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Acknowledgement letter sample for Receipt of Resume
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Name Surname
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RE: Resume ID: [Enter Nr.]
Dear Ms. Mr. [Last Name]
With this letter we hereby acknowledge receipt of your resume. We highly appreciate your interest to work in [NAME] Company. Our HR experts have assessed your application, and noted your impressive educational and professional background. Hence, at the moment there are no openings suitable for your career profile. As you probably noted on our website [NAME] Company does not accept unsolicited applications. However, we anticipate in line with current business growth we might have an opening in January that might suit your professional background.
Please note that [NAME] company does not keep records of submitted resumes, and unsolicited applications are being destroyed. Therefore we advise you to constantly follow career section of our website for new openings. Once position you find interesting is open, feel free to submit your resume, along with application letter.
Once again we would like to thank you for a shown interest to work with us.
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Acknowledgement of receipt letter template
ZIP, State
Name Surname
City ZIP
[Month DD, YEAR]
RE: Case No. [enter No.]
Dear [Add Name],
With this letter we hereby acknowledge receipt of {Offer / Complaint / Appeal / Request for Information] you have submitted on [Date] to [Name of Company / Institution].
Your letter has been forwarded to respective department, and they shall proceed immediately with inquiries in an effort to [consider your offer / meet complaint / resolve appeal / disseminate information] in accordance with your letter. You will be duly informed regarding progress of procedure.
Having in mind complexity of internal procedures, you shall receive written response to your {Offer / Complaint / Appeal / Information] with 30 days.
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[Company / Institution]
Sample of Acknowledgement for the NGO Project report
This project consumed huge amount of work, research and dedication. Still, implementation would not have been possible if we did not have a support of many individuals and organizations. Therefore we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all of them.
First of all we are thankful to [Name of the Organization - donor] for their financial and logistical support and for providing necessary guidance concerning projects implementation.
We are also grateful to [Name of the Organization – agency, consultancy] for provision of expertise, and technical support in the implementation. Without their superior knowledge and experience, the Project would like in quality of outcomes, and thus their support has been essential.
We would like to express our sincere thanks towards volunteer researchers who devoted their time and knowledge in the implementation of this project.
Nevertheless, we express our gratitude toward our families and colleagues for their kind co-operation and encouragement which help us in completion of this project.
Bachelor thesis acknowledgement example
Prima facea, I am grateful to the God for the good health and wellbeing that were necessary to complete this book.
I wish to express my sicere thanks to [………], Principal of the Faculty, for providing me with all the necessary facilities for the research.
I place on record, my sincere thank you to […….] Dean of the Faculty, for the continuos encouragement.
I am also grateful to […….], lecturer, in the Department of […….]. I am extremly thankful and indebted to him for sharing expertise, and sincere and valuable guidance and encouragement extended to me.
I take this opportunity to express gratitude to all of the Department faculty members for their help and support. I also thank my parents for the unceasin encouragement, support and attention. I am also grateful to my partner who supported me throught this venture.
I also place on record, my sense of gratitude to one and all, who directly or indirectly, have lemt their hand in this venture.
Acknowledgement sample for a research paper
This research was supported/partially supported by [Name of Foundation, Grant maker, Donor]. We thank our colleagues from [Name of the supporting institution] who provided insight and expertise that greatly assisted the research, although they may not agree with all of the interpretations/conclusions of this paper.
We thank [Name Surname, title] for assistance with [particular technique, methodology], and [Name Surname, position, institution name] for comments that greatly improved the manuscript.
We would also like to show our gratitude to the (Name Surname, title, institution) for sharing their pearls of wisdom with us during the course of this research, and we thank 3 "anonymous" reviewers for their so-called insights. We are also immensely grateful to (List names and positions) for their comments on an earlier version of the manuscript, although any errors are our own and should not tarnish the reputations of these esteemed persons.
Acknowledgements of Funds Received
Mr/Ms Name Surname
RE: Receiving of funds for the Project "[Name of the project]"
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is acknowledge that we received USD ________ [enter amount received in written] from [Name of the company] in cash for the implementation of the Project "[Name of the project]".
Donation receipt along with letter of thanks will be conveyed soon to your postal address. However, I would like to thank you once again on behalf of our Foundation for your support and continuous commitment for the noble cause of [Name of the Trust Fund].
In case of any query feel free to contact us any time.
[Name Surname]
[Company name]
Writing acknowledgement in scientific papers and publications
As you already know acknowledgement stands for formal statement recognizing individuals and institutions that made certain contribution to you work. However not everyone who supported you should be acknowledged in the scientific work, instead you should only quote those that contributed directly to your research. Acknowledgement should be just simple statement of gratitude, not dedication or very emotional testimonial. Therefore you should mention following persons/institutions:
- Those who provided scientific guidance,
- Those who shared unpublished results
- Persons that provided you facilities / equipment
- Persons which have participated in the discussions
- Technicians, lab assistants
- Students
- Funding agency, grant number, institution
Having in mind specific scientific setting, it is not appropriate and common to acknowledge the work of:
1. Pre-press operators – graphic designers
2. Persons who provided emotional support
3. Other individuals whose support was non-technical
When quoting individuals whose contribution you intend to acknowledge only use their names without titles. For example write only John Smith, instead Professor John Smith, Chair in IT management department.
Acknowledgement sample of Receipt of Estimate
Name Surname
City ZIP
[Day / Month / Year]
RE: Acknowledgement of Receipt of Estimate
Dear [Add Name]
In regard to your proposal from DD-MM-YYYY, we hereby acknowledge the receipt of Estimate. We would like to let you know that we have carefully reviewed your estimate on the toilet reconstruction. Having in mind your offer we intend to contract you for this work.
Due to comprehensive administrative procedures governing contracting we cannot sign the contract in this particular moment. However, when we receive expense approval from our HQ office, we will be able to proceed with this activity.
Usually expense approval is being issued within 30 days from the day of request submission. Therefore you can expect to finalization of contracting within 45 days from today. In the meantime we will contact you with instructions accordingly. In a case we do not receive positive response on our request, we may ask you to make certain amendments in your Estimate.
Bearing in mind above stated, please inform us whether proposed schedule suits you. If we may be of any assistance in the meantime please feel free to contact this office.
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What to write in acknowledgement?
Many of you have asked us this question. Although we have posted numerous samples of acknowledgement for assignment, project, thesis, we feel we need to clarify a bit deeper what should acknowledgement include.
Disregarding purpose acknowledgement is being written for, i.e., thesis, project, assignment, acknowledgement should provide authors statement that declares something to be factual, true, valuable or appreciated, or in the end instance genuine. With acknowledgement in reports you express your gratitude to the person or institution for the valuable contributions in the implementation of the project, or if you write acknowledgement letter in business purposes, you are acknowledging something to be factual or genuine.
For those writing acknowledgement for an assignment, thesis or report we have already prepared an article containing all important facts and data that should be embraced with this acknowledgement page.
With acknowledgement letter, used in business purposes you should clearly confirm that facts stated are true, i.e. that communicated information is truthful. To simplify a bit, this means that is you want to acknowledge receipt of the order you must quote and reference buyer's request for the order, and then confirm it or make certain amendments. In this letter you can also give a timeline of activities that will proceed as a result of the order acknowledgement. Or in another case if you acknowledge the receipt of someone job application, you should state that application is being received, and briefly indicate future actions in regard to the received application.
Acknowledgement letter is very short business letter, and is intended to communicate brief and clear message. It is quite common to use this letter if you are not aware at the time of future developments in regard to someone's query.
Acknowledgement sample for a group assignment
In performing our assignment, we had to take the help and guideline of some respected persons, who deserve our greatest gratitude. The completion of this assignment gives us much Pleasure. We would like to show our gratitude Mr./Ms. Name, Course Instructor, University Name for giving us a good guideline for assignment throughout numerous consultations. We would also like to expand our deepest gratitude to all those who have directly and indirectly guided us in writing this assignment.
In addition, a thank you to Professor _________, who introduced us to the Methodology of work, and whose passion for the "underlying structures" had lasting effect. We also thank the University of _______ for consent to include copyrighted pictures as a part of our paper.
Many people, especially our classmates and team members itself, have made valuable comment suggestions on this proposal which gave us an inspiration to improve our assignment. We thank all the people for their help directly and indirectly to complete our assignment.
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IV. Allocation of Time and Proposed Schedule for Markman Hearing
Complainants and Respondent Apple Inc. have reached an agreement, and propose the
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Respondent's Technology Tutorial, VirnetX Opening, Respondent's Opening,
VirnetX's Rebuttal (if any), and Respondent's Rebuttal (if any).
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Technology tutorial VirnetX's presentation: 60 minutes (If Dr. Kelly is
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Apple's argument: 60 minutes
VirnetX's rebuttal argument: 30 minutes
Apple's rebuttal argument: 30
Yes sir! Apple running out the "every ready to help out", Dr. Kelly. If a jury and peanut gallery in Tyler, Tx can see through his twisting of answers and half truths, I'd sure hope that ITC judges can do so as well. All IMHO of course.
Jeff, none of this even matters. When AAPL appeals, that's at least 5 points out of the stock. And that's only if CSCO loses! If CSCO wins this trial, which I suspect they will as they know the ropes from the AAPL trial, then it's back to the low teens for VHC.
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Geforce FX 5200, 1080i video, and 800x600 screen
I have an FX5200 card that is being used with an SVGA display. When using mplayer with the -zoom and/or -fs options, all video plays on XV, correctly scaling to 800x600, letterboxing as necessary. The only problem is, if the video is 1920x1080i formatted, the output will not scale correctly. The aspect is stretched out horizontally, and will extend beyond the right edge of the real screen.
For example, a 4:3 image transmitted in a 16:9 1920x1080 stream will appear as something more like 16:9 stretched beyond the right edge. This looks a little silly.
A 16:9 image in 1920x1080 just stretches past the right edge, making it wider than 16:9, making heads fat, as does the previous scenario. If this is so, the scaling happening could be 1920x1080 -> 900x600.
Note that if I attach a high resolution VGA monitor, running the X server in 720p will result in 1080i scaling correctly. I have not tried other modes, such as XVGA.
Does anyone know why this happens only for 1080i? Is this a driver(bug) problem? Weird hardware limitation? I'm using 6629 and VGA.
Furthermore, does anyone know of a DVI capable card that can (i.e., tested)
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Former Suns guard Jeff Hornacek, who played with the team from 1986 to 1992, was hired Tuesday morning to take over for interim head coach Lindsey Hunter.
"We are thrilled to introduce Jeff Hornacek as the new head coach of the Phoenix Suns," said Suns General Manager Ryan McDonough. "Jeff has all of the qualities we were looking for in a head coach -- he is a leader, a teacher and a student of the game. Jeff's name has been high on our list ever since my first interview with the Suns. His successes as a player and as an assistant coach, along with his deep ties to this franchise and this community, give us confidence that he will do great things as the next head coach of the Phoenix Suns."
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We've blogged before about the obesity epidemic, and whether or not it is a recent phenomenon; John Komlos and Marek Brabec have argued that obesity rates actually began rising in the early 20th century. A new study (abstract; PDF) by Paul von Hippel and Ramzi Nahhas looks at 60 years of data on child obesity and finds that the increase in obesity rates started with children born in the 1970s and 1980s. Von Hippel wrote to us in an email:
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A new working paper (gated) by Yi Qian, Eric Anderson, and Duncan Simester looks at how a factory or outlet store affects a retailer's regular-priced products. Using 12 years' worth of data from a U.S. apparel retailer, they found that the factory store contributed positively to the business:
We study how the opening of a factory store impacts a retailer's demand in its other channels. It is possible that a factory store may damage a retailer's brand image and lead to substitution away from its higher quality core channels. Alternatively, the opening of a factory store may have positive effects as it may attract new buyers and serve as a form of brand advertising. In this paper, we use a natural experiment that arises from a retailer introducing a factory store in 2002. We analyze data that spans all customers and all channels from 1995 to 2007. This allows for careful pre and post analysis of the factory store opening. We find that the introduction of the factory store led to substantial positive spillovers to the core channels that lasted for multiple years. Customers purchase more items from the higher priced, higher quality channels after the factory store is opened. These positive spillovers represent approximately 17% of all of the incremental sales that result from the factory store opening (the other 83% are contributed by sales in the factory store itself).
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Michael Parks and his colleagues trained dozens of observers who analyzed 860 aggressive incidents across 503 nights in 87 large clubs and bars in Toronto, Canada. Aggression was defined as anything from a verbal insult or unwanted physical contact to a punch or kick. Incidents were twice as likely to involve one-sided aggression as opposed to mutual aggression. The most common incident involved a man making persistent unwanted overtures or physical contact towards a female. Male on male aggression was the next most frequent category. All-female aggression was rare.
Third parties intervened in almost one third of these situations, and they were more than twice as likely to intervene in a non-aggressive way than to be aggressive themselves. Eighty per cent of third parties who got involved were men. Drunk third parties were more likely to be aggressive. Surprisingly perhaps, the most frequent kind of aggressive incident (male on female) was the least likely to provoke third party involvement. One-sided aggression between men also provoked few interventions. Parks and his team think this is probably because such incidents are judged to be non-serious and unlikely to escalate.
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The Daily Beast reports that palm surgery is on the rise in Japan:
In Japan, where palm reading remains one of the most popular means of fortune-telling, some people have figured out a way to change their fate. It's a simple idea: change your palm, change the reading, and change your future. All you need is a competent plastic surgeon with an electric scalpel who has a basic knowledge of palmistry. Or you can draw the lines on your hand with a marker and let him work the magic you want.
Missing a marriage line? That can be fixed. Wedding bells may ring.
Need some good fortune? Add a money-luck line and you might win the lottery or be promoted to vice president in your firm. For the smart shopper—one willing to undergo palm plastic surgery—the future isn't what it used to be.
The surgery is evidently so popular that clinics don't need to advertise. In fact, one clinic's brief advertising campaign resulted in so much demand they found themselves unable to keep up. "Maybe changing your palm won't change your fate," says plastic surgeon Takaaki Matsuoka, "but if you have that much determination to try to change it—and are willing to endure a little pain for that chance—maybe you can change your life."
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We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers to interact and play with their children in ways that would develop their children's cognitive and personality skills. We re-interviewed the study participants 20 years after the intervention. Stimulation increased the average earnings of participants by 42 percent. Treatment group earnings caught up to the earnings of a matched non-stunted comparison group. These findings show that psychosocial stimulation early in childhood in disadvantaged settings can have substantial effects on labor market outcomes and reduce later life inequality.
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In his new album, rapper Jay-Z expresses skepticism about some of his colleagues' claims of extraordinary wealth, saying, "The truth in my verses, versus, your metaphors about what your net worth is." So are your favorite rappers lying about how rich they are? Bloomberg Businessweek straightens out the confusion with a great graphic comparing alleged vs. actual wealth. Here's a preview: Nicki Minaj is not "mak[ing] a billi like a big goat." (HT: The Big Picture)


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Phenomenally Smart and Funny Drama.I stumbled upon this drama by chance and I am so glad that I did, Greatest Love is FANTASTIC, one of my top 5 of all time.
The characters are great, the actors play off each other very well, very funny, very smart, and as a frequent drama watcher I loved loved all the references to other shows. Must see!!
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:A Fantastic Movie With The Right Amount of EpisodesSeung Won Cha (who played Doko-jin) stole the show. He plays an actor of action films who has crazy issues and makes this show FANTASTIC!!! You've got to watch this on your moody days because there isn't an episode that you don't laugh.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful:great cast and great supporting castgreatest love is a drama that you will really like it has all the pit falls of regular drama, but it has a lot new ones that not used a lot. the story a lot about being yourself and to not be shallow. something most drama are about. the poor against the rich. this is not like that. it a story about a star and a used to be star about ten years ago. i do like that the story about older pop stars.it ...Read more
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Mar 28, 2013, 10:34 AM EDT
A story out of Germany this morning suggests that U.S. international Jermaine Jones might be interested in a move to Major League Soccer.
At 31, Jones is approaching the end of his current deal with Bundesliga club Schalke. So this could certainly be a negotiating ploy. Dangling Major League Soccer as an option is a primary "go to" in the playbook for European agents looking to squeeze top euro from clubs on the continent.
On the other hand, there certainly are plenty of MLS organizations who make handy use of a hard-nosed, holding midfielder with just enough creative side.
For the most part, any club that doesn't have Osvaldo Alonso or Patrice Bernier on its roster could consider Jones a significant upgrade in its defensive-minded, central midfield element.
That said, some clubs would be better fits that others. New York, for instance, has a dandy holding mid in Dax McCarty. While getting McCarty slightly higher up the field might be ideal, it's probably not worth the roster shifts and the DP wages that taking on Jones would surely require.
Jones might help Sporting Kansas City replace some of the two-way, midfield bite lost with Roger Espinoza's departure, although Spaniard Oriol Rosell seems to be fitting in.
D.C. United has a lot invested in young Perry Kitchen. Similar to New York, it wouldn't hurt to get Kitchen further up the field (or rearrange things so that Kitchen and Jones are side-by-side as two-way midfielders), but at what cost?
Houston is well-stocked with Adam Moffat and Ricardo Clark.
But that's about it. If your team isn't in the short list from above, Jones would be an asset and probably an upgrade – even if it required some salary cap maneuvering and a little roster churn.
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- bhuckabee - Mar 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Would he not be a perfect fit for the CDM role at FC Dallas? Did you not include him because of the fact they have not shown in the past tis is a move they would make?
- mikeevergreen - Mar 28, 2013 at 2:02 PM
No, not Dallas. And don't let him go to LA, either. Send him to Chicago, where he and Logan Pause can play "bump and thump" on anyone thinking they can march down Broadway.
- creek0512 - Mar 28, 2013 at 5:00 PM
When was Espinoza a two-way midfielder?
- joeyt360 - Mar 28, 2013 at 5:56 PM
When he played two ways.
- pjbowmaster - Mar 28, 2013 at 8:54 PM
Does anybody really think he's a better option than Juninho in LA? If you do…..I shall break wind in your general direction.
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Get Carroll off the field
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Wouldn't every club benefit? Lol
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When Soul Fish Cafe owner Raymond Williams was first introduced to Bill Kloos Jr.'s All American Sweets, it was love at first bite. Six years later, All American continues to complement the Soul Fish dessert menu.
"We easily sell 35 cakes a week between our Germantown and Midtown stores," Williams says. "Depending on what flavors are available, we always have four that we regularly serve."
The operation that once consisted of a six-quart Kitchenaid mixer and a cramped apartment kitchen now occupies a 2,500-square-foot office space/bakery in Bartlett that is poised to expand immediately.
"We're actually in talks right now to double our space from 2,500 to 5,000 square feet," Kloos, All American's owner and chef, says. "We're hoping to do that in the next few months."
While such a move is a significant step for the father-son operation, it is an incremental one that has been as carefully thought out as the recipe to the company's cakes.
"What we really did for the first five or six years was try to develop that perfect recipe for the cakes we're making. It was based on taste, moisture and consistency of the final product, so we did it the right way by taking our time," Kloos says.
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Beyond 2009: How technology may impact our daily lives
The future of medical care will be writ in sub-molecular language, researchers say.
Nanotechnology, which deals in infinitesimally small structures and pathways, will provide the maps and means for treatment in the decades ahead. And central to such minimalism will be finding the least invasive methods of treating diseases.
Dr. Hans Stricker, a urologist and chief of surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in West Bloomfield, says microscopic research is already well along in gene therapy for treating prostate cancer. At the core of that investigation is gene therapy -- a super high-tech method of designing viruses that can be injected into a patient to attack rogue cells.
"When I lie awake at night and think about how I would want my own treatment to go in 20 years," says Stricker, 47, "I see a guy who gets a cancer diagnosis, comes in, we inject him with the virus and he's on his way. He has flulike symptoms for a couple of days and that's it. The cancer is killed."
Stricker says his scenario is not a mere dream. "Is it really possible? A couple of years ago, I would have said no," he says. "But today, I can see a combination of radiation and gene therapy 10 years from now -- and five years after that, gene therapy alone."
The ideal of minimal invasiveness extends to general screenings, says Stricker. He sees a day when you can just have a body scan to check for health problems instead of submitting to a lot of annoying probes. "The real upside is that we'd have a lot more people signing up," says Stricker. "The problem is cost. One of the key challenges will be to figure out how to do noninvasive screening that is inexpensive."
Another goal of nanotechnology is the development of "intelligent biomaterials," artificial tissue that can be inserted where damaged tissue needs to be restored. A prime application would be the repair of damaged organs.
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Salvador Molly'sApril 28, 2014Cajun / Creole • Portland, United States
Have the Great Balls of Fire at the end of the meal, as you won't be able to taste anything afterwards.
Have the Great Balls of Fire at the end of the meal, as you won't be able to taste anything afterwards.
As frightening as the peanut butter, bacon and pickle burger sounds, it works perfectly. A must-try.
Get the halibut collars - the only thing they do here is fish and chips, so don't expect your fish broiled, baked or otherwise cooked.
Impressive architecture under the bridge span - outside of that, a nice place for a walk or picnic.
I had and recommend their moon cakes (although they do not have the salted duck yolks) and the licorice tea
An amazing and often overlooked gem above Portland.
The founder is from North Carolina and the biscuits and other dishes are as authentic as you'd want, with a few added embellishments. I recommend the Reggie, even for breakfast.
Often overlooked, don't forget to check out Babe's hooves across the street from where Paul Bunyan stands
Best place virtually anywhere for jackfruit curry
Smoked meat sandwich is great, but their poutine is the most authentic in Southern California
I highly recommend the chicken knees; their duck tongues are the best.


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The term "lone wolf" is often used to describe individuals who act alone to commit terrorist acts. Lone wolf attacks are often motivated by political, religious, and/or ideological reasoning. But, are these individuals really acting alone? Close analysis of known lone wolf terrorists has shown that these individuals often have some level of contact with members of a terrorist organization. Read more about inclusive counter-radicalization strategies to prevent individuals from becoming radicalized.
Lone Wolves: Are They Really Alone in the Radicalization Process?
The Evolution of ICS Beyond the Fire Service
The Incident Command System (ICS) is an all-hazards management system suitable for responding to incidents of all sizes and complexities. Learn more about how ICS has been applied beyond the public safety realm and been adopted by public-health agencies, disaster-relief organizations, and environmental-regulatory agencies.
War's Changing Role as a Political Instrument in U.S. Foreign Policy
By John Ubaldi, alumnus of American Military University
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By Dr. Robert "Smitty" Smith, faculty at American Military University
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a major threat to the U.S. homeland. Our current response is to build a coalition. Vice President Biden stated: "We will follow them to the gates of hell." Yet, Secretary of State John Kerry, has said that we will put no boots on the ground.
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By Dr. Vincent Giordano, program director, criminal justice at American Public University
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Big Brother 16: Popularity Poll – Week 7| August 13, 2014 at 6:30 PM EDT
We're hitting the Jury stage of the Big Brother 16 season and while any HG is eligible for the America's Favorite Player award with its $25,000 purse I wouldn't be surprised to see it go to someone who sticks around on the show longer. With that being the case at this point of the summer I thought it'd be interesting to see where readers are sending their support as of now.
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Along Viale San Marco is a found poem created using word.camera. From a picture of Viale San Marco in Monfalcone, the word camera generated a source text from which I carved out my poem.
Along Viale San Marco
An urban, an autumn, and a daytime.
The urban translates.
Autumn. Never winter.
Daytime. Never nighttime.
This time, the urban is opposite of
a locating characteristic.
A city life translates to urbanus.
To city metro.
It is a write work.
For instance, nature and lawn:
nature holds an evolve-shape of bird,
and the lawn translates to claro,
a patch of grass in front of a house.
No, it relates to linen.
It evokes everything live,
an outdoors, an open-air.
It is not an indoors. It precipitates
a flower. The flower longs for growing toward sun.
A plant cultivating its blossoms.
Cultivating for its blossoms.
Whenever, it constitutes.
For example, an architecture and a road:
the architecture recalls the road as roadway.
A part of city never educes highway,
it associates with pavement.
No, it is used for cross notwithstanding the architecture
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The present invention pertains to forming a transistor in the absence of hydrogen, or in the presence of a significantly reduced amount of hydrogen. In this manner, a high-k material can be utilized to form a gate dielectric layer in the transistor and facilitate device scaling while mitigating defects that can be introduced into the high-k material by the presence of hydrogen and/or hydrogen containing compounds.
1. A method of forming a transistor, comprising:
forming a layer of high-k dielectric material over a semiconductor substrate;
forming a conductive gate electrode layer over the layer of high-k dielectric material in the absence of hydrogen or hydrogen containing compounds;
forming a gate structure by patterning the conductive gate electrode layer and the layer of high-k dielectric material in the absence of hydrogen or hydrogen containing compounds to establish a gate electrode and a high-k gate dielectric, respectively; and
forming source/drain extension regions within the substrate adjacent to the gate structure.
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This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, (TI Attorney Docket No. TI-35222) filed on Dec. 22, 2003, entitled HYDROGEN FREE INTEGRATION OF HIGH-K GATE DIELECTRICS, wherein the entirety of this application is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
The present invention relates generally to semiconductor processing, and more particularly to fabricating semiconductor devices employing high-k dielectric materials.
Field effect transistors (FETs) are widely used in the electronics industry for switching, amplification, filtering, and/or other tasks related to both analog and digital electrical signals. Most common among these are MOSFETs, wherein a metal or (doped) polysilicon gate contact or electrode is energized to create an electric field in an underlying channel region of a semiconductor body, by which current is allowed to conduct between a source region and a drain region of the semiconductor body.
The source and drain regions are typically formed by adding dopants to targeted regions on either side of the channel region in a semiconductor substrate. A gate dielectric or gate oxide, such as silicon dioxide (SiO2), is formed over the channel region to physically separate the gate electrode from the substrate, and more particularly the channel region. A patterned gate electrode and gate dielectric is commonly referred to as a gate structure or stack.
The gate dielectric has electrically insulative properties and, as such, serves to retard the flow of large electrical currents between the gate electrode and the source/drain regions or channel of the substrate when a voltage is applied to the gate contact. The gate dielectric also serves to allow the applied gate voltage to set up an electric field in the channel region in a controllable manner.
A continuing trend in the manufacture of semiconductor products is toward a steady reduction in the size of electrical devices (known as scaling), together with improvements in device performance in terms of device switching speed, power consumption, reliability, etc. New materials and processes have been developed and employed in silicon processing technology to accommodate these requirements, including the ability to pattern and etch smaller device features. Recently, however, electrical and physical limitations have been reached in the thickness of gate dielectrics, particularly those formed of silicon dioxide.
By way of example,
The substrate 8 in the above example is lightly doped p-type silicon with an n-well 12 formed therein under the PMOS transistor 4. The PMOS device 4 includes two laterally spaced p-doped source/drain regions 14 a and 14 b with a channel region 16 located therebetween in the n-well 12. A gate is formed over the channel region 16 comprising an SiO2 gate dielectric 20 overlying the channel 16 and a conductive polysilicon gate contact structure 22 formed over the gate dielectric 20.
The NMOS device 6 includes two laterally spaced n-doped source/drain regions 24 a and 24 b outlying a channel region 26 in the substrate 8 (or alternatively a p-well region (not shown)) with a gate formed over the channel region 26 comprising an SiO2 gate dielectric layer 30 and a polysilicon gate contact 32, where the gate dielectrics 20 and 30 may be patterned from the same oxide layer. Both the PMOS device 4 and the NMOS device 6 include sidewall spacers 18 that aid in doping the respective source/drain regions 14 a, 14 b and 24 a, 24 b.
Referring to the NMOS device 6, for example, the resistivity of the channel 26 may be controlled by the voltage applied to the gate contact 32, where changing the gate voltage changes the amount of current through channel 26. The gate contact 32 and the channel 26 are separated by the SiO2 gate dielectric 30, which is an insulator. The gate dielectric, thus, allows little or no current to flow between the gate contact 32 and the channel 26. The gate dielectric 30 allows the gate voltage at the contact 32 to induce an electric field in the channel 26, by which the channel resistance can be controlled by the applied gate voltage.
MOSFET devices produce an output current proportional to the ratio of the width over the length of the channel (W/L), where the channel length is the physical distance between the source/drain regions (e.g., between regions 24 a and 24 b in the device 6) and the width runs perpendicular to the length (e.g., perpendicular to the page in
Additionally, the thickness and dielectric constant of the gate dielectric layer 30 are typically chosen to create a gate capacitance appropriate for a particular use of the transistor 6, where the gate capacitance, among other things, controls the formation of the electrical field in channel region 26. The gate capacitance is directly proportional to the dielectric constant of gate dielectric layer 30 and inversely proportional to the thickness of gate dielectric layer 30. Therefore, as the other features of transistor 6 are scaled down, the thickness of gate dielectric layer 30 may also be scaled down proportionally to maintain an appropriate gate capacitance (assuming the dielectric constant of the material remains the same).
However, making the gate dielectric layer 30 thinner can have undesirable results, particularly where the gate dielectric 30 is SiO2. One shortcoming of a thin SiO2 gate dielectric 30 is increased gate leakage currents due to tunneling through the oxide 30. Additionally, since the films are literally formed from a few layers of atoms (monolayers), very precise process controls are required to uniformly and repeatably produce the layers. Uniform coverage is important because device parameters may change based upon the presence or absence of even a single monolayer of dielectric material. Also, a thin SiO2 gate dielectric layer 30 provides a poor diffusion barrier to dopants. In this manner, boron, for example, may be allowed to penetrate into and contaminate the underlying channel region 16 during doping of an overlying poly-silicon gate.
Consequently, recent efforts involving MOSFET device scaling have focused on alternative dielectric materials that can be made thicker than scaled silicon dioxide layers and yet still produce the same field effect performance. These materials are often referred to as high-k materials because their dielectric constants are greater than that of SiO2, (which is about 3.9). The relative performance of such high-k materials is often expressed as equivalent oxide thickness (EOT), because, while the alternative layer may be thicker, it still provides the equivalent electrical effect of a much thinner layer of SiO2.
Accordingly, high-k dielectric materials can be utilized to form gate dielectrics, where the high-k materials facilitate a reduction in device dimensions while maintaining a consistency of desired device performance. By way of example, conventional gate dielectrics (e.g., of silicon oxide (SiO2)) can have thicknesses of about 1-3 nanometers, whereas high-k gate dielectrics have thicknesses on the order of 2-10 times greater, yet exhibit comparable electrical performance to the thinner SiO2. The larger thickness tends to minimize leakage through the gate dielectric, among other things.
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Hydrogen based precursors, such as SiH4, for example, are used extensively in producing epitaxial silicon, polycrystalline silicon and certain dielectrics, such as Si3N4 and SiO2. These fabrication processes expose the high-k dielectrics to high concentrations of hydrogen which can etch, embrittle or otherwise react with the high-k dielectric materials to reduce or otherwise adversely affect the high-k materials. Additionally, atomic hydrogen (e.g., H) is often produced in semiconductor fabrication processes as certain (transition) metals utilized in the process are known to "crack" hydrogen gas (H2). Atomic hydrogen is a strong etchant of silicon and silicon based compounds, and thus may undesirably reduce many high-k dielectric materials.
Hydrogen can thus reduce the high-k dielectric 30′ and can also create point defects 50′ therein. Such defects 50′ can counteract or negate some of the positive aspects of high-k materials by potentially reducing the electrical thickness of the high-k material 30′ and increasing the leakage path through the high-k dielectric at these defects, thus leading to the aforementioned issues at the contaminated locations 50′. Such defects can also serve as sinks or reservoirs for dopants and/or other electrically active impurities that can fill in the defects 50′ and degrade the electrical properties of the dielectrics, including the reliability thereof.
Further, such defects 50′ disrupt the uniformity of the high-k dielectric material 30′ which can adversely affect the operation of the transistor 6′ by, among other things, disrupting electromagnetic fields that are developed between the gate electrode 32′ and the source 24 a′, drain 24 b′ and/or channel 26′ regions of the transistor when a bias voltage is applied to the gate electrode 32′. This affects the current flowing through the transistor 6′ (e.g., Ion-Ioff), among other things. It will be appreciated that the defects 50′ depicted in
The following presents a simplified summary of the invention in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the invention. This summary is not an extensive overview of the invention. It is intended neither to identify key or critical elements of the invention nor to delineate the scope of the invention. Rather, its primary purpose is merely to present one or more concepts of the invention in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The present invention pertains to forming a transistor in the absence of hydrogen, or in the presence of a significantly reduced amount of hydrogen. In this manner, a high-k material can be utilized to form a gate dielectric layer in the transistor and facilitate device scaling while mitigating defects that can be introduced into the high-k material by the presence of hydrogen and/or hydrogen containing compounds.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the following description and annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative aspects and implementations of the invention. These are indicative of but a few of the various ways in which one or more aspects of the present invention may be employed. Other aspects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the annexed drawings
One or more aspects of the present invention are described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are generally utilized to refer to like elements throughout, and wherein the various structures are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of one or more aspects of the present invention. It may be evident, however, that one or more aspects of the present invention may be practiced with a lesser degree of these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing one or more aspects of the present invention.
The present invention pertains to forming a transistor in the absence of or in the presence of a significantly reduced amount of hydrogen. In this manner, a high-k material can be utilized to form a gate dielectric layer in the transistor and facilitate device scaling while mitigating defects that can be introduced into the high-k material by the presence of hydrogen and/or hydrogen containing compounds.
Initially, a semiconductor substrate 302 has a layer of high-k gate dielectric material 304 applied 305 there-across in the absence of hydrogen (
Examples of high-k materials that may be used for the gate dielectric layer 304 include, but are not limited to, zirconium silicon oxides, hafnium silicon oxides, aluminum oxide, yttrium oxide, yttrium-silicon-oxides, lanthanum oxide, lanthanum silicon oxides, zirconium aluminate, hafnium aluminate, lanthanum aluminate, aluminum nitride, tantalum oxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide, zirconium oxynitride, hafnium oxynitride, zirconium silicon oxynitride, and hafnium silicon oxynitride. Any other appropriate high-k dielectric materials may also be used.
It will be appreciated that high-k dielectric materials are generally understood to mean materials having a dielectric constant higher than that of silicon dioxide (which is about 3.9). A dielectric material having a k of about 7.8 and a thickness of about 10 nm, for example, is substantially electrically equivalent to an oxide gate dielectric having a k of about 3.9 and a thickness of about 5 nm. It will also be appreciated that the layer of high-k gate dielectric material 304 can be formed 305 across the substrate 302 in any of a number of suitable manners, including, for example, sputtering techniques (e.g., magnetron or ion beam sputtering), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD), etc.
A gate electrode layer 306 is then applied 307 over the layer of high-k gate dielectric material 304 (
In accordance with one or more aspects of the present invention, the gate electrode layer 306 is formed in the absence of hydrogen, or in the presence of a significantly reduced amount of hydrogen (or hydrogen containing compounds). Poly-silicon can, for example, be formed via CVD in the presence of silicon tetrafluoride (SiF4), silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4), silicon tetrabromide (SiBr4) and/or silicon tetra iodide (SiI4). Poly-silicon can similarly be formed in a plasma environment containing argon and/or xenon. A metal gate (e.g., titanium nitride, tantalum silicon nitride, titanium aluminum nitride) can also be formed via CVD using inorganic precursors or using any suitable physical vapor deposition processes (PVD). Since atomic hydrogen can effectively, albeit undesirably, etch high-k materials resulting in point defects, and since some metals can crack molecular hydrogen to form atomic hydrogen, care is taken when metal gates are formed to mitigate the formation of atomic hydrogen.
The gate electrode layer 306 and the layer of gate dielectric material 302 are then patterned to form a gate structure 308 (
After the gate structure 308 is formed, a dopant 314 is applied to the substrate 302 to form source and drain extension regions 316, 318 therein (
By way of example, a p-type dopant (e.g., boron) having a concentration of about 1E19 to 5E20 atoms/cm3 for a PMOS transistor, or an n-type dopant (e.g., phosphorous) having concentration of about 1E19 to 9.5E20 atoms/cm3 for an NMOS transistor can be implanted to a depth of about 300-350 Angstroms, for example, to establish the extension regions 316, 318. It will be appreciated, however, that other implant concentrations and penetration depths are contemplated by the present invention, as are additional implantation acts (e.g., to form halo regions—not shown).
A first oxide layer 328 (e.g., SiO2) is then applied 329 to the gate structure 308 and exposed portions of the substrate 302 (
The nitride layer 330 can be formed to a thickness of about 50 to 80 Angstroms and the second oxide layer 332 can be formed to about 400 to 800 Angstroms, for example. It will be appreciated that the first oxide layer 328, the nitride layer 330 and the second oxide layer 332 can be formed in any number of suitable ways in the absence of hydrogen, such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD), for example. The layers may, for example, be formed in an environment of SiF4, SiCl4, SiBr4, SiI4, or TEOS plus oxygen or SiF4, SiCl4, SiBr4 or SiI4 plus nitrogen plasma for silicon dioxide and silicon nitride, respectively. SiO2 and Si3N4 can, for example, also be deposited with non-hydrogen containing precursors, such as oxygen containing compounds and/or deuterated precursors. These processes can be performed at sub-atmospheric pressure (100's of Torr to mTorr) and at reduced temperatures (<700� C.).
The second oxide layer 332 is then processed 335 (e.g., via dry etching or other suitable reduction techniques) in the absence of hydrogen to reveal oxide sidewall spacers 334, 336 adjacent to the gate structure 308 (
The nitride layer 330 is then processed 337 (e.g., etched) in the absence of hydrogen to remove nitride material not covered/protected by the oxide sidewall spacers 334, 336 (
A portion of the remaining oxide material 328 is subsequently processed 339 (e.g., etched) in the absence of hydrogen to remove some or all of the exposed portions of the first oxide layer 328 (
Additional, dopant 340 is then implanted in the absence of hydrogen to form source and drain regions 342, 344 adjacent to the channel 320 (
Upper surfaces 350, 352, 354 of the substrate 302 and the gate electrode 312, respectively, that are exposed are then salicided (
A layer of nitride material 360 or other pre-metal dielectric (PMD) is then applied 361 over the gate structure 308 and the salicided regions of the substrate 302 in the absence of hydrogen (
It will be appreciated that the ordering of the stages as set forth herein is not meant to be absolute, and that such ordering can be rearranged, and that any such rearrangement is contemplated as falling within the scope of the present invention. For example, the source 342, drain 344 and extension regions 316, 318 can be formed before or after any of the first oxide 328, nitride 330 or second oxide 332 layers are formed.
Although the invention has been shown and described with respect to one or more implementations, equivalent alterations and modifications will occur to others skilled in the art based upon a reading and understanding of this specification and the annexed drawings. The invention includes all such modifications and alterations and is limited only by the scope of the following claims. In particular regard to the various functions performed by the above described components (assemblies, devices, circuits, etc.), the terms (including a reference to a "means") used to describe such components are intended to correspond, unless otherwise indicated, to any component which performs the specified function of the described component (i.e., that is functionally equivalent), even though not structurally equivalent to the disclosed structure which performs the function in the herein illustrated exemplary implementations of the invention. In addition, while a particular feature of the invention may have been disclosed with respect to only one of several implementations, such feature may be combined with one or more other features of the other implementations as may be desired and advantageous for any given or particular application. Furthermore, to the extent that the terms "includes", "having", "has", "with", or variants thereof are used in either the detailed description or the claims, such terms are intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term "comprising."
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Normally, I'd agree w. you, but this kid is a beginner. EVERYTHING is a weak spot! I'm not trying to be an a-hole, but if the kid starts divying up his training time among his weaknesses, rather than just focusing on the basic core lifts, he is going to go nowhere quick!Originally Posted by drew
He doesn't need holds or rack pulls or farmers walks... he just needs to bust his as* on the basics!