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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2004
Shinpei Iijima, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Kuroki, Tokyo, JP;
Shinpei Iijima, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Kuroki, Tokyo, JP;
Elpida Memory, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lower electrode of a capacitor element is formed by manufacturing a crown structure while using a first conducting material such as titanium nitride or the like excellent in mechanical strength as a base material and by forming a film of a second conducting material such as ruthenium or the like, which is comparatively difficult to be oxidized, on a surface of the crown structure. First, ruthenium is deposited on a surface of the crown structure by using a sputtering method. Thereafter, the ruthenium (sputtered ruthenium) placed in a peripheral region of the crown structure is removed by etching, and a film of ruthenium is further formed on a surface of the crown structure by using a CVD method while using the sputtered ruthenium as a seed layer.