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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1997
Jan Mye Sung, Yang Mei, TW;
Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
A method for creating an STC structure, using a crown shaped storage node structure, to increase surface area, and to increase the capacitance, for high density, DRAM designs, has been developed. The process features creating the crown shaped, storage node structure, using only two photolithographic masking procedures. An insulator mesa is formed on an underlying polysilicon layer, to provide a shape needed for creation of polysilicon spacers, connecting to the underlying polysilicon layer. Timed, anisotropic RIE procedures, applied to the underlying polysilicon layer, and selective removal of the insulator mesa, result in the formation of the crown shaped, storage node structure, comprised of polysilicon spacers, connected to, and extending upwards, from an underlying polysilicon shape.