摘要:
A precursor liquid comprising silicon in a xylenes solvent is prepared, a substrate is placed within a vacuum deposition chamber, the precursor liquid is misted, and the mist is flowed into the deposition chamber while maintaining the chamber at ambient temperature to deposit a layer of the precursor liquid on the substrate. The liquid is dried, baked, and annealed to form a thin film of silicon dioxide or silicon glass on the substrate. Then an integrated circuit is completed to include at least a portion of the silicon dioxide or silicon glass layer as an insulator for an electronic device in the integrated circuit.
摘要:
A coating of liquid precursor containing a metal is applied to a first electrode, baked on a hot plate in oxygen ambient at a temperature not exceeding 300.degree. C. for five minutes, then RTP annealed at 675.degree. C. for 30 seconds. The coating is then annealed in oxygen or nitrogen ambient at 700.degree. C. for one hour to form a thin film of layered superlattice material with a thickness not exceeding 90 nm. A second electrode is applied to form a capacitor, and a post-anneal is performed in oxygen or nitrogen ambient at a temperature not exceeding 700.degree. C. If the material is strontium bismuth tantalate, the precursor contains u mole-equivalents of strontium, v mole-equivalents of bismuth, and w mole-equivalents of tantalum, where 0.8.ltoreq.u.ltoreq.1.0, 2.0.ltoreq.v.ltoreq.2.3, and 1.9.ltoreq.w.ltoreq.2.1.
摘要:
A Ti/TiN adhesion/barrier layer is formed on a substrate and annealed. The anneal step is performed at a temperature within a good morphology range of 100° C. above a base barrier anneal temperature that depends on the thickness of said barrier layer. The base barrier anneal temperature is about 700° C. for a barrier thickness of about 1000 Å and about 800° C. for a barrier thickness of about 3000 Å. The barrier layer is 800 Å thick or thicker. A first electrode is formed, followed by a BST dielectric layer and a second electrode. A bottom electrode structure in which a barrier layer of TiN is sandwiched between two layers of platinum is also disclosed. The process and structures also produce good results with other capacitor dielectrics, including ferroelectrics such as strontium bismuth tantalate.
摘要:
A ferroelectric memory 636 includes a group of memory cells (645, 12, 201, 301, 401, 501), each cell having a ferroelectric memory element (44, 218, etc.), a drive line (122, 322, 422, 522 etc.) on which a voltage for writing information to the group of memory cells is placed, a bit line (25, 49, 125, 325, 425, 525, etc.) on which information to be read out of the group of memory cells is placed, a preamplifier (20, 42, 120, 320, 420, etc.) between the memory cells and the bit line, a set switch (14, 114, 314, 414, 514, etc.) connected between the drive line and the memory cells, and a reset switch (16, 116, 316, 416, 516, etc.) connected to the memory cells in parallel with the preamplifier. The memory is read by placing a voltage less than the coercive voltage of the ferroelectric memory element across a memory element. Prior to reading, noise from the group of cells is discharged by grounding both electrodes of the ferroelectric memory element.
摘要:
A ferroelectric device includes a ferroelectric layer and an electrode. The ferroelectric material is made of a perovskite or a layered superlattice material. A superlattice generator metal oxide is deposited as a capping layer between said ferroelectric layer and said electrode to improve the residual polarization capacity of the ferroelectric layer.
摘要:
A ferroelectric FET having an interface insulator layer containing ZrO2. The ferroelectric FET includes a gate oxide layer, the interface insulator layer is located on the gate oxide layer, and ferroelectric layered superlattice material is located on the interface insulator layer, The interface insulator layer has a thickness of from 15 to 25 nanometers.
摘要:
A method for forming an interface insulator layer in a ferroelectric FET memory, in which a liquid precursor is applied to a semiconductor substrate. Preferably, the liquid precursor is an enhanced metalorganic decomposition (“EMOD”) precursor, applied using a liquid-source misted deposition technique. Preferably, the EMOD precursor solution applied to the substrate contains metal ethylhexanoates containing metal moieties in relative molar proportions for forming an interface insulator layer containing ZrO2, CeO2, Y2O3 or (Ce1-xZrx)O2, wherein 0≦x≦1.
摘要:
A ferroelectric device includes a ferroelectric layer and an electrode. The ferroelectric material is made of a perovskite or a layered superlattice material. A superlattice generator metal oxide is deposited as a capping layer between said ferroelectric layer and said electrode to improve the residual polarization capacity of the ferroelectric layer.
摘要:
A ferroelectric field effect transistor memory cell includes a thin film varistor located between the gate electrode and the ferroelectric layer. The varistor protects the ferroelectric layer from disturb voltage pulses arising from memory read, write and sense operations. A second electrode is located between the thin film varistor and the ferroelectric layer. The thin film ferroelectric is positioned over the channel of a transistor to operate as a ferroelectric gate. For voltages at which disturb voltages are likely to occur, the thin film varistor has a resistance obeying a formula R.sub.d >10.times.1/(2.pi.fC.sub.F), where R.sub.d is resistivity of the thin film varistor, f is an operating frequency of said memory, and C.sub.F is the capacitance of the ferroelectric layer. For voltages at or near the read and write voltage of the memory, the thin film varistor has a resistance obeying a formula R.sub.d
摘要:
A ferroelectric thin film capacitor has smooth electrodes permitting comparatively stronger polarization, less fatigue, and less imprint, as the ferroelectric capacitor ages. The smooth electrode surfaces are produced by carefully controlled drying, soft baking, and annealing conditions.