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| 5F102 | JUNCTION FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS | |
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| H10D30/01,401;30/47,201;30/80-30/87@Z | FA | FA00 PURPOSE OR EFFECT * |
FA01 | FA02 | FA03 | FA04 | FA05 | FA06 | FA07 | FA08 | FA09 | FA10 |
| . Increasing breakdown voltages | . Increasing currents | . Reducing source or drain resistances or contact resistances | . Improving temperature characteristics | . Preventing depletion layers due to channel surface levels | . Measures against surge input e.g. protective circuits (P) | . Impedance matching | . Preventing effects from peripheral elements; Element isolation | . Testing or measuring including those under manufacturing | . improving mounted structures (G) | |||
| FB | FB00 SPECIAL OPERATION * |
FB01 | FB02 | FB03 | FB04 | FB05 | FB06 | FB07 | FB10 | |||
| . Static induction transistors (SIT) | . Ballistic elements | . Negative resistance elements | . . Chirp elements | . Tunnel current control elements | . Principal currents reacting to energies other than electric fields | . . reacting to light or electromagnetic waves | . Other special operations * | |||||
| GA | GA00 INTEGRATION * |
GA01 | GA02 | GA03 | GA04 | GA05 | ||||||
| . FETs and FETs | . . Enhancement/depletion or E/D types | . . Complementary types | . . JFETs and MESFETs | . . MOSFETs and MESFETs | ||||||||
| GA11 | GA12 | GA13 | GA14 | GA15 | GA16 | GA17 | GA18 | GA19 | ||||
| . FETs and other elements or components | . . Bipolar transistors | . . . composing SITL | . . Diodes | . . L or inductances | . . C or capacitors | . . R or resistors | . . Striplines | . . Light-emitting or light-receiving elements | ||||
| GB | GB00 PRINCIPAL CURRENT PATH * |
GB01 | GB02 | GB04 | GB05 | GB06 | GB10 | |||||
| . parallel to substrate surfaces or horizontal FETs | . . taking out electrodes from the rear sides [U] | . vertical to substrate surfaces or vertical FETs | . . flowing on mesa sides | . . Embedded drains or sources e.g. taking out from substrate surfaces | . Others * | |||||||
| GC | GC00 GATE ARRANGEMENT * |
GC01 | GC02 | GC03 | GC05 | GC07 | GC08 | GC09 | GC10 | |||
| . Upper gates of horizontal FETs | . Lower gates of horizontal FETs | . Side gates of horizontal FETs or control of depletion layers from sides | . Dual gates or multiple gates [W] | . Surface gates of vertical FETs | . Embedded gates of vertical FETs | . Notched gates of vertical FETs | . Others * | |||||
| GD | GD00 TYPE OF GATE JUNCTION * |
GD01 | GD02 | GD04 | GD05 | GD10 | ||||||
| . MES types e.g. Schottky gates | . . increasing barrier heights by sandwiching reverse conductivity layers | . Pn junction types | . . Heterogates | . Others e.g. MOS or pseudo MIS | ||||||||
| GJ | GJ00 SUBSTRATE * |
GJ01 | GJ02 | GJ03 | GJ04 | GJ05 | GJ06 | GJ09 | GJ10 | |||
| . Semiconductor materials including semi-insulating materials * | . . Group IV * | . . . Silicon (Si) | . . Group III-V * | . . . Gallium arsenide (GaAs) | . . . Indium phosphide (InP) | . Materials other than semiconductors | . . Materials of insulators e.g. glass or sapphire | |||||
| GK | GK00 BUFFER LAYER OR INTERMEDIATE LAYER * |
GK01 | GK02 | GK04 | GK05 | GK06 | GK08 | GK09 | GK10 | |||
| . Single semiconductor layers * | . . Group IV * | . . Groups III and V * | . . . Gallium arsenide (GaAs) | . . . Gallium aluminium arsenide (GaAlAs) | . Multilayered structures including superlattices * | . using lattice constant deviation or lattice distortion | . Materials other than semiconductors | |||||
| GL | GL00 CHANNEL LAYER OR SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER THROUGH WHICH PRINCIPAL CURRENT FLOWS |
GL01 | GL02 | GL03 | GL04 | GL05 | GL07 | GL08 | GL09 | GL10 | ||
| . Single semiconductor layers * | . . Group IV * | . . . Silicon (Si) | . . Groups III and V * | . . . Gallium arsenide (GaAs) | . Non-doped layers or high-resistance layers | . Multilayered structures including superlattices * | . using lattice constant deviation or lattice distortion | . Materials other than semiconductors | ||||
| GL11 | GL12 | GL14 | GL15 | GL16 | GL17 | GL18 | GL20 | |||||
| . Non-single crystals e.g. polycrystals | . . amorphous | . Inhomogeneous materials | . . having non-uniform impurity concentrations | . . having non-uniform compositions e.g. band gaps | . . changing in thickness directions i.e. vertically to substrates | . . changing from source (S) to drain (D) directions i.e. parallel to substrate surfaces | . delta doped or planar doped | |||||
| GM | GM00 INTERPOSED LAYER BENEATH GATE, I.E. LAYER INTERPOSED BETWEEN A GATE METAL ELECTRODE BOTTOM AND A CHANNEL LAYER SURFACE * |
GM01 | GM02 | GM04 | GM05 | GM06 | GM07 | GM08 | GM09 | GM10 | ||
| . Single semiconductor layers * | . . Group IV * | . . Group III-V * | . . . Gallium arsenide (GaAs) | . . . Gallium aluminium arsenide (GaAlAs) | . Non-doped layers or high-resistance layers | . Multilayered structures including superlattices * | . having non-uniform impurity concentrations | . having non-uniform compositions e.g. band gaps | ||||
| GN | GN00 SURFACE SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER, I.E. LAYER ARRANGED IN A POSITION HIGHER THAN THAT OF A GATE METAL ELECTRODE BOTTOM * |
GN01 | GN02 | GN04 | GN05 | GN06 | GN07 | GN08 | GN09 | GN10 | ||
| . Single semiconductor layers * | . . Group IV * | . . Group III-V * | . . . Gallium arsenide (GaAs) | . . . Gallium aluminium arsenide (GaAlAs) | . Non-doped layers or high resistance layers | . Multilayered structures including superlattices * | . having non-uniform impurity concentrations | . having non-uniform compositions e.g. band gaps | ||||
| GQ | GQ00 APPLYING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CARRIER LAYER NEAR HETEROJUNCTION FOR CONDUCTIVE PATH (H) * |
GQ01 | GQ02 | GQ03 | GQ04 | GQ05 | GQ06 | GQ08 | GQ09 | GQ10 | ||
| . Single heterostructures | . . having electron supply layers beneath channel layers | . Double heterostructures | . . forming square well potential | . Multilayer heterostructures | . . One two-dimensional carrier layer for two heterojunctions | . forming carrier layers in one-dimension e.g. linear carrier layers | . using holes as carriers | . flowing currents vertically to two-dimensional carrier layers | ||||
| GR | GR00 ELEMENT STRUCTURE * |
GR01 | GR03 | GR04 | GR06 | GR07 | GR08 | GR09 | GR10 | |||
| . selecting crystal axes or plane orientation for forming elements | . Channel layer surfaces not being flat | . . Recess structures | . having additional regions in semiconductor substrates | . . Impurity regions | . . . Well regions | . . Insulation regions including high-resistance regions | . . Layers serving as etching stoppers | |||||
| GR11 | GR12 | GR13 | GR15 | GR16 | GR17 | |||||||
| . asymmetrical | . . having different distances between source (S)-gate (G) electrodes and drain (D)-gate (G) electrodes | . . Shapes or impurity concentrations being different for sources and drains | . characterised by impurity profiles or shapes of the source or drain | . . LDD structures i.e. intermediate concentration regions between the concentration regions and channels | . Sources and drains composed of semiconductor materials different from those of channels | |||||||
| GS | GS00 GATE STRUCTURE * |
GS01 | GS02 | GS03 | GS04 | GS05 | GS06 | GS07 | GS08 | GS09 | GS10 | |
| . Multilayered structures | . . Three or more layers | . characterised by cross-sections | . . having upper parts being wider than the bottom e.g. T-shape | . . having lower parts being wider than the upper parts | . . left-right asymmetrical | . characterised by plane shapes | . . ring-shaped | . . comb-shaped or serpentine | . . Lattices | |||
| GT | GT00 SCHOTTKY CONTACT MATERIAL, OR GATE BOTTOM LAYER (M) |
GT01 | GT02 | GT03 | GT04 | GT05 | GT06 | GT07 | GT08 | GT10 | ||
| . Metals | . . Aluminium (Al) | . . Metals with high-melting point e.g. molybdenum (Mo) titanium (Ti) tantalum (Ta) tungsten (W) chromium (Cr) niobium (Nb) hafnium (Hf) vanadium (V) zirconium (Zr) | . . Alloys * | . Silicides | . Nitrides | . Semiconductors | . . polycrystalline or porous | . Others * | ||||
| GV | GV00 OTHER STRUCTURES * |
GV01 | GV02 | GV03 | GV05 | GV06 | GV07 | GV08 | GV09 | |||
| . using spaced wiring | . using superconductors for electrodes or wiring | . Bonding pad structures | . forming surface protective films | . . Multilayered structures | . . Silicon dioxide (SiO2) films | . . Trisilicon tetranitride (Si3N4) films | . . Native oxides or surface oxide films | |||||
| HA | HA00 SELF-ALIGNING (I) * |
HA01 | HA02 | HA03 | HA04 | HA05 | HA06 | |||||
| . Gate electrodes being masks | . . forming source or drain regions | . . forming source or drain electrodes | . Dummy gates being masks | . . forming source or drain regions | . . forming source or drain electrodes | |||||||
| HA11 | HA12 | HA13 | HA14 | HA15 | HA20 | |||||||
| . Source or drain electrodes or deposited layers being masks | . . forming channels | . . forming recesses | . . forming gate electrodes | . . forming dummy gates | . using masks having predetermined positions for forming gates sources or drains | |||||||
| HB | HB00 SELF-ALIGNING II; FORMING MULTIPLE ELEMENTS * |
HB01 | HB02 | HB03 | HB04 | HB05 | HB06 | HB07 | HB08 | HB09 | HB10 | |
| . Simultaneous formation (Additional classification is made in the relevant place selected from HB03-HB10.) | . formed by the same mask (Additional classification is made in the relevant place selected from HB03-HB10.) | . Parts to be formed | . . Channels | . . Recesses | . . Gate impurity regions e.g. pn junction gates | . . Gate electrodes | . . Source and drain regions | . . Source and drain electrodes | . . Dummy gates | |||
| HC | HC00 INDIVIDUAL PROCESS * |
HC01 | HC02 | HC03 | HC04 | HC05 | HC06 | HC07 | HC08 | HC09 | HC10 | |
| . Epitaxial growth e.g. molecular beam epitaxy MOCVD | . . Selective epitaxial growth including filling grooves by epitaxial growth | . . simultaneously forming single crystals and polycrystals | . delta doped or planar doped | . Diffusion or solid state diffusion | . . using lateral diffusion | . Ion implantation | . . in oblique or specific directions | . . using transmissive masks or non-uniform masking capabilities | . . forming insulating layers or high-resistance layers | |||
| HC11 | HC12 | HC13 | HC15 | HC16 | HC17 | HC18 | HC19 | HC20 | ||||
| . Vapour deposition or sputtering | . . from oblique directions (K) | . . using step disconnections during vapour deposition | . Etching | . . anisotropic or directional | . . using overetching or side etching | . forming sidewalls or leaving deposited parts on projection sides | . Lift-off | . forming reverse masks | ||||
| HC21 | HC22 | HC23 | HC24 | HC26 | HC27 | HC29 | HC30 | |||||
| . Heat treatment e.g. annealing | . . Local annealing e.g. laser or electron beam irradiation | . . softening resists or glass | . . alloying or siliciding | . Anodisation | . producing porosity | . characterised by exposure | . Plating |