Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the rough surface on a side wall of a trench of a trench capacitor by forming the trench capacitor in the shape of a bottle with the lower part of the treanch being larger than the upper part and covering a collar and an epitaxial buried plate from inside with a node dielectric. SOLUTION: A trench capacitor 310 included in a DRAM cell 300 is formed in a silicon wafer substrate 301. A lower part of a trench has a larger diameter or width WL than the diameter or width WU of an upper part. The trench of such a shape is called a bottle trench. And, an epitaxial silicon (epi) layer 365 covers the lower part of the trench below a collar 368 from inside. The epi is doped with an n-type dopant such as As or P and is used as a buried plate of a capacitor. By covering the lower part of the trench by the epi layer from inside, the rough surface to be formed with a node dielectric can be reduced.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a trench capacitor, wherein the rough surface of a trench sidewall is suppressed. SOLUTION: In a trench capacitor 301, an epitaxial layer 365 is provided at the lower part of the trench. The epitaxial layer 365 is used as an embedded plate of the trench capacitor. Furthermore, the trench lower part is surrounded by a diffused region 367, which results in higher dopant concentration of the epitaxial layer 365. The diffused region 367 is formed through vapor-phase doping, plasma doping, or plasma infiltration ion implantation.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the densities of borophosphate-silicate glass and an oxide existing on the glass before forming a pattern, by exposing the glass and undoped oxide to a high temperature before a line patterning step, a contact etching step, and an ion implanting step. SOLUTION: After a dielectric layer of borophosphate-silicate glass having fluidity is stuck to the surface of a substrate, another dielectric layer of a material having no fluidity is stuck to the surface of the glass layer. Then, contact etching and a high dose of ion implantation are performed so that an undoped oxide composed of SiO2 existing on the dielectric layer having no fluidity can be exposed to a junction activating annealing temperature, namely, a high annealing temperature of about 800 deg.C to 1,100 deg.C. After the ion implantation, contacts and lines are metallized by again exposing the contacts and lines to a high annealing temperature. Therefore, the densities of the borophosphate-silicate glass and SiO2 existing on the glass can be increased before forming a pattern.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lessen the area required for individual memory cells, by extending a first address line to the sidewall of a trench, along the trench extending in a semiconductor substrate. SOLUTION: At least one trench 30 having at least one sidewall 75 exists in a semiconductor substrate 25. Then, a first address line 70 extends at the sidewall 75 of the trench 30, along the trench 30. Then, the first address line 70 arranged at the sidewall 75 is relatively thin in cross section, but as against this, it is constituted wide without taking an additional necessary space, and it extend relatively deep into the trench 30. Therefore, it constitutes the trench 30 deep enough. Accordingly, the first address line 70 relatively wide can have small electric resistance by the relatively large sectional area even if it is of small structure width, and this device can lessen the required area of the memory cell.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory cell device which can arrange memory cells as many as possible in a narrow space and also to provide a method for manufacturing the memory cell device. SOLUTION: The memory cell device includes transistors arranged three- dimensionally. In this case, vertical MOS transistors are arranged on side faces of semiconductor webs 10 and 20 so that a plurality of the transistors are alternately arranged. The transistors disposed on one side in an upper/lower positional relationship are connected in series.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce manufacture cost by alternately forming layer rows which alternately have layers formed of silicon and layers containing germanium on a substrate, forming supporting patterns so that they cover the layer rows, selectively removing the layers containing germanium and forming dielectrics and the like on the surface of the supporting patterns. SOLUTION: An insulating layer 2 is formed on the substrate 1 and the layer strings where the layers 41 formed of silicon and the layers 42 containing germanium are alternately doped are formed on the surface of the insulating layer 2. Layer patterns 4' are formed so that the surface of the insulating layer 2 is exposed by anisotropic etching. The supporting patterns 5 covering the sides and the surfaces of the layer patterns 4' are formed by selective epitaxy. The part of the layers 42 containing germanium is removed by selective etching so that the layers 41 constituted of doped silicon and the supporting patterns remain. Then, the capacitor dielectrics 6 and a counter electrode 7 are formed on the surfaces of the layers 41 formed of doped silicon and the supporting patterns 5.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce manufacture cost by alternately forming a silicon layer and a layer containing germanium in a trench on a semiconductor substrate, forming a supporting pattern, removing the layer containing germanium and forming an electrode pattern. SOLUTION: A trench mask 13 is formed on the semiconductor substrate 12 and the trench is formed by etching. A dope region 15, the layer 16 containing germanium, the silicon layer 17 and the layer 18 containing germanium are formed in the trench. Then, a base part is removed and a polysilicon layer 20 becoming the supporting pattern is formed. Then, the upper part of the polysilicon layer 20 is etched back and the layers 16 and 18 containing germanium are removed by selective etching. Then, the electrode pattern 21 is formed. A memory dielectric 22 is formed on the surface of the electrode pattern 21, a counter electrode 23 by the polysilicon layer is formed so that the internal part of the trench is filled and a capacitor is formed. Furthermore, source/drain regions 24 are formed.
Abstract:
The inventive integrated circuit comprises at least one first component with a structure to which defects may be adjacent and a second component with at least one p-n junction (Ü'), said components being situated next to each other in a substrate (1) whose defects extend in a defect plane (d) at least in sections. The crystal orientation of the substrate (1) in relation to the first component and the second component is chosen with the aim of keeping the defects on the surfaces without them intersecting the p-n junction (Ü'), in order to prevent undesirable leakage currents through the p-n junction (Ü'). The integrated circuit is especially a DRAM cell arrangement with extended retention time. The inventive integrated circuit is produced by mounting photo-resist masks of a known layout on the starting wafer, the masks being rotated in relation to a known starting wafer. Alternatively, photo-resist masks of a known layout can be mounted on a starting wafer in a conventional manner, the output wafer having a marking showing the course of the defect plane (d).
Abstract:
(57) Abstract The invention relates to a DRAM storage capacitor, comprising a dielectric made of silicon nitride and at least two electrodes placed opposite to each other above the dielectric. A material with higher tunnel barrier ( phi beta ) between the Fermi level (F) of the material and the conduction band (L) of the dielectric is used for the electrodes. For said purpose, the appropriate materials are metals such a platinum, tungsten and iridium or silicide. (57) Zusammenfassung Die Erfindung betrifft einen Speicherkondensator für einen DRAM, mit einem aus Siliziumnitrid bestehenden Dielektrikum und mit wenigstens zwei, über das Dielektrikum einander gegenüberliegenden Elektroden. Für die Elektroden wird ein Material mit hoher Tunnelbarriere ( phi beta ) zwischen Fermi-Niveau (F) des Materials und Leitungsband (L) des Dielektrikums verwendet. Geeignete Materialien sind hierfür Metalle wie Platin, Wolfram und Iridium oder Silizide.
Abstract:
A perforated workpiece, comprising a silicon substrate (1) having a first region (6) with through-pores (4) and a second region (7) with blind pores, is new. An Independent claim is also included for producing a perforated workpiece by electrochemically etching one face (2) of a silicon substrate (1) to form pores (4) of depth less than the substrate thickness, providing the opposite substrate face (3) with a mask layer which exposes first regions (6) of this opposite substrate face, etching the exposed face regions (6) to the bottoms of the pores (4) and then removing the mask layer.