Method for fabricating a DRAM capacitor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8813325
APP PUB NO 20120262835A1
SERIAL NO

13084666

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A method for fabricating a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) capacitor stack is disclosed wherein the stack includes a first electrode, a dielectric layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is formed from a conductive binary metal compound and the conductive binary metal compound is annealed in a reducing atmosphere to promote the formation of a desired crystal structure. The binary metal compound may be a metal oxide. Annealing the metal oxide (i.e. molybdenum oxide) in a reducing atmosphere may result in the formation of a first electrode material (i.e. MoO2) with a rutile-phase crystal structure. This facilitates the formation of the rutile-phase crystal structure when TiO2 is used as the dielectric layer. The rutile-phase of TiO2 has a higher k value than the other possible crystal structures of TiO2 resulting in improved performance of the DRAM capacitor.

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  • ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.;INTERMOLECULAR, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chen, Hanhong San Jose, US 78 867
Deweerd, Wim San Jose, US 30 231
Fuchigami, Nobumichi Sunnyvale, US 11 40
Ode, Hiroyuki Hiroshima, JP 89 355
Ramani, Karthik Santa Clara, US 109 1513

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