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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
James M Leas, South Burlington, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
438245 ; 438246 ; 438247 ; 438248 ; 438249 ; 257301 ; 257305 ;
Abstract
A memory cell is constructed with one electrode of the transfer device extending over a trench capacitor, saving about 6.5% of cell area. Selective polysilicon for a strap seeded from the trench is grown in the same step in which selective single crystal silicon seeded from the substrate is grown for the transfer device. At least a portion of the node diffusion is located in single crystal epitaxial silicon extending over the trench. The process eliminates the need for a separate strap masking step.