摘要:
A transistor on a silicon substrate is covered by an insulating layer. A conducting plug passes through the insulating layer to the transistor drain. The bottom electrode of a ferroelectric capacitor that directly overlies the plug and drain contacts the plug. The ferroelectric layer is self-patterned and completely overlies the memory cell. A self-patterned sacrificial layer completely overlies the ferroelectric layer. The bottom electrode of the capacitor is completely enclosed by the ferroelectric layer, the insulating layer, and the conducting plug. The sacrificial layer comprises either: a) a metal selected from a first metal group consisting of tantalum, hafnium, tungsten, niobium and zirconium; or b) a metallic compound comprising one or more metals selected from a second group of metals consisting of titanium, tantalum, hafnium, tungsten, niobium and zirconium compounded with one or more metals from a third group of metals consisting of strontium, calcium, barium, bismuth, cadmium, and lead, such as strontium tantalate, tantalum oxide, bismuth deficient strontium bismuth tantalate, strontium titanate, strontium zirconate, strontium niobate, tantalum nitride, and tantalum oxynitride.
摘要:
UV radiation is applied to a substrate in a deposition chamber to desorb water and other contaminates from it. A liquid precursor is misted, flowed into the deposition chamber and deposited on a substrate while UV radiation is applied to the mist. The film of liquid on the substrate is dried and annealed on the substrate while the UV radiation is applied to form a solid thin film of a metal oxide. The thin film is then incorporated into an electronic device of an integrated circuit fabricated on the substrate. The application of UV radiation to both the mist during deposition and the thin film after deposition significantly increases the quality of the resulting integrated circuits. The process has been found to be particularly excellent for making BST, strontium bismuth tantalate, and strontium bismuth niobate.
摘要:
A photosensitive liquid solution is used to make thin films for use in integrated circuits. The photosensitive liquid solution contains a photo initiator, and solvent, and a mixture of metals bonded to free-radical-susceptible monomers. The metals are mixed in amounts corresponding to the desired stoichiometry of a metal oxide thin film that derives from the. The photosensitive liquid solution is applied to a substrate, soft baked, and exposed to ultraviolet radiation under a photo mask. The ultraviolet radiation patterns the soft-baked film through a free radical polymerization chain reaction. A solvent etch is used to remove the unpolymerized portion of the polymerized film. The remaining thin film pattern is annealed to provide a patterned metal oxide film.
摘要:
A first metal, an alcohol, and a carboxylic acid are reacted to form a metal alkoxycarboxylate which is then reacted with an alkoxide and/or a carboxylate of a second metal to form a precursor. Alternatively, a metal carboxylate and a metal alkoxide are combined and heated to form a precursor. In either alternative, the precursor includes all or most of the metal-oxygen-metal bonds of a desired metal oxide and a carboxylate ligand. The precursor is applied to a substrate, dried and annealed to form the metal oxide, such as BST. The metal-oxygen-metal bonds in the precursor permit the desired metal oxide to be formed from the precursor in one step, providing excellent thin films suitable for integrated circuits. The carboxylate ligand provides stability to the precursor allowing it to be stored for periods common in large scale manufacturing.
摘要:
Metals are reacted in a first solvent, such as 2-methoxyethanol, to form an initial precursor comprising metal-oxide compounds dissolved in the first solvent. A second solvent, such as xylene, that does not react with the metal is added to the solution and the solution heated to distill away the first solvent and form a final precursor. The final precursor is spin-coated on an integrated circuit substrate then dried and annealed to form a thin film of a metal oxide. For metal oxides including bismuth, the bismuth precursor is added to a cold initial precursor and the final precursor is not heated after the bismuth precursor is added. The second solvent wets the substrate better than the first solvent and has a better viscosity for spin-coating, thus resulting in a denser thin film with fewer imperfections.
摘要:
A non-volatile integrated circuit memory in which the memory cell includes a first transistor gate overlying a first channel region, a ferroelectric material overlying a second channel region, and a second transistor gate overlying a third channel region. The channel regions are connected in series, and preferably are contiguous portions of a single semiconducting channel. The firm channel is connected to a plate voltage that is 20% to 50% of the coercive voltage of the ferroelectric material. A sense amplifier is connected to the third channel region via a bit line. The rise of the bit line after reading a logic "1" state of the cell is prevented from disturbing the ferroelectric material by shutting off the third channel before the sense amplifier rises.
摘要:
A first metal, an alcohol, and a carboxylic acid are reacted to form a metal alkoxycarboxylate which is then reacted with an alkoxide and/or a carboxylate of a second metal to form a precursor. Alternatively, a metal carboxylate and a metal alkoxide are combined and heated to form a precursor. In either alternative, the precursor includes all or most of the metal-oxygen-metal bonds of a desired metal oxide and a carboxylate ligand. The precursor is applied to a substrate, dried and annealed to form the metal oxide, such as BST. The metal-oxygen-metal bonds in the precursor permit the desired metal oxide to be formed from the precursor in one step, providing excellent thin films suitable for integrated circuits. The carboxylate ligand provides stability to the precursor allowing it to be stored for periods common in large scale manufacturing.
摘要:
A precursor comprising a metal 2-ethylhexanoate in a xylenes solvent is applied to an integrated circuit wafer. The wafer is baked to dry the precursor, annealed to form a layered superlattice material on the wafer, then the integrated circuit is completed. If the metal is titanium, the precursor comprises titanium 2-methoxyethoxide having at least a portion of its 2-methoxyethoxide ligands replaced by 2-ethylhexanoate. If the metal is a highly electropositive element, the solvent comprises 2-methoxyethanol. If the metal is lead, bismuth, thallium, or antimony, 1% to 75% excess metal is included in the precursor to account for evaporation of the oxide during baking and annealing.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating fine mists of liquids using a rotating turbine blade disposed within an enclosure. A mixture of a liquid and a carrier gas are flowed into the enclosure such that it immediately impacts on the rotating turbine blade disposed near a lower end of the enclosure, and the resulting mist is withdrawn under vacuum near an upper end of the enclosure. A method and apparatus are also disclosed for chemical vapor deposition of thin films of complex chemical compounds using the discussed mists.
摘要:
A 1T1R resistive memory array comprised of chains of memory cells, where each memory cell is composed of a resistive element in parallel with a switch. Such chains of memory cells are non-volatile and provide for each of the memory cells to be randomly accessed.