Abstract:
Semiconductor devices having deep trenches with fill material therein having low resistivity are provided along with methods of fabricating such semiconductor devices.
Abstract:
A trench capacitor (30) is arranged in a first trench (25) for production of a semiconductor memory (5). A first longitudinal trench (55) is arranged in the substrate (15) next to the first trench (25) and parallel thereto on the other side of the first trench (25), a second longitudinal trench (60) is arranged therein. A first spacer word line (70) is arranged in the first longitudinal trench (55) and a second spacer word line (75) is arranged in the second longitudinal trench (60). Connecting webs (80) are arranged in the first trench (25) between the first spacer word line (70) and the second spacer word line (75) with a thickness (110), which is smaller in the direction of the first spacer word line (70) than half the width of the first trench (25) in the direction of the first spacer word line (70).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the generation of a Silicon-On-Insulator layer structure on a silicon surface with any shape, whereby the Silicon-On-Insulator structure can only be produced locally. The method comprises the formation of mesopores (10) in the silicon surface region (3), the oxidation of the mesopore surface to give silicon oxide and web regions (22) of single-crystal silicon, remaining between adjacent mesopores (10), whereby said step is terminated as soon as a given minimum silicon wall strength for the web regions (22) is achieved, the release of the web regions (22) between adjacent mesopores at the end away from the semiconductor substrate (2) is carried out and a selective epitaxial process by means of which silicon is selectively grown on the released web regions (22) relative to the silicon oxide regions (11). The method can be used for the production of a vertical transistor and a memory cell with such a selection transistor.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method, whereby a gate layer stack consisting of at least two layers (3 and 5) is initially structured anisotropically and the bottom layer (3) is then etched, wherein an isotropic, preferably a selective etching step causes lateral underetching, i.e. removal of the bottom layer (3) to a predetermined channel length. A T-Gate transistor with very short channel length can be accurately, easily and economically produced with the aid of the inventive method. The electrical switching properties of said transistor are better than those of other T-gate transistors formed with conventional methods.
Abstract:
The capacitor is arranged on the surface of a substrate (1). A first capacitor electrode has a middle part (M) and a side part (ST),which point vertically upwards, are arranged beside each other and are connected with each other via an upper part (O) located above said middle part (M) and said side part (ST). The middle part (M) is longer than the side part (ST) and is connected with other components of the circuit arrangement located below said middle part (M) and said side part (ST). The first capacitor electrode is provided with a capacitor dielectric (KD). A second capacitor electrode (P) borders the capacitor dielectric (KD).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the production of an integrated semiconductor circuit, whereby electrical contacts (20), for first conducting structures (1), are produced in the memory region (I) and the first conducting structures (1) are contacted, without contacting second conducting structures (2) arranged laterally with respect to the first conducting structures (1), which laterally border the first conducting structures (1) or are arranged too close to the same to be selectively lithographically masked. According to the invention, the first conducting structures (1) are contacted, whereby a conducting layer (L) is deposited and structured after a planarisation in the memory region at the level of the first conducting structures (1) above the second conducting structures (2), which is applied in the logic region for the generation of gate electrodes, for example. Intermediate contacts (10) are thus structured which are so wide that contact holes for the electrical contacts can be fitted thereon. The deposition of a nitride layer for the protection of the second conducting layer (2) is thus superfluous.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a novel method for production of a memory capacitor, embodied as a trench or laminar condenser and is used, in particular, in a DRAM memory cell. Said method comprises the following steps: a lower metallic condenser electrode (13), a storage dielectric (14) and an upper condenser electrode (15) are formed, whereby the lower metallic condenser electrode (13) is formed in a self-justified manner on a silicon base material (1), then a free silicon region is formed in those positions where the lower condenser electrode is to be formed and then metal silicide (13) is formed selectively on the free silicon.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a trench condenser for use in a DRAM memory cell and a method for production of said trench condenser. Said trench condenser comprises a lower condenser electrode (10), a memory dielectric (12) and an upper condenser electrode (18), at least partly arranged in a trench (5), whereby the lower condenser electrode (10) lies adjacent to a wall of the trench in the lower region of the trench, whilst in the upper region of the trench, a spacer layer (9), made from an insulating material, is provided adjacent to the wall of the trench. The upper electrode (18) comprises at least two layers (13, 14, 15), of which at least one is metallic, with the proviso that the upper electrode does not comprise two layers of which the lower is tungsten silicide and the upper doped polymeric silicon, whereby the layers (13, 14, 15) of the upper electrode run along the walls and the floor of the trench (5) at least as far as the upper edge of the spacer layer.
Abstract:
An electrochemical method is provided for producing trenches for trench capacitors in p-doped silicon with a very high diameter/depth aspect ratio for large scale integrated semiconductor memories. Trenches (macropores) having a diameter of less than about 100 nm and a depth of more than 10 mum can be produced on p-doped silicon having a very low resistivity at a high etching rate.