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Specialty ceramic materials which resist corrosion/erosion under semiconductor processing conditions which employ a corrosive/erosive plasma. The corrosive plasma may be a halogen-containing plasma. The specialty ceramic materials have been modified to provide a controlled electrical resistivity which suppresses plasma arcing potential.

A programmable resistor memory, such as a phase change memory, with a memory element comprising narrow vertical side wall active pins is described. The side wall active pins comprise a programmable resistive material, such as a phase change material. In a first aspect of the invention, a method of forming a memory cell is described which comprises forming a stack comprising a first electrode having a principal surface with a perimeter, an insulating layer overlying a portion of the principal surface of the first electrode, and a second electrode vertically separated from the first electrode and overlying the insulating layer. Side walls on the insulating layer and on the second electrode are positioned over the principle surface of the first electrode with a lateral offset from the perimeter of the first electrode.

An organic electroluminescent device includes an anode electrode layer; a cathode electrode layer opposed to the anode electrode layer; a hole injection layer provided adjacent to the anode electrode layer an organic structure including at least one light-emissive layer_or at least one light-emissive unit having at least one light-emissive layer; between the anode electrode layer and the cathode electrode layer. At least one of the anode electrode layer and the cathode electrode layer is transparent. The hole injection layer includes a mixed layer of a metal oxide and an organic compound. The mixed layer is formed upon co-deposition of the metal oxide and the organic compound.

A wireless communications system optimizes performance by dividing communications functionality between a wireless pacemaker and a wireless monitoring base station according to the design constraints imposed by the system elements. Typical design constraints include high frequency operation, low pacemaker power consumption, reasonable range, high data rate, minimal RF radiation of internal circuitry, small pacemaker antenna system, simple pacemaker RF circuit design, high reliability, low pacemaker cost, and use of existing pacemaker construction methodologies.

To provide a resistance element having an electric resistance body with excellent stability and a method of manufacturing the same. The resistance element includes an electric resistance body, on a base body surface, consisting of a carbon nanotube structure layer 14, which configures a mesh structure in which at least plural carbon nanotubes are cross-linked to one another. The method of manufacturing the resistance element includes: an applying step of applying the base body surface 12 with a liquid solution containing carbon nanotubes having functional groups; and a cross-linking step of forming the carbon nanotube structure layer 14, used as an electric resistance body, that configures a mesh structure in which the plural carbon nanotubes are cross-linked to one another through curing of the liquid solution after application.

An adsorbent composition for removing mercury from a flue gas stream, and a method of its use. The composition is a powdered activated carbon having at least one of a halogen-containing component and an alkaline component dispersed thereon. A flow agent can be composited with the material to maintain flowability in situ.

Provided are a substrate processing apparatus and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device which are able to form a conductive film, which is dense, includes a low concentration of source-derived impurities and has low resistivity, at a higher film-forming rate. The substrate processing apparatus includes a processing chamber configured to stack and accommodate a plurality of substrates; a first processing gas supply system configured to supply a first processing gas into the processing chamber; a second processing gas supply system configured to supply a second processing gas into the processing chamber; and a control unit configured to control the first processing gas supply system and the second processing gas supply system. Here, at least one of the first processing gas supply system and the second processing gas supply system includes two nozzles which are vertically arranged in a stacking direction of the substrates and have different shapes, and the control unit is configured to supply at least one of the first processing gas and the second processing gas into the processing chamber through the two nozzles having different shapes when films are formed on the substrates by supplying the first processing gas and the second processing gas into the processing chamber at pulses having different film-forming rates.

A tungsten nucleation film is formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate by alternatively providing to that surface, reducing gases and tungsten-containing gases. Each cycle of the method provides for one or more monolayers of the tungsten film. The film is conformal and has improved step coverage, even for a high aspect ratio contact hole.

The present invention relates to a method of forming a metal-nitride film onto a surface of an object to be processed in a processing container in which a vacuum can be created. The method of the invention includes: a step of continuously supplying an inert gas into a processing container set at a high film-forming temperature; and a step of intermittently supplying a metal-source gas into the processing container, during the step of continuously supplying the inert gas. During the step of intermittently supplying the metal-source gas, a nitrogen-including reduction gas is supplied into the processing container at the same time that the metal-source gas is supplied, during a supply term of the metal-source gas. The nitrogen-including reduction gas is also supplied into the processing container for a term shorter than a non-supply term of the metal-source gas, during the non-supply term of the metal-source gas. A film thickness of the metal-nitride film formed during the one supply term of the metal-source gas is not more than 60 nm. According to the invention, although the film-forming process is conducted at a relatively high temperature, a metal-nitride film can be deposited whose chlorine density is low, whose resistivity is low, and in which fewer cracks may be generated.

According to the nitride semiconductor device with the active layer made of the multiple quantum well structure of the present invention, the performance of the multiple quantum well structure can be brought out to intensify the luminous output thereof thereby contributing an expanded application of the nitride semiconductor device. In the nitride semiconductor device comprises an n-region having a plurality of nitride semiconductor films, a p-region having a plurality of nitride semiconductor films, and an active layer interposed therebetween, a multi-film layer with two kinds of the nitride semiconductor films is formed in at least one of the n-region or the p-region.

A non-volatile memory device has a channel region between source/drain regions, a floating gate, a control gate, a first dielectric region between the channel region and the floating gate, and a second dielectric region between the floating gate and the control gate. The first dielectric region includes a high-K material. The non-volatile memory device is programmed and/or erased by transferring charge between the floating gate and the control gate via the second dielectric region.

A thin-film transistor array includes an electrically insulating substrate, a plurality of thin-film transistors arranged in a matrix on the substrate, and each including a channel, a source, and a drain each comprised of an oxide-semiconductor film, a pixel electrode integrally formed with the drain, a source signal line through which a source signal is transmitted to a group of thin-film transistors, a gate signal line through which a gate signal is transmitted to a group of thin-film transistors, a source terminal formed at an end of the source signal line, and a gate terminal formed at an end of the gate signal line. The source terminal and the gate terminal are formed in the same layer as a layer in which the channel is formed. The source terminal and the gate terminal have the same electric conductivity as that of the pixel electrode.

The invention relates to a graphene composite material and a preparation method thereof. The graphene composite material provided by the invention is characterized in that a graphene material plate fixed on a metallic matrix serves as a carrier, and the elementary substance and/or a compound are compounded on the graphene surface. Meanwhile, the invention also discloses a method for preparing the graphene composite material. The graphene composite material prepared by the invention is opened between graphene sheets and is compounded with a chemical substance under the condition that a space body structure is formed, and the obtained material has high conductivity, high specific surface area and excellent performance of low electrical resistivity between the sheets, and can be widely applied to the fields of energy storage materials such as lithium ion batteries, super-capacitors, super lead carbon batteries, super nickel-carbon electrodes, solar energy and fuel cells, the field of heat dissipation materials, the field of environment-friendly adsorbing materials, the field of sea water desalination materials, the field of photoelectric sensor materials, the biological relevance field, the field of catalyst materials and the fields of conductive ink and coating materials.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a high-uniformity Nb-doped TiO2 transparent conducting thin film through atomic layer deposition in the technical field of semiconductor photoelectric materials. According to the method, a substrate which is subjected to ultrasonic cleaning and nitrogen blowing-drying is heated; titanium tetrachloride, niobium tris(ethylmethylamido)-tert-butylimino and high purity water serve as precursor sources; and deposition combination is cycled for multiple times, so that the high-uniformity Nb-doped TiO2 transparent conducting thin film is prepared. The transparent conducting thin film prepared through the method is excellent in performance; the refractive index is 2.3 or above; the electrical resistivity can reach 2.9*10<4> omega.cm at a minimum; and at this moment, the light transmittance is still 85% or above.

A method of making a nonvolatile memory device includes fabricating a diode in a low resistivity, programmed state without an electrical programming step. The memory device includes at least one memory cell. The memory cell is constituted by the diode and electrically conductive electrodes contacting the diode.

A memory cell comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a composite material. The composite material electrically couples the first electrode to the second electrode. Moreover, the composite material comprises a phase change material and a resistor material. At least a portion of the phase change material is operative to switch between a substantially crystalline phase and a substantially amorphous phase in response to an application of a switching signal to at least one of the first and second electrodes. In addition, the resistor material has a resistivity lower than that of the phase change material when the phase change material is in the substantially amorphous phase.