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Methods are provided for forming uniformly thin layers in magnetic devices. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) can produce layers that are uniformly thick on an atomic scale. Magnetic tunnel junction dielectrics, for example, can be provided with perfect uniformity in thickness of 4 monolayers or less. Furthermore, conductive layers, including magnetic and non-magnetic layers, can be provided by ALD without spiking and other non-uniformity problems. The disclosed methods include forming metal oxide layers by multiple cycles of ALD and subsequently reducing the oxides to metal. The oxides tend to maintain more stable interfaces during formation.

A III-nitride device includes a recessed electrode to produce a nominally off, or an enhancement mode, device. By providing a recessed electrode, a conduction channel formed at the interface of two III-nitride materials is interrupted when the electrode contact is inactive to prevent current flow in the device. The electrode can be a schottky contact or an insulated metal contact. Two ohmic contacts can be provided to form a rectifier device with nominally off characteristics. The recesses formed with the electrode can have sloped sides. The electrode can be formed in a number of geometries in conjunction with current carrying electrodes of the device. A nominally on device, or pinch resistor, is formed when the electrode is not recessed. A diode is also formed by providing non-recessed ohmic and schottky contacts through an insulator to an AlGaN layer.

A semiconductor device has: a buffer layer formed on a conductive substrate and made of Al_xGa_1-xN with a high resistance; an element-forming layer formed on the buffer layer, having a channel layer, and made of undoped GaN and N-type Al_yGa_1-yN; and a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode which are selectively formed on the element-forming layer. The source electrode is filled in a through hole provided in the buffer layer and the element-forming layer, and is thus electrically connected to the conductive substrate.

A preamplifier having extremely high input impedance amplifies the electrical signal output from an electret condenser microphone (ECM) without suffering from the effects of a DC leakage current at the input. The preamplifier circuit includes a pair of cross-coupled PN junction diodes setting the input impedance, a PMOS device, and a load resistor configured similarly to a conventional preamplifier. A capacitor is placed between the input and the cross-coupled diodes such that a DC path no longer exists to bias the cross-coupled diodes. Therefore, leakage currents are prevented from upsetting the DC operating point of the preamplifier and biasing the cross-coupled diodes. Consequently, small signal gain distortion, excessive demodulation products and increased noise can be avoided.

The invention is a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes buried bitlines in a semiconductor substrate. Additionally, doped regions are formed adjacent the buried bitlines. The doped regions adjacent the buried bitlines inhibit a leakage current between the buried bitlines.

A pressure-sensitive capacitive sensor includes a sensing unit in which a plurality of column wires and a plurality of row wires are formed in a matrix, a detecting signal generator, and filters. Capacitances at intersections between the column wires and the row wires change in accordance with externally applied pressure. The detecting signal generator sequentially outputs pulse signals of a predetermined frequency to the column wires of the sensing unit. The filters are connected to the respective row wires of the sensing unit and extract amplitudes of signals of the predetermined frequency. The amplitude is proportional to the capacitance at the intersection.

A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element suppresses leakage currents and non-radiative recombination centers by providing, as an underlying layer of the active layer, a pit formation layer that reliably generates pits, while maintaining a good film quality, so that the internal quantum efficiency is improved, and the light-emitting characteristics are also improved. A nitride semiconductor lamination portion including at least an active layer for forming a light-emitting portion is present on a substrate, and a pit formation layer is formed as a superlattice layer of nitride semiconductor on the side of the substrate of the active layer. The pit formation layer generates pits in the end portions of threading dislocations that are generated in the nitride semiconductor layer on the side of the substrate.

An apparatus and method for operating an array of NOR connected flash nonvolatile memory cells erases the array in increments of a page, block, sector, or the entire array while minimizing sub-threshold leakage current through unselected nonvolatile memory cells. The apparatus has a row decoder circuit and a source decoder circuit for selecting the nonvolatile memory cells for providing biasing conditions for reading, programming, verifying, and erasing the selected nonvolatile memory cells while minimizing sub-threshold leakage current through unselected nonvolatile memory cells.

This display module prevents the leakage current generated between a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer that constitute a pixel via an organic light emitting layer and obtains uniform luminance. An interlayer insulation layer ILI is provided between an edge of a first electrode layer AD and an organic light emitting layer OLE that constitute the pixel and the distance between the edge and a second electrode layer CD is secured sufficiently. Further, the interlayer insulation layer ILI is coated with a resin material having fluidity and flatness is improved as a whole. An aperture that accommodates the organic light emitting layer OLE is formed in this interlayer insulation layer ILI and the coated organic light emitting layer OLE is formed in uniform thickness and through a necessary and sufficient spread.

The invention is a semiconductor device and a method of forming the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate; buried bitlines formed in the substrate narrower than achievable at a resolution limit of lithography; a doped region formed adjacent at least one of the buried bitlines; a charge trapping layer disposed over the substrate; and a conductive layer disposed over the charge trapping layer, wherein the doped region adjacent the least one of the buried bitlines inhibits a leakage current between the buried bitlines.

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 the first semiconductor region and forming a heterojunction with the first semiconductor region.

A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel effectively minimizing light leakage current and a liquid crystal display including the same. The panel includes a transistor structure having a gate electrode formed on an insulating substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on and insulated from the gate electrode; a light blocking layer formed around and overlapping a portion of the gate electrode; a data line intersecting the gate line to form a source electrode, which overlaps a portion of the semiconductor layer; a drain electrode opposing to the source electrode and overlapping a portion of the semiconductor layer, and a pixel electrode formed on and insulated from the transistor structure and electrically connected to the drain electrode.

A new TFT arrangement is demonstrated, which enables prevention of TFT to be formed over a joint portion between the adjacent SOI layers prepared by the process including the separation of a thin single crystal semiconductor layer from a semiconductor wafer. The TFT arrangement is characterized by the structure where a plurality of TFTs each belonging to different pixels is gathered and arranged close to an intersection portion of a scanning line and a signal line. This structure allows the distance between regions, which are provided with the plurality of TFTs, to be extremely large compared with the distance between adjacent TFTs in the conventional TFT arrangement in which all TFTs are arranged in at a regular interval. The formation of a TFT over the joint portion can be avoided by the present arrangement, which leads to the formation of a display device with a negligible amount of display defects.

An ESD protective circuit protects an input or output of a monolithically integrated circuit. The ESD protective circuit has at least one bipolar transistor structure and one ESD protective element between two supply networks. The emitter of the bipolar transistor structure is electrically connected to the input or output, while the base is electrically connected to one of the two supply networks. The collector produces a current signal, which is used for triggering of the ESD protective element, when an ESD load occurs at the input or output.

A method of manufacturing a transistor according to some embodiments includes sequentially forming a dummy gate oxide layer and a dummy gate electrode on an active region of a semiconductor substrate, ion-implanting a first conductive impurity into source/drain regions to form first impurity regions, and ion-implanting the first conductive impurity to form second impurity regions that are overlapped by the first impurity regions. The method includes forming a pad polysilicon layer on the source/drain regions, sequentially removing the pad polysilicon layer and the dummy gate electrode from a gate region of the semiconductor substrate, annealing the semiconductor substrate, and ion-implanting a second conductive impurity to form a third impurity region in the gate region. The method includes removing the dummy gate oxide layer, forming a gate insulation layer, and forming a gate electrode on the gate region.

A semiconductor memory device accessed with wordlines and bitlines has memory cells which operate at high performance with lower power consumption and have a high density. Each of the memory cells has pass transistors connected to a corresponding wordline and a corresponding pair of bitlines, and the pass transistors are gated by a signal of the corresponding wordline. The semiconductor memory device includes a wordline drive unit for selectively driving the wordlines in response to a row address. A wordline driver in the wordline drive unit boosts a corresponding wordline in a positive direction when the corresponding wordline is activated to access the memory cell and boosts the corresponding wordline in a negative direction when the corresponding wordline is inactive. By boosting the wordline in the positive direction, the performance of the memory cells is enhanced, and by boosting the wordline in the negative direction, a leakage current in the pass transistors with a low-threshold voltage is prevented.

The invention provides a manufacture method of an array substrate, the array substrate and a display device. A display region of the array substrate comprises a gate line, a data line and a plurality of pixel units. A non-display region comprises a gate bonding pad and a data bonding pad. Each of the pixel units comprises a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The pixel electrode is connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor. The common electrode comprises a first common electrode arranged above the pixel electrode and a second common electrode arranged above the data line. A protective film is arranged between a common electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer. An inorganic insulating film and an organic insulating film are arranged between the pixel electrode and the data line and between the thin film transistor and the protective film, respectively. The inorganic insulating film is formed above the data line, a source and the drain of the thin film transistor, and a semiconductor layer of a channel region, and the organic insulating film is arranged above the inorganic insulating film. The invention can reduce signal delay on the data line, and prevent generation of leakage current in the thin film transistor at a high temperature.

The invention pertains to an organic light emitting diode (LED) comprising a transparent electrode, superposed by a layer of a conductive transparent polymer (CTP), superposed by a layer of a light emitting polymer, oligomer, or low molecular weight compound superposed by a metal cathode, characterized in that the CTP layer has a sulfate ion content of less than 7,500 ppm, and a metal ion content of more than 0.04 mmoles/g.

The invention relates to a color film base plate and a manufacturing method thereof. The color film base plate comprises a first black matrix, color resin, a protecting layer and a common electrode which are formed on a base plate, wherein a second black matrix for preventing the reflecting light of the first black matrix from projecting into an array base plate TFT (Thin Film Transistor) channel region is formed on the protecting layer. The manufacturing method of the color film base plate comprises the following steps of: forming a pattern comprising the first black matrix and the color resin on the base plate; forming a pattern comprising the protecting layer and the second black matrix; and forming a pattern comprising the common electrode. By mounting two layers of black matrix patterns, the second black matrix can effectively block the reflecting light reflected from the surface of the first black matrix, which enables the reflecting light reflected from the surface of the first black matrix not to project into the TFT channel region, thereby effectively avoiding the generation of leakage current, improving the retention rate and contrast ratio of voltage at maximum, and enhancing the quality of a liquid crystal display.