US 5,843,822 AGranted

Double-side corrugated cylindrical capacitor structure of high density DRAMs

AssigneeMosel Vitelic, Inc.

InventorsLiang-Choo Hsia, Thomas Chang

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Abstract

A method of fabricating double-side corrugated cylindrical capacitor of high density Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) cells. The corrugated capacitor shape is achieved by depositing the thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) oxide and the plasma-enhanced CVD (PECVD) oxide alternating layers. Then, the thermal CVD oxide and the PECVD oxide layers are vertically etched to form two trenches followed by laterally etched by hydrofluoric acid (HF). Because hydrofluoric acid (HF) etches the thermal CVD oxide at a slower rate than etches the PECVD oxide, a cavity is formed in each PECVD oxide layer along the trenches. Finally, polysilicon layer is deposited filling into the trenches. Therefore, the double-side corrugated shape capacitor surface is created that increases the surface area of the capacitor considerably. The cylindrical capacitor storage node of the DRAM capacitor of this method has much greater surface area so as to increase the capacitance value of the DRAM capacitor, that can achieve high packing density of the integrated circuit devices.

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A method of fabricating at least one capacitor of a DRAM cell, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) forming MOSFET structure on a silicon substrate, wherein said MOSFET structure comprises a gate oxide, gate electrode and drain/source regions;
(b) continuously forming a first dielectric and a second dielectric layers overlaying a surface of said silicon substrate;
(c) partially etching said first dielectric and said second dielectric layers to open a cell contact window for said source region of said MOSFET structure by conventional lithography and plasma-etching techniques;
(d) forming a first polysilicon layer overlaying said second dielectric layer and filling into said cell contact window;
(e) forming a third dielectric layer as etch stopping layer;
(f) alternately depositing first etch type oxide and second etch type oxide layers to form oxide alternating layers, said first etch type oxide layers etch slower than said second etch type oxide layers during a lateral etching;
(g) vertically etching said first etch type oxide and said second etch type oxide alternating layers to form two parallel trenches by the conventional lithography and plasma-etching techniques;
(h) laterally etching said first etch type oxide and said second etch type oxide alternating layers to form cavities therein said second etch type oxide layers;
(i) etching said third dielectric layer in said trenches to expose said first polysilicon layer;
(j) forming a second polysilicon layer overlaying said first polysilicon layer in said trenches and said oxide alternating layers;
(k) anisotropically etching said second polysilicon layer to form second polysilicon studs in said trenches;
(l) removing said oxide alternating layers, said third dielectric layer and a portion of said first polysilicon layer, a storage node of said capacitor which comprises the remaining said first polysilicon layer and said second polysilicon studs is constructed;
(m) forming a capacitor dielectric layer overlaying said storage node of the capacitor;
(n) forming a third polysilicon layer overlaying said capacitor dielectric layer;
and
(o) partially etching said third polysilicon layer and said capacitor dielectric layer to form a top electrode of the capacitor.

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A method of forming polysilicon capacitor structure, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) forming a first polysilicon layer a surface of a silicon substrate;
(b) forming a dielectric layer as etch stopping layer;
(c) alternately depositing first etch type oxide and second etch type oxide layers to form oxide alternating layers, said first etch type oxide layers etch slower than said second etch type oxide layers during the lateral etching;
(d) vertically etching said first etch type oxide and said second etch type oxide alternating layers to form two parallel trenches by conventional lithography and plasma-etching techniques;
(e) laterally etching said first etch type oxide and said second etch type oxide alternating layers to form cavities therein said second etch type oxide layers;
(f) etching said dielectric layer in said trenches to expose said first polysilicon layer;
(g) forming a second polysilicon layer overlaying said first polysilicon layer in said trenches and said oxide alternating layers;
(h) anisotropically etching said second polysilicon layer to form second polysilicon studs in said trenches;
(i) removing said oxide alternating layers, said dielectric layer and a portion of said first polysilicon layer, a storage node of said capacitor structure which comprises the remaining said first polysilicon layer and said second polysilicon studs is constructed;
(j) forming a capacitor dielectric layer overlaying said storage node of the capacitor structure;
(k) forming a third polysilicon layer overlaying said capacitor dielectric layer;
and
(l) partially etching said third polysilicon layer and said capacitor dielectric layer to form a top electrode of the capacitor structure.

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