Hemispherical silicon grain capacitor with variable grain size
View Patent ↗A semiconductor device includes cylindrical capacitors each including corresponding cylindrical electrodes. Each cylindrical electrode includes hemispherical silicon grains. The hemispherical silicon grains protruding from an upper region of the cylindrical electrode have a large size, and the hemispherical silicon grains protruding from a lower region of the cylindrical electrode have a small size or the lower region of the cylindrical electrode has no hemispherical silicon grains.
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
cylindrical capacitors each including corresponding cylindrical electrodes,
wherein each cylindrical electrode includes hemispherical silicon grains, the hemispherical silicon grains protruding from an upper region of the cylindrical electrode have a large size and the hemispherical silicon grains protruding from a lower region of the cylindrical electrode have a size smaller than the size of the grains in the upper region,
wherein the cylindrical capacitors each have an opening; an upper circumferential zone located below the opening and having a diameter greater than or equal to that of the opening; and a lower circumferential zone located below the upper circumferential zone and having a diameter less than that of the opening.
2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the hemispherical silicon grains protruding from a circumferential zone of the inner wall of each cylindrical electrode have a size less than half of the diameter of the circumferential zone.
3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the outer walls of the cylindrical electrodes have no hemispherical silicon grains and the cylindrical capacitors have a crown shape.
4. A semiconductor device comprising:
plural cylindrical capacitors that each include a corresponding cylindrical electrode,
each said cylindrical electrode comprising an amorphous silicon wall that is doped with an impurity and hemispherical silicon grains protruding from an interior of the wall, a lower region of the wall adjacent to a bottom of the electrode being more heavily doped with the impurity than an upper region of the wall,
the hemispherical silicon grains protruding from the upper region having a first size and the hemispherical silicon grains protruding from the lower region having a second size smaller than the first size.
5. The device of claim 4 , wherein each of the cylindrical capacitors comprises an opening, wherein the upper region is adjacent to the opening and has a diameter greater than or equal to a diameter of the opening, and wherein the lower region is separated from the opening by the upper region and has a diameter less than the diameter of the opening.
6. The device of claim 4 , wherein the impurity is one of phosphorus and boron.
7. A semiconductor device comprising:
plural cylindrical capacitors that each include a corresponding cylindrical electrode,
each said cylindrical electrode comprising a bottom, an amorphous silicon wall that extends from the bottom, and hemispherical silicon grains protruding from an interior of the wall, the wall having a lower region adjacent to the bottom and an upper region, the hemispherical silicon grains protruding from the upper region of the wall, the lower region and bottom not having hemispherical silicon grains protruding therefrom,
wherein each of the cylindrical capacitors comprises an opening, wherein the upper region is adjacent to the opening and has a diameter greater than or equal to a diameter of the opening, and wherein the lower region is separated from the opening by the upper region and has a diameter less than the diameter of the opening.