Hitachi, Ltd.

Texas Instruments Corporation

Hiatchi, Ltd.

Texas Instruments Japan Limited

Jun Murata

Yoshitaka Tadaki

Toshihiro Sekiguchi

Songsu Cho

Hiroko Kaneko

Keizo Kawakita

Michio Nishimura

Katsuo Yuhara

Kazuhiko Saitoh

Hiroyuki Uchiyama

Michio Tanaka

Yuji Ezaki

Hideo Aoki

Isamu Asano

Masakazu Sagawa

Atsushi Hiraiwa

Shinji Shimizu

Mitsuaki Horiuchi

Jun Sugiura

Hidetsugu Ogishi

Masami Ozawa

Yutaka Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Miyazawa

Toshiyuki Kaeriyama

Hideo Miura

Hiroo Masuda

Noriaki Okamoto

Makoto Ogasawara

Masayuki Kojima

Hisashi Nakamura

Kazuo Nojiri

Atsuyoshi Koike

Hiromichi Enami

Osamu Kasahara

Atsushi Ogishima

Michimasa Funabashi

Toshio Maeda

Masaki Nagao

Yasuo Kiguchi

Kazuya Kadota

Minoru Ohtsuka

Tadashi Chikahara

Masato Sadaoka

Takeshi Sakai

Akihiro Tamba

Seigou Yukutake

Kyoichiro Asayama

Tomoyuki Someya

Shinya Nishio

Toshikazu Kumai

Hideyuki Miyazawa

Takashi Hayakawa

Takatoshi Kakizaki

Masayuki Yasuda

Masakazu Aoki

Hiromasa Noda

Katsuhiro Shimohigashi

Katsuyuki Sato

Osamu Tsuchiya

Hidetoshi Iwai

Takafumi Tokunaga

Youji Idei

Kiyomi Katsuyama

Hisao Asakura

Makoto Saeki

Shinji Sakata

Akihiko Konno

Yasunobu Tanizaki

Toru Kaga

Osaomi Enomoto

Katsutoshi Matsunaga

Yoshimi Torii

Eiji Wakimoto

Hideo Nagasawa

Fumiaki Saitoh

A technique for a semiconductor device is provided that includes forming circuit regions on a device formation region and device isolation regions on a semiconductor substrate, a ratio of the width of a device isolation region to the width of adjacent circuit regions thereto is set at 2 to 50. A design method is also provided and includes conducting measurements such as of thicknesses of a pad oxide film and a nitride film, the internal stress of the nitride film, the width of both device formation and isolation regions, the depth of the etched portion of the nitride film for forming the groove in a device isolation region, conducting stress analysis in the proximity of the groove due to thermal oxidation, and setting values pertaining to the width of the device formation region and of the device isolation region which do not lead to occurrence of dislocation.

Method of designing a semiconductor device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a switching MISFET and a capacitor element formed over a semiconductor substrate, such as a DRAM, is disclosed. The dielectric film of the capacitor element is formed to be co-extensive with the capacitor electrode layer over it. The upper electrode of the capacitor element is formed to be larger than the lower electrode.

Semiconductor integrated circuit device having switching misfet and capacitor element and method of producing the same, including wiring therefor and method of producing such wiring

A method is provided of fabricating a semiconductor device that includes forming a silicon oxide film on a semiconductor substrate. A silicon nitrite film may be formed on the silicon oxide film. A portion of the silicon nitrite film and the silicon oxide film may be removed at a desired portion. Additionally, a groove may be formed in the semiconductor substrate in the portion in which the silicon oxide film is removed. A part of the silicon oxide film may be etched back around the groove with hydrofluoric acid type at the portion in which the silicon nitrite film is located above. Additionally, an oxidized film may be formed in the groove of the semiconductor substrate and the groove may be oxidized.

Method of fabricating low stress semiconductor devices with thermal oxide isolation

A width of a circuit device isolation region and a width of a device region formed on a semiconductor substrate are determined in such a manner as to satisfy a condition which prevents the occurrence of dislocation due to thermal oxidation for forming the isolation region. In accordance with the manufacturing scheme, a semiconductor device produced includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of circuit regions formed on a device formation region in the semiconductor substrate and having a width of 0.1 to 125 &mgr;m and device isolation regions so formed on the semiconductor substrate as to isolate a plurality of circuit regions from one another and having a width of 0.01 to 2.5 &mgr;m. In such a schemed device, a ratio of the width of the device region to the width of the device isolation region is from 2 to 50. Each device isolation region is a groove formed in the semiconductor substrate by etching a portion, among the pad oxide film formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and a nitride film formed on the pad oxide film, existing on the device isolation region, and having a depth of from 0 to 10 nm when measured from the position of the pad oxide film on the semiconductor substrate.

Low stress semiconductor devices with thermal oxide isolation

A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a switching MISFET, and a capacitor element formed over the semiconductor substrate, such as a DRAM, is disclosed. In a first aspect of the present invention, the impurity concentration of the semiconductor region of the switching MISFET to which the capacitor element is connected is less than the impurity concentration of semiconductor regions of MISFETs of peripheral circuitry. In a second aspect, the Y-select signal line overlaps the lower electrode layer of the capacitor element. In a third aspect, a potential barrier layer, provided at least under the semiconductor region of the switching MISFET to which the capacitor element is connected, is formed by diffusion of an impurity for a channel stopper region. In a fourth aspect, the dielectric film of the capacitor element is co-extensive with the capacitor electrode layer over it. In a fifth aspect, the capacitor dielectric film is a silicon nitride film having a silicon oxide layer thereon, the silicon oxide layer being formed by oxidizing a surface layer of the silicon nitride under high pressure. In sixth and seventh aspects, wiring is provided.

Method of producing semiconductor integrated circuit device having switching MISFET and capacitor element including wiring therefor and method of producing such wiring

A method of making semiconductor devices which enables control of the impurity concentration and fine patterning by making removal of residual stress due LOCOS oxidation compatible with the formation of deep wells. A selective oxide layer is formed for separating element regions on a principal plane of a semiconductor substrate, for example, a p.sup.- -type silicon substrate 1. A mask is formed (for example photoresist 47) on the surface including the selective oxide layer and impurities (for example phosphorous) of a conductivity type opposite that of the semiconductor substrate are introduced via an opening in the mask. Then the selective oxide film is annealed by a high-temperature treatment while a deep well (for example n-type deep well 50) is formed by introducing the impurities.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A method for fabricating DRAMs each having a COB structure, and the semiconductor device formed by this method, are provided. In one embodiment, the word line and/or bit line is covered with an insulating film having a comparatively small etching rate. Contact holes are formed while being defined by those insulating films in self-alignment.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device with increased focus margin

A semiconductor memory device has a semiconductor substrate, and memory cells provided at intersections between word line conductors and bit line conductors. Adjacent two memory cells for each bit line conductor form a memory cell pair unit structure, in which first semiconductor regions of the transistors of the adjacent two memory cells are united at their boundary into a single region and are connected to one of the bit line conductors via a bit line connection conductor, the gate electrodes of the transistors of the adjacent two memory cells are connected to word line conductors adjacent to each other, respectively, and the second semiconductor regions of the transistors of the adjacent two memory cells are connected to the respective information storage capacitors. A series of memory cell pair unit structures formed under one bit line conductor is positionally shifted with respect to series of memory cell pair unit structures formed under adjacent first and second bit line conductors on opposite sides of the one bit line conductor, respectively, such that a second information storage capacitor of a memory cell pair unit structure formed under the adjacent first bit line conductor and a first information storage capacitor of a memory cell pair unit structure formed under the adjacent second bit line conductor are located adjacent to a bit line connection conductor of a memory cell pair unit structure formed under the one bit line conductor.

Semiconductor integrated circuit device including a memory device having

A semiconductor device, such as a dynamic RAM, and method of making it. A number of stacked cell capacitors are placed at a prescribed spacing in an alignment direction on top of a p.sup.- -type silicon substrate (1). Each capacitor has a nearly perpendicular cylindrical lower electrode (cylindrical polysilicon layer (96)), a dielectric film (silicon nitride film (77)), and upper electrode (plate electrode (78) made of polysilicon). The spacing in the alignment direction is smaller than the inner diameter of the lower electrode.

Method of forming a semiconductor device have a screen stacked cell

A phase shifting mask is used for manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a conductor pattern in which the line width of patterned conductor strips or the space between patterned conductor strips is not constant. For main transparent areas in the mask corresponding to the conductor pattern, auxiliary pattern segments are provided for compensating changes in the phase distribution of transmitted light caused by changes of the line width or the space. Alternately, the spaces between the conductor strips are adjusted to suppress the changes in the phase distribution of transmitted light. Whether the auxiliary pattern segments should have the phase shifting function is determined depending upon the disposition of the main transparent areas.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device using

A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a switching MISFET, and a capacitor element formed over the semiconductor substrate, is disclosed. In a first aspect, the impurity concentration of the semiconductor region of the switching MISFET to which the capacitor element is connected is less than the impurity concentration of semiconductor regions of MISFETs of peripheral circuitry. In other aspects, a Y-select signal line overlaps the lower electrode layer of the capacitor element; a potential barrier layer, provided at least under the semiconductor region of the switching MISFET to which the capacitor element is connected, is formed by diffusion of an impurity for a channel stopper region; the dielectric film of the capacitor element is co-extensive with the capacitor electrode layer over it, the capacitor dielectric film being a silicon nitride film having a silicon oxide layer thereon, the silicon oxide layer being formed by oxidizing a surface layer of the silicon nitride under high pressure; an aluminum wiring layer and a protective (and/or barrier) layer are formed by sputtering in the same vacuum sputtering chamber without breaking the vacuum between forming the layers; and a refractory metal, or a refractory metal silicide, is used as the protective layer for an aluminum wiring containing an added element (e.g., Cu) to prevent migration.

Method of producing semiconductor integrated circuit device having

A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising first n-channel MISFETs constituting the memory cells of a storage system, second n-channel MISFETs constituting the peripheral circuits of the storage system, and third n-channel MISFETs constituting the output circuit among the peripheral circuits. The respective threshold voltages of the first n-channel MISFETs, the second n-channel MISFETs and the third n-channel MISFETs are decreased in that order when the respective gate lengths of those MISFETs are substantially the same.

Semiconductor integrated circuit, method of fabricating the same and

A semiconductor device includes a thermal oxide film for isolation, a semiconductor region that becomes an element forming region with the circumference thereof surrounded by the oxide film and diffused resistance layers in the semiconductor region and provides a structure for controlling resistance value variation of diffused resistors originated in a stress generated at time of forming the oxide film for isolation. A distance between an end portion on a longer side closest to a thermal oxide film of the diffused layer and an end of the thermal oxide film is apart from each other by a predetermined value determined by stress distribution in the semiconductor region or by at least 4 .mu.m or more, the longitudinal direction of the diffused layer portion formed from the end of the thermal oxide film over to a stress distribution (gradient) forming region in the semiconductor region is parallel to the forming direction of the stress gradient, and resistance value distribution is formed parallel to the stress gradient in the diffused layer formed from the end of the thermal oxide film over to the stress distribution forming region in the semiconductor region.

Semiconductor device having circuit element in stress gradient region by

A semiconductor memory device has a semiconductor substrate, word line conductors and bit line conductors, and memory cells provided at intersections between the word line conductors and bit line conductors. Adjacent two memory cells for each bit line conductor form a memory cell pair unit structure, in which first semiconductor regions of the transistors of the adjacent two memory cells are united at their boundary into a single region and are connected to one of the bit line conductors via a bit line connection conductor, the gate electrodes of the transistors of the adjacent two memory cells are connected to word line conductors adjacent to each other, respectively, the second semiconductor regions of the transistors of the adjacent two memory cells are connected to the respective information storage capacitors. A series of memory cell pair unit structures formed under one bit line conductor is positionally shifted with respect to the series of memory cell pair unit structures formed under adjacent first and second bit line conductors on opposite sides of the one bit line conductor, respectively, such that a second information storage capacitor of a memory cell pair unit structure formed under the adjacent first bit line conductor and a first information storage capacitor of a memory cell pair unit structure formed under the adjacent second bit line conductor are located adjacent to a bit line connection conductor of a memory cell pair unit structure formed under the one bit line conductor.

The etch-back amount of a silicon oxide film of a memory array which is a higher altitude portion is increased when etching back and flattening the silicon oxide film by arranging a first-layer wiring on a BPSG film covering an upper electrode of an information-storing capacitative element only in a peripheral circuit but not arranging it in the memory array. Thus, a DRAM having a stacked capacitor structure is obtained such that the level difference between the memory array and peripheral circuit is decreased, and the formation of wiring and connection holes are easy.

Method for forming semiconductor integrated circuit device having a

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