摘要:
Provided are methods of fabricating capacitors of semiconductor devices, the methods including: forming a lower electrode on a semiconductor substrate, performing a pre-process operation on the lower electrode for suppressing deterioration of the lower electrode during a process, forming a dielectric layer on the lower electrode using a source gas and an ozone gas, and forming an upper electrode on the dielectric layer, wherein the pre-process operation and the forming of the dielectric layer may be performed in one device capable of atomic layer deposition.
摘要:
Provided are methods of fabricating capacitors of semiconductor devices, the methods including: forming a lower electrode on a semiconductor substrate, performing a pre-process operation on the lower electrode for suppressing deterioration of the lower electrode during a process, forming a dielectric layer on the lower electrode using a source gas and an ozone gas, and forming an upper electrode on the dielectric layer, wherein the pre-process operation and the forming of the dielectric layer may be performed in one device capable of atomic layer deposition.
摘要:
A method for forming a Ta2O5 capacitor on a semiconductor device reduces leakage current and increases cell capacitance by utilizing a two-step rapid thermal nitridation (RTN) process to form a nitride layer on a hemi-spherical grain (HSG) storage node. The first RTN process is performed in a NH3 atmosphere at 800±40° C. for 180±60 seconds, thereby forming a nitride layer having a thickness of about 4 Å. The second RTN process is performed in a NH3 atmosphere at 850±40° C. for 180±60 seconds, thereby increasing the thickness of the nitride layer to at least about 7 Å. Therefore, a nitride layer that is thick enough to act as an oxidation barrier is achieved, but agglomeration of the HSGs on the storage node due to high process temperatures is prevented. To make the structure more readily adaptable to process for manufacturing DRAMs with Ta2O5 dielectric layers, a rapid thermal oxidation (RTO) process can then be performed in an O2 or N2O atmosphere at 850±50° C. for 90±30 seconds to thereby form a combined layer comprising a nitride layer and an oxide layer.
摘要:
A hemispherical grain (HSG) capacitor having HSGs on at least a part of the surface of capacitor lower electrodes, and a method of forming the same. In the capacitor, lower electrodes are formed of at least two amorphous silicon layers including an amorphous silicon layer doped with a high concentration of impurities and an amorphous silicon layer doped with a low concentration of impurities, and HSGs are formed, wherein the size of the hemispherical grains can be adjusted such that the size of HSGs formed on the inner surface of a U-shaped lower electrode or on the top of a stacked lower electrode is larger than that of HSGs formed on the outer surface of the U-shaped lower electrode or on the sidews of the stacked lower electrode. Thus, bridging between neighboring lower electrodes can be avoided by appropriately adjusting the size of HSGs, resulting in uniform capacitance wafer-to-wafer and within a wafer. The mechanical strength of the U-shaped lower electrode can also be enhanced.