Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Ulsi Engineering Corp.

Hitachi Hokkai Semiconductor Ltd.

Hitachi Instruments Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hiroki Soeda

Hiroyuki Uchiyama

Yoshiyuki Kaneko

Kozo Watanabe

Hiroyuki Miyazawa

Kyoichiro Asayama

Atushi Ogishima

Masaki Nagao

Naokatsu Suwanai

Kazuya Endo

Takashi Yoneoka

Nozomu Matsuda

Yasuhide Fujioka

Motoko Sawamura

In a semiconductor memory circuit device wherein each memory cell is constituted by a series circuit of a memory cell selecting MISFET and an information storing capacitor of a stacked structure, there are present in a first region as a memory cell array region a first MISFET having a gate electrode and source and drain regions; first and second capacity electrodes and a dielectric film extending onto a first insulating film on the gate electrode; a second insulating film positioned on the second capacity electrode; and a first wiring positioned on the second insulating film, while in a second region as a peripheral circuit region there are present a second MISFET having a gate electrode and source and drain regions; a first insulating film on the gate electrode; a third insulating film on the first insulating film; a second insulating film on the third insulating film; and a second wiring on the second insulating film.

Semiconductor memory circuit device and method for fabricating a

A semiconductor memory device has memory cells provided at intersections between word line conductors and data line conductors. Each of the memory cells includes a cell selecting transistor and an information storage capacitor. The capacitor in each of the memory cells includes a first capacitor component formed over the control electrode of the transistor and a second capacitor component formed over a word line conductor which is adjacent to a word line conductor integral with the control electrode of the transistor. Each of the first and second capacitor components has a common electrode, a storage electrode and a dielectric film sandwiched therebetween, and the storage electrode is at a level higher than the common electrode in each of said first and second capacitor components. The storage electrodes of the first and second capacitor components are electrically connected with each other and with one of the semiconductor regions of the transistor. The other semiconductor region of the transistor is electrically connected with one of the data line conductors. Patterning of the storage electrodes of the first and second capacitor components is preferalbly effected by use of masks of a stripe pattern.

Semiconductor memory device including memory cells each having an

Method of making a semiconductor memory circuit device

In a semiconductor memory circuit device wherein each memory cell is constituted by a series circuit of a memory cell selecting MISFET and an information storing capacitor of a stacked structure, there are present in a first region, which is a memory cell array region, a first MISFET having a gate electrode and source and drain regions; first and second capacitor electrodes and a dielectric film extended over a first insulating film and over the gate electrode; a second insulating film disposed on the second capacitor electrode; a third insulating film interposed between the first insulating film and first capacitor electrode; and a first wiring positioned on the second insulating film. In a second region of the device, which is a peripheral circuit region, there are present a second MISFET having a gate electrode and source and drain regions; a first insulating film on the gate electrode; a second insulating film on a third insulating film, the third insulating film being interposed between the first and second insulating films; and a second wiring on the second insulating film. The second wiring is formed by the same level conductor layer as that forming the first wiring. Similarly, the first through third insulating films of the first region are correspondingly associated with the first through third insulating films of the second region, respectively.

Semiconductor memory circuit device and method for fabricating same

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