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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1998
Kunihiro Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Dopant impurities are ion implanted into active areas assigned to field effect transistors, and, thereafter, titanium silicide layers are formed from a titanium layer on the doped regions; when the dopant impurities are ion implanted into the doped regions, photo resist ion-implantation masks prevent a wide inactive area not assigned to any circuit component from the dopant impurities, and a thick titanium silicide is also grown on the wide inactive area; even when the titanium silicide layers are annealed with heat, the thick titanium silicide layer on the wide inactive area is not seriously coagulated, and an inter-level insulating layer is hardly separated from the titanium silicide layer on the wide inactive area.