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7420207
A photo-detecting device includes a buried doping layer of a first conductivity type and disposed at an upper portion of a silicon substrate. A first silicon epitaxial layer of first conductivity type is disposed on the buried doping lay...  
7417248
A method of manufacturing a transistor and a structure thereof, wherein a very shallow region having a high dopant concentration of germanium is implanted into a channel region of a transistor at a low energy level, forming an amorphous ...  
7361420
To provide a filmy structure of a nanometer size having a phase-separated structure effective for the case where a compound can be formed between two kinds of materials. A structure constituted by a first member containing a compound bet...  
7339188
The present invention is related to a polycrystalline silicon film containing Ni which is formed by crystallizing an amorphous silicon layer containing nickel. The present invention includes a polycrystalline silicon film wherein the pol...  
7335950
To provide a thin film transistor having a low OFF characteristic and to provide P-channel type and N-channel type thin film transistors where a difference in characteristics of the P-channel type and the N-channel type thin film transis...  
7303949
A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes channels for a pFET and an nFET. A SiGe layer is selectively grown in the source and drain regions of the pFET channel and a Si:...  
7271333
The present invention relates to light-weight thin-film photovoltaic cells, methods for making cells, modules made from cells, and methods for making modules from cells. The invention teaches a manner in which individual cells may be bon...  
7262428
A process of making a strained silicon-on-insulator structure is disclosed. A recess is formed in a substrate to laterally isolate an active area. An undercutting etch forms a bubble recess under the active area to partially vertically i...  
7214971
A semiconductor light-receiving device has a substrate including upper, middle and lower regions in its front side. A p-type layer on the lower region has a top surface including a portion on a level with the middle region. An electrode ...  
7202511
Electromagnetic energy is detected with high efficiency in the spectral range having wavelengths of about 1–2 microns by coupling an absorber layer having high quantum efficiency in the spectral range having wavelengths of about 1–2 ...  
7196351
Phase change memories may exhibit improved properties and lower cost in some cases by forming the phase change material layers in a planar configuration. A heater may be provided below the phase change material layers to appropriately he...  
7176504
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a gate structure, a spacer, a Si x Ge y layer and a Si x Ge y protection layer. The gate structure is deposited on the substrate and the spacer is depo...  
7164150
In a photovoltaic device of the present invention, junction characteristics are improved by enhancing interface characteristics between a crystalline silicon semiconductor and an amorphous silicon semiconductor. In the photovoltaic devic...  
7157349
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a silicon body ( 1 ) having a surface ( 4 ) provided with field isolation regions ( 2 ) enclosing active regions ( 3 ). In this method, on the surface of the silicon body there ...  
7145175
According to the invention, a plurality of semiconductor devices which are required to have conformance are formed from crystalline semiconductor films having uniform crystallinity on the same line, and a semiconductor circuit in which v...  
7138668
An aspect of the present invention provides a semiconductor device that includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, having a different band gap from ...  
7115925
An active pixel includes a a photosensitive element formed in a semiconductor substrate. A transfer transistor is formed between the photosensitive element and a floating diffusion and selectively operative to transfer a signal from the ...  
7102185
An interline transfer type image sensing device that can be operated at high speed and with low image smear is described. The device incorporates a refractory metal layer which is used for both a light shield over the vertical charge tra...  
7015507
Provided is a non-single-crystal germanium thin film transistor having a gate insulating film capable of reducing the interface state density between an active layer and the gate insulating film. This thin film transistor has an active l...  
6984847
An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a gate line on an inner surface of the first substrate; a semiconductor layer over the gate line, the semiconductor layer ...  
6960789
A transistor that at least has one of the following characteristics: First, the gate electrode is located outside the gate line, such that the whole transistor is located outside the gate line. Second, the projection of the semiconductor...  
6951689
The present invention provides a substrate with a transparent conductive layer comprising at least one layer stacked on a supporting substrate, wherein the surface of the transparent conductive layer has a distribution of inclination arc...  
6940089
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure. According to one aspect of the invention, on a first semiconductor substrate, a first compositionally graded Si 1-x Ge x buffer is deposited where the Ge composition x is increasing fro...  
6930326
According to the invention, a plurality of semiconductor devices which are required to have conformance are formed from crystalline semiconductor films having uniform crystallinity on the same line, and a semiconductor circuit in which v...  
6927417
In a back-surface electrode type photoelectric conversion element having electrodes and semiconductor layers for collecting carriers disposed only on a back surface side of a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor thin film that is lar...  
6921914
A process for producing monocrystalline semiconductor layers. In an exemplary embodiment, a graded Si 1-x Ge x (x increases from 0 to y) is deposited on a first silicon substrate, followed by deposition of a relaxed Si 1-y Ge y layer, ...  
6903372
To provide TFT of improved low-temperature polycrystalline layer that has higher electron mobility and assures less fluctuation in manufacture in view of realizing a liquid-crystal display device having a large display area by utilizing ...  
6872972
Roughly described, a silicon layer transitions from polysilicon at one surface to amorphous silicon at the opposite surface. The transition can be monotonic, and can be either continuous or it can change abruptly from polysilicon to amor...  
6856002
The present invention provides a design for a PCRAM element which incorporates multiple metal-containing germanium-selenide glass layers of diverse stoichiometries. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating the disclose...  
6838713
A standard cell architecture with a basic cell that spans multiple rows of the standard cell. This multi-row basic cell may be a dual-height cell that spans two rows, or it may span more than two rows. The multi-row basic cell may be int...  
6838695
A semiconductor device structure includes a substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, first and second stacks disposed on the dielectric layer. The first stack includes a first silicon layer disposed on the dielectric laye...  
6831333
To provide a thin film transistor having a low OFF characteristic and to provide P-channel type and N-channel type thin film transistors where a difference in characteristics of the P-channel type and the N-channel type thin film transis...  
6815802
A SiGe bipolar transistor containing substantially no dislocation defects present between the emitter and collector region and a method of forming the same are provided. The SiGe bipolar transistor includes a collector region of a first ...  
6787793
A semiconductor device comprises a first Si 1−α Ge α film, a first cap film, a second Si 1−β Ge β film (β<α≦1) and a second cap film formed in this order on a substrate whose surface is formed of silicon, wherein the fir...  
6770912
A semiconductor device includes a SiC substrate and an ohmic electrode, a semiconductor member including a SiC member and a SiGe member being formed between the SiC substrate and the ohmic electrode, wherein the semiconductor member is c...  
6759712
The invention includes SOI thin film transistor constructions, memory devices, computer systems, and methods of forming various structures, devices and systems. The structures typically comprise a thin crystalline layer of silicon/german...  
6750394
A thin-film solar cell comprises a set of a transparent conductive layer and a photoelectric conversion layer laminated in this order on a substrate, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer is made of a p-i-n junction, the i-layer is ...  
6734499
An insulated gate field effect transistor comprises a non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer formed on a substrate, a gate electrode is formed on a portion of the surface of said semiconductor layer, and a gate insulating film is dis...  
6734455
A method for fabricating chalcogenide materials on substrates, which reduces and/or eliminates agglomeration of materials on the chalcogenide materials; and system and devices for performing the method, semiconductor devices so produced,...  
6720583
The present invention provides an optical device and a surface emitting type device which have high efficiency and a stable operation and are manufactured at high manufacturing yield. The optical device and the surface emitting type devi...  
6710382
A silicon germanium layer is deposited over a semiconductor substrate with a gate insulating film interposed between the substrate and the silicon germanium layer. Then, an upper silicon layer in an amorphous state is deposited on the si...  
6690072
A method (and structure) of forming a vertically-self-aligned silicide contact to an underlying SiGe layer, includes forming a layer of silicon of a first predetermined thickness on the SiGe layer and forming a layer of metal on the sili...  
6690026
An apparatus comprising control circuitry formed on a substrate, and a plurality of active media coupled to the control circuitry and formed in a plurality of planes over the substrate. A method comprising forming a pair of junction regi...  
6670687
A semiconductor device having a silicon carbide layer of a singular conductivity type. The silicon carbide layer includes a surface having a first region, a second region, and a third region sandwiched between the first region and the se...  
6670657
An integrated circuit is provided that includes a substrate incorporating a semiconductor photodiode device having a p-n junction. The photodiode device includes at least one capacitive trench buried in the substrate and connected in par...  
6670638
Disclosed is a polysilicon film adapted for use in a liquid crystal display, and method of manufacturing such film. In manufacturing the film, a native oxide layer formed on a surface of an amorphous silicon film is completely removed by...  
6667240
A method for forming a deposited film, comprising generating plasma in a plurality of successive vacuum containers and continuously forming a deposited film on a belt-like substrate while continuously moving the substrate in its longitud...  
6664566
A photoelectric conversion device has a non-single-crystal semiconductor laminate member formed on a substrate having a conductive surface, and a conductive layer formed on the non-single-crystal semiconductor laminate member. The non-si...  
6621131
A process is described for manufacturing an improved PMOS semiconductor transistor. Recesses are etched into a layer of epitaxial silicon. Source and drain films are deposited in the recesses. The source and drain films are made of an al...  
6562703
A method is provided for forming a relaxed silicon germanium layer with a high germanium content on a silicon substrate. The method comprises: depositing a single-crystal silicon (Si) buffer layer overlying the silicon substrate; deposit...  

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