A semiconductor device storing information in a capacitor provided at a crossing point of a bit line and a word line, and formed of a storage node, a capacitor insulating film, and a cell plate electrode, using a gate transistor, comprising:
- a substrate having a main surface;
- a first conductive layer of a first conductivity type provided in the main surface of said substrate and serving as one of the source and drain regions;
- a first interlayer insulating film provided on said substrate;
- a gate electrode provided on said first interlayer insulating film and having an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a second interlayer insulating film provided on said first interlayer insulating film so as to cover said gate electrode;
- a first contact hole provided so as to penetrate through said first interlayer insulating film, said gate electrode, and said second interlayer insulating film for exposing a part of the surface of said first conductive layer;
- a gate insulating film covering a sidewall surface of said first contact hole;
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- a silicon thin film provided in contact with said first conductive layer covering continuously an inner wall surface of said first contact hole with said gate insulating film interposed therebetween, and having a recessed portion having a bottom surface positioned at or lower than the lower surface of said gate electrode in said first contact hole, wherein
- said silicon thin film is divided into three portions of a cylindrical channel portion positioned in a portion surrounded by said gate electrode, one of the source and drain regions being positioned at a lower side of the channel portion and the other of the source and drain regions being positioned at an upper side of the channel portion, whereby the one and the other of the source and drain regions sandwich said channel portion from opposite sides, and
- the thickness of said silicon thin film in said channel portion is at most the maximum depletion layer width,
- said semiconductor device further comprising
- a third interlayer insulating film provided on said substrate so as to cover said silicon thin film;
- a second contact hole provided in said third interlayer insulating film for exposing a part of the surface of said other of the source and drain regions;
- said storage node provided in contact with said other of the source and drain regions and covering an inner wall surface of said second contact hole,
- wherein said capacitor insulating film is provided on said substrate so as to cover the surface of said storage node;
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- wherein said cell plate electrode is provided on said substrate so as to oppose said storage node with said capacitor insulating film interposed therebetween and to fill said second contact hole.