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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1996
Yoshitaka Tadaki, Hanno, JP;
Jun Murata, Kunitachi, JP;
Katsuo Yuhara, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Yuji Ezaki, Tsuchiura, JP;
Michio Tanaka, Ome, JP;
Michio Nishimura, Tokorozawa, JP;
Kazuhiko Saitoh, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Takatoshi Kakizaki, Tsukuba, JP;
Shinya Nishio, Musashimurayama, JP;
Takeshi Sakai, Ome, JP;
Songsu Cho, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A DRAM has memory cells provided at crossing points between word line conductors and bit line conductors. Each memory cell has a cell selection transistor and an information storage capacitor arranged over the bit line conductors. Unit active regions are defined in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate by a field isolation pattern. The field isolation pattern has a controlled length of extension of bird's beaks so that channel formation regions in each unit active region has almost no stepped portion to provide the cell selection transistors with a stabilized threshold voltage.