Roger R. Lee

Thin nitride films on textured polysilicon to increase multimegabit DRAM cell charge capacity

A technique for increasing the charge storage capacity of advanced multimegabit dynamic RAMs (DRAMs) up to 34% without changing the cell area or dielectric thickness is discussed. The technique does not require an additional masking step. A polysilicon texturing process is combined with a dielectric which has bulk-limited electrical conduction. The leakage current is not affected by this process, and the field acceleration coefficient is considerably increased.<<ETX>>