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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361312 ; 3613211 ; 361329 ; 361330 ; 257532 ;
Abstract
In a semiconductor device which has a substrate, at least one thin film capacitor having a lower electrode layer deposited on the substrate, a dielectric layer overlaid on the lower electrode layer, and an upper electrode layer stacked on the dielectric layer, the lower electrode layer is surrounded by an insulator layer of Si.sub.3 N.sub.4.