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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1992
Navjot Chhabra, Boise, ID (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A mini-stack capacitor process, developed for DRAM fabrication, is used to create a stacked capacitor by depositing multiple layers of dielectric over existing digit and word lines. The exposed top dielectric is then masked and etched away between two adjacent digit lines, the resist is stripped and subsequent etches (or etch) remove(s) the remaining dielectric layers thereby exposing the underlying conductively doped diffusion region. The storage node poly is then deposited and patterned, followed by subsequent depositions of a cell dielectric and cell plate poly. The selection of the number of dielectrics used and the type and/or sequence of dielectric etches used are the crux of the invention that substantially increases the surface area of a given stacked capacitor by approximately 40 to 80%.