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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000

Filed:

Jul. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hiromi Shimamoto, Tachikawa, JP;

Takashi Uchino, Kokubunji, JP;

Takeo Shiba, Kodaira, JP;

Kazuhiro Ohnishi, Hachiohji, JP;

Yoichi Tamaki, Kokubunji, JP;

Takashi Kobayashi, Kokubunji, JP;

Toshiyuki Kikuchi, Ome, JP;

Takahide Ikeda, Tokorozawa, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
438261 ; 438382 ; 438238 ; 438263 ; 438264 ; 438257 ; 438262 ;
Abstract

The present invention provides a polycrystalline silicon conducting structure (e.g., a resistor) whose resistance value is controlled, and can be less variable and less dependent on temperature with respect to any resistant value, and a process of producing the same. Use is made of at least a two-layer structure including a first polycrystalline silicon layer of large crystal grain size and a second polycrystalline silicon layer of small crystal grain size, and the first polycrystalline silicon layer has a positive temperature dependence of resistance while the second polycrystalline layer has a negative temperature dependence of resistance, or vice versa. Moreover, the polycrystalline silicon layer of large grain size can be formed by high dose ion implantation and annealing, or by depositing the layers by chemical vapor deposition at different temperatures so as to form large-grain and small-grain layers.


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