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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koichi Ando, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1336 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/1336 ;
Abstract
Field effect transistors of an integrated circuit are fabricated on a silicon substrate, and require gate insulating layers appropriate for the purpose of individual component circuits, the active areas assigned the field effect transistors are sequentially exposed to source gas varied in the ratio between oxygen and nitrogen for growing silicon oxide and/or silicon oxynitride thereon, and the nitrogen serves as a diffusion inhibitor against the oxygen so as to form the gate insulating layers different in thickness of the order of several angstroms.