Mosel Vitelic Corporation

Episil Technologies Inc.

Hsiao-Chia Wu

Thomas Chang

Dun-Jen Teng

Jung-Cheng Kao

Chi-Jei Dai

Jung Kao

A structure for suppressing current leakage and a semiconductor device including the same are provided. The structure for suppressing current leakage includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, a well region of the first conductivity type, an isolation structure and a PN junction diode. The well region is disposed in the substrate. The isolation structure is disposed on the well region. The PN junction diode is disposed on the isolation structure and configured to suppress current leakage of the semiconductor device.

Semiconductor device and method of operating the same and structure for suppressing current leakage

A PMOS thin film transistor (TFT) with self-align offset region for SRAM application is described. A source and a drain regions are above the gate region. A channel region is formed offset from the gate. An offset region is formed in the channel region having a length of 0.3 to 0.4 .mu.m. The key point of the present invention is the novel offset design of PMOS-TFT as load elements in an SRAM cell. Unlike the conventional offset design which is outside the gate, the offset region of the present invention is a disconnection region inside the gate which can be easily formed by so called self-align technique. Since the gate has a disconnected portion in the offset region, the trench-like profile of the offset region makes the load resistance in the offset region much higher to effectively reduce the leakage current.

TFT with self-align offset gate

The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a SRAM cell that has a low stand-by current. A second polysilicon layer which is used as polysilicon resistor is exactly over a first polysilicon layer. The double polysilicon layer is utilized to reduced a stand-by current. A electric field is generated between the two layers caused by applying different voltage to the two polysilicon layer respectively, and the carriers in the second polysilicon layer will be repeled to form a depletion region, which will increase the resistance of the second polysilicon layer. Therefore, the stand-by current (Isb) will be reduced.

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Hsiao-Chia Wu