• DocumentCode
    1000754
  • Title

    Half-VCC sheath-plate capacitor DRAM cell with self-aligned buried plate wiring

  • Author

    Kaga, Toru ; Kawamoto, Yoshifumi ; Kure, Tokuo ; Nakagome, Yoshinobu ; Aoki, Masakazu ; Sunami, Hideo ; Makino, Tohachi ; Ohki, Nagatoshi ; Itoh, Kiyoo

  • Author_Institution
    Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    8/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1257
  • Lastpage
    1263
  • Abstract
    A trench-capacitor DRAM cell called a half-VCC sheath-plate capacitor (HSPC) cell has been developed using 0.6-μm-process technology. It is applicable to DRAMs with capacities of 16 Mb and over. The HSPC cell achieves a storage capacitance of 51 fF in a cell area of 4.2 μm2 and excellent immunity (critical charge Qc<35 fC) against alpha-particle injection. These advantages are achieved using a half-VCC sheath-plate structure, a 5.5-nm SiO2-equivalent Si 3N4-SiO2 composite film, and three self-alignment technologies involving buried plate wiring, a sidewall contact and a pad for the bit-line contact. The device performance is evaluated using an experimental 2-kb array
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; integrated circuit technology; integrated memory circuits; random-access storage; 16 Mbit; 2 kbit; 51 fF; 600 nm; CMOS; HSPC cell; Si3N4-SiO2 composite film; alpha particle immunity; bit-line contact; cell area; device performance; experimental 2-kb array; half-VCC sheath-plate capacitor; self-aligned buried plate wiring; self-alignment technologies; sheath-plate capacitor DRAM cell; sidewall contact; storage capacitance; submicron process technology; trench-capacitor DRAM cell; CMOS process; Capacitance; Impurities; Insulation; MOS capacitors; MOSFETs; Random access memory; Substrates; Voltage; Wiring;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/16.2545
  • Filename
    2545