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Fully depleted semiconductor on insulator transistor with enhanced back biasing tunability

US10460944B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 13, 2017
Grant dateOct 29, 2019
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Expiry dateDec 13, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10D86/201
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Technologies for providing a semiconductor device, which can comprise a fully depleted semiconductor on insulator transistor and a method for forming the same are described. Various embodiments disclose a buried dielectric layer coupled to a semiconductor layer, and a back-gate stack is coupled to the buried dielectric layer, the back-gate stack comprising a back-gate conductor layer, a ferroelectric material layer coupled to the back-gate conductor layer, and a back-gate contact layer coupled to the ferroelectric material layer. A gate insulator can be coupled to the semiconductor layer, and a gate can be coupled to the gate insulator; the semiconductor layer can comprise a source, a drain and a channel region between the source and the drain. The negative capacitance property of the ferroelectric insulator provides back biasing of the fully depleted semiconductor on insulator transistor, including if using a relatively thick buried dielectric layer and a normal operating voltage.

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