Abstract:
A transistor gate structure includes a gate having gate sidewalls, a first side, and a second side opposite the first side. The first side may be coupled to a gate oxide layer, while the second side couples to an external device. The transistor structure also includes an inner gate spacer on the sidewalls of the gate, an outer gate spacer, and a middle gate spacer between the inner gate spacer and the outer gate spacer.
Abstract:
A multigate transistor device such as a fin-shaped field effect transistor (FinFET) is fabricated by applying a self-aligned diffusion break (SADB) mask having an opening positioned to expose an area of at least one portion of at least one gate stripe designated as at least one tie-off gate in the multigate transistor device and removing the tie-off gate through the opening of the SADB mask to isolate transistors adjacent to the tie-off gate.
Abstract:
Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices include input/output (I/O) devices and core function devices. A method includes forming first conduction type wells for the I/O devices and the core function devices with a well mask. Such a method also includes creating at least one baseline device of a first conduction type, at least one first threshold voltage device of the first conduction type, and at least one second threshold device of the first conduction type by tuning a conduction type drive current ratio with a threshold voltage mask. The method also includes controlling a gate critical dimension for the first conduction type devices and/or at least one second conduction type device using a gate mask.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a fin-slab field-effect transistor (FET). For example, certain aspects provide a semiconductor device having a substrate, a well region disposed above the substrate, a first fin disposed above the first well region, and a second fin disposed above the first well region and adjacent to the first fin. In certain aspects, a dielectric region is disposed between the second fin and the first well region, and a first gate region is disposed adjacent to the first fin and the second fin.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit test structure has a first set of unit cells in a first conductive layer. The first set of unit cells has a first portion to receive a charge of a first polarity and a second portion to receive a charge of a second polarity. The first portion is electrically independent of the second portion. The first portion has branched conductive lines interdigitated with branched conductive lines of the second portion. The integrated circuit test structure also has a second set of unit cells in the first conductive layer. The second set of unit cells are transposed relative to the first set of unit cells.
Abstract:
A integrated circuit structure has a first test structure with a first set of un-landed vias. The first set of un-landed vias has a first side for each of the first set of un-landed vias proximate to a first BEOL layer (first back-end-of-line layer) of a chip and spaced apart, by a first gap, from the first BEOL layer. Each of the first set of un-landed vias has a first depth that is smaller than a landed depth of a chip via conductively connecting the first BEOL layer to a second BEOL layer of the chip. The first set of un-landed vias also has a second side for each of the first set of un-landed vias opposite the first side and connected to the second BEOL layer.