Abstract:
A normally-off type junction FET in which a channel resistance is reduced without lowering its blocking voltage is provided. In a junction FET formed with using a substrate made of silicon carbide, an impurity concentration of a channel region (second epitaxial layer) is made higher than an impurity concentration of a first epitaxial layer to be a drift layer. The channel region is formed of a first region in which a channel width is constant and a second region below the first region in which the channel width becomes wider toward the drain (substrate) side. A boundary between the first epitaxial layer and the second epitaxial layer is positioned in the second region in which the channel width becomes wider toward the drain (substrate) side.
Abstract:
In a junction FET of a normally-off type, a technique capable of achieving both of improvement of a blocking voltage and reduction of an ON resistance is provided. In a junction FET using silicon carbide as a substrate material, impurities are doped to a vicinity of a p-n junction between a gate region and a channel-formed region, the impurities having a conductive type which is reverse to that of impurities doped in the gate region and same as that of impurities doped in the channel-formed region. In this manner, an impurity profile of the p-n junction becomes abrupt, and further, an impurity concentration of a junction region forming the p-n junction with the gate region in the channel-formed region is higher than those of a center region in the channel-formed region and of an epitaxial layer.
Abstract:
A fabricating method for a system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter. The semiconductor waters are processed in the processing apparatuses and are transported to specified processing apparatuses in different time interval that are set to N times a unit time interval. Since the fabricating system includes processing apparatuses and an inter-apparatus transporter that are periodically controlled at time intervals related to a unit time, intervals related to a unit time, the scheduling of a plurality of works can be made efficiently to enhance the level of optimization, thus improving the productivity.
Abstract:
A MONOS nonvolatile memory of a split gate structure, wherein writing and erasing are performed by hot electrons and hot holes respectively, is prone to cause electrons not to be erased and to remain in an Si nitride film on a select gate electrode sidewall and that results in the deterioration of rewriting durability. When long time erasing is applied as a measure to solve the problem, drawbacks appear, such as the increase of a circuit area caused by the increase of the erasing current and the deterioration of retention characteristics. In the present invention, an Si nitride film is formed by the reactive plasma sputter deposition method that enables oriented deposition and the Si nitride film on a select gate electrode sidewall is removed at the time when a top Si oxide film is formed.
Abstract:
A fabricating method for a system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter. The semiconductor waters are processed in the processing apparatuses and are transported to specified processing apparatuses in different time interval that are set to N times a unit time interval. Since the fabricating system includes processing apparatuses and an inter-apparatus transporter that are periodically controlled at time intervals related to a unit time, intervals related to a unit time, the scheduling of a plurality of works can be made efficiently to enhance the level of optimization, thus improving the productivity.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same of forming a silicon nitride film selectively without giving damages or contaminations to a surface of the silicon substrate thereby forming different types of gate dielectrics in one identical silicon substrate, are obtained by forming a silicon dioxide on the surface of a silicon substrate, then removing a portion thereof, forming a silicon nitride film to the surface of the substrate from which the silicon dioxide has been removed and, simultaneously, introducing nitrogen to the surface of the silicon dioxide which is left not being removed or, alternatively, depositing a silicon dioxide on the surface of the silicon substrate by chemical vapor deposition, then removing a portion thereof, forming a silicon nitride film on the surface of a substrate from which the silicon dioxide has been removed, and, simultaneously, introducing nitrogen to the surface of the silicon dioxide left not being removed, successively, dissolving and removing nitrogen-introduced silicon oxide film to expose the surface of the substrate and oxidizing the exposed surface of the silicon substrate and the silicon nitride film.
Abstract:
There is provided a semiconductor device configured as follows. On a semiconductor substrate, a titanium oxide film which is an insulating film having a higher dielectric constant than that of a silicon dioxide film is formed as a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode is disposed thereon, resulting in a field effect transistor. The end portions in the gate length direction of the titanium oxide film are positioned inwardly from the respective end portions on the source side and on the drain side of the gate electrode, and the end portions of the titanium oxide film are positioned in a region in which the gate electrode overlaps with the source region and the drain region in plan configuration. This semiconductor device operates at a high speed, and is excellent in short channel characteristics and driving current. Further, in the semiconductor device, the amount of metallic elements introduced into a silicon substrate is small.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same of forming a silicon nitride film selectively without giving damages or contaminations to a surface of the silicon substrate thereby forming different types of gate dielectrics in one identical silicon substrate, are obtained by forming a silicon dioxide on the surface of a silicon substrate, then removing a portion thereof, forming a silicon nitride film to the surface of the substrate from which the silicon dioxide has been removed and, simultaneously, introducing nitrogen to the surface of the silicon dioxide which is left not being removed or, alternatively, depositing a silicon dioxide on the surface of the silicon substrate by chemical vapor deposition, then removing a portion thereof, forming a silicon nitride film on the surface of a substrate from which the silicon dioxide has been removed, and, simultaneously, introducing nitrogen to the surface of the silicon dioxide left not being removed, successively, dissolving and removing nitrogen-introduced silicon oxide film to expose the surface of the substrate and oxidizing the exposed surface of the silicon substrate and the silicon nitride film
Abstract:
There is provided a semiconductor device configured as follows. On a semiconductor substrate, a titanium oxide film which is an insulating film having a higher dielectric constant than that of a silicon dioxide film is formed as a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode is disposed thereon, resulting in a field effect transistor. The end portions in the gate length direction of the titanium oxide film are positioned inwardly from the respective end portions on the source side and on the drain side of the gate electrode, and the end portions of the titanium oxide film are positioned in a region in which the gate electrode overlaps with the source region and the drain region in plan configuration. This semiconductor device operates at a high speed, and is excellent in short channel characteristics and driving current. Further, in the semiconductor device, the amount of metallic elements introduced into a silicon substrate is small.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a fabricating system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by means of an inter-apparatus transporter, wherein one group of semiconductor wafers are processed in processing apparatuses and other group of wafers are transported to specified processing apparatuses for a time interval from (To+T) to a time To; and another group of wafers are processed and the remaining group of wafers are transported for a time interval from (To+T) to (To+2T). Since processing apparatuses can receive at least one of works from the inter-apparatus transporter for a time interval T min, the distribution of works from the transporter to processing apparatuses is completed for the time interval T min. The transporter is emptied for each time interval T min, and works are unloaded to the emptied transporter, which makes easy the scheduling, control and management of the transporting of a plurality of works in the fabricating system. Moreover, since the fabricating system including processing apparatuses is periodically controlled at a cycle time T min, the scheduling of a plurality of works can be made easy, to enhance the level of optimization, thus improving the productivity.