IP Library Granted Patent US 6,849,498
Granted Patent B2
US 6,849,498 · App. 10/212,878 · Granted Feb 1, 2005

Method of manufacturing semiconductor capacitor

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Patent No.
US 6,849,498
App. No.
10/212,878
Granted
Feb 1, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor capacitor. In the semiconductor capacitor manufacturing method, an amorphous film composed of non-doped silicon is formed. The amorphous film is changed to a lower film having projections and depressions defined in the surface thereof by heat treatment. An amorphous film composed of impurity-doped silicon is formed over the surface of the lower film. Further, the amorphous film composed of the impurity-doped silicon is changed to an upper film having projections and depressions defined in the surface thereof by heat treatment with the projections and depressions provided over the surface of the lower film as a basis. The semiconductor capacitor is equipped with an electrode having the lower film and the upper film.

Claims (19)

1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor capacitor, comprising:

forming an amorphous film composed of non-doped silicon;

changing said amorphous film to a lower film having projections and depressions defined in the surface thereof by heat treatment;

forming an amorphous film composed of impurity-doped silicon over the surface of the lower film; and

changing said amorphous film composed of the impurity-doped silicon to an upper film having projections and depressions defined in the surface thereof by heat treatment with the projections and depressions provided over the surface of the lower film as a basis.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said amorphous film composed of the non-doped silicon is formed by reduced pressure CVD.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a reaction temperature for the reduced pressure CVD is set to within a temperature range in which the non-doped silicon transitions from non-crystalline to polycrystalline.

4. The method as claimed in any of claims 1 , wherein said amorphous film composed of the impurity-doped silicon is formed by another reduced pressure CVD.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein a reaction temperature for another reduced pressure CVD is set to within a temperature range in which the impurity-doped silicon transitions from non-crystalline to polycrystalline.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said amorphous film is comprised of non-doped silicon transformed from non-crystalline to polycrystalline by said heat treatment at a temperature range from 560° C. to 580° C.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said heat treatment is conducted in a vacuum atmosphere.

8. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor capacitor, comprising:

a process for forming a lower electrode of said semiconductor capacitor;

said process including,

forming a conductive polysilicon film having a concave portion defined in an exposed surface thereof;

forming a rough-surface polysilicon film over an area including the concave portion over the exposed surface to thereby form one cylinder portion within the concave portion;

forming a mask material including a portion for covering said one cylinder portion over the rough-surface polysilicon film;

forming another rough-surface polysilicon film which forms a film continuous with said rough-surface polysilicon film, over an exposed surface of the mask material; and

removing part of said another rough-surface polysilicon film and the mask material to thereby form another cylinder portion over the removal portion of the mask material.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 26, 2009
From: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
To: OKI SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
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