Capacitor structures for memory and method of manufacturing the same
View Patent ↗A capacitor structure of memory is provided in the present invention, including structures of multiple cylindrical bottom electrode layers with bottoms contacting a substrate and extending vertically and upwardly from the substrate, the cylindrical shape of the bottom electrode layer has a sidewall with wavelike cross-section, and the wavelike cross-sections of adjacent bottom electrode layers are identical but shifted vertically by a distance, a capacitive dielectric layer on the bottom electrode layers, and a top electrode layer on the capacitive dielectric layer.
1. A capacitor structure of memory, comprising:
a substrate;
multiple cylindrical bottom electrode layers, wherein a bottom of each said bottom electrode layer contacts said substrate and extends vertically and upwardly from said substrate, and said cylindrical bottom electrode layer has a sidewall with wavelike cross-section, and said wavelike cross-sections of each said cylindrical bottom electrode layer is shifted vertically by a distance from said wavelike cross-section of adjacent said cylindrical bottom electrode layer;
a capacitive dielectric layer on said bottom electrode layers; and
a top electrode layer on said capacitive dielectric layer.
2. The capacitor structure of memory of claim 1 , wherein said wavelike cross-section is made up of multiple continuous arcs, and said arcs in said wavelike cross-section of each said bottom electrode layer have at least two different lengths and at least two different radians.
3. The capacitor structure of memory of claim 1 , further comprising a conductive layer on said top electrode layer.
4. The capacitor structure of memory of claim 1 , further comprising supporting structures between adjacent said bottom electrode layers and connecting said adjacent bottom electrode layers.
5. The capacitor structure of memory of claim 4 , wherein each said supporting structure comprises a hard mask layer connecting top ends of said adjacent bottom electrode layers.