IP Library Granted Patent US 11,532,527
Granted Patent B2
US 11,532,527 · App. 17/189,536 · Granted Dec 20, 2022

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

Inventors: Sang Young Lee (Seoul, KR); Kyung Woong Park (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Han Joon Kim (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
H01L23/291H01L23/5329H01L28/40H01L27/108
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Patent No.
US 11,532,527
App. No.
17/189,536
Granted
Dec 20, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device includes a dielectric layer, a conductive layer formed over the dielectric layer, and a reduction sacrificial layer formed between the dielectric layer and the conductive layer, wherein the reduction sacrificial layer includes a first reduction sacrificial material having higher electronegativity than the dielectric layer, and a second reduction sacrificial material having higher electronegativity than the first reduction sacrificial material.

Claims (29)

1. A capacitor comprising:

a bottom electrode;

a dielectric layer formed over the bottom electrode;

a top electrode formed over the dielectric layer;

a first reduction sacrificial layer having a higher electronegativity than the dielectric layer and formed between the dielectric layer and the top electrode;

a second reduction sacrificial layer having higher electronegativity than the first reduction sacrificial layer and formed between the first reduction sacrificial layer and the top electrode;

a first interface control layer having a higher electronegativity than the dielectric layer and formed between the dielectric layer and the bottom electrode; and

a second interface control layer having a higher electronegativity than the dielectric layer and formed between the first interface control layer and the bottom electrode,

wherein the second reduction sacrificial layer has a larger vertical thickness than the first reduction sacrificial layer.

2. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the dielectric layer includes a zirconium oxide-based layer or a hafnium oxide-based layer, and the first reduction sacrificial layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer include a material having higher electronegativity than the zirconium oxide-based layer and the hafnium oxide-based layer.

3. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein each of the first reduction sacrificial layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer includes titanium oxide, tantalum oxide, aluminum oxide, tin oxide, niobium oxide, germanium oxide, silicon oxide, molybdenum oxide, ruthenium oxide, iridium oxide or combinations thereof, and the first reduction sacrificial layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer are different from each other.

4. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first reduction sacrificial layer includes titanium oxide or tantalum oxide, and the second reduction sacrificial layer includes aluminum oxide, tin oxide, niobium oxide, germanium oxide, silicon oxide, molybdenum oxide, ruthenium oxide, iridium oxide or combinations thereof.

5. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein each of the first reduction sacrificial layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer includes one suboxide of materials selected from titanium, tantalum, aluminum, tin, molybdenum, ruthenium, iridium, niobium, germanium, silicon and combinations thereof, and the first reduction sacrificial layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer are different from each other.

6. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first and second reduction sacrificial layer includes a conductive metal oxide.

7. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein each of the first interface control layer and the second interface control layer includes titanium oxide, tantalum oxide, aluminum oxide, tin oxide, niobium oxide, germanium oxide, silicon oxide, molybdenum oxide, ruthenium oxide, iridium oxide or combinations thereof, and the first interface control layer and the second interface control layer are different from each other.

8. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first interface control layer includes aluminum oxide, tin oxide, niobium oxide, germanium oxide, silicon oxide, molybdenum oxide, ruthenium oxide, iridium oxide or combinations thereof, and the second interface control layer includes titanium oxide or tantalum oxide.

9. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first interface control layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer include the same material.

10. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first interface control layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer includes aluminum oxide, tin oxide, niobium oxide, germanium oxide, silicon oxide, molybdenum oxide, ruthenium oxide, iridium oxide or combinations thereof.

11. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the second interface control layer and the first reduction sacrificial layer include the same material.

12. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the second interface control layer and the first reduction sacrificial layer includes titanium oxide or tantalum oxide.

13. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first interface control layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer includes aluminum oxide, tin oxide, niobium oxide, germanium oxide, silicon oxide, molybdenum oxide, ruthenium oxide, iridium oxide or combinations thereof, and the second interface control layer and the first reduction sacrificial layer includes titanium oxide or tantalum oxide.

14. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first interface control layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer is formed of niobium oxide.

15. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the dielectric layer includes:

ZA (ZrO 2 /Al 2 O 3 ), ZAZ (ZrO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /ZrO 2 ), HA (HfO 2 /Al 2 O 3 ), HAH (HfO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /HfO 2 ),

ZAZA (ZrO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /ZrO 2 /Al 2 O 3 ), ZAZAZ (ZrO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /ZrO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /ZrO 2 ),

HAHA (HfO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /HfO 2 /Al 2 O 3 ) or HAHAH (HfO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /HfO 2 /Al 2 O 3 /HfO 2 ).

16. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the top electrode includes a SiGe/TiN stack.

17. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the second reduction sacrificial layer has the vertical thickness of 1 nm or less, and the vertical thickness of the second reduction sacrificial layer is larger than the vertical thickness of the first reduction sacrificial layer.

18. The capacitor of claim 1 , wherein the first interface control layer and the second reduction sacrificial layer have a higher electronegativity than the first reduction sacrificial layer and the second interface control layer.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0116441 · Sep 28, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16233907 · Dec 27, 2018
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