Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Masashi Yanagita

Shigeru Kanematsu

Katsuhiko Takeuchi

Satoshi Taniguchi

Shinichi Wada

Katsuji Matsumoto

Yuya Kanitani

Sei Fukushima

Takanori Higashi

A semiconductor device includes a barrier layer, a channel layer, a regrowth layer, a vacancy generation region, and a source electrode or a drain electrode. The barrier layer includes a first nitride semiconductor. The channel layer includes a second nitride semiconductor and is bonded to the barrier layer at a first surface. The regrowth layer includes an n-type nitride semiconductor and is provided in a region dug deeper than an interface between the barrier layer and the channel layer from a second surface of the barrier layer. The second surface is on opposite side to the first surface. The vacancy generation region includes a nitrogen-capturing element and is provided in a region of the regrowth layer shallower than the interface between the barrier layer and the channel layer. The source electrode or the drain electrode is provided on the regrowth layer.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes a channel layer, a barrier layer, and at least one contact layer. The channel layer includes a GaN-based material. The barrier layer includes an AlInN-based material in which a composition ratio of In is higher than 18%, and is provided on the channel layer. The at least one contact layer includes a conductive-type semiconductor material and is provided to penetrate the barrier layer and reach the channel layer.

Semiconductor device, electric circuit, and wireless communication apparatus

A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a channel layer on the semiconductor substrate; a barrier layer on the channel layer; a gate electrode on the barrier layer via a gate insulating film; a source electrode and a drain electrode on the channel layer with the gate electrode interposed therebetween; a substrate opening that penetrates the channel layer and exposes the semiconductor substrate; an insulating film provided from upper parts of the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode to an inner side of the substrate opening; and a wiring line layer on the insulating film, and electrically coupled to one of the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode via an opening on the insulating film, in which at least a portion of the substrate opening is in an activation region in which the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode are provided.

Semiconductor device, communication module, and semiconductor device manufacturing method

[Overview] [Problem to be Solved] To provide a switching transistor and a semiconductor module having lower distortion generated in a signal. [Solution] A switching transistor including: a channel layer including a compound semiconductor and having sheet electron density equal to or higher than 1.7&#xd7;10cm; a barrier layer formed on the channel layer by using a compound semiconductor that is of a different type from the channel layer; a gate electrode provided on the barrier layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on the barrier layer with the gate electrode interposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode.

Switching transistor and semiconductor module to suppress signal distortion

A transistor including a carrier transit layer that includes a compound semiconductor and a carrier supply layer in contact with the carrier transit layer. The carrier supply layer includes a compound semiconductor of a different type from the carrier transit layer. The transistor includes a gate electrode provided on the carrier supply layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on another surface of the carrier transit layer that is opposite to one surface on which the carrier supply layer is provided.

Transistor, semiconductor device, electronic apparatus, and method for producing transistor

A diode includes a first semiconductor layer configured by a compound semiconductor containing impurities of a first conductivity type; a high dislocation density region; a second semiconductor layer which is laminated on the first semiconductor layer, which is lower in a concentration of impurities in a region of a side of an interface with the first semiconductor layer than that of the first semiconductor layer, and which has an opening in which a portion which corresponds to the high dislocation density region is removed; an insulating film pattern which is provided to cover an inner wall of the opening; an electrode which is provided so as to cover the insulating film pattern and to contact the second semiconductor layer; and an opposing electrode which is provided to interpose the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer and the insulating film pattern between the electrode and the opposing electrode.

Diode and method of manufacturing diode

A semiconductor device includes: a device region having a semiconductor layer that includes a channel section; a device peripheral region adjoining the device region; a gate electrode provided within the device region, and having a boundary section that spans the device region and the device peripheral region; a conductive layer provided between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer; and an insulating layer provided between the gate electrode in the boundary section and the semiconductor layer.

Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate electrode of a transistor on an insulator layer on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, forming an isolation region by performing ion implantation of an impurity of a first conductivity type into the semiconductor substrate, forming a lightly doped drain region by performing, after forming a mask pattern including an opening portion narrower than a width of the gate electrode on an upper layer of the gate electrode of the transistor, ion implantation of an impurity of a second conductivity type near the surface of the semiconductor substrate with the mask pattern as a mask, and forming a source region and a drain region of the transistor by performing ion implantation of an impurity of the second conductivity type into the semiconductor substrate after forming the gate electrode of the transistor.

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Masashi Yanagita