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Gary Robert Hueckel

Kenneth Jay Stein

David Louis Harame

Nancy Anne Greco

Joseph Thomas Kocis

Dominique Nguyen Ngoc

Michael D Armacost

Andreas Augustin

Gerald R Friese

John E Heidenreich, Iii

George S Prokop

An interconnection wiring system incorporating two levels of interconnection wiring separated by a first dielectric, a capacitor formed by a second dielectric, a bottom electrode of the lower interconnection wiring or a via and a top electrode of the upper interconnection wiring or a separate metal layer. The invention overcomes the problem of leakage current and of substrate stray capacitance by positioning the capacitor between two levels of interconnection wiring.

Metal-insulator-metal capacitor

A parallel plate capacitor in copper technology is formed in an area that has no copper below it (within 0.3 &mgr;m) with a bottom etch stop layer, a composite bottom plate having an aluminum layer below a TiN layer, an oxide capacitor dielectric, and a top plate of TiN; in a process that involves etching the top plate to leave a capacitor area, etching the bottom plate to a larger bottom area having a margin on all sides; depositing an interlayer dielectric having a higher material quality below the top surface of the capacitor top plate; opening contact apertures to the top and bottom plates and to lower interconnect to a two step process that partially opens a nitride cap layer on the lower interconnect and the top plate while penetrating the nitride cap layer above the bottom plate, then cutting through the capacitor dielectric and finishing the penetration of the nitride cap layer.

Metal-insulator-metal capacitor in copper

An emitter contact structure is disclosed for alleviating forward bias beta degradation in a bipolar transistor. The structure comprises emitter contact metallurgy which travels over a dielectric insulating layer having an area of increased thickness adjacent to the area of contact between the metallurgy and the emitter.

Structure for inhibiting forward bias beta degradation

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