Abstract:
The electrical performances of a dielectric film of capacitive coupling in an integrated structure are enhanced by forming the polycrystalline-metal electrically conductive layer coupled with the dielectric film substantially unigranular over the coupling area, commonly to be defined by patterning the stacked dielectric and conductive layers. A process of forming a polycrystalline silicon film having exceptionally large grains of a size of the same order of magnitude of the dimensions of the patterned details is disclosed. These exceptionally large grains are obtained by preventing the formation of "precursor nuclei" of subsequent grain formation and growth at the deposition interface with the dielectric that are apparently formed during the first instants of silicon CVD deposition and by successively growing the crystallites at a sufficiently low annealing temperature.