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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2016
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Christoph Andreas Othmar Dirnecker, Eching, DE;
Wolfgang Schwartz, Au, DE;
Doug Weiser, Plano, TX (US);
Joel Martin Halbert, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph Anthony DeSantis, Gilroy, CA (US);
Karsten Jens Spinger, Ingolstadt, DE;
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit includes a higher sheet resistance resistor and a lower sheet resistance resistor, disposed in a same level of dielectric layers of the integrated circuit. The higher sheet resistor has a body region and head regions in a higher sheet resistance layer. The lower sheet resistor has a body region and head regions in a lower sheet resistance layer, which is thicker than the higher sheet layer. The higher sheet resistor has an upper head layer contacting the higher sheet layer at each head region of the higher sheet layer. Each upper head layer has a same composition and thickness as the lower sheet layer of the lower sheet resistor. The lower sheet resistor is free of head layers over the lower sheet resistance layer.