Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
144 words
A PROCESS FOR MAKING A FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR HAVING A SHORT CHANNEL LENGTH WHICH INCLUDES PROVIDING A LAYER OF SILICON DOPED WITH AN IMPURITY WHICH CAN BE GETTERED, COATING THE SURFACE THEREOF WITH A PROTECTIVE COVERING, ETCHING SELECTED PORTIONS OF THE PROTECTIVE COVERING AWAY TO LEAVE DEWRTAIN EXPOSED AREAS, COVERING THE EXPOSED AREAS WITH A LAYER OF GETTERING MATERIAL, THEREBY GATTERING THE REGION BELOW THE GETTERING LAYER TO REDUCE THE DOPING CONCENTRATION IN SUCH REGIONS, REMOVING PORTIONS OF THE GETTERING LAYER ABOVE THE SPACED LOW DOPANT REGIONS WHILE LEAVING A PORTION OF THE REMAINING PROTECTIVE COVERING AND A PORTION OF THE GETTERING LAYER LYING IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THE REMAINING PROTECTIVE COVERING, DIFFUSING A DOPANT OF THE OPPOSITE IMPURITY TYPE INTO THE SAID LOW DOPANT REGIONS TO FORM SOURCE AND DRAIN REGIONS RESPECTIVELY, REMOVING THE REMAINING PROTECTIVE COVERING WHILE LEAVING THE REMAINING GETTERING LAYER, COVERING THE
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
144 words
A PROCESS FOR MAKING A FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR HAVING A SHORT CHANNEL LENGTH WHICH INCLUDES PROVIDING A LAYER OF SILICON DOPED WITH AN IMPURITY WHICH CAN BE GETTERED, COATING THE SURFACE THEREOF WITH A PROTECTIVE COVERING, ETCHING SELECTED PORTIONS OF THE PROTECTIVE COVERING AWAY TO LEAVE DEWRTAIN EXPOSED AREAS, COVERING THE EXPOSED AREAS WITH A LAYER OF GETTERING MATERIAL, THEREBY GATTERING THE REGION BELOW THE GETTERING LAYER TO REDUCE THE DOPING CONCENTRATION IN SUCH REGIONS, REMOVING PORTIONS OF THE GETTERING LAYER ABOVE THE SPACED LOW DOPANT REGIONS WHILE LEAVING A PORTION OF THE REMAINING PROTECTIVE COVERING AND A PORTION OF THE GETTERING LAYER LYING IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THE REMAINING PROTECTIVE COVERING, DIFFUSING A DOPANT OF THE OPPOSITE IMPURITY TYPE INTO THE SAID LOW DOPANT REGIONS TO FORM SOURCE AND DRAIN REGIONS RESPECTIVELY, REMOVING THE REMAINING PROTECTIVE COVERING WHILE LEAVING THE REMAINING GETTERING LAYER, COVERING THE
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
17 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the silicon layer is a piece of bulk silicon.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the layer of silicon is a layer which has been epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
18 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the silicon layer is formed on an electrically insulating substrate.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
13 words
A process according to claim 4, in which the insulating substrate is spinel.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
13 words
A process according to claim 4, in which the insulating substrate is sapphire.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
18 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the gettering layer is a pyrolytically deposited silicon nitride layer.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
18 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the gettering layer is a layer of thermic silicon oxide.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
14 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the electrodes are formed of aluminum.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
14 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the electrodes are formed of molybdenum.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
17 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the electrodes are formed of highly doped polycrystalline silicon.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
16 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the impurity in the silicon layer is boron.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
16 words
A process according to claim 1, in which the impurity in the silicon layer is aluminum.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
36 words
A process according to claim 3, in which the impurity is aluminum, and in which these impurities are diffused from the substrate into the silicon layer during the application of the silicon layer on the substrate.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
36 words
A process according to claim 4, in which the impurity is aluminum, and in which these impurities are diffused from the substrate into the silicon layer during the application of the silicon layer on the substrate.