Rough oxide hard mask for DT surface area enhancement for DT DRAM

• Main Authors: SCHROEDER UWE, TEWS HELMUT HORST, KUDELKA STEPHAN, RAHN STEPHEN, MCSTAY IRENE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.05.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

In a process for making a DT DRAM structure, the improvement of providing a surface area enhanced DT below the collar region and node capacitance that does not shrink with decreasing groundrule/cell size, comprising:a) providing a semiconductor substrate having a collar region and an adjacent region below the collar region, the collar region having SiO deposited thereon;b) depositing a SiN liner on said collar region and on the region below the collar;c) depositing a layer of a-Si on the SiN liner to form a micromask;d) subjecting the structure from step c) to an anneal/oxidation step under a wet environment at a sufficient temperature to form a plurality of oxide dot hardmasks;e) subjecting the SiN liner to an etch selective to SiO;f) subjecting the structure from step e) to a Si transfer etch using a chemical dry etch (CDE) selective to SiO to create rough Si surface;g) stripping SiO and the SiN; and forming a node and collar deposition.