WO1993021659A1 - Semiconductor devices with a double gate - Google Patents
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- WO1993021659A1 WO1993021659A1 PCT/GB1993/000792 GB9300792W WO9321659A1 WO 1993021659 A1 WO1993021659 A1 WO 1993021659A1 GB 9300792 W GB9300792 W GB 9300792W WO 9321659 A1 WO9321659 A1 WO 9321659A1
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- H01L29/76—Unipolar devices, e.g. field effect transistors
- H01L29/772—Field effect transistors
- H01L29/78—Field effect transistors with field effect produced by an insulated gate
- H01L29/786—Thin film transistors, i.e. transistors with a channel being at least partly a thin film
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- H01L29/772—Field effect transistors
- H01L29/78—Field effect transistors with field effect produced by an insulated gate
- H01L29/786—Thin film transistors, i.e. transistors with a channel being at least partly a thin film
- H01L29/78645—Thin film transistors, i.e. transistors with a channel being at least partly a thin film with multiple gate
- H01L29/78648—Thin film transistors, i.e. transistors with a channel being at least partly a thin film with multiple gate arranged on opposing sides of the channel
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- H01L27/02—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers
- H01L27/04—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body
- H01L27/08—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers the substrate being a semiconductor body including only semiconductor components of a single kind
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- This invention relates to semiconductor devices and, in particular, to the fabrication of thin film transistors and integrated circuits incorporating such transistors.
- CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
- CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
- n-channel enhancement mode device the minimum current (off state) flows with zero applied gate voltage and is increased by applying a positive gate voltage (on state).
- a negative gate voltage is applied to turn the device off whilst at zero gate voltage the device is in the on state.
- enhancement-depletion circuitry gives improved performance when compared with enhancement-only circuits, in terms of switching speed, output voltage levels, and power consumption.
- depletion mode devices are also available.
- Possible .ways to produce depletion type thin film active devices are to increase the semiconductor film thickness for the depletion devices as compared to the enhancement, or to selectively add n-type dopant material into the channel region of the depletion devices. In either case additional process steps would be needed, involving the use of extra mask layers, and hence increased cost and reduced yield.
- Depletion and enhancement devices may also be produced by using different geometries for the CdSe layers without an additional mask step.
- TFTs without any additional processing steps by biasing one of the gates of the device to control the threshold voltage of the device so that it has a suitable (negative) value.
- the TFTs can be made to be enhancement or depletion types as required, with both types co-existing in the same circuit.
- an externally applied voltage is applied to one gate of the depletion mode devices in the circuit to set the required threshold voltage.
- an integrated circuit arrangement comprising a pair of insulated-gate transistor devices connectible in series wherein the first transistor of said pair is operable as a depletion-mode device whilst the second transistor of said pair serves as an enhancement-mode device.
- Figure 1 is a cross-section through a thin film transistor in accordance with a specific embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 2 shows electrical characteristics of the transistor of Figure 1; and Figure 3 is the circuit diagram of an inverter; and Figure 4 shows electrical characteristics of this inverter.
- Figure 1 shows a cross-section through a thin film transistor in accordance with a specific embodiment of the present invention.
- a diffusion barrier 1 is formed on a substrate 3.
- the device has a bottom gate 5 separated by an insulator layer 7 from a layer of cadmium selenide 9.
- An n-channel region 11 is formed in this semiconductor layer.
- a pad contact 13 and column conductor 15 are provide for the source and drain electrodes.
- An upper gate 17 is separated from the semiconductor by an insulator layer 19.
- Figure 2 shows the current through the transistors as a function of the top gate voltage for two values of the bottom of the top gate voltage. It is seen there is a marked difference in the position of the curves particularly in the theshold region (i.e. the steeply rising part).
- FIG. 4 shows the circuit diagram of an inverter for use with the transistor of Figure 1. Its transfer characteristics are shown in Fig. 4. where the advantage of using the depletion TFT as the pull-up transistor is seen in the larger voltage swings. In the example chosen an enhancement pull-up device would not operate a shift register.
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DE69317562T DE69317562T2 (en) | 1992-04-15 | 1993-04-15 | SEMICONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT WITH DOUBLE GATE. |
US08/318,767 US5677550A (en) | 1992-04-15 | 1993-04-15 | Integrated circuit devices including insulated-gate transistor device having two separately biasable gates |
JP5518135A JPH07505742A (en) | 1992-04-15 | 1993-04-15 | Double gated semiconductor device |
EP93910155A EP0646289B1 (en) | 1992-04-15 | 1993-04-15 | Semiconductor devices with a double gate |
KR1019940703636A KR950701143A (en) | 1992-04-15 | 1994-10-13 | Semiconductor device with double gate (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES WITH A DOUBLE GATE) |
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DE (1) | DE69317562T2 (en) |
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US5677550A (en) | 1997-10-14 |
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