摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication method is provided for forming a capacitor on a semiconductor integrated circuit substrate. A lower capacitor electrode is formed over the semiconductor integrated circuit substrate and a capacitor dielectric is formed over the lower capacitor electrode. The capacitor dielectric is preferably formed of silicon nitride. A reoxidation anneal of the capacitor dielectric is performed at a pressure greater than one atmosphere in order to form an oxide layer over the capacitor dielectric. An upper capacitor electrode is disposed over the oxide layer to form a capacitor. The capacitor is formed as part of a dynamic random access memory cell. A transistor is formed upon the semiconductor integrated circuit substrate and the lower capacitor electrode is formed in electrical contact with a diffusion region of the transistor. The capacitor is formed within an opening in molding material that is deposited over the surface of the semiconductor integrated circuit substrate. The reoxidization anneal of the capacitor dielectric is performed at a temperature in the range of 600.degree. C. to 800.degree. C. at pressures ranging up to twenty-five atmospheres. This forms an oxide layer having a thickness between five angstroms and fifteen angstroms in a period of time short enough to prevent excessive out diffusion of dopants from the diffusion regions of the transistor.
摘要:
An exemplary implementation of the present invention includes a capacitor for a dynamic random access memory cell having a first plate; a second plate; and a dielectric layer interposed between said first and second plates, with the dielectric layer being dominated by electrode-limited conduction, which includes tantalum pentoxide and silicon nitride, or a combination of the two. In a preferred implementation, one of the two capacitor plates is formed from a silicon-germanium layer, the second plate is formed from a metal and the dielectric layer is formed from tantalum pentoxide.
摘要:
Capacitor constructions and methods of forming the same are described. In one implementation, a capacitor container is formed over a substrate and includes an internal surface and an external surface. At least some of the external surface is provided to be rougher than at least some of the internal container surface. A capacitor dielectric layer and an outer capacitor plate layer are formed over at least portions of the internal and the external surfaces of the capacitor container. In another implementation, a layer comprising roughened polysilicon is formed over at least some of the external container surface but not over any of the internal container surface. In a preferred aspect, the roughened external surface or roughened polysilicon comprises hemispherical grain polysilicon.
摘要:
A method of monitoring a process of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer including an area of hemispherical grain polysilicon, the method comprising providing a probe including a liquid conductor; and performing a capacitance-voltage measurement with the probe, using a quasi-static measurement method, to determine capacitance-voltage characteristics at the area of hemispherical grain polysilicon.
摘要:
A method of monitoring a process of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer including an area of hemispherical grain polysilicon, the method comprising providing a probe including a liquid conductor; and performing a capacitance-voltage measurement with the probe, using a quasi-static measurement method, to determine capacitance-voltage characteristics at the area of hemispherical grain polysilicon.
摘要:
A method of monitoring a process of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer including an area of hemispherical grain polysilicon, the method comprising providing a probe including a liquid conductor; and performing a capacitance-voltage measurement with the probe, using a quasi-static measurement method, to determine capacitance-voltage characteristics at the area of hemispherical grain polysilicon.
摘要:
A semiconductor processing method of providing a conductively doped layer of hemispherical grain polysilicon over a substrate includes, a) providing a layer of conductively doped silicon over the substrate to a thickness greater than about 200 Angstroms; b) depositing an undoped layer of non-polycrystalline silicon over the doped silicon layer to a thickness of from 100 Angstroms to about 400 Angstroms; c) positioning the substrate with the doped silicon and undoped non-polycrystalline silicon layers within a chemical vapor deposition reactor; d) with the substrate therein, lowering pressure within the chemical vapor deposition reactor to a first pressure at or below about 200 mTorr; e) with the substrate therein, raising pressure within the chemical vapor deposition reactor from the first pressure and flushing the reactor with a purging gas; f) with the substrate therein ceasing flow of the purging gas and lowering pressure within the chemical vapor deposition reactor to a second pressure at or below about 200 mTorr; and g) annealing the substrate having the deposited non-polycrystalline silicon layer in the presence of a conductivity enhancing impurity gas at an annealing temperature of from about 350.degree. C. to about 600.degree. C. and at an annealing pressure of from about 10.sup.-4 Torr to about 80 Torr to in situ both diffuse conductivity enhancing impurity into the non-polycrystalline silicon layer and transform the non-polycrystalline silicon layer into a conductively doped hemispherical grain polysilicon layer.
摘要:
Capacitor constructions and methods of forming the same are described. In one implementation, a capacitor container is formed over a substrate and includes an internal surface and an external surface. At least some of the external surface is provided to be rougher than at least some of the internal container surface. A capacitor dielectric layer and an outer capacitor plate layer are formed over at least portions of the internal and the external surfaces of the capacitor container. In another implementation, a layer comprising roughened polysilicon is formed over at least some of the external container surface but not over any of the internal container surface. In a preferred aspect, the roughened external surface or roughened polysilicon comprises hemispherical grain polysilicon.
摘要:
A method of monitoring a process of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer including an area of hemispherical grain polysilicon, the method comprising providing a probe including a liquid conductor; and performing a capacitance-voltage measurement with the probe, using a quasi-static measurement method, to determine capacitance-voltage characteristics at the area of hemispherical grain polysilicon.
摘要:
An exemplary implementation of the present invention includes a capacitor for a dynamic random access memory cell having a first plate; a second plate; and a dielectric layer interposed between said first and second plates, with the dielectric layer being dominated by electrode-limited conduction, which includes tantalum pentoxide and silicon nitride, or a combination of the two. In a preferred implementation, one of the two capacitor plates is formed from a silicon-germanium layer, the second plate is formed from a metal and the dielectric layer is formed from tantalum pentoxide.