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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:
Dec. 30, 2003

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Christine Dehm, Nuremberg, DE;

Guenther Schindler, Munich, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/7108 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/7108 ;
Abstract

The invention provides a semiconductor memory component with random access, also having a structure which is differentiated into memory cells and logic regions and has a lower oxide layer arranged on a silicon substrate and an upper oxide layer arranged on the lower oxide layer, each memory cell comprising at least one transistor in the transition region between silicon substrate and lower oxide layer and a capacitor in the transition region between lower oxide layer and upper oxide layer, which capacitor is connected to the transistor via a contact hole, which is filled with metal, in the lower oxide layer and comprises a ferroelectric arranged between two electrodes, the electrode which is connected to the transistor and adjoins the lower oxide layer having a relatively great thickness, and each logic region comprising at least one transistor in the transition region between silicon substrate and lower oxide layer, which transistor is connected to an electrode on the topside of the upper oxide layer via a contact hole, which is filled with metal, in the lower oxide layer and the upper oxide layer. According to the invention, it is provided that between the capacitors of the memory cells and the contact holes in the logic regions, level compensation between the topology of the memory cells and of the logic regions is created by dummy structures.


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