Renesas Electronics Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Hiroki Shirai

Naoya Inoue

Takashi Sakoh

Kenichiro Hijioka

Ippei Kume

Yoshihiro Hayashi

Yoshihisa Matsubara

Jun Kawahara

Manabu Iguchi

Hiroyuki Kunishima

To provide a semiconductor device featuring reduced variation in capacitor characteristics. In the semiconductor device, a protective layer is provided at the periphery of the upper end portion of a recess (hole). This protective layer has a dielectric constant higher than that of an insulating layer placed in the same layer as the protective layer and configuring a multilayer wiring layer placed in a logic circuit region.

Semiconductor device with protective layer and method of manufacturing same

A semiconductor device has a substrate; a multi-layered interconnect formed on the substrate, and having a plurality of interconnect layers, each of which being configured by an interconnect and an insulating layer, stacked therein; a memory circuit formed in a memory circuit region on the substrate in a plan view, and having a peripheral circuit and at least one capacitor element embedded in the multi-layered interconnect; and a logic circuit formed in a logic circuit region on the substrate, wherein the capacitor element is configured by a lower electrode, a capacitor insulating film, an upper electrode, an embedded electrode and an upper interconnect; the top surface of the upper interconnect, and the top surface of the interconnect configuring the logic circuit formed in the same interconnect layer with the upper interconnect, are aligned to the same plane.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A semiconductor device having a DRAM region and a logic region embedded together therein, including a first transistor formed in a DRAM region, and having a first source/drain region containing at least a first impurity, and a second transistor formed in a logic region, and having a second source/drain region containing at least a second impurity, wherein each of the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region has a silicide layer respectively formed in the surficial portion thereof, and the first source/drain region has a junction depth which is determined by an impurity and is deeper than the junction depth of the second source/drain region.

Semiconductor device including transistors of different junction depth, and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device, includes a substrate, an element isolating film formed in the substrate, a first element formation region isolated by the element isolating film, a second element formation region positioned adjacent to the first element formation region and isolated by the element isolating film, a first well of a second conductive type formed in a whole area of the first element formation region, a first transistor of a first conductive type formed on the first element formation region, a second transistor of the first conductive type which is formed on the first element formation region and whose threshold voltage is the same as a threshold voltage of the first transistor, a second well of the second conductive type formed in a whole area of the second element formation region, and a third transistor of the first conductive type formed on the second element formation region.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having plural transistors formed in well region and semiconductor device

A first transistor and a second transistor are formed in a first element formation region, and a third transistor is formed in a second element formation region. The three transistors are of the same conductive type, and the first transistor and the second transistor have the same threshold voltage. A first well is formed in the first element formation region by use of a first mask pattern, and a second well is formed in the second element formation region by use of a second mask pattern. A channel region of the first transistor and a channel region of the second transistor have a shape which is line-symmetrical with respect to a reference line. The first mask pattern has a shape which is line-symmetrical with respect to the reference line.

A semiconductor device having a DRAM region and a logic region embedded together therein, including a first transistor formed in a DRAM region, and having a first source/drain region containing arsenic and phosphorus as impurities; and a second transistor formed in a logic region, and having a second source/drain region containing at least arsenic as an impurity, wherein each of the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region has a silicide layer respectively formed in the surficial portion thereof, and the first source/drain region has a junction depth which is determined by phosphorus and is deeper than the junction depth of the second source/drain region.

Dram having deeper source drain region than that of an logic region

In one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a semiconductor device having a silicon substrate provided with a DRAM region containing first transistors and capacitor elements, and with a logic region containing second transistors. A minimum gate length of the second transistors provided in the logic region is smaller than a minimum gate length of the first transistors provided in the DRAM region. One of a cobalt silicide layer and a titanium silicide layer is provided on source/drain regions and on gate electrodes of the first transistors provided in the DRAM region, and a nickel-containing silicide layer is provided on source/drain regions and on gate electrodes of the second transistors provided in the logic region.

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Hiroki Shirai