Method for producing an electronic device by assembling semi-conducting blocks and corresponding device
View Patent ↗At least three electrically conducting blocks are disposed within an isolating region; and at least two of them are mutually separated and capacitively coupled by a part of the isolating region. At least two of them, being semiconductor, have opposite types of conductivity or identical types of conductivity, but with different concentrations of dopants, and these are in mutual contact by one of their sides. The mutual arrangement of these blocks within the isolating region, their type of conductivity and their concentration of dopants form at least one electronic module. Some of the blocks define input and output blocks.
1. An electronic device comprising:
a substrate; and
a plurality of transistors in said substrate, each transistor comprising
an isolating region,
a drain block,
a source block,
a channel block between said drain and source blocks, and
a gate block being laterally spaced apart from and laterally outside of said drain, channel, and source blocks and being capacitively coupled by a part of the isolating region to said drain, channel, and source blocks,
said gate, drain, channel, and source blocks each having coplanar lowermost planar surfaces and coplanar uppermost planar surfaces,
at least two of the drain, channel, and source blocks having different semiconductor properties and being in mutual contact by one of their sides, the different semiconductor properties comprising at least one of different conductivity types or different dopant concentrations.
2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the gate, drain, and source blocks comprise respective electrical contact tap zones.
3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein at least some of the blocks comprise a monocrystalline semiconductor structure.
4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein at least some of the blocks comprise a polycrystalline semiconductor structure.
5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one part the isolating region comprises a field oxide filled trench.
6. An electronic device comprising:
a substrate; and
a plurality of logic circuits in said substrate, each logic circuit comprising
an isolating region,
a first resistor block,
a second resistor block, and
a control block being laterally spaced apart from and laterally outside of said first and second resistor blocks and being capacitively coupled by a part of the isolating region to said first and second resistor blocks,
said control, and first and second resistor blocks each having coplanar lowermost planar surfaces and coplanar uppermost planar surfaces,
at least two of the control, and first and second resistor blocks having different semiconductor properties and being in mutual contact by one of their sides, the different semiconductor properties comprising at least one of different conductivity types or different dopant concentrations.
7. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein at least some of the blocks comprise a monocrystalline semiconductor structure.
8. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein at least some of the blocks comprise a polycrystalline semiconductor structure.
9. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein at least one part the isolating region comprises a field oxide filled trench.
10. An electronic device comprising:
a substrate; and
a plurality of inverters in said substrate, each inverter comprising
an isolating region,
a drain block,
a source block,
a channel block between said drain and source blocks, and
a gate block being laterally spaced apart from and laterally outside of said drain, channel, and source blocks and being capacitively coupled by a part of the isolating region to said drain, channel, and source blocks,
said gate, drain, channel, and source blocks each having coplanar lowermost planar surfaces and coplanar uppermost planar surfaces,
at least two of the drain, channel, and source blocks having different semiconductor properties and being in mutual contact by one of their sides, the different semiconductor properties comprising at least one of different conductivity types or different dopant concentrations.
11. The electronic device according to claim 10 , wherein at least some of the blocks comprise a monocrystalline semiconductor structure.
12. The electronic device according to claim 10 , wherein at least some of the blocks comprise a polycrystalline semiconductor structure.
13. The electronic device according to claim 10 , wherein at least one part the isolating region comprises a field oxide filled trench.