Mechanisms for doping lightly-doped-drain (LDD) regions of finFET devices

CH Tsai, TC Wang, LIU Su-Hao - US Patent 9,029,226, 2015 - Google Patents
The embodiments of mechanisms for doping lightly doped drain (LDD) regions by driving
dopants from highly doped Source and drain regions by annealing for finFET devices are …

Split gate nanocrystal memory integration

KV Loiko, BA Winstead - US Patent 9,111,867, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A process integration is disclosed for fabricating non-volatile memory
(NVM) cells having spacer control gates (108) along with a high-k-metal-poly select gate …

Contact silicide formation using a spike annealing process

SW Chen, YT Lin, J Tsai, WM You… - US Patent App. 14 …, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0002 The semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) industry has experienced
rapid growth. Technological advances in IC materials and design have produced …

Method for semiconductor device fabrication

CH Tsai, WY Lu - US Patent 9,299,803, 2016 - Google Patents
Provided is a method of forming a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a
substrate having n-type doped source/drain features; depositing a flowable dielectric …

Semiconductor device

JW Kim, J Kim - US Patent 10,847,427, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first, second, third,
and fourth regions, a first gate structure on the first region, a second gate structure on the …

Formation of dislocations in source and drain regions of FinFET devices

CH Tsai, WY Lu, C Chien-Tai, WY Lee… - US Patent 9,768,256, 2017 - Google Patents
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming dislocations in source and drain regions of finFET
devices are provided. The mechanisms involve recessing fins and removing the dielectric …

Embedded NVM in a HKMG process

JD Cheek, FK Baker Jr - US Patent 9,054,220, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A process integration is disclosed for fabricating complete, planar non-
volatile memory (NVM) cells (110) prior to the formation of high-k metal gate electrodes for …

Heat treatment method and heat treatment apparatus for heating substrate by irradiating substrate with light

S Kato - US Patent 9,023,740, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A Surface of a semiconductor wafer with a gate of a high dielectric constant
film formed thereon is heated to a target temperature for a short time by irradiating the …

MOS transistors and fabrication method thereof

F Li, J Ni - US Patent 8,980,705, 2015 - Google Patents
A method is provided for fabricating an MOS transistor. The method includes providing a
semiconductor substrate; and forming a ploy silicon dummy gate structure having a high-K …

Apparatus and method of manufacturing metal gate semiconductor device

CJ Liu, CC Chang, LC Wu, SC Suen… - US Patent App. 14 …, 2015 - Google Patents
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor
substrate and forming a structure over the semiconductor substrate. The structure includes a …