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|United States Patent||5,243,220|
|Shibata , et al.||September 7, 1993|
A contact hole in a diffusion region is narrowed by a buffer layer formed at about the middle of an interlayer insulating film in its thickness direction. This buffer layer serves as effective alignment tolerances to the diffusion region and a contact electrode at the time of forming the contact hole. The structure having a wiring conductor filled in the contact hole and having the contact electrode formed on this wiring conductor can assure a highly reliable contact. Forming a buffer layer as a sidewall on this contact electrode and a first wiring layer formed on the same layer can assure an effective alignment tolerance to the first wiring layer at the time of forming a VIA hole. Filling a wiring conductor in the VIA hole can eliminate the need for any contact tolerance for a second wiring layer to be formed on this wiring conductor. Accordingly, the individual contact tolerances can be assured by self-alignment.
|Inventors:||Shibata; Hideki (Yokohama, JP), Ikeda; Naoki (Yokohama, JP)|
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
|Filed:||July 10, 1992|
|Application Number||Filing Date||Patent Number||Issue Date|
|Mar 23, 1990 [JP]||2-72019|
|Current U.S. Class:||257/748 ; 257/750; 257/754; 257/758; 257/760; 257/763; 257/764; 257/774; 257/797; 257/E23.019; 257/E23.02; 257/E23.16|
|Current International Class:||H01L 23/52 (20060101); H01L 23/532 (20060101); H01L 23/48 (20060101); H01L 23/485 (20060101); H01L 023/48 (); H01L 029/46 (); H01L 029/54 (); H01L 029/62 ()|
|Field of Search:||357/71,68,65,67 257/748,750,754,758,760,774,797,763,764|
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