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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2005
Bill Alan Wofford, Dallas, TX (US);
Blake Ryan Pasker, Wylie, TX (US);
Xinfen Chen, Plano, TX (US);
Binghua HU, Plano, TX (US);
Bill Alan Wofford, Dallas, TX (US);
Blake Ryan Pasker, Wylie, TX (US);
Xinfen Chen, Plano, TX (US);
Binghua Hu, Plano, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A capacitor () is disclosed that is formed as part of an integrated circuit (IC) fabrication process. The capacitor () has conductive top and bottom electrodes () and a nonconductive capacitor dielectric (). In one example, the dielectric () includes first and second thin dielectric layers () that sandwich a layer of antireflective material (). The thin layers () provide the dielectric behavior necessary for the capacitor while the antireflective layer () promotes reduced feature sizes by mitigating reflected standing waves, among other things.