摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device including a memory cell comprising a memory cell selecting MISFET Qs formed on the main surface of a semiconductor substrate 1 and an information storage capacitor C that is connected in series to said memory cell selecting MISFET Qs, and that have a lower electrode 54, a capacitor insulator 58 and an upper electrode 59, wherein the lower electrode 54 is made of a conductive material containing ruthenium dioxide (RuO2) as principle ingredient and the capacitor insulator 58 is made of crystalline tantalum pentoxide. Thus, the capacitance required for the memory cells of a 256 Mbits DRAM or those of a DRAM of a later generation can be secured.
摘要:
Insulating films 34 through 38 (of which insulating films 34, 36, 38 are silicon nitride films and insulating films 35, 38 are silicon oxide films) are sequentially formed on the wires 33 of the fourth wiring layer and groove pattern 40 is transferred into the insulating film 38 by means of photolithography. An anti-reflection film 41 is formed to fill the grooves 40 of the insulating film 38 and then a resist film 42 carrying a hole pattern 43 is formed. The films are subjected to an etching operation in the presence of the resist film 42 to transfer the hole pattern into the insulating films 38, 37, 36 and part of the insulating film 35. Subsequently, the resist film 42 and the anti-reflection film 41 are removed and the groove pattern 40 and the hole pattern 43 are transferred respectively into the insulating film 37 and the insulating film 35 by using the insulating film 38 as mask.
摘要:
A digital video signal processing apparatus for reducing the data rate of, and interpolating digital, video signals of a component format. The apparatus comprises a half-band high pass filter having a coefficient profile equivalent to that obtained by setting a center coefficient of an odd-order half-band low pass filter to zero, or a notch filter having a coefficient profile equivalent to that obtained by eliminating a center coefficient and even-numbered coefficients of such a low pass filter, and a delay line for giving a predetermined delay time to the signal supplied thereto, whereby the data rate of multiplexed or time-divided signals can be reduced, or the signals interpolated, in a relatively simple design employing a single digital filter.
摘要:
A superconducting material made of tungsten or molybdenum containing a specified amount of silicon, a wiring made of this superconducting material, and a semiconductor device using this wiring.The above-mentioned superconducting material undegoes no damage even in the steps of heat treatments effected after the formation of a wiring therefrom by virtue of its high melting point, and can be very easily patterned by reactive ion etching using SF.sub.6 as an etching gas, which has heretofore been generally employed. These features, in which conventional superconducting materials are lacking, allow the superconducting material of the present invention to exhibit excellent properties particularly when used in the wirings of a semiconductor device.
摘要:
A substrate processing method includes preparing a substrate having a low-k interlayer dielectric film as a to-be-etched film and a photoresist film, formed on the low-k interlayer insulating film, serving as an etching mask with a predetermined circuit pattern; etching the low-k interlayer insulating film through the photoresist film to form grooves and/or holes in the low-k interlayer insulating film; ashing the photoresist film by using hydrogen radicals generated by bring a hydrogen-containing gas into contact with a catalyst of a high temperature; and recovering damage to the low-k interlayer insulating film due to the ashing by supplying a specific recovery gas. The method further includes recovering damage to the low-k interlayer insulating film due to the etching by supplying a specific recovery gas.
摘要:
A power monitoring device is configured to monitor power consumed in a device for mounting component, which constitutes a component mounting line. The power monitoring device includes: an operation information collecting section configured to collect in time-series operation information representing a device operation state of the device for mounting component and to create time-series data of the operation information; a power measuring section configured to measure in time-series an amount of power consumption representing an amount of power consumed in the device for mounting component and to create time-series data of the amount of power; a synchronous output section configured to output the time-series data of the operation information and the time-series data of the amount of power by synchronizing respective time axes in time-series with each other.
摘要:
A film forming cycle based on pulse CVD or ALD is repeated multiple times to form a single layer of insulation film, while a reforming cycle is implemented in the aforementioned process, either once or multiple times per each film forming cycle, by treating the surface of formed film using a treating gas that has been activated by a plasma.
摘要:
A steplike offset between a memory cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, which is caused by a capacitor C, is reduced by an insulating film having a thickness substantially equal to the height of the capacitor C. Wiring or interconnection grooves are defined in the neighborhood of the surface of an insulating film whose surface is flattened by a CMP method. Further, connecting holes are defined in lower portions of the bottom faces of the interconnection grooves respectively. Second layer interconnections containing copper are formed within the interconnection grooves, and connecting portions containing copper are formed within the connecting holes. The second layer interconnections and first layer interconnections are connected to each other by the connecting portions whose lengths are shortened. The second layer interconnections and the connecting portions are integrally formed by a damascene method using the CMP method.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having, for example, a memory cell array portion and a peripheral circuit portion is disclosed. By such a method, a first interlayer insulating film is formed on a semiconductor substrate, a first connection hole is formed by selectively removing a predetermined portion of the first interlayer insulating film, the sides of the first hole being substantially vertical to the bottom thereof, a first plug is formed by padding the first hole with a metallic film and, subsequently, a second interlayer insulating film is formed on the first insulating film, a second hole is formed by selectively removing a predetermined portion of the second interlayer insulating film, the sides of the second hole being substantially vertical to the bottom thereof, and a second plug aligned to be in direct connection with the first plug is formed by padding the second hole with the metallic film. A MOS transistor is formed on the semiconductor substrate before the first interlayer insulating film is formed and the first hole formed is extended to expose the diffused layer of the MOS transistor. The surfaces of both the first and second interlayer insulating films are smoothed by a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) method. The process of padding the connection holes with the metallic film is effected through a CVD or selective CVD method.
摘要:
A digital video signal processing apparatus for reducing the data rate of, and interpolating digital, video signals of a component format. The apparatus comprises a half-band high pass filter having a coefficient profile equivalent to that obtained by setting a center coefficient of an odd-order half-band low pass filter to zero, or a notch filter having a coefficient profile equivalent to that obtained by eliminating a center coefficient and even-numbered coefficients of such a low pass filter, and a delay line for giving a predetermined delay time to the signal supplied thereto, whereby the data rate of multiplexed or time-divided signals can be reduced, or the signals interpolated, in a relatively simple design employing a single digital filter.