Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd.

Yong Sik Yu

Young Jin Park

Jong Choul Kim

Yong Ku Baek

Kwon Hong

Kweon Hong

There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a capacitor in a semiconductor device. In order to solve the problems that it is difficult to secure an effective surface area and a misalignment between a capacitor plug and an underlying electrode occurs in a capacitor having a stack structure using a BST dielectric film, the present invention forms a contact layer and a diffusion prevention film within a first contact hole for plug in a plug shape, forms a second contact hole using an oxide film, deposits an underlying electrode material and then removes the oxide film to form an underlying electrode. Therefore, the present invention has outstanding advantages of increasing the effective surface area of an underlying electrode since a process of etching the underlying electrode which could not be etched easily can be omitted, and preventing diffusion of oxygen upon formation of a dielectric thin film since a direct contact of a metal/oxygen diffusion prevention film and the dielectric film can be avoided. As a result, the present invention can improve an electrical characteristic of a capacitor.

Method of manufacturing a capacitor in a semiconductor device

A metal organic chemical vapor deposition apparatus comprising a source ampule, a liquid micro-pump, a vaporizer equipped with a solvent supply means, and a reactor. A reactant dissolved in a solvent in the source ampule is transferred to the vaporizer by the liquid micro-pump. A sufficient amount of the solvent is additionally fed to the vaporizer by the solvent supply means, concurrently with the transfer, and vaporized along with the reactants. After being vaporized in the vaporizer, the reactant is injected to the reactor by carrier gas and deposited on a semiconductor substrate to form a high dielectric thin film. By virtue of the additional supplied solvent, the recondensation of the reactant in the vaporizer, which is attributed to the separation of the solvent from the reactant, can be prevented in the vaporizer and in the transfer line between the vaporizer and the reactor. In addition, the residues of the reactant, which may result from the separation, can be washed off by providing the solvent through the supply means to the vaporizer.

Metal organic chemical vapor deposition apparatus and deposition method

The present invention relates to a highly integrated memory device; and, more particularly, to a ferroelectric capacitor memory device capable of improving an electrical interconnection between a lower electrode and an active region of a cell transistor. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for fabricating a semiconductor capacitor, comprising the steps of: forming a lower electrode of the semiconductor capacitor; forming a ferroelectric film on the lower electrode, wherein the first ferroelectric film bears a volatile element; forming a capping oxide film on the ferroelectric film; applying a rapid thermal process to the ferroelectric film and the capping oxide film; and cooling the ferroelectric film, whereby a preferred orientation of atoms in the ferroelectric film and domain boundaries thereof are perpendicular to a semiconductor substrate for which the semiconductor capacitor is provided.

Method for fabricating ferroelectric memory devices capable of preventing volatility of elements in ferroelectric films

A method for fabricating a ferroelectric memory device, comprising the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate where a transistor having an impurity region is formed; forming a conduction layer for storage node over the substrate; forming a ferroelectric film on the conduction layer; patterning the conduction layer and the ferroelectric film to form a storage node and a dielectric film; forming a protection film for dielectric film over the semiconductor substrate to cover the storage node and the dielectric film; patterning the protection film to expose a selected portion of the dielectric film; and forming a plate node on the dielectric film.

Ferroelectric memory device and method for fabricating the same

This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a capacitor in a semiconductor device. When forming a capacitor, just after forming the first ferroelectric PZT layer, supply of a DC bias voltage is maintained for a few minutes under the RF plasma before a cooling process, wherein then the cooling speed is rapidly increased so that a fine structure of the first PZT layer is transformed in the second PZT layer having a grain boundary of orientation polarization in the vertical direction and the domain structure. Just after forming the first ferroelectric PZT layer, after the RF plasma supply is shut off, an annealing process is performed for 5-20 minute at its temperature and then the cooling process is performed within 30 degree Celsius per minutes so that a fine structure of the first PZT layer is transformed to the second PZT layer having a grain boundary of orientation polarization in the vertical direction. Accordingly, electric characteristic of a capacitor can improve by preventing deterioration due to the endurance limit and the aging of the ferroelectric film.

Provided are methods for ferroelectric capacitors using a film of ruthenium dioxide as a bottom electrode. The method according to the invention includes the steps of: forming a first electrode of ruthenium dioxide over a lower layer including a conductive plug, the electrode being connected to the conductive plug; forming a film of strontium on the first electrode of ruthenium dioxide; forming a film of strontium ruthenium oxide by performing thermal treatment of the strontium film under oxygen atmosphere in order to prevent the diffusion of oxygen to the electrode of ruthenium dioxide; forming a thin film of crystallized ferroelectric material on the film of strontium ruthenium oxide; forming a second film of ruthenium dioxide on the ferroelectric film. The capacitor fabricated by the method according to the invention is enhanced in the characteristics about leakage current by the presence of the film of strontium ruthenium oxide as an oxygen diffusion barrier between the film of ruthenium dioxide as a bottom electrode and the ferroelectric film. The film of strontium ruthenium oxide prevents the diffusion of oxygen to the film of ruthenium dioxide when the ferroelectric film is crystallized by thermal treatment at high temperature under oxygen atmosphere.

Methods for forming ferroelectric capacitors having a bottom electrode

A method for fabricating a capacitor of a semiconductor device, which is capable improving the chemical and thermal stability of lower electrodes. The method includes forming an interlayer insulating film provided with a contact hole over a semiconductor substrate, forming a conductive polysilicon plug in the contact hole, sequentially forming a titanium film and a titanium nitride film over the entire exposed surface of the resulting structure, selectively removing the titanium film and titanium nitride film by use of a first storage electrode mask, thereby forming a titanium film pattern and a titanium nitride film pattern, sequentially forming a ruthenium film and a ruthenium dioxide film over the entire exposed surface of the resulting structure, selectively removing the ruthenium film and the ruthenium dioxide film by use of a second storage electrode mask, thereby forming a ruthenium film pattern and a ruthenium dioxide film pattern, forming an SrO film over the entire exposed surface of the resulting structure, forming a high dielectric film over the SrO film, and forming an upper electrode over the high dielectric film.

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Sungnam-shi, South Korea

Yong Sik Yu