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A substrate under tension and/or compression improves performance of devices fabricated therein. Tension and/or compression can be imposed on a substrate through selection of appropriate gate sidewall spacer material disposed above a device channel region wherein the spacers are formed adjacent both the gate and the substrate and impose forces on adjacent substrate areas. Another embodiment comprises compressive stresses imposed in the plane of the channel using SOI sidewall spacers made of polysilicon that is expanded by oxidation. The substrate areas under compression or tension exhibit charge mobility characteristics different from those of a non-stressed substrate. By controllably varying these stresses within NFET and PFET devices formed on a substrate, improvements in IC performance have been demonstrated.
1. A spacer structure for devices formed in a substrate, the devices including devices of a first conductivity type and devices of a second conductivity type, the devices each having a channel for conducting charge in a longitudinal direction and each having a gate terminal adjacent the channel, the structure comprising:
a first spacer structure for a first one of the devices of the first conductivity type, the first spacer structure comprising a first stress inducing material adjacent to both a sidewall of the first one of the device's gate terminal and its channel which applies a first type of mechanical stress on the first one of the devices at least in the longitudinal direction, the first type of mechanical stress being one of tensile stress and compressive stress; and
a second spacer structure for a second one of the devices of the second conductivity type, the second spacer structure comprising a second stress inducing material adjacent to both a sidewall of the second one of the device's gate terminal and its channel which applies a second type of mechanical stress, different from the first type of mechanical stress, on the second one of the devices at least in the longitudinal direction, the second type of mechanical stress being the other of tensile stress and compressive stress, wherein
the first one of the devices is an NFET and the second one of the devices is a PFET, and
the first stress inducing material is a tensile deposited nitride and the second stress inducing material is a compressive deposited nitride.
U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/318,600, entitled "Isolation Structures for Imposing Stress Patterns" filed concurrently herewith is assigned to the same assignee hereof and contains subject matter related, in certain respect, to the subject matter of the present application. The above-identified patent application is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Technical Field of the Invention
This invention pertains to inventive methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device for improving device performance, and to the resulting unique high-performance device structure. In particular, this invention has improved charge mobility in FET devices by structurally imposing tensile and compression forces in a device substrate during device fabrication.
Within the field of semiconductor device design, it is known that mechanical stresses within the device substrate can modulate device performance. Individual stress tensor components affect device behavior of PFETs and NFETs differently. Previous improvements that utilized stress enhancements tended to focus on one or the other type of device outside of a practical performance environment, such as in an IC chip. In order to maximize the performance of both PFETs and NFETs within IC chips, the stress components need to be engineered and applied differently, yet simultaneously. The best stress design is tension in both directions for the nFET and compression in the longitudinal direction for the pFET along with tension in the transverse direction relative to channel current. In this invention we show a method and structure by which we can use spacers to introduce a longitudinal tensile stress for the nFET while at the same time applying a longitudinal compressive stress on the pFET device in a conventional FET structure, and selectively deposited layers on silicon-on-insulator ("SOI") structures. The longitudinal stress is induced along the same axis as the current, or charge, being carried in the channel. It may be more difficult to impose a stress in the transverse direction using spacers so we lose benefit from that direction. However, by virtue of the fact that we can move the stress inducing component closer to the device through the use of stress inducing spacers and layers, the modulation of stress can be improved relative to the isolation material or STI stress approach as suggested in the patent application identified above. One advantage of the method and structure of the present invention that it has provided a device performance improvement for both the nFET and pFET simultaneously.
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Ito et al (IEDM, 2000) impose stress using an etch-stop nitride superlayer that is deposited after the device is completely constructed. Again, here the films have a built-in intrinsic biaxial stress which they modulated from compressive through tensile. They found that when the film is in tension the nFET performance is enhanced while that of the pFET's is degraded. They found the reverse for compression, namely NFET is degraded while the pFET is enhanced. They could not improve the performance of both the pFET and nFET simultaneously. Also, since the film is well above the device the stress translated down into the silicon will be somewhat lesser, particularly when compared to material that is adjacent to the device.
In the application identified above entitled "Isolation Structures for Imposing Stress Patterns", we showed how to modulate the stresses imposed on the silicon by isolation (the preferred example used STI). One of the embodiments advocates the use of materials with different intrinsic stress and coefficients of expansion mismatched in the appropriate regions of the nFETs and pFETs to modulate induced stresses. In another embodiment, we discussed how to add compressive stress by oxidation through openings in a nitride liner as needed for pFETs in the longitudinal direction, while retaining all the tensile stresses (in the transverse pFET direction and transverse+longitudinal nFET directions) from intrinsic and thermal mismatch properties. Prior to these two recent disclosures, all prior known solutions and methods using mechanical stress for device performance enhancement improved neither both nFETs and pFETs simultaneously nor taught the individual device isolation structures and methods of making them. In the present specification we leverage stress effects on devices using stress induced by spacers and by processing, e.g. oxidizing, a selectively deposited silicon isolation liner on SOI structures. We also show how to modulate the stresses for both pFETs and nFETs, which brings the stress effect much closer to the device.
In this invention we show methods and structures by which we have applied tensile stress for the NFET while at the same time applying a compressive longitudinal stress on the PFET device. The structures and methods of making each device individually is also unique. Other disclosed embodiments teach structures, and methods of formation, for selectively inducing strain in the channel of pMOSFETs by using a patterned and oxidized isolation liner. Particular embodiments of the present invention rely upon the volume expansion of a patterned and oxidized silicon liner in isolation regions, or spacers on gate sidewalls, to selectively induce appropriate strain in the channels of adjacent pMOSFETs. The oxidized silicon liner induces a bending moment in an SOI island, resulting in a compressive stress centered in the channel. The compressive stress on the longitudinal component of the PFET may be tuned by varying the thickness of the silicon liner or, in another embodiment, structures and methods of formation are illustrated by which patterned and oxidized spacers on the sidewalls of the active area are used to introduce a longitudinal compressive stress on the pFET device. Through the use of patterned oxidized spacers, the stress is applied closer to the device than is possible with STI fill alone, significantly improving the ability to modulate the stress. It is also shown that the structure of the invention has a negligible effect on stress induced on adjacent devices, where stress modification may not be desired.
The primary advantage of these methods and structures is that they have provided device performance improvement. Another advantage is the method for fabricating NFETs and PFETs simultaneously on a common substrate, wherein each device is designed to enhance performance using stress inducing spacers and isolation liners. A secondary advantage is the structure and method of building an individual device with enhanced performance provided via stress inducing spacers and liners.
It is an object of the present invention to provide device performance improvements for NFETs, PFETs, and for both NFETs and PFETs simultaneously. It is another object of the present invention to be readily integratible into present manufacturing processes. It is another object of the present invention to be manufacturable in bulk silicon, silicon-on-insulator ("SOI"), and strained silicon structures. It is yet another object of the present invention to provide improved devices that can be integrated into present processes cheaply for significant device performance improvements.
This invention comprises a spacer structure for an NFET device and for a PFET device. A spacer region for the NFET device contains therein a first spacer material which applies a first type of mechanical stress on the NFET device in a longitudinal direction. A spacer region for the PFET device applies an opposing mechanical stress on the PFET device in the same longitudinal direction. The spacer regions may comprise similar or different spacer materials. Typically, the mechanical stresses are either tensile or compressive.
In another aspect, this invention comprises a method for making NFET and PFET devices. This aspect incorporates the formation of spacer regions at the sidewalls of the NFET gate. Another spacer is formed on the sidewalls of the PFET gate. Spacer materials in these spacer regions are selected to apply a first type of mechanical stress on the NFET device in the longitudinal direction (same axis as the direction of the device's channel current) and another type of mechanical stress on the PFET device in the longitudinal direction.
In another aspect, the present invention comprises source and drain regions formed in a substrate. The substrate having a channel region between each of the source and drain regions. A gate region adjacent the channel region controls conduction through the channel region. Stress inducing spacer material adjacent selected sides of the gate region imparts stress, i.e. tension or compression, to at least the channel region of the substrate.
In another aspect, this invention comprises an IC chip comprising, and a method of making on the IC chip, a plurality of stressed SOI regions and a plurality of unstressed SOI regions for use in FET and/or device manufacturing. FET devices on the IC chip comprise a stress inducing layer only on the ends of the stressed SOI regions. The stress inducing layer is deposited as a separate IC fabrication step. This stress inducing layer is then exposed to a preselected agent, which may be, for example, a gas, that modifies, e.g. expands, the stress inducing layer which then propagates a longitudinal mechanical stress in the SOI regions.
Other features and advantages of this invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates cross-section views of a PFET and NFET showing desired stress states.
FIG. 2 illustrates a cross section view of a gate sidewall spacer structure.
FIG. 3 illustrates stress contours induced by an intrinsically tensile spacer for the device outline of FIG. 2.
FIGS. 4a-b illustrate an exemplary inventive process for fabricating NFETs and PFETs on a common substrate each having stress inducing spacers thereon.
FIGS. 5a-g illustrate a third embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 illustrates a simulation of the compressive channel stress in a PFET of the third embodiment.
FIGS. 7a-b illustrate a fourth embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7c illustrates a top view of a PFET formed according to the present invention.
FIG. 8 illustrates a simulation of the compressive channel stress in a PFET of the fourth embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 1 below, wherein "C" indicates induced compression stresses in the substrate and "T" indicates induced tension stresses in the substrate, we wish to apply a longitudinal (in direction of channel current) tensile stress in the channel region under the gate for the nFET while applying a longitudinal compressive stress in the same region for the PFET. Stress inducing spacers are used, wherein the outward arrows from the gate sidewall on the NFET shows tensile spacer material, while the device body areas affected by the spacer material is labeled according to the induced stress effected there. Opposite effects are as shown in the PFET. We need to use spacers of the same intrinsic stress as is needed in the channel under the gate. While the induced stress would be relatively non-uniform and the length scale of their effects on the order of 3� the spacer thickness, since the spacer is now very close to the device, we expect the stress effect to play a significant role in device modulation. The key here is the process that allows two different spacers, one for the PFET and one for the NFET.
FIG. 2 illustrates a portion of the typical structure of an FET device depicted in FIG. 1. The bulk substrate region is shown in the bottom portion of the Figure, whereas the gate terminal is disposed on the substrate with a very thin oxide layer between it and the substrate. The spacer is the dark "L" shaped region adjacent both the substrate and the gate terminal. For the NFET device structure shown in FIG. 2, the longitudinal stress contours, indicating stress magnitude are given in FIG. 3 for the case where the spacer has an intrinsic tensile stress. The stress contour lines closer to the substrate top surface follow the contours of greater stress magnitude. This creates a tensile stress under the gate as desired. The transverse stress is also tensile for the same intrinsic tensile spacer stress, but is much smaller and can be neglected from a stress effect on device characteristic point of view. For the case of the pFET when a spacer with intrinsically compressive stress is used the stress states would then reverse as compared to FIG. 3, however, the shape of the stress contours would remain the same. The compression needed in the longitudinal direction for the pFET is thus obtained with negligible compressive stresses in the transverse direction.
Before we get into a deeper description of the process and structure, we first examine the possible spacer materials for the nFET and pFET respectively. For instance nitride films can be readily modulated to have very high intrinsic stress ranging from tension to compression. For example, as shown in Ito et al (IEDM, 2000) the PECVD (Plasma Enhanced CVD) nitride etch stop film stress could be modulated (by changing the deposition conditions such as SiH4/N2/He flow rates, pressure, HF power, and electrode gap) between −1.4 GPa and +0.3 GPa. We have been able to replicate these stresses in our nitrides by modulating deposition conditions and have been able to create −1.4 GPa to +0.4 GPa intrinsic stresses in the nitride, as measured with wafer curvature techniques. LPCVD nitrides have been known to create tensile stresses up to 1.4 GPa. HDP oxide is known to induce compressive stresses while TEOS can impose tension. The following are example conditions that may be used to generate compressive SiN by PECVD. Standard parameters for Plasma RF power are 300 Watts, by increasing the power to 900 W, using a pressure of about 5.75 torr., at 480 C, and a spacing of about 395 mils, a film with compression of about −1.6 GPa is achieved. Conditions that may be used to generate tensile SiN films by PECVD: the power may be lowered to about 100 W, with the pressure at about 5.75 torr, and temperature of about 480 C to generate a film with about +400 MPa. The pressure may be increased from about from 5.75 torr. to 6.5 torr and the spacing may be increased to 490 mils from about 395 mils at a temperature of about 480 C to generate a film with about 500 MPa. The temperature may be lowered to 380 C to generate more tension in the film. Alternatively, a thermal CVD process may be used to generate a tensile film of about 1.4 GPa. Thus, materials are readily available to pick the correct stress for the spacer film.
One example of the process steps by which we get the two separate and distinctly differently stressed spacers on the nFET and pFET, particularly from an intrinsic stress viewpoint, are given by steps 1-12 in FIGS. 4a-b (It is to be noted that the device regions and spacer regions in these figures are not drawn to scale in any dimension): Starting with conventional gate stack formation for both PFET and NFET (1), we applied conformal etch stop material over exposed surfaces (2) using, preferably a low temperature (380-480 C) oxide SiO2. Next is a deposition of compressive SiN (3), as explained above (for negative stress values, e.g. −1.6 GPa), and a standard resist block mask over the PFET (4). The next step involves etching the SiN from the NFET (5); removing the block mask and depositing the conformal etch stop layer again (6). A tensile deposition of SiN follows (7), as explained above (for positive stress values, e.g. +500 MPa), then a standard resist block mask is patterned over the NFET (8). The tensile SiN is etched from the PFET (9) then the block mask is removed and a conformal oxide layer is deposited (10). A SiO2 spacer etch is then used to shape the oxide spacer remaining on the SiN sidewall (11). Finally, a SiN etch forms the stress inducing spacers as illustrated in step 12. Step 12 leads to completely symmetric devices because the spacer etch leaves behind the same length of foot for the pFETs and nFETs on each side. Control of the foot length can modulate the stress to some extent.
Another embodiment of the present invention can be implemented using the process described above except that the known stress inducing materials HDP and TEOS are used. In this second embodiment, each of the conformal oxide layer depositions (2, 6, 10) are replaced with a nitride layer deposition, while the deposition of compressive nitride (3) is replaced with an HDP layer deposition, and the tensile nitride deposition (9) is replaced with a TEOS layer deposition.
A third embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in FIGS. 5a-g, wherein a sidewall liner is defined selectively where compressive longitudinal stress is desired. FIG. 5a illustrates a starting structure formed with conventional processing of a standard wafer (SOI in this example). A thermal pad oxide and a deposited pad nitride are formed on the surface of the wafer using methods well known in the art. Next, shown in FIG. 5b, active areas (trench isolation) are patterned and etched to the BOX. An AA sidewall oxide is grown, and a thin SiN liner is deposited. FIG. 5c shows the next step wherein a thin amorphous or polysilicon layer is conformally deposited. Next, as shown in FIG. 5d, a bilayer resist is deposited and patterned, however, a single layer resist may be acceptable for shallow topography. Wherever enhanced stress is not desired, the exposed Si liner is selectively isotropically etched from those devices, as shown in FIG. 5e. Finally, as shown in FIG. 5f, the remaining bilayer resist is stripped, using well known methods. The Si liner is then oxidized at low-temperature, to minimize stress relief due to reflow. The volume expansion of the oxidized silicon induces a bending moment in the SOI island, represented by the upward and inward arrows in the Figure, resulting in a compressive stress at the surface of the SOI (where the device channel will be subsequently formed). Liner thickness can be varied to tune the magnitude of the stress. Alternatively, materials other than poly or amorphous silicon can be used for the liner, such as germanium doped silicon or silicon nitride. Also, deposition of an isolation material and planarization, which follows this oxidation step as described below, can precede the oxidation step. FIG. 6 shows the stress regions, indicated by shading, imposed on the SOI regions and in the Box layer, demonstrating the generation of a strong longitudinal compressive stress in the channel of the pMOSFET due to volume expansion of the oxidized poly spacers. The stress is well confined to the device of interest. The SOI thickness in this example is approximately 80 nm.
An alternative final step involves subjecting the silicon liner to a RIE etch to form spacers which are subsequently oxidized. This alternative process achieves similar bending moments in the SOI as illustrated in FIG. 5g. Normally practiced processing follows the structures of FIGS. 5f and 5 g, which includes STI fill and planarization down to the SOI top surface, body doping implants, gate dielectric formation, gate conductor formation, source-drain implants, contacts, and various higher levels of metallurgy and interlayer dielectrics. These further processing steps are not considered part of the present invention and are not discussed further.
FIGS. 7a-b illustrate a fourth embodiment of the present invention, continuing from the previously described process at the step shown in FIG. 5e. This fourth embodiment comprises oxidation of the etched silicon liner (or spacer) after STI fill and planarization. Beginning with the structure shown in FIG. 5e, the resist layers are stripped and the isolation regions are filled with oxide and planarized by well known conventional methods, resulting in the structure shown in FIG. 7a. The oxide fill preferably comprises TEOS to facilitate diffusion of oxygen to the silicon liner. The remaining polysilicon liner regions are oxidized through the STI, creating a compressive stress in the SOI island, as illustrate by the inwardly pointing arrows in FIG. 7b. Various oxidation conditions, STI fill composition, and liner thickness can be employed to tune the magnitude of the stress. Alternatively, materials other than poly or amorphous silicon can be used for the liner, such as germanium doped silicon or silicon nitride. Standard processing continues from this point to completion of the chip. FIG. 7c shows a top view of the PFET, fabricated according to the methods just described, containing the oxidized liner, with the gate conductor (GC) over the channel region that is disposed between the diffusions (P+), and showing the direction of imposed longitudinal stress propagating through the channel region. FIG. 8 illustrates the compressive stress patterns in this embodiment showing that a large compressive stress is created in the SOI island in the direction of channel current. The peak compressive stress occurs near the top of the SOI layer adjacent the oxidized polysilicon. The lighter shades extending away from the peak compression regions indicate regions of dissipating stress. As can be seen in this figure, negligible propagation of stress to adjacent SOI island occurs. The SOI thickness is about 80 nm.
One embodiment of the present invention involves forming spacers with different intrinsically stress inducing materials to impart selected longitudinal stress components upon active device regions formed in a substrate, in one embodiment. For example, using a stress inducing material that is intrinsically tensile causes a tensile state of stress in a desired substrate channel region and an intrinsically compressive material causes compression in the same substrate channel region. In order to impart these different stresses in devices, we use deposited films that impose different intrinsic stresses. For example, TEOS is tensile while HDP (high density plasma) is compressive. The key here is to integrate two different intrinsically stress inducing spacers adjacent the gates of the NFETs and PFETs or individually.
In the prior art, Rim et. al. apply biaxial tension in strained silicon using a SiGe relaxed sub-layer. The problems there are many. While the NFET shows what may be considered significant improvement, they could not simultaneously improve both devices. Also, since the requirement is a relaxed SiGe layer, misfit dislocations are needed at the SiGe/Si interface. One of the major mechanisms by which the misfit dislocations are formed is from threading dislocations. Unfortunately, the threading dislocations can cause significant reliability, yield, and major leakage issues and are difficult to remove in practice.
Mechanical Stress affect of Etch-Stop Nitride and its Impact on Deep Submicron Transistor Design, Ito et al (IEDM, 2000) impose stress using an etch-stop nitride superlayer that is deposited after the device is completely constructed. Again, here the films have a built-in intrinsic biaxial stress. They found that when the film is in compression NFET performance is degraded, while the PFET is enhanced. Also, they did not improve the performance of both the PFET and NFET simultaneously. Also, since the film is well above the device the stress translated down into the silicon will be somewhat lessened, particularly when compared to something that is directly adjacent the device.
The present solution shows how to apply the correct states of stress through modifying the sidewall spacer process to benefit both the NFET and PFET simultaneously. It also differs substantially from both of these other approaches since the tension and compression are achieved through spacer structures that are physically close to the affected device regions whereas the prior art listed above shows the stress is imposed through strained Si in one case and from intrinsic stress in a layer that comes well after the device build (and not adjacent the device as we do).
The advantages of the method of the preferred embodiment of this invention include: device performance improvements for NFETs, PFETs, and for both NFETs and PFETs simultaneously; a process readily integratible into present manufacturing processes for bulk silicon, silicon-on-insulator ("SOI"), and strained silicon structures; and improved devices be integrated into present processes cheaply for significant device performance improvements.
It will be appreciated that, although specific embodiments of the invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In particular, while nitride is a good material choice for the two spacers because the intrinsic stress can be controlled from tension to compression. While this above embodiment with nitride spacers is preferred, this approach is not restricted in material choice. One can have additional options in terms of the material set. HDP can be used for compressive stress while TEOS can be used for tension. The integration of these material choices causes changes in process flow.
Other spacer materials can be used, such as ceramics and silicon carbide, which can also impart intrinsic stresses. The general view of stresses in silicon is that it's disadvantageous. Stresses lead to ruptures or dislocations in the lattice structure, which lead to junction leakage, etc. In the present invention, we're intentionally building in a stress pattern.
Accordingly, the scope of protection of this invention is limited only by the following claims and their equivalents.
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Melt butter in a medium saucepan over low heat; whisk in flour until smooth.
Cook 1 minute, whisking constantly.
Gradually whisk in milk; cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until sauce is thickened and bubbly.
Stir in green pepper and next 4 ingredients.
Layer half of potatoes in a lightly greased 13" x 9" baking dish.
Spoon half of sauce over potatoes; top with half of cheese.
Repeat procedure with remaining potato slices, sauce, and cheese.
Bake, covered, at 425° for 30 minutes.
Uncover and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Bake 15 more minutes or until golden.
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Those in the localization industry have become more aware of the importance of internationalization as a part of their overall globalization efforts. Software internationalization in particular can be difficult to articulate and efforts can be prone to errors without the proper help.
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SDH Institute (SDH) is a forward looking school with a clear focus on hospitality and business education. We strive to develop our students in a holistic manner. Our programmes not only equip our students with the professional and business knowledge and skills for the global hospitality industry, but also aim to inculcate an attitude of service excellence and entrepreneurship. Our comprehensive range of Certificate, Diploma, Advanced Diploma, Post-Graduate, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree and professional learning programmes, unique learning approach and caring student support create a truly distinctive educational experience.
for Hospitality/Events Management / Business or English Language Programme/s at levels from diploma to degrees by Vatel Institut (France) and the University of Gloucestershire (UK)
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The lecturer plays a key professional role in lesson delivery, as well as achieving successful student learning and development outcomes. You are responsible for the development of curriculum and delivery of courses, including the setting, vetting, marking and moderating assignments and examination scripts.
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For Hospitality, Events and Services, Business:
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- French Language
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Amongst order tables i have a Customers table and Addresses table. A customer can have many addresses so I have setup a one-to-many relationship in a yaml file. The thing is the id for the Customers table is auto generated so I would not know the Customers_id until after the insert however, the Customers_id is a foreign key in the Addresses table.
The information for both tables is captured on the same form although each set of data is in a subform. How do I get Doctrine to insert the data into the Customers table then fetch the Customers_id just entered and use it as the foreign key for the Addresses table.
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After much fanfare over his debut episode, the Vegan Black Metal Chef recently released a second episode called "Easy Meal Ideas of the Ages" that teaches heavy metal-loving cooks how to prepare several simple meals, including a medley of baked beans, potatoes and corn, a dish of sauteed Brussels sprouts, mushrooms and red pepper with truffle oil, and vegetable pasta.
Brian Manowitz, the Vegan Black Metal Chef, followed the same formula as his first episode, turning his cooking instructions into a song and preparing the meal with gothic garb and caked-on makeup.
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Christmas Vacation
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This is the third in the "National Lampoon" series about the Griswold family. In this sequel, the Griswolds must deal with a holiday with their in-laws.


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Good food and reasonable prices. I wish their lunch menu had salads, they only offer burgers and sandwiches.
Early morning must eat place in Walla Walla. Family operation, fun staff, and great coffee. We visited early on a Saturday morning and got one of the last 2 tables. Service was fast and food was excellent. Good home style food - you won't leave hungry. It's out toward the airport on the opposite side of Hwy 12. it's worth...
Hamburgers are great, as are homemade comfort food items like fresh, hot toast beef or roasted turkey open faced gravy sandwiches with mashed potatoes. The pumpkin hot cakes are yummy. Our go to place for home cooking in a restaurant.
This restaurant is always busy so you may have to stand outside to wait for a table. I would've loved a cup of coffee but was never offered one clear until we ordered and never received it until our food came. Since it was breakfast I was not too happy about that.We got a table but waited a long time...
Went here for lunch and had a bacon burger and fries. It was a tasty and big enough to share with my little guy.
A converted 50's A&W. A true family restaurant. Good food, not 5 star, but great value. Good service, friendly wait staff.
Mr. Ed's is a great place to eat. You can go there anytime and eat breakfast. The food is really good and you get a lot of it. The prices are not bad.
The one thing a lot of people may not know about Mr. Ed's is that the owners and staff go above and beyond to help out the...
Great breakfast , served in about the same time that you'd spend in McD's drive thru! I thought this place was closed for a long time?? Never saw anyone in it , but it was open Sunday morning so thought we'd give it a try! Good choice!
Looks like an Ex-A&W drive in , has the car shed and pointy roof , but has seating area inside and great food! I had the meat lovers bowl , the wife had the garbage omelet , bith were great and in about the time McD's tak to make a breakfast burrito! A little higher than we usually spend ,...
You can go there and have breakfast anytime you want. Good food and good service. Great place to take the family to eat. They have big table to seat about 8 people in the booth. If you want a beer with your dinner you can get one. When they have barbeque chicken it's great. Go try it out for your...
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Produced by the legendary Bob Ezrin and Jimmie Lee Sloas, the album ''The House Rules'' explodes with energy, but Kane''s Oklahoma drawl and phrasing tell you this is country music first and foremost. Not just a singer, but also an EMI songwriter with a cut on the latest Trace Adkins CD, Kane writes much of his own material or collaborates with his friends Blair Daly, Casey Beathard, Jerrod Niemann and others on the album.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What the WWW needed was a stylebook - Nielsen delivers
This book is primarily a stylebook. The web is often mistaken for an electronic book and this is probably one of the reasons it has taken a while to find a guide aimed at web usability. Jakob Nielsen does a great job in creating a style manual for a medium, which has different aims and limitations from printed material. What made Tim Berners-Lee¡s innovation...
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3.0 out of 5 stars Lesson Learned; Lesson Forgotten
This book did not resonate with me. Perhaps it is because I recently completed reading a great book on web design, "The Design of Sites."
It is not that the book is without merit. There are nuggets of wisdom buried in every chapter. Jakob Nielsen is an acknowledged web design expert. This book summarizes much of his thinking. Simplicity and usability should rule...
Published on Sept. 24 2003 by Craig L. Howe
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4.0 out of 5 stars This is a highly effective book with solid information,
Amazon Customer (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
In reading over the reviews it is easy to find people who are quite hostile to what Nielsen has to say and it's easy to understand why--he insults and threatens their very approach to web design. Nielsen's message is really quite simple: web sites should be constructed for the end user, not to demonstrate the skills and ego of the designer. Unless you are designing a site that is intended simply to demonstrate the breadth of your abilities, designing is not about fun--it's about taking information and making it as accessible as possible for your end users. It can be fun, but your own enjoyment shouldn't be the purpose.
In Designing Web Usability Nielsen does an effective job of demonstrating ways in which you can help your users to move through your site efficiently and accurately. Individual sections may seem seem somewhat self-evident, but taken as a whole these sections add up to an impressive amount of information.
Of particular interest are chapters 4: Site Design, and a section in chapter 3 on writing for the web. In the section on site design he discusses issues such as using navigational cues to orient the reader to where they are, where they've been, and where they can go, and different types of organizational schemes. As a technical communicator I found the section on writing for the web particularly relevant. Put simply--most people do not like to read online. You have a second or two to grab their attention and only a bit longer to hold them there if they are intrigued. Relevant information needs to be placed front and center and should be foregrounded through the effective use of headings, bulleted lists, etc. This section does a good job explaining how to do so.
None of this is to say that Nielsen is without fault. I do believe that there are times when his rules should be broken. He seems to assume that conveyance of information is the only purpose of the web and, obviously there are many other reasons people surf. Nevertheless, if your site has the purpose of communicating information of some form, this book should be read and absorbed.
1.0 out of 5 stars The Jakob Nielsen Drinking Game,
M.T. Kornmayer (Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
1. Go to any web or internet related conference. 2. Sneak in lots to drink. 3. Sneak in lots of friends. 4. Attend the obligatory "User-Centered Web Design" keynote session featuring Web Usability Guru(tm) Jakob Nielsen. 5. Follow these rules:
Every time he says "micropayment", take one drink.
Every time his reasoning relies on having solved "the bandwidth problem", take one drink.
Every time he uses a made-up word like "linkrot" to sound more like Tufte, take one drink.
Every time he forgets that design can be fun, take one drink.
Every time he excuses his own refusal to observe the rules he dictates to everyone else on the grounds that he "knows his audience", take one drink.
If he mentions scrolling, take one drink.
If he mentions that users don't scroll, take one drink.
If he mentions link colors, drink: once for "blue" once for "purple" three for "red", which nobody who's used a browser since 1993 thinks of as a followed link color, anyway. It's the "active link" color, dammit.
If he mentions the Macintosh desktop metaphor, have a pretzel.
Every time he quotes statistics from an unrelated study to prove a point about Web usability, take one drink.
If he actually uses a relevant study, finish bottle.
If Nielsen admits he got his design skills from watching Jerry Pournelle work on his "web page", clutch heart and die.
1.0 out of 5 stars whole lot of fluff,
By A Customer
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
It's hard to get through this book, partly because of poor design. It's padded with a lot of screen shots (of long gone websites) where he dissects the problems of the page. The screens aren't captioned, and often the accompanying text is separated from the page. There are many sidebars too, that sometimes deal with the topic at hand, often not. The end result, with competing areas of focus, is that this book is the hard copy equivalent of a <BLINK> tag. As for the content itself, it is mainly his opinon, when he does mention research it isn't referenced. Also, I've picked this book up often as a research tool, only to be disappointed that his guidelines were too generic/vague to put into practice--his idea of a web page is somewhat limited to a very general, text-centric information site. The examples, and guidelines in many instances, are dated; due to following the leader or listening to usability pundits many of his rants are obsolete. His free website is a better resource than this book.
1.0 out of 5 stars It would help if the author had practiced.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
This book can be summarized as a complete waste of time for anyone who really wants help with web design. Neilsen has not done any actual web design work in years and still looks back to his job at Sun (10 years ago) as if it has any relevance to the web today. 10 years ago a simple text based non graphics web site was preferable because no one had a connection fast enough to use the web in a graphical format, there were no real graphical browsers, and computers wre not powerful enough to do what a flash site today can do.
You don't need a PHD in interface design to know that less graphics on a site will make it download faster. You also don't need to pay him $175,000.00 to review your site (That is what he charges). Anyone who thinks this old man deserves that kind of money to look at their site and give their opinion needs more help then any one book can give them. You could hire a whole market research firm to do focus groups and surveys for less than this.
In no way has this man addressed the fact that every web site does not have to appeal to every possible person that comes to it. Web sites are made for a purpose and the only people that the site you design has to appeal to is your target audience. Neilsen picks apart every site because this person or that person may not like the site for whatever reason. You could find some reason to dislike any site, but that isn't how you design a web site. You pick you target audience and you design a site that appeals to that audience. You can't be everything to everyone.
Neilsen thinks a boring text only web site is what everyone needs. Maybe his eyesight is starting to go and he can't focus enough to keep up with a site that has actual visual appeal.
Try combining a little creativity with usability and see if people like the site better.
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful day to day. Period.,
Frank Lynch "frank_lynch" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
I've had this book for about a year, but have held back from reviewing it until I could see it in action in our work place. (In all honesty, I could have posted these same opinions six months ago; it was effective that long ago, but reviewing this was not one of my top priorities.) In my work place (a large large corporation whose website has scads of pages), this book has been a major resource for colleagues trying to support the user experience.
Nielsen makes his points clearly and supports them with germane examples. His tone is sober and persuasive, and while he often gives direction in absolute terms (allowing little room for judgment), he never sounds like Chicken Little. This increases his arguments' credibility, which is of course important if you need to cite an outside source.
The day to day usefulness? Well, where I work this book has buttressed discussions around page download times, organization, page real estate, intranets... I don't know of any other web book which could have filled this role. Granted, other books carry similar messages, but their authors are not quoted daily, and they are less likely to be recognized by those you work with. The fact that there is a mouse pad (intended as a joke) that asks you to ask yourself "What Would Jakob Do?" is a testament to the persuasiveness of his arguments. They are persuasive for a reason. BUY THIS BOOK.
3.0 out of 5 stars Overall, a good book to read. But not a bible to follow.,
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
Jakob is a controversial figure on web design community, and will keep being that way for quite some time. It's not hard to figure that out for someone who put his name right on the cover of the book like what it is with this book.
But yet, many of the comments that I read in the book are very helpful. A lot of them are common sense, but for some reasons, they haven't been common on the web page design.
The way I see it is, as long as it helps users retrieve information that they want from a web site, it is a valid guideline.
And one common misunderstanding about Jakob Nielson is that he thinks users are idots. But I don't think that's what he said. What he said is, users are not patient. And that I can totally relate to. I mean, hell, I am not patient when I browse the web.
As to the rest of the comment that he made, I don't agree with him, especially his comment on the efforts that has been made to the web environment to make it a multimedia. It is not a waste, Jakob! If it were, all of us would still be using DOS, not WINDOWS, today.
One last thing to complain about the book, the diagram and figures are terribly integrated, if at all, with the main text. I kept being forced to jump back and forth between the text and the figures and found myself confused many many times. Talking about usability and readability, hummm...... Jakob? Anyone?
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for Anyone Involved with Websites,
JB (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
Jackob Nielsen has pulled together an excellent primer on usability for websites. Perhaps the easiest way to summarize his book is the book's tagline: "The practice of simplicty."
Web design has to this point been more of an intuitive art for many designers. Many web managers look at general graphic and layout design and not the functionality that design is suppose to enable. Nielsen takes this intuition and describes exactly what solid, functional web design looks like and what it should do.
He uses numerous real world examples and screen shots throughout the book. Scattered throughout are statistics from his research which are helpful as well. Nielsen also explains how website should differ from Intranet sites and also how to "internationalize" your website for foreign users.
One particularly helpful chapter focused on how to write for the web. A common theme throughout the book is that web users are impatient and thus prefer to skim rather than read. Thus, when writing web content, you should do so with skimming in mind using lots of bullets, and highlighting key words. He also advocates using Title tags for links so that when a user places a mouse cursor over the link, a little bubble help will appear describing where the link will take the user.
The chapter on page design is also particularly helpful in building in designing pages that tells the user where they are, what they can do from there, where they can go from there, and what is offered - all without scrolling.
Nielsen has become the Father of Usability on the Internet. This is a great book to give you some practical advice on design. It won't tell you how to do coding, but it gives you the conceptual framework needed to design a site. Even if you do not agree with all of his points, it will at least have encouraged you to think about aspects of design that many haven't considered.
5.0 out of 5 stars For Advanced Users,
Sage Tyrtle (Ava, MO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
I bought this book without knowing anything about it other than the title and the fact that it was published by New Riders (who I've had great luck with in the past). When you consider that in general I only buy 2-3 books a year and do all the rest of my considerable reading at the library, that's saying something.
Jakob Nielson takes the world of web usability and makes it understandable to a complete usability ignoramus like me. After reading this book, I revamped almost all of my websites and yes, I'm getting more orders as a result. I'm also making sure I listen more closely to the negative feedback I get - because after reading this book I know that behind every person who does give negative feedback, there are 100 more who didn't bother to write.
The only slightly annoying facet of the book was the way he kept wandering off into the future and what "might happen" and how that "might effect" the web in the year 2005. Well, that's all well and good, but I'm worried about designing in the year 2000.
I would warn beginners NOT to purchase this book, however. This book is about *why* to make your website more user friendly. It does not tell anything about *how* to accomplish this. It's really for advanced users, and I would recommend it to any advanced user without reservations.
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, very helpful.,
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
I have seen harsh criticisms of this book. I suspect they may come from "artists" who are set on the defensive when Nielsen says something like, "Relish simplicity, and focus on the users' goals rather than glitzy design."
His book is based on research. And years of it. When he says something is confusing to a user, it's not because he doesn't like it, or thinks that the users are dunderheads, but rather because he has statistically seen it fail.
If you want good tips on usability based on statistics and research, this is your book. If you want to be pandered to and have some one tell you your graphics are king based on anecdotal information, look elsewhere.
NOTE- For those of you get the impression that this book limits creativity, think again. Nielsen in NO way tries to limit creativity. He simply adds "usability" to the list of page requirements [meaningful graphic content, navigation, etc.]. For some, this will add a new, bigger, and more exciting "creative" challenge. For others it may be threatening.
I doubt ANY BOOK can be a complete authority on any subject. But for usability, this has a LOT of information. It's not a "technical" book, so I found it easy reading. He may be repetitive at times, but lets face it, that's how humans learn (another statistical fact). So enjoy it, the ideas Nielsen shares can improve your site.
3.0 out of 5 stars Time to drive a stake through the heart of Nielsenism,
Adam Greenfield "Clean living under difficult... (NYC NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
Jakob Nielsen's bizarre insistence on treating the Web as if the years 1996 through 2000 had never happened is the sort of lapse in his otherwise-cogent thinking that will doom him to irrelevance. He makes points that need to be made, but I worry about any sentence of the form, "*All* Web sites *must*..."
There's no way anyone can finish that sentence and have it ring true to me, since the Web is such a hugely multifaceted environment. It's not - and never has been, at least not since Mosaic 1.0 - a purely informational medium. Neither is it a purely commercial environment. It contains both these elements, along with a strong leaving of emotion and an increasing ability to display aesthetic sophistication.
With these thoughts in mind, it's purely irresponsible to *demand* that Web sites be designed solely according to the Taylorist precepts of Nielsen's so-called "practice of simplicity." Simplicity is a wonderful thing - even an underrated thing - but there are topics on the Web, as in life, that require complexity, even idiosyncrasy. The implied insult in "Designing Web Uability" is that users are dimwitted drones who can't be expected to deal with idiosyncrasy.
And while the review-of-a-review below may seem snarky, the guy's got a point. I don't want to sound elitist, but simplicity in practice demands subtlety - mastery of the sort that generally eludes "Dummies." This book will *not* make you a Web design professional, and if the below example is any proof, it cannot even teach you the basics of aesthetic balance. Nielsen himself admits as much.
Usability is a good thing. It is not a religion. Nielsen loses sight of this, which makes him dangerous; half-competent project managers who take up his cause without ever having designed a Web site themselves are more dangerous still.
I think it's time for the anti-Nielsen: a loud, proud statement that design is OK, that users are clever, that Flash can be useful, and that emotion is at least equal to commerce and utility in the life of the Web.
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Naomi Judd event nets $115,000
CORPUS CHRISTI - Corpus Christi has had its share of celebrities pass through, and on Sept. 17, Naomi Judd dropped in to raise money for Ronald McDonald House of Corpus Christi. Judd is known as "the star next door" because she is so down to Earth. She told me she doesn't do anything she doesn't want to, and she most definitely wanted to be here.
The pre-party cocktail hour took place at an Ocean Drive home where talk bounced between the Grammy winner in the living room and the magnificent art throughout the home. Appetizers included fresh salmon and asparagus, topped off by what I have named chocolate bites of heaven. Delish! I wonder if Hester's will share the recipe.
Dr. Ron Schlimmer and wife Tana used this opportunity to finalize their Las Vegas plans with daughter-in-law Beth. The women also traded fashion tips as Beth's shoes -- accessorized with miniature bells -- were the talk, and the sound, of the night.
As we arrived at the American Bank Center for the sold-out affair, I spotted Barbara Canales. She had transformed from the pony-tailed hair and red Palmer Drug Abuse Program luncheon dress to hair down and a flowing yellow evening dress she wore as the dinner's mistress of ceremonies. Carroll High School volunteers busied themselves selling raffle tickets.
Not ones to miss an opportunity to raise money, organizers displayed Ronald McDonald houseguests' handmade table decorations, which were available for sale to be used as Christmas ornaments. More tugging on my heartstrings as Candace Becker paid tribute to her friend Abel Cruz.
She dedicated a plaque to his memory and shared personal stories of his battle with cancer. She believes his spirit lives on and sees him in every butterfly she encounters. There wasn't a dry eye at my table as all were reminded of the purpose of the evening.
A large portion of the evening was honoring Robert and Chris Adler for their philanthropic work in our town. I would have to devote an entire column to the Adlers to begin to do their achievements justice. I spotted son Troy with wife Bobbie, but was unable to locate son Matt.
Judd took the microphone and entertained and informed the crowd. She insisted the men loosen their ties and the ladies kick off their shoes under the tables. She reminded us that community support is vital because McDonald's Corp. doesn't provide operating funds for the local Ronald McDonald House. A friendly "heckle" from a nearby table stating, "Whataburger does" sent cheers through the hometown crowd.
Judd shared some personal moments, including stories of barbecue with Martina (McBride, I presume). I especially enjoyed the part where she was walking through the airport and saw fashionista daughter Ashley on In Style, Wynonna on Good Housekeeping, and herself on ... AARP.
The evening also included a heated live auction for a trip to Disney World for a family of four.
Craig Sico of Sico, White, Hoelscher & Braugh raised the bid from $6,000 to $10,000 in one fell swoop. Sold. But Sico and his partners outdid themselves by turning the winning bid into a cash donation and gifting the trip back to Ronald McDonald House to share with a deserving family. That's two gifts in one.
Executive director Becky Showers has been working for months to make the evening a success. With $115,000 net raised thus far, I'd say mission accomplished. And P.S., thanks for the VIP parking pass.
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