Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. A multilevel interconnection process for forming a via hole on the first layer electrode and then forming the second layer electrode, comprises the steps of forming the first dielectric layer on the whole surface of the semiconductor substrate where the first layer electrode has been formed, filling the re-entrant by forming the insulating material on the first dielectric layer, laminating a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the insulating material, forming a via hole by carrying out the photolithography process on the second dielectric layer formed on the first layer electrode, forming an insulating layer on the whole surface of the semiconductor substrate where the via hole has been formed, leaving the spacer on the side wall of the via hole by anisotropically etching the insulating layer, depositing the conductive material on the inside of the via hole whose side wall is enclosed by the spacer and on the whole surface of the second dielectric layer, and patterning the conductive material as a desirable conductive layer shape. Thus, the several problems due to overetching and underetching of the conventional SOG layer can be solved and the slope of the via hole is smaller, thereby improving the step coverage of the conductive material filling the via hole.
Methods are provided for forming integrated circuit devices. A spin on glass (SOG) insulating layer is formed on an integrated circuit substrate. The SOG insulating layer includes sidewalls that define contact holes therein and spacers are formed on the sidewalls of the SOG insulating layer. Integrated circuit devices are also provided. The integrated circuit devices include an integrated circuit substrate, a spin on glass (SOG) insulating layer on the integrated circuit substrate. The SOG insulating layer includes sidewalls that define contact holes therein and spacers are provided on sidewalls of the SOG insulating layer.
A new method of forming the intermetal dielectric layer of an integrated circuit is described. A thick insulating layer is formed over semiconductor device structures in and on a semiconductor substrate. A first metal layer is deposited over the thick insulating layer. The first metal layer is etched using conventional photolithography and etching techniques to form the desired metal pattern on the surface of the thick insulating layer. The intermetal dielectric layer is formed by first covering the patterned first metal layer with a layer of silicon oxide. The silicon oxide layer is covered with a layer of spin-on-glass material which is cured. A second layer of silicon oxide completes the intermetal dielectric layer. Via openings are formed through the intermetal dielectric layer to the underlying patterned first metal layer. A vacuum bake removes moisture from the exposed spin-on-glass layer within the via opening. A nitrogen plasma treatment converts the exposed spin-on-glass layer from an organic to an inorganic material. The inorganic spin-on-glass material has less moisture absorption and suppresses outgassing from the rest of the organic spin-on-glass layer, thus preventing poisoned via metallurgy. A second metal layer is deposited overlying the intermetal dielectric layer and within the via openings and fabrication of the integrated circuit is completed.
A semiconductor connecting device and a method for making the same are disclosed. The semiconductor connecting device is comprised of a device separation insulating film, a source region and a drain region formed at predetermined portions of a semiconductor substrate; an interlayer insulating film formed on the device separation insulating film and on the drain region, having a contact hole through which a portion of the device separation film are exposed along with a portion of the drain region; a conductive plug formed on the exposed portion of the drain region and on the exposed portion of the drain region within the contact hole, the drain region-sided conductive plug being thinner than the device separation insulating film-sided one; and bit lines formed on the conductive material plug and the interlayer insulating film, coming into contact with them, respectively. In accordance with the present invention, the bit line connected with the drain region scarcely overlaps the source region where the charge storage electrode is formed, bring about the reduction of area as minimally as possible along with a highly integrated semiconductor device.
A process for the formation of a device edge morphological structure for protecting and sealing peripherally an electronic circuit integrated in a major surface of a substrate of semiconductor material includes formation above an intermediate process structure of a dielectric multilayer comprising a layer of amorphous planarizing material. The process also includes the partial removal of the dielectric multilayer so as to create at least one peripheral termination of the multilayer in the device edge morphological structure. Removal of the dielectric multilayer requires that the peripheral termination thereof be located in a zone of the intermediate process structure relatively higher than the level of the major surface, if compared with adjacent zones of the intermediate structure itself at least internally toward the circuit and in so far as to the device edge morphological structure.
A process for the formation of a device edge morphological structure for protecting and sealing peripherally an electronic circuit integrated in a major surface of a substrate of semiconductor material includes formation above an intermediate process structure of a dielectric multilayer comprising a layer of amorphous planarizing material. The process also includes the partial removal of the dielectric multilayer so as to create at least one peripheral termination of the multilayer in the device edge morphological structure. Removal of the dielectric multilayer requires that the peripheral termination thereof be located in a zone of the intermediate process structure relatively higher than the level of the major surface, if compared with adjacent zones of the intermediate structure itself at least internally toward the circuit and in so far as to the device edge morphological structure.
