Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC

Ami Semiconductor Belgium

Eddy De Backer

Gordon M Grivna

Peter Moens

Peter Coppens

Hocine Bouzid Ziad

Freddy De Pestel

Malik Mastgutovich Fatkhoutdinov

Pierre Stefaan Bruneel

A semiconductor wafer can include a substrate, a poly template layer, and a semiconductor layer. The substrate has a central region and an edge region, the poly template layer is disposed along a peripheral edge of the substrate, and a semiconductor layer over the central region, wherein the semiconductor layer is monocrystalline. In an embodiment, the poly template layer and the monocrystalline layer are laterally spaced apart from each other by an intermediate region. In another embodiment, the semiconductor layer can include aluminum. A process of forming the substrate can include forming a patterned poly template layer within the edge region and forming a semiconductor layer over the primary surface. Another process of forming the substrate can include forming a semiconductor layer over the primary surface and removing a portion of the semiconductor layer so that the semiconductor layer is spaced apart from an edge of the substrate.

Semiconductor wafer including a monocrystalline semiconductor layer spaced apart from a poly template layer

Process of forming a semiconductor wafer

An electronic device can include a gate electrode and a gate tap that makes an unlanded contact to the gate electrode. The electronic device can further include a source region and a drain region that may include a drift region. In an embodiment, the gate electrode has a height that is greater than its width. In another embodiment, the electronic device can include gate taps that spaced apart from each other, wherein at least some of the gate taps contact the gate electrode over the channel region. In a further embodiment, at a location where the gate tap contacts the gate electrode, the gate tap is wider than the gate electrode. A variety of processes can be used to form the electronic device.

Electronic device including a gate electrode and a gate tap

Process of forming an electronic device including a gate electrode and a gate tap

Method for making interconnect structures

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