Abstract:
The present invention aims at improving the lifetime of the wiring connecting to the hole nearest to the bonding pad and thereby improving the reliability of the semiconductor device. The invention relates to such semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of first metal layers connected to a bonding pad, and plurality of aluminum wirings respectively connected to the first metal layers. The plurality of aluminum wirings are connected to a single second metal layer and have a length equal to or short than Blech Length.
Abstract:
The invention concerns approaches to interconnecting individual field-effect transistors (FETs) in integrated circuits (ICs), in order to provide a larger, composite transistor. In one approach, the individual FETs are positioned symmetrically about centroids, which are themselves distributed symmetrically over the IC. The invention allows individual digital transistors to be connected into a larger, composite, analog transistor.
Abstract:
Improved, edge compensated capacitors and a method for making the same are presented. The present invention arranges individual cells of capacitors and uses passive dummy cells so as to achieve a ratio between the length of the exposed perimeters of the cells of the two capacitors that is equal to the desired capacitance ratio between the two capacitors. By doing so, the edge shrinkage effects on both cells are taken into account, and accurate capacitor ratios are maintained. In one embodiment of the invention the number of intersections between exposed edges of the cells of the two capacitors are also adjusted to conform to the capacitor ratio to achieve additional edge shrinkage compensation.
Abstract:
A process for forming a self-isolated monolithic device by providing a substrate of a first conductivity type and forming an epitaxial layer of same conductivity type over the substrate. The epitaxial layer and the substrate are subjected to treatment so as to outdiffuse an impurity of opposite conductivity from the substrate and into the epitaxial layer so as to form a region which constitutes an element of the integrated circuit device and also defines an isolation PN junction with the epitaxial layer. Further, a pedestal transistor process forms a pedestal transistor for monolithic circuits by outdiffusing an impurity to form a subcollector region and outdiffusing another impurity having a higher diffusion rate to form the pedestal region. An extrinsic collector region defines an extrinsic junction with a lighter doped extrinsic base region so as to reduce overall base to collector capacitance.
Abstract:
An antifuse redundancy circuit operates with transparency to external circuitry and users. In one embodiment, an antifuse redundancy circuit incorporates two antifuses rather than one. The circuit is arranged so that both antifuses may be simultaneously programmed and read. If a single antifuse is programmed without programming the other antifuse, the antifuse redundancy circuit will register a programmed antifuse. Additionally, if a single programmed antifuse is unintentionally deprogrammed after both antifuses in the redundancy circuit have been programmed, the antifuse redundancy circuit will continue to register a programmed antifuse. The result is both an increase in manufacturing yield and an increase in the reliability of integrated circuits utilizing antifuses.
Abstract:
The invention concerns approaches to interconnecting individual field-effect transistors (FETs) in integrated circuits (ICs), in order to provide a larger, composite transistor. In one approach, the individual FETs are positioned symmetrically about centroids, which are themselves distributed symmetrically over the IC. The invention allows individual digital transistors to be connected into a larger, composite, analog transistor.
Abstract:
Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors with n-type source/drain regions also having germanium-doped regions in or near the source/drains. The presence of germanium near or at the location of phosphorus in graded source drains (GSDs), lightly doped drains (LDDs) and double diffused drains (DDDs) gives a better profile of the drain region with a reduced junction depth than that obtainable with phosphorus or particularly phosphorus and arsenic together. Good grading of the drain junction to avoid hot carrier instability or hot carrier injection problems is obtained along with shallow source junctions, which minimizes lateral dopant diffusion and decreases the distance between n.sup.- and n.sup.+ regions in GSDs and LDDs.
Abstract:
A MOS memory is formed in a semiconductor bulk, whereas a barrier semiconductor layer is disposed at the boundary between a MOS memory portion and the semiconductor bulk in order to reduce the effect of undesirable carriers excited by .alpha.-particles. The barrier semiconductor layer is designed to permit operation of the memory at low temperature while reducing the incidence of soft errors due to .alpha.-particles.
Abstract:
During fabrication of an insulated gate device, a drain-forming dopant having a relatively low diffusion coefficient is implanted along a substrate surface which overlaps the boundary between a to-be-formed vertical drain region and a to-be-formed adjacent channel region. During subsequent high temperature processing the low diffusion coefficient drain-forming dopant remains concentrated near the top surface of the substrate while other well-forming dopants, including an adjacent channel-forming dopant, which have relatively higher diffusion coefficients, diffuse to deeper regions of the substrate. The slow-diffusing drain-forming dopant retards lateral widening of the channel by the faster-diffusing channel-forming dopant just below the substrate surface to at least the depth of the channel inversion layer formed under the channel surface during device turn on. Retardation of lateral channel growth just below the substrate surface results in an insulated gate device of reduced channel length and improved transconductance.In a preferred embodiment, the slow-diffusing drain-forming dopant is implanted on the substrate surface together with a fast-diffusing drain-forming dopant, and the latter is diffused to a pinch off depth below the substrate surface to counteract pinch off resistance between opposed segments of an adjacent shallow channel-forming well.
Abstract:
The use of ion implantation to produce low concentrations of chromium, oxygen or iron in a gallium arsenide junction type semiconductor, utilizing the accompanying low resistivity to provide an improved device.