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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:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shuji Sone, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitake Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/100 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a thin film capacitor that may be used as a stacked capacitor in a memory cell. In a thin film capacitor including a high dielectric constant layer sandwiched by two electrode layers, the high dielectric constant layer includes at least one perovskite-type oxide layer having a columnar structure and at least one perovskite-type oxide layer having a granular structure.