silicon-containing layer has a first atomic percentage of the element to the element and sili...
10/07/2008
7394103All diamond self-aligned thin film transistor
A substantially all diamond transistor with an electrically insulating substrate, an electrically conductive diamond layer on the substrate, and a source and a drain contact on the electrically conductive diamond layer. An electrically insulating diamond layer is in...
07/01/2008
7391078Non-volatile memory and manufacturing and operating method thereof
A non-volatile memory is provided. A substrate having a plurality of trenches and a plurality of select gates is provided. The trenches are arranged in parallel and extend in a first direction. Each of the select gates is disposed on the substrate between two adjace...
06/24/2008
7366026Flash memory device and method for fabricating the same, and programming and erasing method thereof
A flash memory device of SONOS structure and a method for fabricating the same, and programming and erasing operation methods, to improve reliability such as endurance and retention, are disclosed, which includes a first conductive type semiconductor substrate; an O...
04/29/2008
7364989Strain control of epitaxial oxide films using virtual substrates
A method of controlling strain in a single-crystal, epitaxial oxide film, includes preparing a silicon substrate; forming a silicon alloy layer taken from the group of silicon alloy layer consisting of Si1-xGex and Si1-yCy
04/29/2008
7361559Manufacturing method for a MOS transistor comprising layered relaxed and strained SiGe layers as a channel region
The invention includes non-volatile memory and logic devices associated with crystalline Si/Ge. The devices can include TFT constructions. The non-volatile devices include a floating gate or floating plate over the Si/Ge, and a pair of source/drain regions. The sour...
04/22/2008
7329606Semiconductor device having nanowire contact structures and method for its fabrication
A semiconductor device having small electrical contacts to impurity doped regions and a method for fabrication of such a device are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention the semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate having a dop...
02/12/2008
7312136Method of fabricating a wafer with strained channel layers for increased electron and hole mobility for improving device performance
A method for making a SOI wafer with a strained silicon layer for increased electron and hole mobility is achieved. The method forms a porous silicon layer on a seed wafer. A H2 anneal is used to form a smooth surface on the porous silicon. A strain free ...
12/25/2007
7274055Method for improving transistor performance through reducing the salicide interface resistance
An embodiment of the invention reduces the external resistance of a transistor by utilizing a silicon germanium alloy for the source and drain regions and a nickel silicon germanium self-aligned silicide (i.e., salicide) layer to form the contact surface of the sour...
09/25/2007
7265420Semiconductor substrate layer configured for inducement of compressive or expansive force
An integrated circuit (IC) utilizes a strained layer. The substrate can utilize trenches in a base layer to induce stress in a layer. The trenches define pillars on a back side of a bulk substrate or base layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. ...
09/04/2007
7238985Trench type mosgated device with strained layer on trench sidewall
A MOSgated trench device has a reduced on resistance by forming a less than about a 13 nm thick strained SiGe layer on the silicon surface of the trenches and forming a thin (30 nm or less) layer of epitaxially deposited silicon on the SiGe layer which epi layer is ...
07/03/2007
7223679Transistor gate electrode having conductor material layer
Various embodiments of the invention relate to a PMOS device having a transistor channel of silicon germanium material on a substrate, a gate dielectric having a dielectric constant greater than that of silicon dioxide on the channel, a gate electrode conductor mate...
05/29/2007
7166897Method and apparatus for performance enhancement in an asymmetrical semiconductor device
A method and apparatus is presented that provides performance enhancement in a semiconductor device. In one embodiment, a first current region (64, 76, 23), a channel region and a second current region (75, 33, 66) are adjacent each other. The second c...
01/23/2007
7125786Method of forming vias in silicon carbide and resulting devices and circuits
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit on a silicon carbide substrate is disclosed that eliminates wire bonding that can otherwise cause undesired inductance. The method includes fabricating a semiconductor device in epitaxial layers on a surface of a silicon...
10/24/2006
7118973Method of forming a transistor with a channel region in a layer of composite material
The vertical diffusion of dopants from the gate and the bulk material into the channel region, and the lateral diffusion of dopants from the source and drain regions into the channel region resulting from thermal cycling during the fabrication of a MOS transistor is...
10/10/2006
6949761Structure for and method of fabricating a high-mobility field-effect transistor
A structure and method of fabricating a high-mobility semiconductor layer structure and field-effect transistor (MODFET) that includes a high-mobility conducting channel, while at the same time, maintaining counter doping to control deleterious short-channel effects...
09/27/2005
6878580Semiconductor device having gate with negative slope and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device having a gate with a negative slope and a method of manufacturing the same. A poly-SiGe layer with a Ge density profile which decreases linearly from the bottom of the gate toward the top of the gate is formed and a poly-SiGe gate having a neg...
04/12/2005
 
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