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US 2017/0372941 A1Published application
Methods Of Forming One Or More Covered Voids In A Semiconductor Substrate
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorDavid H. Wells
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Abstract
Some embodiments include methods of forming voids within semiconductor constructions. In some embodiments the voids may be utilized as microstructures for distributing coolant, for guiding electromagnetic radiation, or for separation and/or characterization of materials. Some embodiments include constructions having micro-structures therein which correspond to voids, conduits, insulative structures, semiconductor structures or conductive structures.
Claims21
1-105. (canceled)
A method of forming a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, comprising:
- providing a base region of a base substrate, a silicon-containing semiconductor region over the base region, and an insulative layer over the silicon-containing semiconductor region;
- etching trenches into the insulative layer to the silicon-containing semiconductor region;
- selectively growing relative to the insulative layer a bridging material over the insulative layer effective to bridge across the trenches with bridging material and form covered elongated trenches;
- providing a release region intermediate the silicon-containing semiconductor region and the base region of the base substrate;
- at an interface of the release region and the silicon-containing semiconductor region, separating a) the base region and release region from b) the silicon-containing semiconductor region, the insulative layer with the elongated covered trenches, and the bridging material;
- forming first field effect transistor gates within the covered trench voids;
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- forming second field effect transistor gates opposite the first field effect transistor gates over the silicon-containing semiconductor region, and forming field effect transistor channel regions within material of the silicon-containing semiconductor region received between the first and second field effect transistor gates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.