Ferroelectric memory having ferroelectric capacitor insulative film
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorTakumi Mikawa
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Abstract
A capacitor upper electrode and a wiring are electrically connected to each other by using a plug and a conductive layer formed below a capacitive element without using a plug that directly connects the capacitor upper electrode to the wiring provided thereon via an interlayer insulating film therebetween. Alternatively, the capacitor upper electrode is covered by a conductive hydrogen barrier film, and the capacitor upper electrode and the wiring are electrically connected to each other via both a plug connecting the wiring and the conductive hydrogen barrier film to each other and the conductive hydrogen barrier film.
Claims15
A ferroelectric memory, comprising:
- a connection structure, a first capacitor structure formed next to the connection structure, and a second capacitor structure formed next to the first capacitor structure;
- the first and second capacitor structure comprising:
- an interlayer dielectric film;
- a plug formed in the interlayer insulating film;
- a lower electrode formed on the plug;
- a capacitor insulating film formed on the lower electrode;
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- an upper electrode formed on the capacitor insulating film;
- the connection structure comprising:
- a plug formed in the interlayer dielectric film;
- a connection pad formed on the plug;
- an upper electrode formed in an opening formed at the capacitor insulating film that is formed on the connection pad, said upper electrode electrically connected to the connection pad in the opening,
- wherein the capacitor insulating film extends over and spans the space between the first and second capacitor structure,
- wherein the upper electrode of the first and second capacitor extends over and spans the space between the first and second capacitor structure, such that the capacitor insulating film and the upper electrode are formed over an area between the first and second capacitor structure as well as over the first and second capacitor structure,
- wherein the connection structure is electrically connected via the plug of the connection structure to a conductive layer, which serves as an impurity layer, of a transistor that is formed in a substrate,
- wherein another plug is formed so as to electrically connect another conductive layer of the transistor, and
- wherein a wiring is formed so as to electrically connect the capacitor upper electrode via the second plug, the transistor and the plug.
A ferroelectric memory, comprising:
- a transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate;
- a conductive layer formed in a region on the semiconductor substrate the conductive layer being in an impurity diffusion layer of the transistor;
- a first capacitor lower electrode, a second capacitor lower electrode and a connection pad formed over the semiconductor substrate, the second capacitor lower electrode being insulatively located next to the first capacitor lower electrode, and the connection pad being insulatively located next to the second capacitor lower electrode;
- a capacitor insulative film made of a ferroelectric film and continuously formed over and spans the space between the first capacitor lower electrode and the second capacitor lower electrode;
- an opening provided in a portion of the capacitor insulative film that is formed on the connection pad;
- a capacitor upper electrode formed on the capacitor insulative film continuously formed over and spans the space between the first capacitor lower electrode and the second capacitor lower electrode and formed in the opening;
- a first plug formed so as to electrically connect the conductive layer with the capacitor upper electrode to each other via the opening;
- a second plug formed so as to electrically connect another conductive layer of the transistor;
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- a wiring formed so as to electrically connect the capacitor upper electrode via the second plug to the transistor and the first plug.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.