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Process for manufacturing a dynamic random access memory cell

US4945066A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 23, 1988
Grant dateJul 31, 1990
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Expiry dateFeb 23, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10B12/30

Abstract

A process for manufacturing a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell wherein an improvement is made in an occurrence of soft errors in operation of a memory device, said soft errors resulting from alpha particles being produced from uranium-series materials included in fabricating materials during fabrication of memory chips, especially in the package of the chip. In a single transistor memory cell, through forming boron layers below a storage capacitor region and below a drain region of the transistor coupled with a bit line, a barrier is formed against the minority carriers resulting from the alpha particles within the substrate. Also, through enlarging the storage capacitor region toward a field oxide layer just around the capacitor perimeter, a capacitance of the storage capacitor is increased so that the influence of the soft errors is negligible.

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