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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Ku Leuven R&d

Interuniversitair Microelektronica Centrum (imec)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Nadine Collaert

Amey Mahadev Walke

Rita Rooyackers

Clement Merckling

Niamh Waldron

Geert Eneman

Stefan Jakschik

Malgorzata Jurczak

Simone Severi

Liesbeth Witters

Paul A Zimmerman

Naoto Horiguchi

Anabela Veloso

Koen Martens

Min-Soo Kim

Eddy Kunnen

Voon Yew Thean

Ming Zhao

Anne Vandooren

Marc Demand

Werner Boullart

Barend Wilhelmus Marinus Van Liempd

Kristin De Meyer

Michael De Volder

Daire J Cott

Bertrand Parvais

Zhichao Lu

Marc Aoulaiche

Adelina K Shickova

The disclosed technology relates generally to the field of semiconductor devices, and more particularly to co-integration of GaN-based devices with Si-based devices. In one aspect, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first wafer including, on a front side thereof, a III-V semiconductor layer stack formed on a first substrate and a first bonding layer. The III-V semiconductor layer stack includes a GaN-based device layer structure formed on the first substrate. The method additionally includes, subsequent to forming the first wafer, bonding the first bonding layer to a second bonding layer of a second wafer. The second wafer includes a second silicon substrate supporting an active device layer, a back-end-of-line interconnect structure and the second bonding layer. The method further comprises, subsequent to bonding, thinning the first wafer from a backside, wherein thinning includes removing at least the first substrate. In another aspect, a semiconductor device includes a cointegrated N-polar HEMT.

Cointegration of gallium nitride and silicon

The disclosed technology is directed to a method of forming a qubit device. In one aspect, the method comprises: forming a gate electrode embedded in an insulating layer formed on a substrate, wherein an upper surface of the substrate is formed from a group IV semiconductor material and the gate electrode extends along the substrate in a first horizontal direction; forming an aperture in the insulating layer, the aperture exposing a portion of the substrate; forming, in an epitaxial growth process, a semiconductor structure comprising a group III-V semiconductor substrate contact part and a group III-V semiconductor disc part, the substrate contact part having a bottom portion abutting the portion of the substrate and an upper portion protruding from the aperture above an upper surface of the insulating layer, the semiconductor disc part extending from the upper portion of the substrate contact part, horizontally along the upper surface of the insulating layer to overlap a portion of the gate electrode; forming a mask covering a portion of the disc part, the portion of the disc part extending across the portion of the gate electrode in a second horizontal direction; etching regions of the semiconductor structure exposed by the mask such that the masked portion of the disc part remains to form a channel structure extending across the portion of the gate electrode; and forming a superconductor source contact and a superconductor drain contact on the channel structure at opposite sides of the portion of the gate electrode.

Method for forming a qubit device

Examples include a method for forming an intermediate in the fabrication of a field-effect transistor sensor, the method comprising: providing a substrate having a substrate region comprising a gate dielectric thereon and optionally a nanocavity therein, providing a sacrificial element over the substrate region, providing one or more layers having a combined thickness of at least 100 nm over the sacrificial element, opening an access to the sacrificial element through the one or more layers, and optionally selectively removing the sacrificial element, thereby opening a sensor cavity over the substrate region; wherein the sacrificial element is removable by oxidation and wherein selectively removing the sacrificial element comprises an oxidative removal.

Protecting a substrate region during fabrication of a FET sensor

A sequential integration process is described. An example process involves forming a wafer stack by bonding a first wafer to a second wafer with a front side of the first wafer facing a front side of the second wafer, the first wafer including a first device region formed on the front side of the first wafer and including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves, subsequent to forming the wafer stack, forming a second device region on a back side of the first wafer, the second device region including a set of semiconductor devices. The example process involves forming at least one interconnection layer on the second device region for electrically interconnecting the semiconductor devices of the second device region. The example process also involves forming at least one via extending through the wafer stack from the at least one interconnection layer and through the first wafer.

Sequential integration process

Disclosed herein is a semiconductor structure including: a host substrate and one or more bonding layers on top of the host substrate. The structure further includes an entity on the one or more bonding layers, where the entity includes two transistors on opposite sides of a common layer of channel material, where each transistor includes a gate, where both gates overlap each other, where both transistors share the same source and drain regions, and where each transistor have a channel defined within a same portion of the common layer of channel material overlapped by both transistor gates.

Semi-sequential 3D integration

The disclosed technology relates generally to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor devices such as field-effect transistor devices configured for biomolecule sensing. In one aspect, a semiconductor chip comprises at least one field-effect transistor device which comprises a source, a drain, a gate stack and a channel region formed between the source and the drain. The gate stack only partially overlaps the channel region at the source side and/or at the drain side, such that a non-overlapped channel region at the source side and/or at the drain side is formed, where the non-overlapped channel region is configured for sensing biomolecules.

FET biosensor

The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a semiconductor device for stimulation and/or data recording of biological material to a such semiconductor device. The method comprises providing a semiconductor substrate comprising a first insulating layer; providing a patterned conductive layer on top of the first insulating layer; depositing and patterning a second insulating layer atop the patterned conductive layer; growing carbon nano-sheets atop the second insulating layer; and defining carbon nano-sheet electrode areas on the second insulating layer by etching away the carbon nano-sheets outside of the carbon nano-sheet electrode areas.

Micro-stimulation and data acquisition from biological cells

A method for forming a semiconductor structure by bonding a donor substrate to a carrier substrate is disclosed herein. The donor substrate may include a plurality of semiconductor layers epitaxially grown on top of one another in, and optionally above, a trench of the donor substrate. The carrier substrate may include a first semiconductor device thereon. The method may include removing at least part of the donor substrate in such a way as to expose a semiconductor layer grown on the bottom of the trench, removing at least part of the exposed semiconductor layer, thereby modifying the plurality of semiconductor layers, and forming a second semiconductor device from the modified plurality of semiconductor layers.

Monolithic integration of semiconductor materials

An example method includes providing a layer stack in a trench defined by adjacent STI structures and recessing the STI structures adjacent to the layer stack to thereby expose an upper portion of the layer stack, the upper portion comprising at least a channel portion. The method further includes providing one or more protection layers on the upper portion of the layer stack and then further recessing the STI structures selectively to the protection layers and the layer stack, to thereby expose a central portion of the layer stack. And the method includes removing the central portion of the layer stack, resulting in a freestanding upper part and a lower part of the layer stack being physically separated from each other.

Method for forming a transistor structure comprising a fin-shaped channel structure

The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices and more particularly to a gate-all-around semiconductor device, and methods of fabricating the same. In one aspect, the method comprises providing on a semiconductor substrate between STI regions at least one suspended nanostructure anchored by a source region and a drain region. The suspended nanostructure is formed of a crystalline semiconductor material that is different from a crystalline semiconductor material of the semiconductor substrate. A gate stack surrounds the at least one suspended nanostructure.

Gate-all-around semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A method for growing a III-V semiconductor structure on a SiGesubstrate, wherein n is from 0 to 1 is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) bringing a SiGesubstrate to a high temperature; (b) exposing the area to a group V precursor in a carrier gas for from 5 to 30 min, thereby forming a doped region at said area; (c) bringing the SiGesubstrate to a low temperature; (d) exposing the doped region to a group III precursor in a carrier gas and to a group V precursor in a carrier gas until a nucleation layer of III-V material of from 5 to 15 nm is formed on the nucleation layer; (e) bringing the SiGesubstrate to an intermediate temperature; and (f) exposing the nucleation layer to a group III precursor in a carrier gas and to a group V precursor in a carrier gas.

Method for reducing contact resistance in MOS

A method for manufacturing a transistor device is provided, comprising providing a plurality of parallel nanowires on a substrate; providing a dummy gate structure over a central portion of the parallel nanowires; epitaxially growing extension portions of a second material, selectively on the parallel nanowires, outside a central portion; providing a filler layer around and on top of the dummy gate structure and the extension portions; removing the dummy gate structure to create a gate trench, exposing the central portion of the parallel nanowires; providing spacer structures on the sidewalls of the gate trench, to define a final gate trench; thinning the parallel nanowires, thereby creating free space in between the nanowires and spacer structures; and selectively growing a quantum well layer on or around the parallel nanowires, at least partially filling the free space, to thereby provide a connection between the quantum well layer and extension portions.

Method for manufacturing transistor and associated device

A multi-gate device is disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes a substrate having a first semiconductor layer of a first carrier mobility enhancing parameter, a buried insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer with a second carrier mobility enhancing parameter. The device also includes a first active region electrically isolated from a second active region in the substrate. The first active region has a first fin grown on the first semiconductor layer and having the first mobility enhancing parameter. The second active region has a second fin grown on the second semiconductor layer and having the second mobility enhancing parameter. The device also includes a dielectric layer over the second semiconductor layer which is located between the first fin and the second fin. The first and second fins protrude through and above the dielectric layer.

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Nadine Collaert