US 5,970,357 AGranted

Method and structure for manufacturing high-resistance polysilicon loads in a semiconductor process

AssigneeWinbond Electronics Corp.

InventorMing-Lun Chang

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Abstract

High-resistance polysilicon layers applied in 4T SRAM memory cells serving as loads, are manufactured by a simple method according to the invention. In the small-scale 4T SRAM memory cell process, it is not possible to fabricate traditional polysilicon loads manufactured by the prior art with a desired high degree of resistance. As a result, the miniaturization of 4T SRAM memory cells has been limited. However, in the method according to the invention, the lengths of polysilicon loads are greatly increased without increasing the sizes of corresponding memory cells, thereby efficiently increasing the resistance of the polysilicon loads. Therefore, this method according to invention can completely eliminate any limitation to the small-scale 4T SRAM memory cell process caused by the manufacture of the polysilicon loads as described above.

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A method for manufacturing high-resistance polysilicon loads in a semiconductor process, suitable for a substrate in which a plurality of conductive layers are already formed, comprising:

forming a first dielectric layer on said substrate and said conductive layers;
forming a trench in said first dielectric layer and said substrate;
forming a second dielectric layer protruding over the surface of said first dielectric layer, in said trench;
forming spacers on both sides of said second dielectric layer over the surface of said first dielectric layer;
removing said second dielectric layer;
forming a plurality of contact windows in said first dielectric layer and said substrate just over said conductive layers;
forming a polysilicon layer on said first dielectric layer, said contact windows, said spacers and said trench;
and
patterning said polysilicon layer to form polysilicon loads on sidewalls of said trench and said spacers.

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