United Microelectronics Corp.

Promos Technologies, Inc

Yuan-Li Tsai

Ching-Chun Hwang

Kai-Jen Ko

Marcus Yang

Ralph Chen

Yu-Piao Wang

Cheng-Hui Chung

Ching-Chun Huang

Sheng-Hsiung Yang

Steven Huang

Ming-Hui Wu

Heng-Chun Kao

Kuo-Hua Ho

A method is provided to fabricate a LCOS back plane structure. The present invention utilized a HV device such as HV CMOS transistor (high voltage complementary metal oxide semiconductor transistor) and a HV capacitor layer are applied to the substrate. Furthermore, the HV capacitor layer has a higher dielectric layer and coupling ratio to sustain the higher operating voltage, such that the operating capacitance can be raised. Moreover, the HV CMOS transistor is combined with a mirror layer which has a higher reflective property, such that the LCOS back-plate structure has the better contrast and chrominance output in per area unit, when the operating voltage range is increased.

Method of fabrication LCOS structure

An opening through an insulating layer between a first layer and a second layer of a semiconductor device is formed where the second layer is a polysilicon or amorphous silicon hard mask layer. The polysilicon or amorphous silicon hard mask layer is etched to form at least one opening through the polysilicon or amorphous silicon hard mask layer using a patterning layer as a mask having at least one opening. The insulating layer is etched to form the opening through the insulating layer using the etched polysilicon or amorphous silicon hard mask layer as a mask. The etched polysilicon or amorphous silicon hard mask layer is nitridized prior to subsequent processing.

Method of forming an opening through an insulating layer of a semiconductor device

A method for reducing a gate length bias is disclosed. The method utilizes an additional blanket ion implantation process to adjust the etching property of the undoped conductive layer. According to the present invention, a polysilicon layer is used to form NMOS and PMOS gate electrodes so that the gate length bias between the NMOS gate electrodes and the PMOS gate electrodes can be effectively reduced.

Method for reducing gate length bias

The method for forming high voltage device combined with a mixed mode process use an un-doped polysilicon layer instead of the conventional polysilicon layer. In the high resistance area, the ion implant is not used until the source region and the drain region are formed. A resistor is formed by etching oxide-nitride-oxide layer and performing ion implant process by using BF radical to the un-doped polysilicon layer to control the resistance. Then multitudes of contact are formed, wherein the high dosage of BF implant would reduce resistance between contacts and resistor.

Method for forming high resistance resistor with integrated high voltage device process

A semiconductor wafer includes a silicon substrate, an active area positioned on the silicon substrate, and a field oxide layer positioned on the surface of the silicon substrate surrounding the active area. The present invention forms a doped area in the silicon substrate and within the active area and then deposits a dielectric layer on the surface of the semiconductor wafer. A dry etching process is performed to remove the dielectric layer. The top power of the dry etching process ranges between three hundred and five hundred watts to prevent damage to the silicon substrate near the field oxide layer and within the active area by the dry etching process, and to reduce the leakage current of the doped area. Additionally, the present invention also uses a wet etching process to remove the dielectric layer, which prevents an anisotropic physical impact on the silicon substrate near the field oxide layer to reduce the leakage current of the doped area.

Method of reducing leakage current of a semiconductor wafer

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Yuan-Li Tsai