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PURPOSE: A method for fabricating a nitride layer of a semiconductor device is provided to reduce plasma damage to a material layer under the nitride layer by forming pre-activated nitrogen gas and by inducing the nitrogen gas to a nitridification chamber so that the nitrogen gas is activated to be a plasma state. CONSTITUTION: The material layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate with the material layer is induced to the nitridification chamber(S150). Nitrogen gas is induced to a pre-activation unit connected to the nitridification chamber to form pre-activated nitrogen gas(S155). The pre-activated nitrogen gas is induced to the nitridification chamber to form activated nitrogen gas(S160). The activated nitrogen gas reacts with the material layer to form a nitride layer on the material layer(S165).
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PURPOSE: A wafer processing apparatus is provided to efficiently form a mold oxide layer of a multilayer structure necessary for forming a cylindrical capacitor of a high integrated semiconductor memory device without being exposed to the atmosphere. CONSTITUTION: A cassette(114) into which a wafer(112) is loaded is positioned in a loadlock chamber(110). A vacuum-exhausted transfer chamber(120) has a robot arm(122) capable of loading and unloading the wafer. A plurality of vacuum processing chambers are connected to the transfer chamber through a gate valve. The first oxide layer is deposited in the first chamber(130). A heat treatment process is performed on the first oxide layer in the second chamber(140). The second oxide layer different from the first oxide layer is formed on the first oxide layer in the third chamber(150).
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PURPOSE: A method for fabricating a hemispherical grain capacitor is provided to prevent adjacent lower electrodes from being short-circuited, by preventing the lower electrodes from protruding over a mold insulation layer even if a part of the mold insulation layer is eliminated by the limit of etch selectivity when removing a planarizing insulation layer. CONSTITUTION: The mold insulation layer(140) having an opening in a region for a capacitor is formed on a substrate. Silicon of a uniform thickness is deposited on the mold insulation layer to form a lower electrode layer having a concave part. An insulation material is deposited on the lower electrode layer to fill the concave part so that the planarizing insulation layer(180') is formed. The planarizing insulation layer and the lower electrode layer are eliminated until the mold insulation layer is exposed so that a cylindrical lower electrode(165) is formed. A part of the upper portion of the lower electrode is removed to be lower than the surface of the planarizing insulation layer and the mold insulation layer. The planarizing insulation layer is removed to expose the concave part of the lower electrode. A hemispherical grain is formed on the surface of the concave part of the exposed lower electrode. A dielectric layer and an upper electrode are formed on the cylindrical lower electrode having the hemispherical grain.
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PURPOSE: A method for forming a thin film using an atomic layer deposition is provided to obtain a superior stoichiometric thin film by restraining the formation of undesirable impurities when using the atomic layer deposition. CONSTITUTION: The method comprises the steps of chemically adsorbing the first reactant on the substrate by infusing first reactant comprising elements consisting the thin film and ligands into a reaction chamber containing a substrate; removing the first reactant physically adsorbed by purging the reaction chamber with an inert gas; and forming an atomic layer unit of thin film by the chemical reaction of the elements consisting the thin film with the second reactant by infusing second reactant of which binding energy with the elements consisting the thin film is greater than the ligands into the reaction chamber and simultaneously removing the ligands without any side reactions. The method comprises the steps of chemically adsorbing the first reactant on the substrate by infusing first reactant into a substrate loaded reaction chamber (101); removing the physically adsorbed first reactant by purging the reaction chamber with an inert gas (103); forming an atomic layer unit of thin film by the chemical substitution of the first reactant with the second reactant by infusing second reactant into the reaction chamber (105); removing the physically adsorbed second reactant by purging the reaction chamber with an inert gas (107); and infusing third reactant for removing impurities and improving stoichiometry into the thin film formed reaction chamber.
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PURPOSE: A semiconductor device, a manufacturing method thereof, a semiconductor module including the same, an electronic circuit board, and an electronic system are provided to improve productivity by forming a semiconductor device with a capacitor including titanium oxide of rutile. CONSTITUTION: A lower vanadium dioxide layer(150) of rutile is formed on a bottom electrode. A titanium oxide layer(160) of rutile is formed on the lower vanadium dioxide layer. A top electrode(180) is formed on the titanium oxide layer. The bottom electrode includes vanadium. An upper vanadium dioxide layer of rutile is formed between the titanium oxide layer and the top electrode.
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PURPOSE: A layer structure, a capacitor including the layer structure and a method of manufacturing the same are provided to improve the interference characteristics between a conductive film and a dielectric film by forming the conductive film and the dielectric film. CONSTITUTION: A conductive film(110) is comprised of a metal-nitride including vanadium(V), niobium(Nb) or alloy of them. A dielectric layer(120) is formed on the conductive film while is comprise of a high-k dielectric material. A metal-nitride has a cubic crystalline structure or a hexagonal crystalline structure. Electric charge is stored inside the dielectric layer between electrodes facing with each other.
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A MIM(Metal-Insulator-Metal) capacitor and a method for fabricating the same are provided to improve the interface property and reduce the leakage current of the MIM capacitance by using an upper interface dielectric layer which is higher than a bulk dielectric layer in specific resistance. A MIM(Metal-Insulator-Metal) capacitor comprises a lower metal electrode(100), a lower interface dielectric layer(110), a bulk dielectric layer(120), an upper interface dielectric layer(130), and an upper metal electrode(140). The lower interface dielectric layer is formed on the lower metal electrode. The bulk dielectric layer is formed on the lower interface dielectric layer and made from material having more than 100 of permittivity. The upper interface dielectric layer is formed on the bulk dielectric layer. The upper metal electrode is formed on the upper interface dielectric layer. The lower interface dielectric layer, the bulk dielectric layer, and the upper interface dielectric layer have perovskite structure respectively. Both lower and upper interface dielectric layers are higher than the bulk dielectric layer in specific resistance.
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박막 제조 방법 및 이를 이용한 게이트 구조물, 커패시터와 플래시 메모리 장치의 제조 방법에서, 챔버 내에 기판을 위치시킨 후, 지르코늄 전구체 물질과 티타늄 전구체 물질이 혼합된 반응 물질 및 상기 반응 물질을 산화시키기 위한 산화제를 상기 기판 상부로 제공한다. 그 결과, 상기 기판 상에는 지르코늄-티타늄-산화물을 함유하는 고체 물질로 이루어지는 박막이 형성된다. 그리고, 상기 박막을 게이트 구조물의 게이트 절연막, 커패시터의 유전막 또는 플래시 메모리 장치의 유전막 등에 용이하게 적용한다.
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엠아이엠 커패시터의 형성방법들 및 그에 의해 제조된 엠아이엠 커패시터들을 제공한다. 엠아이엠 커패시터를 형성하는 방법들은 반도체기판 상에 하부전극을 형성하는 것을 구비한다. 상기 하부전극 상에 하부 유전막을 형성하고, 상기 하부 유전막 상에 상부 유전막을 형성한다. 상기 하부 유전막은 상기 상부 유전막 보다 큰 에너지 밴드 갭을 갖는 유전막으로 형성한다. 상기 상부 유전막 상에 상부전극을 형성한다. 상기 상부전극은 상기 하부전극 보다 큰 일 함수를 갖는 금속막으로 형성한다. 엠아이엠 커패시터, 고유전막, 누설전류, 금속 전극