Patent ID: 7781827

Claim:
A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; and at least one vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) on said substrate and comprising at least one superlattice comprising a plurality of laterally stacked groups of layers transverse to said substrate, a gate laterally adjacent said at least one superlattice, and regions vertically above and below said at least one superlattice and cooperating with said gate for causing transport of charge carriers through said at least one superlattice in the vertical direction, each group of layers of said superlattice comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions, wherein at least some atoms from opposing base semiconductor portions are chemically bound together with the chemical bonds traversing the at least one intervening non-semiconductor monolayer.