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Process for fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit device having the multi-layered fin structure

US5661061A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 27, 1995
Grant dateAug 26, 1997
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Expiry dateMar 27, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10B12/318

Abstract

A process for forming an upper-layer fin and a lower-layer fin of a storage electrode, and a semiconductor integrated circuit device fabricated by the process. When two-layered polycrystalline silicon films are to be sequentially etched to form the upper-layer fin and the lower-layer fin by the dry-etching method using a first mask, the upper polycrystalline silicon film is patterned at first so far as to form the clearance of the upper-layer fins with the minimum working size of the memory cells of a DRAM, to form the upper-layer fin. Next, the lower-layer fin is formed by the dry-etching method using a second mask which has a pattern enlarged in self-alignment from the pattern of the first mask, so that it is given a larger horizontal size than that of the upper-layer fin.

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