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公开(公告)号:US20240347641A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-17
申请号:US18750751
申请日:2024-06-21
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
IPC分类号: H01L29/786 , B82Y10/00 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/417 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/78
CPC分类号: H01L29/78618 , B82Y10/00 , H01L29/0673 , H01L29/0847 , H01L29/41725 , H01L29/41791 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/7839 , H01L29/785 , H01L29/7851 , H01L29/78696
摘要: A nanowire transistor includes undoped source and drain regions electrically coupled with a channel region. A source stack that is electrically isolated from a gate conductor includes an interfacial layer and a source conductor, and is coaxially wrapped completely around the source region, extending along at least a portion of the source region. A Schottky barrier between the source conductor and the source region is a negative Schottky barrier and a concentration of free charge carriers is induced in the semiconductor source region.
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公开(公告)号:US12034078B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-09
申请号:US17931052
申请日:2022-09-09
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
IPC分类号: H01L29/00 , B82Y10/00 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/417 , H01L29/423 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/78 , H01L29/786
CPC分类号: H01L29/78618 , B82Y10/00 , H01L29/0673 , H01L29/0847 , H01L29/41725 , H01L29/41791 , H01L29/42392 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/7839 , H01L29/785 , H01L29/7851 , H01L29/78696
摘要: A nanowire transistor includes undoped source and drain regions electrically coupled with a channel region. A source stack that is electrically isolated from a gate conductor includes an interfacial layer and a source conductor, and is coaxially wrapped completely around the source region, extending along at least a portion of the source region. A Schottky barrier between the source conductor and the source region is a negative Schottky barrier and a concentration of free charge carriers is induced in the semiconductor source region.
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公开(公告)号:US20230344200A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US18335469
申请日:2023-06-15
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
CPC分类号: H01S5/3201 , H01S5/2203 , H01S5/3223 , H01S5/125 , H01S5/187 , H01S5/3224 , H01S5/3427 , H01S5/227
摘要: Tensile strained germanium is provided that can be sufficiently strained to provide a nearly direct band gap material or a direct band gap material. Compressively stressed or tensile stressed stressor materials in contact with germanium regions induce uniaxial or biaxial tensile strain in the germanium regions. Stressor materials may include silicon nitride or silicon germanium. The resulting strained germanium structure can be used to emit or detect photons including, for example, generating photons within a resonant cavity to provide a laser.
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公开(公告)号:US20220223735A1
公开(公告)日:2022-07-14
申请号:US17657854
申请日:2022-04-04
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
发明人: Paul A. Clifton , Andreas Goebel
摘要: A semiconductor structure includes a layer arrangement consisting of, in sequence, a semiconductor-on-insulator layer (SOI) over a buried oxide (BOX) layer over a buried stressor (BS) layer with a silicon bonding layer (BL) intervening between the BOX and the BS layers. The semiconductor structure may be created by forming the BS layer on a substrate of a first wafer; growing the BL layer at the surface of the BS layer; wafer bonding the first wafer to a second wafer having a silicon oxide layer formed on a silicon substrate such that the silicon oxide layer of the second wafer is bonded to the BL layer of the first wafer, and thereafter removing a portion of the silicon substrate of the second wafer.
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公开(公告)号:US20200152758A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-14
申请号:US16742098
申请日:2020-01-14
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
发明人: Paul A. Clifton , Andreas Goebel
摘要: An electrical contact structure (an MIS contact) includes one or more conductors (M-Layer), a semiconductor (S-Layer), and an interfacial dielectric layer (I-Layer) of less than 4 nm thickness disposed between and in contact with both the M-Layer and the S-Layer. The I-Layer is an oxide of a metal or a semiconductor. The conductor of the M-Layer that is adjacent to and in direct contact with the I-Layer is a metal oxide that is electrically conductive, chemically stable and unreactive at its interface with the I-Layer at temperatures up to 450° C. The electrical contact structure has a specific contact resistivity of less than or equal to approximately 10−5-10−7 Ω-cm2 when the doping in the semiconductor adjacent the MIS contact is greater than approximately 2×1019 cm−3 and less than approximately 10−8 Ω-cm2 when the doping in the semiconductor adjacent the MIS contact is greater than approximately 1020 cm−3.
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公开(公告)号:US11843040B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-12
申请号:US17094651
申请日:2020-11-10
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
发明人: Paul A. Clifton , Andreas Goebel
IPC分类号: H01L29/49 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/36 , H01L29/51 , H01L29/66 , H04L67/10 , H04L67/51 , H01L21/28
CPC分类号: H01L29/4966 , H01L21/28017 , H01L29/0895 , H01L29/36 , H01L29/517 , H01L29/66643 , H04L67/10 , H04L67/51
摘要: An electrical contact structure (an MIS contact) includes one or more conductors (M-Layer), a semiconductor (S-Layer), and an interfacial dielectric layer (I-Layer) of less than 4 nm thickness disposed between and in contact with both the M-Layer and the S-Layer. The I-Layer is an oxide of a metal or a semiconductor. The conductor of the M-Layer that is adjacent to and in direct contact with the I-Layer is a metal oxide that is electrically conductive, chemically stable and unreactive at its interface with the I-Layer at temperatures up to 450° C. The electrical contact structure has a specific contact resistivity of less than or equal to approximately 10−5-10−7 Ω-cm2 when the doping in the semiconductor adjacent the MIS contact is greater than approximately 2×1019 cm−3 and less than approximately 10−8 Ω-cm2 when the doping in the semiconductor adjacent the MIS contact is greater than approximately 1020 cm−3.
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公开(公告)号:US20230207657A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-29
申请号:US18173541
申请日:2023-02-23
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
IPC分类号: H01L29/47 , H01L21/285 , H01L29/04 , H01L21/283 , H01L29/45 , H01L21/324 , H01L29/161
CPC分类号: H01L29/47 , H01L21/283 , H01L21/324 , H01L21/28512 , H01L21/28518 , H01L29/045 , H01L29/161 , H01L29/456
摘要: Techniques for reducing the specific contact resistance of metal - semiconductor (group IV) junctions by interposing a monolayer of group V or group III atoms at the interface between the metal and the semiconductor, or interposing a bi-layer made of one monolayer of each, or interposing multiple such bi-layers. The resulting low specific resistance metal - group IV semiconductor junctions find application as a low resistance electrode in semiconductor devices including electronic devices (e.g., transistors, diodes, etc.) and optoelectronic devices (e.g., lasers, solar cells, photodetectors, etc.) and/or as a metal source and/or drain region (or a portion thereof) in a field effect transistor (FET). The monolayers of group III and group V atoms are predominantly ordered layers of atoms formed on the surface of the group IV semiconductor and chemically bonded to the surface atoms of the group IV semiconductor.
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公开(公告)号:US11610974B2
公开(公告)日:2023-03-21
申请号:US17247803
申请日:2020-12-23
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
IPC分类号: H01L29/47 , H01L21/285 , H01L29/04 , H01L21/283 , H01L29/45 , H01L21/324 , H01L29/161
摘要: Techniques for reducing the specific contact resistance of metal-semiconductor (group IV) junctions by interposing a monolayer of group V or group III atoms at the interface between the metal and the semiconductor, or interposing a bi-layer made of one monolayer of each, or interposing multiple such bi-layers. The resulting low specific resistance metal-group IV semiconductor junctions find application as a low resistance electrode in semiconductor devices including electronic devices (e.g., transistors, diodes, etc.) and optoelectronic devices (e.g., lasers, solar cells, photodetectors, etc.) and/or as a metal source and/or drain region (or a portion thereof) in a field effect transistor (FET). The monolayers of group III and group V atoms are predominantly ordered layers of atoms formed on the surface of the group IV semiconductor and chemically bonded to the surface atoms of the group IV semiconductor.
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公开(公告)号:US11462643B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-04
申请号:US17091959
申请日:2020-11-06
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
IPC分类号: H01L29/00 , H01L29/786 , B82Y10/00 , H01L29/417 , H01L29/775 , H01L29/78 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/06 , H01L29/423
摘要: A nanowire transistor includes undoped source and drain regions electrically coupled with a channel region. A source stack that is electrically isolated from a gate conductor includes an interfacial layer and a source conductor, and is coaxially wrapped completely around the source region, extending along at least a portion of the source region. A Schottky barrier between the source conductor and the source region is a negative Schottky barrier and a concentration of free charge carriers is induced in the semiconductor source region.
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公开(公告)号:US11271370B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-08
申请号:US16946777
申请日:2020-07-06
申请人: Acorn Semi, LLC
摘要: Tensile strained germanium is provided that can be sufficiently strained to provide a nearly direct band gap material or a direct band gap material. Compressively stressed or tensile stressed stressor materials in contact with germanium regions induce uniaxial or biaxial tensile strain in the germanium regions. Stressor materials may include silicon nitride or silicon germanium. The resulting strained germanium structure can be used to emit or detect photons including, for example, generating photons within a resonant cavity to provide a laser.
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