Abstract:
An ionic liquid-channel charge-coupled device that separates ions in a liquid sample according to ion mobility characteristics includes a channel having an inner wall that has a matrix liquid disposed within. An insulating material surrounds the channel, and an introduction element introduces a liquid sample into the channel. The sample is preferably a liquid solution that has at least one ionic specie present in the solution. The device further includes a gating element that establishes at least one charge packet in the channel in response to an externally applied input sisal, and a transport element that induces the charge packet to migrate through the channel. The gate element can be a plurality of spaced-apart, electrically conductive, gate structures that are alternately disposable between a high voltage state and a low voltage state. The transport element further includes an application element that applies a variable voltage to the gating element. This application of voltage induces the charge packets to form under the gate structures and, when the voltage applied to an adjacent gate has a higher potential, induces the packet to migrate through the channel in that direction.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for passivating infrared detector arrays 50. A wafer 48 of indium antimonide (InSb) is subjected an anodization process while being illuminated by a bright incandescent lamp 66. In one embodiment, the photo-anodized layer 72 is used in an array 50 to passivate implanted diode regions 76,78 on the front side thereof, while employing an antireflective coating 74 on the backside anodized surface 70.
Abstract:
In a process of fabricating a semiconductor device, an amorphous semiconductor layer is formed on a substrate, densified by heat-treatment, and is subjected to further heat-treatment to be changed into a polycrystalline semiconductor layer. A MOS transistor can be formed using the polycrystalline semiconductor layer.
Abstract:
A semiconductor data transmission device having an MIS structure including an intrinsic semiconductor and a plurality of metallic electrodes disposed in a predetermined pattern on its insulating layer. One of the electrodes serves as a gate electrode for injecting both groups of positive polarity carriers and groups of negative polarity carriers successively into the semiconductor and the remaining electrodes are interconnected by a time delay line. A pulse is applied to one end of the time delay line connected to that electrode nearest to the gate electrode to simultaneously transfer those groups of positive carriers and those groups of negative carriers injected into the semiconductor. A low frequency voltage is supplied to a particular one of the electrode to form carriers opposite in polarity from the moved carriers below it to extinguish the latter through the recombination.
Abstract:
A semiconductor material having the composition InPxAs1 x where x denotes the atomic fraction of phosphorus and lies between 0.16 and 0.65 or In1 yGayAs where y denotes the atomic fraction of gallium and lies between 0.15 and 0.43. The material may be used as a basis for a Rees diode, in which a body of extrinsic semiconductor material of the conductivity type in which the minority carriers produce avalanche multiplication at lower electric field strengths than do the majority carriers has formed on it a first heavily doped electrode of the same conductivity type as the body and a second heavily doped electrode.
Abstract:
A method of detecting the circular uniformity of semiconductor circular contact holes. Several detection circuit structures are disposed on the semiconductor wafer: N-type active regions and P-type active regions; silicon dioxide layers separate the N-type active regions from the P-type active regions; the N-type active regions are formed in the P well and the P-type active regions are formed in the N well; polysilicon gates bridge the N-type active regions and the P-type active regions; gate oxide layers insulate the P-type regions and the N-type regions from the polysilicon gates, so that the P-type regions and the N-type regions are independent; the N-type active regions connect with circular contact holes while the P-type active regions and the polysilicon gates connect with oval contact holes; a electron beam scanner detects the circular uniformity of the contact holes. This invention advantageously reflects effectively and comprehensively the circular uniformity of the contact holes.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a storage node contact in a semiconductor device includes forming a landing plug over a substrate, forming a first insulation layer over the landing plug, forming a bit line pattern over the first insulation layer, forming a second insulation layer over the bit line pattern, forming a mask pattern for forming a storage node contact over the second insulation layer, etching the second and first insulation layers until the landing plug is exposed to form a storage node contact hole including a portion having a rounded profile, filling a conductive material in the storage node contact hole to form a contact plug, and forming a storage node over the contact plug.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a storage node contact in a semiconductor device includes forming a landing plug over a substrate, forming a first insulation layer over the landing plug, forming a bit line pattern over the first insulation layer, forming a second insulation layer over the bit line pattern, forming a mask pattern for forming a storage node contact over the second insulation layer, etching the second and first insulation layers until the landing plug is exposed to form a storage node contact hole including a portion having a rounded profile, filling a conductive material in the storage node contact hole to form a contact plug, and forming a storage node over the contact plug.
Abstract:
A solid image capturing element comprising a plurality of vertical shift registers arranged to each correspond to a column of a plurality of light receiving pixels in a matrix arrangement, a horizontal shift register provided on an output side of the plurality of vertical shift registers, and an output section provided on an output side of the horizontal shift register. In this solid image capturing element, a reverse conductive semiconductor region is formed over one major surface of one conductive semiconductor substrate, the plurality of light receiving pixels, the plurality of vertical shift registers, the horizontal shift register, and the output section are formed in the semiconductor region, and a portion of the semiconductor region where the output section is formed has a higher dopant concentration than the portion of the semiconductor region where the horizontal shift register is formed.