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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:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Martin Gutsche, Neufahrn, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/7108 ; H01L 2/976 ; H01L 2/994 ; H01L 3/1119 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/7108 ; H01L 2/976 ; H01L 2/994 ; H01L 3/1119 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor memory cell includes a field effect transistor coupled to a storage capacitor that formed as a multilayer stack over the surface of the silicon chip of the cell. The capacitor is formed by three conformal layers over the surface of a cup-shaped contact hole in a silicon oxide layer overlying the surface of the chip.